Your NFC Semi-Final Open Thread

Ohgodohgodohgodohgod. Yeah, kinda nervous. Each game played this year has been a revelation and I still can’t believe the Giants are here. The other thing I would note is that three(!) NFC East teams have made it to the second round, this after being such a laughingstock last year. It looks like the division is in a multiple-year window of very high quality play which I hope translates to success in the playoffs.

To The Game!

Giants/Eagles:

-Philly was 7-2 at home this year but the losses were head-scratchers to the Commies and Saints.

-Damn Synchronicity!: The last #1 seed to win the Super Bowl was these damn Eagles in 2018. (An Aside: When the Police album came out the local am radio DJ in my town repeatedly called it Sychron City)

-The Giants starting secondary of Jackson, Moreau, Holmes, McKinney and Love have only played as a complete unit five times this year including last week. They were 4-1 in those games and only gave up 300 yards once.

-These Giants are playing their fifth road game in six weeks.

-I’ve no doubt Daniel Jones will be scrambling quite a bit because Philly’s edge fellas have manhandled the team’s guards. A sliver of hope exists because Dimes throws at a 62% rate and has a 7-0 TD/INT number when flushed from the pocket. I would think that there will be a number of scripted rollout plays employed to deflect pressure.

-That Nasty Run Game: The Eagles rushed for 253 yards on 31 carries for a 8.2 (Yikes!) average in week 14. Wink’s blitz-happy tendencies leave the D vulnerable to power-gap rushing concepts which Philly excels at.

-Don’t even get me started on the Giant Killer, the wee Boston Scott.

-N.Y. will need a few explosive plays in order to keep up with the Eagles. The problem? They were dead-last in the league with 48 and 10 of them came against the Vikes.

Gah! So nervous…

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Sharkbait

FIL and Mrs Sharkbait are yelling obscenities at the TV.

*Sips bourbon

LemonJello

Never go wrong with sipping bourbon.

Horatio Cornblower

What did the TV do?

ThePirateSloth

*sigh*

My father, born in Philly, was there to boo Santa, who stopped watching the NFL when “they let that guy kneel”, just called to gloat about how great this game is.

Now I really want an improbable Giants comeback.

Barring that……… Imma have to root for the 49ers. I might have to be blackout drunk for next week’s 49ers/Eagles game.

jjfozz

If you’re a man, and you wear a scarf indoors and knot it around your neck, we’re not going to be friends. Ever.

WCS

Homeless camps better watch themselves tonight…

Horatio Cornblower

Goddammit, you can’t announce you’re leaving like that and still expect to use us for an alibi.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Boston Scott has a brother named The Whole State of Maine Scott

fleshwound_NPG

moscow scott is someone you wouldnt want to mess with in the winter

Sharkbait

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herodotus450

His real name is “Massachusetts is technically a Commonwealth and not a state and in fact there are 6 other Commonwealths in the country” but they just call him Boston for short.

jjfozz

Selling the USFL to football fans is like trying to sell hot dogs outside of a mosque.

litre_cola

Oh my this is just brilliant.

fleshwound_NPG

nobody wants dollar tree football unless there is no football at all

Doktor Zymm

“They’re Hebrew Nationals!”
“That doesn’t help.”

herodotus450

Not the first time New Yorkers have dreaded a Scott decision

ThePirateSloth

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

The Maestro

Jesus Christ. Someone banner this man.

King Hippo

They Might Not Be Giants

Gumbygirl

Not to put too fine a point on it!

jjfozz

Say I’m the only bee in your bonnet.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

They’re as dead as a bag of groceries

jjfozz

Okay. I just heard this pearl:

“I said Lord, ‘You’ve got all those people at Davos at one time. Just wipe them all out at once.”

Christianity at its finest.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Tell her I said “Lord, go fuck yourself”

WCS

Pro-life!

jjfozz

One seldom gets to see this level of hypocrisy up close. it is soul crushing.

LemonJello

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Horatio Cornblower

She’s right, but probably for all the wrong reasons.

Doktor Zymm

Even if you ignore all the stuff wrong with asking god to kill people, just she think god is an idiot? like “wow! I totally didn’t realize these people were gathered together in Davos for the world economic forum like they do on a schedule that’s previously announced and publicized, I never would have thought of just smiting them all if this spiteful old lady hadn’t suggested it to me!”

Horatio Cornblower

Based on God’s work-product to date I’m not ruling idiocy out.

Senor Weaselo

When you don’t eat fish, Lunar New Year dinner is difficult. But not entirely impossible.

What makes it better is nian gao, which is literally just rice flour, water, and brown sugar. Fuck and yes.

Gumbygirl

Xin nian hao!

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Boston Scott was a guy I worked with who would go to Roxbury without telling his parents

clint greasewood

Boston Scott to score anytime TD (+350)

Doktor Zymm

So, Birds seem to have a history of success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDvTJCr42k

jjfozz

Be back soon, going to spike my mother in law’s drink with liquid PCP

Horatio Cornblower

This game is exactly what the transient population of Ontario did not need.

fleshwound_NPG

giants unstoppable against boston teams but boston players unstoppable against giants

LemonJello

“With that name, he must be one of the good ones!”
-Tawmy, Qinzee MA

King Hippo

what odds did y’all get on that Boston Scott prop?

litre_cola

I got 3.8 to 1.

