the NFL 2015 Play Offs

[Acido]

Ok I couldn't be bothered with looking for my older NFL threads on here, so I thought Id start a new one for the upcoming play offs.

Here are the fixtures, so who do you all think will win the following matches...

WILD CARD ROUND (the Last 16 Round):
CAROLINA v ARIZONA
PITTSBURGH v BALTIMORE
INDIANAPOLIS v CINCINATTI
DALLAS v DETROIT
(come on Dallas and Tony Romo, lets put that play off monkey to bed eh. Lets beat those pesky fellow Thanksgiving dirty Lions. Soz Michigan!!)

[MichiganWolf]

I don't think you have anything to worry about. Unless the Lions defense wins the game singlehandedly, I don't see the Lions coming out on top. Our offense has been pretty pedestrian for the second half of the season. Obviously Megatron could score on any given play, but stop him and be solid again the run game and you should be alright. In Dallas too, always hard to win on the road in the playoffs.

[TundraWolf]

When I have no favourites but am aware of an event I usually pull for the underdogs or older, more established clubs...that is why I would like to see the Lions pull it off...though won't lose sleep over the result either way. Might not even find out the score till the next day!

[Acido]

I don't think you have anything to worry about. Unless the Lions defense wins the game singlehandedly, I don't see the Lions coming out on top. Our offense has been pretty pedestrian for the second half of the season. Obviously Megatron could score on any given play, but stop him and be solid again the run game and you should be alright. In Dallas too, always hard to win on the road in the playoffs.

History counts though in certain fixtures Mich, and Dallas haven't beaten Detroit for a few years now. The Lions are one of these annoying bogey teams that crop up occasionally.

Speaking of 'road games' as you call them, Dallas won all 8 of their away games during the regular season (this includes the 1 neutral game over here at Wembley). Ive never known them to do this before.

[MichiganWolf]

Well, it was a close game. Wasn't happy with the officiating in the 4th quarter, but with the Lions only scoring 6 points the last three quarters, hard to complain. Lions haven't won a playoff game since 1991, so looks like I'll have to wait at least one more year.

[Acido]

This was a cracking play off game Mich and Ive got to give Detroit real credit for taking it to us like that. The game could have gone either way to be honest.

Ive never ever really thought of Tony Romo as a real big time winning QB (like Troy Aikman was of course). But Dallas have a lot more than just a good QB right now and they all stepped up to the plate when it mattered against Detroit.

Your team have an amazing defense, Ive never seen a team blitz so aggressively and sack Romo so many times at our stadium, as they did in this game.

So come on, as a Detroit fan give us some tips for how to win away at Green Bay

[Acido]

Play Offs Round One:
INDIANAPOLIS v Cincinnati, Pittsburgh v BALTIMORE, CAROLINA v Arizona, DALLAS v Detroit.

Play Offs Round Two:
NEW ENGLAND v Baltimore, Denver v INDIANAPOLIS, SEATTLE v Carolina, GREEN BAY v Dallas.

Play Offs Championship Games:
NEW ENGLAND v Indianapolis, SEATTLE v Green Bay.


So its onto the big one, and after one or two surprises along the way its New England and Seattle in the Superbowl. Lets just hope the don't allow NE to deliberately deflate the balls again like they did against IC.

My money is on NE by the way!!