Your Afternoon-ish NFC Wild Card Game Open Thread

I finish this intro off with 6 minutes left in the Bolts/Dead Birds game. Please Football Deity, let your glorious light shine through in this tilt in the form of touchdowns, great catches, good execution on both sides of the ball, clever play-calling and solid defense. We have been dutiful all the year long and deserve better. Amen.

TO THE GAME!

Brotherly Love/Broad Shoulders:

 

I hope that neither of the kickers here win the Mike Badgley of Honor Award for their actions today. I mentioned in the autre intro that the Ravens had shut opponents down over the last few games to the tune of 13 per. Dose Bears have done even better over their last four-10 points they’ve surrendered on average. This is a great time of the year to be putting the thumbscrews to hapless miscreants that happen to wander on to the turf. One caveat-Foles has over the last 3 games been number uno in passing yards, completion percentage, yards per attempt and net yards per pass attempt. He’s caught and maintained fire before so who knows how things might play out.*

*one of the ways it’s gonna play out is that the Bears defenders are going to target those bruised ribs and rough him up a little. That’s just what aggressive D’s try to do. Inflict pain.

As for the Truth Biscuit, qb’s seeing their very first playoff action (see: Jackson & Watson) usually need to get a loss under their game cups in order to understand what it takes to come out on top. If he just plays the game-managing game and stands back so that the other talent flourishes he should be okay.

Buckle up-should be a good ‘un.

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Brocky

Gor the record, my statement on robbie gould was meant to be in response about “letting kickers walk”

Also, this

https://youtu.be/gNOKzjNxecE

herodotus450

Well you have to let kickers walk, cause they sure can’t run.

Gatoraids

The bears dared to defy Goa’uld and can no longer use the Field Gate

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My new rooting interests
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Spur

Good Dallas gets to play late on Saturday again.

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So at least the ire won’t be directed at Trubisky. That’s good.

Brocky

Cmon man you know the meatballs will find something.

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They’re a dumb, goldfish-brained bunch. They won’t shut up about Parkey until they die.

Brick Meathook

It’s times like this that I wish they’d interview the kicker who just missed and lost the game.

“How do feel right now? How deep is your despair?”

BrettFavresColonoscopy

“Do you still have your shoelaces?”

SonOfSpam

Are you feeling like a Hernandez or a Seau?

Brick Meathook

“Would you like us to call the suicide hotline for you?”

Redshirt

Announcer: “Now that you’ve blown the game and ended the season for your teammates and your fans, what are you going to do?”
Kicker: “I’m going to Ben and Jerry’s!”

(cut to the kicker watching next week’s games crying while eating a pint of ice cream)

Petronel

Designed for a different (though related) use, but may be useful here:

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Dunstan

I haven’t seen a guy that frustrated by a Post since Trump’s last Twitter tirade

Brocky

Robbie gould was missing kicks and demanding more money.

I refuse to entertain this revisionist history where we ignore the two years where gould was playing like shit, and ignore the fact that Gould admitted it was getting cut by Chicago that made him get his shit together

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Thank you. Parkey isn’t good but to say cutting Gould was stupid is stupider.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

If we can’t be irrational now, when can we be irrational

hippofant

In his last season for the Bears, Gould hit 85% of his FGs.

Parkey’s hit 77% this year.

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Both are bad.

hippofant

If that kick was 8% better….

Doktor Zymm

LOL at all of you thinking there’s a significant difference between kickers at NFL level

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I feel like Ray Finkle’s parents.

Spur

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Dunstan

Did they get that fake bear from Toys R Us? I guess they blew the effects budget on green body paint.

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I can not fucking believe icing the kicker actually worked for once

herodotus450

This just means that every coach for ever will always do it, extending games by millennia according to my calculations.

herodotus450

Someone’s gonna grind that kicker up and make him into a cheap but durable flooring material.

Game Time Decision

Love that they had the Parker hitting the post montage ready to go

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Where’s Robbie Gould

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Thank God I’m drunk

SonOfSpam

Sorry man. This one stings.

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Both my ursine teams ate shit early this year. I’ve adapted to it.

Doktor Zymm

What town is Parkey from? Let’s go vandalize the sign!

SonOfSpam

CLANG CLANG CLANG WENT THE FIELD GOAL

Redshirt

RING RING RING PARKEY’S NECK

SonOfSpam

Was looking for the next line – nicely done.

Spur

Sweet, Dallas gets another home game next week.

litre_cola

Ahem. AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Spur

now you show up.

Brocky

Good game gratliff.

Maybe hippos prophecy will be half right

Gratliff

Saints gonna win by 95 next week.

Gratliff

Man, that is going in every heartbreak highlights package

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Oh fuck you NBC

Doktor Zymm

I was about to say,’that was a fun game’ but ‘elite eight’ NO THIS IS NOT MARCH FUCK YOU

ballsofsteelandfury

Wow.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

…and with that, DOINK became king of the gods.

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

SHAN’KLHOR WILL BE SERVED!

The Maestro

ICRM on suicide watch now? (I hope not, sincerely.)

Redshirt

He’ll be okay. If I didn’t kill myself after That Wild Card Game, he can survive this.

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Parkey is the only kicker you can successfully ice.

Old School Zero

unbeeleeeeeeebabble!

Gratliff

I feel like it’s time to start talking about dynasty

Doktor Zymm

Hey, you jinx like how you wanna jinx

SonOfSpam

Yeah, someone take his car keys.

Petronel

Time for that “icing the kicker” commercial

Spur

Once again, all the Bears had to do was let the Viks win last week.
Stupid Bears

Teddy's Bridge Over Troubled Water

It’s true. Nagy would’ve ate their fucking lunch.

Recovery Whiskey

This is why you dont let a great kicker walk. You pay him

hippofant

In Chicago, yeah.

SonOfSpam

Robbie Gould is sitting in his La-Z-Boy, both middle fingers extended.

herodotus450

They tried to pay him his weight in Silveur and he was like, “Bitch please,”

herodotus450

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Gratliff

What a weird fucking game

Redshirt

Discount Double DONK!

Gratliff

Go birds. Go birds go. *faints*

Doktor Zymm

GODDAMN IT FUCK YOU LAG

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He’s getting cut

Game Time Decision

Hahaha 2 posts and out

Gratliff

God really has it out for the citizens of Chicago

Dunstan

True, but Sinatra sang that it was his kind of town. As between God and the Chairman, I know who I’m going with

Old School Zero

Double doink?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Well.

The Maestro

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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Gatoraids

Donklor appearance

Dunstan

BEARISTOCRATS!

Gratliff

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

Redshirt

HA! DONG!

Doktor Zymm

WOW THE NFL HATES Y’ALL

herodotus450

HA!