Falcons getting all the breaks.

wesleyd21 said:
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:laugher:
 
I think something that everyone has lost track of throughout this season is the "prophecy" of the NFC South. Without fail, every team that has finished last in the division has won it the next year. It's been brought up a few times, but most people laughed it off. Well gentlemen, you can't laugh anymore...let's do the math:

1. CAR loss @NYG + CAR loss @NO (no one has won on the road in the division this year...)
2. ATL win vs. STL

ATL wins the NFC South @ 11-5.


It doesn't stop there:

1. NYG (12-4 or 13-3)
2. ATL (11-5)
3. MIN or CHI (10-6 or 9-7)
4. ARI :laugher::laugher::laugher:(9-7)
5. CAR (11-5) I'm pretty sure we win tiebreaker on conf. record, otherwise CAR would have already clinched a playoff spot
6. TB (10-6); DAL (10-6) or PHI (9-6-1)

ATL gets the bye and a home game in the divisional playoffs. Home field advantage has been HUGE for us. We would be a New York upset away from having the NFC potentially going through ATL. Call it looking too far ahead if you want, but the math is there...
 
GTSaxophone said:
I think something that everyone has lost track of throughout this season is the "prophecy" of the NFC South. Without fail, every team that has finished last in the division has won it the next year. It's been brought up a few times, but most people laughed it off. Well gentlemen, you can't laugh anymore...let's do the math:

1. CAR loss @NYG + CAR loss @NO (no one has won on the road in the division this year...)
2. ATL win vs. STL

ATL wins the NFC South @ 11-5.


It doesn't stop there:

1. NYG (12-4 or 13-3)
2. ATL (11-5)
3. MIN or CHI (10-6 or 9-7)
4. ARI :laugher::laugher::laugher:(9-7)
5. CAR (11-5) I'm pretty sure we win tiebreaker on conf. record, otherwise CAR would have already clinched a playoff spot
6. TB (10-6); DAL (10-6) or PHI (9-6-1)

ATL gets the bye and a home game in the divisional playoffs. Home field advantage has been HUGE for us. We would be a New York upset away from having the NFC potentially going through ATL. Call it looking too far ahead if you want, but the math is there...
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Not looking too far ahead at all. I'm so, so excited.
 
Have the Falcons even been to the Playoffs so far this century?

Regardless, good for them.
 
didn't they go to the NFC Championship game vs Philadelphia in 2003 or '04 or something like that?
 
The Jacket said:
Not looking too far ahead at all. I'm so, so excited.
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++ I'm so glad Vick, Mora, Petrino, Crumpler, and Me-Hall and the rest of the cancer are all gone and can't take any credit for this turn-around.

And at the risk of going over the top, I'm also thrilled that 90% of the #7 jersey wearin' hood-rats have evacuated the Falcon bandwagon. That group was more like a cult following and cared nothing about true Falcon success.
 
TechGator1066 said:
Have the Falcons even been to the Playoffs so far this century?

Regardless, good for them.
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Defeat Packers in GB (first team to ever do so in playoffs) in Wild Card round in 2002
Lost to Eagles in Div. Round in 2002

Defeat Rams at home in Divisional Round in 2004
Lost to Eagles in NFC Championship in 2004
 
JoltinJacket said:
++ I'm so glad Vick, Mora, Petrino, Crumpler, and Me-Hall and the rest of the cancer are all gone and can't take any credit for this turn-around.

And at the risk of going over the top, I'm also thrilled that 90% of the #7 jersey wearin' hood-rats have evacuated the Falcon bandwagon. That group was more like a cult following and cared nothing about true Falcon success.
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I still have my jersey. Moreso because of the fact that I don't have the money to buy an Abraham, Norwood, or Turner jersey like I've wanted for a few years.
 
GTSaxophone said:
CAR (11-5) I'm pretty sure we win tiebreaker on conf. record, otherwise CAR would have already clinched a playoff spot
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CAR is in the playoffs. If they do drop their last two games and ATL defeats STL, then it looks to me like the fourth tiebreaker would give the division to the Falcons.

Tiebreaker:

1) head-to-head (1-1)
2) division (both 3-3)
3) common opponents (both 6-1)
4) conference (ATL 8-4, CAR 7-5) --Atl lost to TB, CAR, NO and PHI. --CAR lost to TB, ATL, NO, MIN and would lose to NYG.
 
GTSaxophone said:
Defeat Packers in GB (first team to ever do so in playoffs) in Wild Card round in 2002
Lost to Eagles in Div. Round in 2002

Defeat Rams at home in Divisional Round in 2004
Lost to Eagles in NFC Championship in 2004
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Thanks for the refresher Sax. For some reason the last time I remember the Falcons in the playoffs was '98-99 when they went to SB XXXIII.
 
G-Men just tied it up ... They were down 28-20. They score and convert the 2 pt conversion.

Knotted up at 28 all.
 
The old Dawg John Kasay is about to kick a 50 yarder for the game with :09 left.
 
Lollerskates @ Eli Manning during the OT coin toss.

Referee Walt Coleman was going thru the rules, "...if no one scores by the end of the 15 minute period, the game ends in a tie."

Eli threw in a jab at Donovan McNabb: "Yeah, we already knew that."
 
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