Your “Strength Vs. Strength” NFC Playoff Tilt Open Thread

A ton of folks out and about on the ‘nets are saying that Green Bay (favoUred by 6.5) are going to walk away with this one but I’m not so sure. Yes, weather, but it’s not as though the Rams are going to air it out, right? And if weather affects anyone it would be Rodgers and Adamstein. Look at me, talking about the product on offer when I should be saying…

TO THE GAME!

Rams/Packers:

-There’s all kinds of metrics out there but, as referenced in the title, this is the league’s #1 D and O getting after it. The Pack have been held below 22 once this year and the Rams have allowed more than 30 points the same amount of times. Green Bay should probably get the win but maybe not going away.

-Of course the Rams starter Goff has been given the Herculean task of “Not Fucking Up”. In the parlay of these days, that is called “A Big Ask”. If they go down by two scores early it should be over with and a Bortles happening might uh, happen. Did you know that Jared has completed all of two(!) passes over 20 yards since week 13. It wasn’t that long ago when he was flinging the ball willy-nilly all over the gotdamn place. Now they’re the league lowest in pass plays over 15 yards at 10%. For shame.

-Contrast that with Rodgers being first in the league in throws over 20 yards and having that gaudy 48-5 TD/INT number. And he did it with (aside from Adams) table scraps at the wr spot and a Funyun at tight end.

-Ramsey might shadow Adams outside but the latter has been playing quite a bit out of the slot recently. Adams will get his but the Rammers play zone and his numbers dip significantly against that setup as opposed to man.

-Akers has averaged 27.5 carries his last two outings and we should see plenty of him, maybe 30+ carries if the game script tilts towards the Rams.

-The only time the Rams gave up more than 30 was to the Bills in the Before Times of week 3. They had resounding success on play action and you’d think this is the angle that Rodgers will dangle.

Do your own dangling below in the comments.

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Brocky

you see I wanna make a joke along the lines of “famous female who is more renowned for their attractiveness rather than their actual success in their supposed field”

but I’m trying to be a better person.

(anna kournikova is supposedly dating Enrique Iglesias so that rules her out)

Spur

Yup, just more BS calls that favor Greenbay.

King Hippo

That is, by far, the lamest way to get an Unsportsmanlike Conduct BLEERGH

Brocky

sexy Saturday because I’m already bored by this game

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Cecil Rhodes

3/10 too much fat in the stomach would not bang

Doktor Zymm

I think that’s just her uterus

hippofant

Has a uterus: 0/10 would not bang

Cecil Rhodes

It’s pretty impressive that you’re managing to play football and comment at the same time, Mr. Rodgers.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Maybe you’d be more impressed if she had a diamond in her navel, Mr. Rhodes.

Last edited 3 years ago by Viva La Tabula Raza
Redshirt

Looks like he’s a free agent. It was Danica Patrick, but it sounds like she grew tried of his Discount Double Check.

Rumors are Shailene Woodley, but not confirmed.

Last edited 3 years ago by Redshirt
Gumbygirl

No, it’s a blonde actress this time. Can’t think of her name.

Mr. Ayo

Shailene Woodley?

Gumbygirl

Shailene Woodley. That’s a trailer park name if I ever heard one. Bet her middle name is Amber.

Doktor Zymm

Doesn’t matter, they’re all just giant beetles in skinsuits

Mother Puncher

People are asking: are the Rams better without Aaron Donald?

hippofant

On offense? Probably.

Mother Puncher

Either JLo or an equivalent housekeeper

Doktor Zymm

Shit, I was supposed to cover devante Adams there, sorry Rams

Viva La Tabula Raza

Was that Rundgren’s “Bang on the Drums” over the stadium PA?

Brocky

– dink and dunk is just not who the packers are

packers immediately get a favorable penalty

see, told ya!

Col. Duke LaCross

I hope everyone in that crowd catches pneumonia.

Brocky

I hope they app step in puddles while wearing socks.

and i hope that guy with the favre Jersey has a girlfriend who cheats on him

Col. Duke LaCross

Fuckin’ A right!

Redshirt

CNN just reported a MAGAdiot got arrested at a DC checkpoint with a handgun and 500+ rounds of ammo.

Bad News: They’re going to war.

Good News: Other than the fact that they’ll be facing the National Guard instead of the Keystone Kops Mall Cops who were guarding Congress ten days ago, they are still idiots who stop at a checkpoint when holding a Ramboian amount of ammunition.

hippofant

Your concern should be about infiltration of justice, defense, and policing systems by unscrupulous right-wingers. Sure, Hitler was arrested after the Munich Beer Hall Pusch, but he was treated with soft gloves by Bavarian police, charged with lesser crimes by a conservative prosecutor, given a light sentence by conservative judges, got VIP treatment by conservative prison wardens, all under the auspcies of a complicit Bavarian state government. All of whom would openly regret it later…

hippofant

From Wikipedia: “The lay judges were fanatically pro-Nazi and had to be dissuaded by the presiding Judge, Georg Neithardt, from acquitting Hitler.”

