AFC Championship Open Thread
Rooting for Brady, Branch, and Harris today.
Here's a video to start off the game day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9EqEI2J-E4&feature=youtu.be
And Henne and Omameh on the other side.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
The Pats better win. I'm not interested in a Bortles vs. Foles/Keenum super bowl
January 21st, 2018 at 2:20 PM ^
But Bortles is such an elite qb!!
January 21st, 2018 at 3:14 PM ^
Two great throws on that first drive. I will take that.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
Tom Brady has already cemented himself in as the best QB of all time so I'm not as invested as I have been in the past. I will say, it's nice that the other three teams remaining aren't the usual suspects (Seattle, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Denver, etc).
January 21st, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
I feel you here. I said after last year Brady didn't have to win anything else because he's already the greatest ever. But to be this close again.. you kind of want to see him finish another one. If the Patriots aren't in it, the Super Bowl won't have any luster. Plus I want my paid day off on Super Bowl Sunday to be worth it.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:08 AM ^
All that I have heard about Brady’s hand injury is that it’s a laceration. Does anyone have any top secret, illicit MGoInfo with more details? Of course Belichek will guard this info better than the KGB.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:16 AM ^
Lines moved 1.5 points toward JAGS if that tells you anything.
Supposedly sharps are all over the Eagles...
January 21st, 2018 at 11:28 AM ^
I had thought that someone said it was an injury inucurred in a drill, possibly off a portion of someone's helmet, so if that's the case, imagine what it must be like to be the player that created the current drama surrounding Tom Brady. Whoever it was probably was odd man out in practice for the rest of the week.
January 21st, 2018 at 1:31 PM ^
It was a collision with Rex Burkhead
January 21st, 2018 at 12:56 PM ^
Yes. According to local reporter, a laceration on a knuckle (not specific on which - maybe the asshole alignment knuckle?) colliding with Burkhead, requiring 4 stitches. It was pretty a pretty bloody scene. Imagine the immediate, collective panic on that practice field.
January 21st, 2018 at 5:11 PM ^
hard to keep it from re-opening
January 21st, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
I fear for humanity if Buffalo ever hosts an AFC championship game.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
They already hosted three.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
Obviously, but that was before it became a tradition to drop the people's elbow on flaming tables.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^
to take an important deposition in a huge, billion $$ civil case, the kind that can make or break the career of a young(ish) law firm associate. I thought I'd get the hotel a little early and prep quietly into the night.
Unfortunately, it was the night of October 29, 2008. As my cab is making it up Broad St to the Ritz-Carlton a few feet from City Hall, the street starts filling up with lunatics like they're coming out of the sewers at night in Escape From New York. The Phillies had just won the World Series, and for the rest of the night, total anarchy outside that got more violent as the night wore on. Drunk mobs challenging cops (and winning). Smashing windows. Setting fires in the middle of Broad St. I got almost no sleep. Damn you, Philly hooligans. Damn you to hell.
Mulitply all that x1,000,000 if the Eagles win it all. That city is going to burn to the ground.
But mostly, I just wanted you all to know I stayed at the Ritz.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:13 AM ^
Good morning from Philly where crews from the city are greasing the light poles with Crisco to prevent #Eagles fans from climbing after the #NFCChampionshipGame tonight. #Vikings pregame coverage starts at 3 on FOX9. They call themselves the #CriscoCops
January 21st, 2018 at 11:13 AM ^
I'm gonna have to go with the Vikings today, don't care about the other game. SKOL
January 21st, 2018 at 11:45 AM ^
Is also on the Jags’ roster
January 21st, 2018 at 11:47 AM ^
Alan Branch says hello.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:59 AM ^
I’m not sure I follow
January 21st, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
Go Jags, Go Eagles
January 21st, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
said virtually no one in America
January 21st, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
Maize and Blue by 4 over Rutgerzzz
January 21st, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
anyone but the eagles
January 21st, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
Eats your family.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
Go Jags. I know I am in the minority on here but I don't like the Patriots and I am tired of the same old storylines of slobbering all over the "Patriot way" and over Belichick and Brady. They deserve the credit they have gotten but I would be happier to see someone who hasn't won yet get that adulation. Getting another one for Brady won't change anything. He is already the GOAT. But I don't think (as many here seem to) that it is an obligation to root for him because he went to Michigan, as if by him winning these Super Bowls is some kind of validation. Ultimately, they may win, in part because of the Gronkowski mismatch potentially, but GO JAGS!
And on the other side, I can't root for a division rival to win and get to play on their home field for a Super Bowl.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^
4 hours early. Nice
January 21st, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
Not-so-bold prediction: the AFC champ, whichever team it is, will also be the Super Bowl champ.
Book it.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
Minnesota at Home against Jacksonville (if that somehow happened) would make me disagree.
January 21st, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
I had forgotten where the SB was going to be held this year.
Still, I really DO like the matchup between Pats and either Eagles/Vikes AND the matchup between Jags and Eagles/Vikes -- but yeah, the site could indeed make a difference.
I'm gonna throw some score predictions down here, just to see how wrong I will be. I'm usually way the hell off, and I expect this to be no different.
Pats - 38
Jags - 31
Vikes - 23
Eagles - 20
Pats - 27
Vikes - 24
I do expect both games today to be very competitive, and quite close.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:41 PM ^
Game is at 3:30, chief.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
Jarrod Wilson plays for the Jags as well. I believe he starts.
January 21st, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
Nope,Jags start two of the best safeties in football Church and Gipson
January 21st, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
So....Jarrod Wilson is still boring?
January 21st, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
Both are officially listed as inactive today. Too bad.
January 21st, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
Hey, go Iggles, what the hell. Gotta root for the non-Boston East Coast city.
January 21st, 2018 at 2:13 PM ^
Weather is absolutely perfect for football in Foxboro. Sunny, low 50's and no wind.
January 21st, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^
Ha. Yup, it is pretty perfect, but damn -- a game at Foxboro in late January? I am kinda hankerin' for some extreme cold & snow, man.
January 21st, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
We've had more than enough of that for now in this part of the world, thank you. It's 39 here and it feels like spring.
January 21st, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
Patriots RT Waddle inactive today. That line could be a problem, hope it holds up.
January 21st, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
think a patriots vs vikings superbowl would be a lot of fun.
patriots eagles would have been more interesting if wentz was still the qb.
January 21st, 2018 at 3:38 PM ^
Jax.
I'm all set with the Pats. They've done enough, Brady's won enough.
Time for someone else.
January 21st, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
Jags looking solid, and the way they drive the ball might limit NE’s total possessions.
NE is gonna have to make the most out of every one.
January 21st, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
It will come down to NE defense.
January 21st, 2018 at 3:48 PM ^
Totally outplaying the Pats. Not good