Petronel

Boston making New York hurt again. Seems ‘bout right.

WCS

BIRDS ARE HUNGRY TONIGHT

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litre_cola

Boston Scott, check.

Gatoraids

Haven’t seen Giants get wiped out this quick since Chicxulub 

Gumbygirl

Henry is over this game

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King Hippo

Nothing quite like an early-to-bed Saturday!

clint greasewood

XFL champion vs the USFL champion in the Mega Bowl.

King Hippo

America: We don’t want even one spring FITBAW league.

Networks: We’ll give you TWO!

jjfozz

To whoever posted that YouTube cut from Veep, thank you. I’m now a dedicated fan. Fucking hilarious.

LemonJello

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WCS

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jjfozz

Has PETA protested yet against “Farmer Wants a Wife?” Cause those are gonna be some scared sheep.

WCS

Crosby, Stills, and Nash bumper

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Sharkbait

All the CSN!

Doktor Zymm

FAKE PUNT PLEASE, aw normal punt lame

ThePirateSloth

I know that EXACT feeling with losing then finding a contact like that.

Though I was usually drunk, not in a high pressure playoff game

WCS

He’s playing like he’s drunk and missing a contact.

fleshwound_NPG

contacts? somebody get danny dimes some circa 1990 chris sabo rec specscomment image

Gumbygirl

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Doktor Zymm

From experience, after the first 6 months it is super easy to put a contact in

Petronel

As long as you can clean your fingers effectively before trying. If not, then it may take a while.

WCS

After 20+ years, I still need a mirror.

jjfozz

I had double pink eye two weeks ago. Malcolm MacDowell had it easy.

Doktor Zymm

Despite scrubbing, I have not managed to get my hands completely clean of the horse-mud I’ve been in contact with the past couple days. It does nAWT smell good, but I’m guessing I’ve inadvertently ingested some, probably fine and a good for my immune system

Mr. Ayo

I feel the same way about my Big Turk experience

LemonJello

These Giants…

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Gatoraids

Fed is going to have to raise the interest rate by 2000 basis points to restore any value to dimes.

fleshwound_NPG

danny rubles

Downfield Matriculator

I would have said “sudden change” but that interception was more or less what the Giants led us to believe was gonna happen next

ThePirateSloth

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Doktor Zymm

I don’t think I own any Brad Berry jam!

WCS

Danny Pesos

jjfozz

My mother in law is on the phone with the oldest Fozz Spawn, telling him to go to mass tomorrow. I’m going in to be an asshole. Be back soon.

Downfield Matriculator

Sounds you may need to head to confession tomorrow yourself. At least three Hail Marys and two Our Fathers for whacking your MIL

Redshirt

Forgive me Father, but this sin was entrapment!

Mr. Ayo

Still better than whacking to your MIL

jjfozz

Thanks for the image. My penis has retracted into my body, right below my liver.

jjfozz

And now she guilted my wife and we have to go to mass tomorrow. I feel a cold coming on. Why do I have to go to a building to pray? Oh, right. Because that’s where they ask for money to fight the lawsuits brought against those fucking pedophiles. Right.

Gumbygirl

And the roof. It’s always the fucking roof.

jjfozz

If we go, we’re going to my church. The other one is Catholic, but they’re pushing the boundaries, they’re a mini mega-church and everyone in the congregation is an insufferable asshole.

“I shouldn’t walk out of Mass wanting to beat the shit out of someone.”

That is a direct quote to Mrs. Fozz, in front of my kids.

Doktor Zymm

Leave some of that chocolate Hannukah candy in the collection dish

Horatio Cornblower

My simple response: “No”

Sharkbait

This game is not going well for my FIL.

LemonJello

Your FIL is Danny Dimes?

LemonJello

Nods in Jaguars

-LemonJello

ThePirateSloth

There’s nothing better for me than standing at my grill with food going, drinking beer, in the cold, with my dog.

/chugs beer
//runs back inside

jjfozz

I’m not one to wish pain and hurt on a person, but how in fuck did the Jags not try and batter Mahomes’ ankle into mush? The least they could have done was beat his brother into mush.

Downfield Matriculator

Layoff does not seem to have clipped the Eagles’ wings

fleshwound_NPG

i thought johnny cougar mellencamp bumper music was reserved for clots games

Downfield Matriculator

Apparently Jalen also “Hurts so Good” — only reason I can see that working

jjfozz

An Eagles Chiefs Super Bowl? Looks like I have some time to schedule my proctology exam followed by a root canal.

Doktor Zymm

Ppl forget, the attack on Nancy Kerrigan would have worked if it had taken place closer to the Olympics, hint hint

King Hippo

whyyyyyyyyyyyyy