Many of these coup accomplices are being arrested back in their home states, and probably going to be tried by judges with Republican ties.

Mother Puncher

The democratic party has spent the last 12 years in denial that America has a white supremacist problem. They’ll spend the next 4 years continuing to do nothing about it, lose the election to another protofascist, and watch as a movement that has had 2 decades to develop under their watch takes hold.

Dunstan

What do you suggest they do about it?

hippofant

Suggest they do, or think they should do? Cuz they’d never do what actually needs to be done.

Dunstan

What do you think they should do, that is actually possible for them to do?

hippofant

Pack SCOTUS, purge the federal benches, bring extensive federal charges against Magidiots and try them in friendly jurisdictions (i.e. the DC federal district and not 5th or 11th), have the FBI begin infiltration and disruption tactics against right-wing militia and conspiracy groups, use electronic communications and anti-terrorism laws against conspirators and agitators to bring them under federal jurisdiction, activate and mobilize the national guard when necessary in states where Republican governors refuse to act against unrest or where Democratic governors are unable to.

The American Republic is facing an existential threat and it demands pretty much every domestic measure to maintain order that the US federal government ever used. (And all of the above have been.)

Last edited 3 years ago by hippofant
Dunstan

Ok, well, they don’t have the votes to pack SCOTUS, so that can’t happen. (And I mean they don’t have the 60 votes to break the filibuster.) And you can complain about Joe Manchin all you want — and I expect to be very frustrated with him for the next few years — but you ain’t getting a better option elected in a state that Trump carried by 50-some percent.

You can’t “purge the federal benches” because federal judges have lifetime tenure under the Constitution, and you’re not going to be able to impeach judges for making decisions you don’t like.

Charging the insurrectionists is already happening and will continue.

The FBI stuff I agree with.

I’d be careful with invoking the Insurrection Act given how eager Republicans were to use it last summer against BLM.

But thanks for the answer.

hippofant

I’d be careful with invoking the Insurrection Act given how eager Republicans were to use it last summer against BLM.

See, I think concerns about precedent all go out the window when the other side wants to utterly destroy you.

“Oh, we can’t do this, because if the Republicans get power again, they’ll do it back to us!”
“Sandra, the Republicans are going to end the fucking Republic if they get power again. AND they’re doing it without us setting the precedent for it.”

hippofant

Shit, when have Republicans ever given a shit about precedent? When did Democratic state legislators gerrymander the shit out of their states?

clint greasewood

Looks like Matt Gaetz “pizza delivery” didn’t make it.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Nice tackling there.

Doktor Zymm

This place also has good onion (tonyan?) rings, and they’ve got ska on. I’m a happy camper. How did we not appreciate this stuff back in the day (last year)?

Redshirt

It could be how it was made. I didn’t like bacon until a few years ago, but that because the only bacon I had was cooked by my family who cooked it until it was thin, black fragile strips of charcoal. I didn’t realize you could back cooked instead of atomized.

Fronkenshteen

That Barnes goal on the last touch of the (goddamned) match shitwrecked not one, but two of my wagers.

Cecil Rhodes

You can always rely on a guy named Harvey to do something despicable.

hippofant

Like get assassinated.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Or threaten Gotham City.

King Hippo

Aren’t the Packers missing their starting left tackle? Seems like sommet the broadcast team should know.

Fronkenshteen

Rams, actually. David Edwards. .

Doktor Zymm

Yes, and I feel like there’s something else I’m not remembering wrong with their O-line, but RAMMIT does not seem to have taken full advantage yet

Doktor Zymm

bahktriari is out

hippofant

Unless these are all Jack Easterby burner accounts, I’m surprised at how many idiots are stanning the clearly incompetent management of a multi-billing sports franchise.

hippofant

And by surprised, I mean not at all surprised, and by idiots, I mean racists and bootlickers.

Last edited 3 years ago by hippofant
clint greasewood

Chaplin Easterby is the Cardinal Richelieu or Grigori Rasputin of the Houston Texans.

Doktor Zymm

Congrats on summing up the history of professional sport in a sentence

Doktor Zymm

Why isn’t it snowing? I heard 40% chance which means it will absolutely 100% happen

King Hippo

Because we can’t have nice things.

Horatio Cornblower

/Lawrence Taylor has entered the chat

Spur

Who’s that Gay guy? – A Aron just right now.

JimU

Go for it Rams! Field Goals ain’t going to do it today!

Don T

Pantsless in the couch. Is the front door open?
No comment.

