NFC

New Oreleans and Minnesota have 1st round byes

Dallas (3) will host Philadelphia (6)

Arizona (4) will host Green Bay (5)

New Orleans will host the lowest seed who advances
Minnesota will host the highest seed who advances

AFC

Indianapolis and San Diego have 1st round byes

Seeding is still up in the air, but Baltimore will play New England in the wildcard round.

Indianapolis will host the lowest seed who advances
San Diego will host the highest seed who advances

If Cincinnati wins tonight, they will be the #3 seed and host Houston who would be the 6th seed.

If New York wins tonight, they will be the #5 seed and travel to Cincinnati who would be the 4th seed.

If Cincinnati wins, Baltimore will be the #5 seed and New England #4.
If New York wins, New England will be the #3 seed and Baltimore #6.

If things fall right, you are looking at a Green Bay-Minnesota NFC Championship Game which would be a great game to see.

And in the AFC if things fall right, you are looking at a San Diego-Indianapolis Championship Game.

Looking at things early before seeding is all the way set, I am predicting a Minnesota-San Diego Super Bowl.

Green Bay and Minnesota could also be matched up in round 2!

I am going to go ahead and set up the matchups seeing as how Cincinnati has pretty much thrown this game away.

AFC

Wild Card

(3) New England vs Baltimore (6)
Cincinnati (4) vs New York (5)

Divisional Round

(1) Indianapolis vs the lowest seeded team to advance
(2) San Diego vs the highest seeded team to advance

NFC

Wild Card Round

Dallas (3) vs Philadelphia (6)

Arizona (4) vs Green Bay (5)

Divisional Round

(1) New Oreleans vs the lowest seeded team to advance
(2) Minnesota vs the highest seeded team to advance

Roger Goodell has a wet dream at night thinking about the kind of ratings a Favre Bowl III as the NFC Title game with the winner going to the Super Bowl would be.

Favre himself probably has both dreams and nightmares about the same thing because losing that game would potentially haunt him forever while winning it would be the biggest FU he could ever give to Ted Thompson.

Looks like next weekend will have three rematches from Week 17. Should add an interesting spin to everything.

Predictions for next week

Baltimore over New England
Cincinnati over New York

That would set up Indianapolis vs Baltimore and San Diego vs Cincinnati

Dallas over Philadelphia
Green Bay over Arizona

That would set up Green Bay vs New Orleans and Minnesota vs Dallas

I'll follow suit and make my predictions also...

AFC Wild Card Round

New England 20 - Baltimore 13
New York Jets 24 - Cincinnati 17

NFC Wild Card Round

Dallas 20 - Philadelphia 14
Green Bay 28 - Arizona 14

All of that sets up this:

AFC Divisional Round

New York Jets at Indianapolis
New England at San Diego

NFC Divisional Round

Green Bay at New Orleans
Dallas at Minnesota

ironman02 wrote: Looks like next weekend will have three rematches from Week 17. Should add an interesting spin to everything.

No doubt. Has this happened before and at same locations (at least 2 of them are, I havent looked up the third game)

Predictions:

Baltimore 17
New England 16

New York 17
Cincinnati 10

Green Bay 31
Arizona 24

Dallas 21
Philadelphia 20

Baltimore over New England

Green Bay over Arizona

Philly over Dallas

Jets and Bengals is a rough one. I'd go with Cincy just because they probably threw the game tonight. They will play better at home next week.

bigdaddy...I am liking our chances...MUST keep the penalites down though.

sportswizuhrd wrote: bigdaddy...I am liking our chances...MUST keep the penalites down though.

Maybe Frank Walker won't play lol. He is the big penalty guy.

bigdaddy going against big D?

All I care about is Dallas getting their first playoff win in a century and winning their third against Philly this season.

pnhasbeen wrote: bigdaddy going against big D?

All I care about is Dallas getting their first playoff win in a century and winning their third against Philly this season.

Ha Dallas made Philly look bad today but I don't see it happening 2 weeks in a row.

bigdaddy2003 wrote:

pnhasbeen wrote: bigdaddy going against big D?

All I care about is Dallas getting their first playoff win in a century and winning their third against Philly this season.

Ha Dallas made Philly look bad today but I don't see it happening 2 weeks in a row.

I think Dallas just has their number this year.

pnhasbeen wrote:

bigdaddy2003 wrote:

pnhasbeen wrote: bigdaddy going against big D?

All I care about is Dallas getting their first playoff win in a century and winning their third against Philly this season.

Ha Dallas made Philly look bad today but I don't see it happening 2 weeks in a row.

I think Dallas just has their number this year.

Possible but it's pretty hard to beat a team 3 times.

bigdaddy2003 wrote:

pnhasbeen wrote:

bigdaddy2003 wrote:

pnhasbeen wrote: bigdaddy going against big D?

All I care about is Dallas getting their first playoff win in a century and winning their third against Philly this season.

Ha Dallas made Philly look bad today but I don't see it happening 2 weeks in a row.

I think Dallas just has their number this year.

Possible but it's pretty hard to beat a team 3 times.

Steelers did it last year. And Dallas is pretty hot right now.

Ha I guess we will just have to see how it plays out.