7 " . . . UNWORTHY . . . " teams ~ ~ ~

Is Silver capable of writing anything that isn't riddled with hyperlinks?

 

He certainly got me with those. I could have read the article in a couple minutes, but those links got me distracted into a 20 minute affair.

 

So no team deserves the two Wild Card spots. Gotcha.

 

yep these are the same people that were laughing at the fact the arizona cardinals were in the play"offs."worst team to ever make the playoffs".i have a feeling one of the wildcard teams will be playing in the afc game.

 

They can say what they want, the past 2 years we've seen teams who people thought had no business being in the playoffs reach the superbowl

 

This article is pretty much a joke. The playoffs are different every year. This year just happened to have more mediocre teams in the AFC. Who is he to say that none of the wild-card contenders deserve to make the playoffs?

This article seems like it's simply trying to get people angry. There is really not much merit in what he's saying.

 

Or the Steelers when they won in Detroit, They were the 6th seed. IN the NFL one injury or some bad weather can change everything. Case in point the Steelers the year they were the 6th seed had Carson Palmer go down on the 1st play of the game or they likely get killed by the Bengals.

 

It seems like he just got pissed at the attitude of the Steelers and then wanted to rant - kind of a reaction to those Steelers fans who will say that they "deserved" to be in the playoffs more than the Jets, he's saying we're all equally mediocre.

 

BFD that hack Silver wrote that 4 days ago. Everybody has an opinion. Here is mine, Silver can go fuck himself.

 

If you look at who the Jets lost to vs who the Steelers lost too do they really deserve it? Their excuse is they lost Polomalu...wah wah wah. We lost arguabley our best defensive player too and unlike them were able to replace what they brought to the team. Oh and we also lost our most explosive player on offense and ST and we've managed.

If Dolphag fans wanna gripe I understand because they did beat us twice and probably are better then us but they've lost to teams they shoudl have beaten in games they needed to win.

 

The Jets may have gotten lucky last week but to say a team with the #1 D and #1 run O in the NFL doesn't deserve even a wildcard birth is unfair. The NYJ have had a handful of bad luck/last minute losses this season so call it karma.

 

It's more a matter of the AFC having less terrible teams for everyone else to beat. These "mediocre" AFC teams could probably beat most of the "worthy" NFC teams.

 

I think this article is more directly toward's woodley's attitude as someone mentioned here earlier, I still don't see how someone can lose to the Browns, Raiders, and Chiefs and say they deserve the playoffs, I wouldn't mind seeing the Dolphins win next week with the Jets and Ravens both winning as well, I'd love to hear him talk about deserving it then

 

Exactly. It's all relative to the strength of the teams in the given year.

 

agreed to an extent, the AFC has the Chiefs, Raiders, Browns, Bills at the bottom

the NFC has Tampa, Lions, Rams, Redskins

so I'd say it's about the same number of terrible teams, the AFC's terrible are just better

 

Seattle too.

 

yeah the only reason I didn't include them was the Jacksonville game haha

 

If Silver were writing this article last season he certainly would've been crowing that the Cardinals, who got smoked by the Jets and Giants, embarrassed by the Eagles, and absolutely dismantled by the Patriots--basically they hadn't beaten a good team yet by the time that they limped into the postseason. Then they came about 2 minutes away from winning the Super Bowl.

As Bill Parcells likes to say, you are exactly what your record says you are. If you finish as one of the top 6 teams, you deserve to be there no matter what excuses the losers make.