Last edited 3 years ago by Don T
Spur

Kettle Cooked Chips. Thoughts?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’ll eat them when they’re in front of me but don’t go out of my way to buy them.

Like how Jabba the Hut feels about most creatures.

Redshirt

Its nice for those that who want to go on a diet, but don’t want to eat a “baked” chip or (shudders) healthy-alternative chips.

Gatoraids

Krunchers BBQ ones

Don T

Not a potato chip guy. But I’d buy Salt & Vinegar, or Jalapeño.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

All of them.

Spur

I dont like wearing gloves when I handle my balls.

ballsofsteelandfury

Never masturbate wearing gloves. Trust me on that one.

King Hippo

Buster can get his Forward Pass medal from Army now!

Doktor Zymm

Who has two thumbs and can throw the football? ALMOST THAT GUY

Doktor Zymm

Feel like GB will win this, although not in a pushover. The next match is the game of the weekend though, so this just has to be a decent appetizer

litre_cola

Back to the beach with you miss!

Doktor Zymm

2 hr jungle hike this morning, then 20 minute walk along the coast to the bar, having a Hilo Tsunami IPA

Redshirt

Of course, my friends who don’t watch football want to hang out then. That gives me a few hours to come up with an excuse and/or fake my death.

litre_cola

Pinkeye

King Hippo

That’s the upside of the Plague. You are being a good American staying home alone watching FITBAW

Redshirt

Its an online hangout. I could drag another TV into my habitación de Redshirt, but I’m a loud football watcher.

Doktor Zymm

Should we write you a fake obit?

King Hippo

yeah, all the HUZZAH action is on Sabado, for sure. I wouldn’t mind a small coma tomorrow.

Doktor Zymm

Unless the Browns pull a surprised victory hamster out of their ass, of course

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Chubb up!

Redshirt

Its been 17+ games. How long does it take for the paint on the Rams’ away uniforms numbers to dry?

Gumbygirl

They look like Shrinkydinks that didn’t have enough time in the oven.

Don T

A A Ron’s hairstyle is parted in the middle. Unlike his family.

King Hippo

Smart defensing, leaving butter-fingered MVS open!

Redshirt

Sorry for being late. Got lost in a YouTube video.

History of NFL’s WORST Weather Games: Snow, Rain, Heat, & More! – YouTube

Petronel

Naming your kid John Johnson III signals to the rest of the world that nobody in your family has a creative bone in their body.

Redshirt

Is his middle initial J?

Petronel

(A very quick) Google turns up no evidence of a middle name. Perhaps that was asking too much…

Last edited 3 years ago by Petronel
Redshirt

Wikipedia doesn’t show a middle name. Its possible; my grandfather didn’t have a middle name.

Petronel

Just as well in this case; being named John John Johnson III might have resulted in a visit from CPS.
(And that’s before the grandparents kick in with the Waltons jokes.)

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Spur

Not my MVP

King Hippo

Well of course he can’t be your Most Valuable Penis. He likes GIRLS, silly!!

clint greasewood

How many fans did they allow at Lambeau?

Mr. Ayo

6,000 gravy boats.

Spur

please consider most Packer fans are double wide when the camera scans the crowd.

Spur

Aaron Donald likes white meat right?

clint greasewood

Dark meat
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Gumbygirl

Ugh, it’s the nasty uni’s. WHYYYY?

Gumbygirl

Due to my unnatural hatred for Aaron Rodgers, and the fact that I live in SoCal, I am def rootin’ Rams. Probably the kiss of death for them, sorry!

clint greasewood

Hello good lads and lasses.

litre_cola
Viva La Tabula Raza
Spur

RAMMIT LONG! and RAMMIT HARD!

Spur

Afternoon Folks.

litre_cola

Mexico weathergirls would be nice.

King Hippo

I really hate even muted pre-match coverage, but I am dumb enough that I fear missing kickoff without the teevee box on.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

As a gambler, you should know to take the over on start time

Horatio Cornblower

UFC is on ABC if you want to make prop bets on how long until someone says something horrible, or horribly sexist, or horribly homophobic, or horribly racists, or some combination of all 4, on live network TV.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’d rather watch UHF

Viva La Tabula Raza

We don’t need no stinking badgers!

King Hippo

This will be a low-scoring tilt. I have zero belief in Buster, but absolute belief in the RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAM IT!! defensing unit.

/in short, am not betting

Horatio Cornblower

I just ended the last thread with a question so I’ll ask it again here: How is Bruce Pearl coaching Auburn instead of doing time in the federal penitentiary system?

King Hippo

He’s a narc/rat, ain’t he?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Davante Adams is a beast.

King Hippo

Good thing RRRRRRRRRRAM IT!! has the league’s best cover corner. Fascinating matchup.

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