kayaker0678 Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 LETS MOVE TO THE NFC!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazkal Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 yes plz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurmanation Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Im sorry but it wouldnt be fair, winning the NFC championship every year would surely make us the biggest bandwagon team ever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 No thanks... Playing teams like that all year would water down the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 While being in the NFC would likely have gotten us into the playoffs... it would not have gotten us to the Super Bowl. We were a .500 team this year. 6-6 in the AFC, 2-2 in the NFC. Maybe it was Carson's rust, maybe it was all the injuries. Whatever it was... we were not a playoff caliber team this year. It doesn't matter what conference we're in. Either you're good enough, or you're not. This year we weren't.Here's to next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jditty47 Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 are you telling me we were worse than the chiefs this year? or the giants? we WERE a playoff team, we made retarded mistakes that cost us it, but it doesnt mean we werent a playoff caliber team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 are you telling me we were worse than the chiefs this year? or the giants? we WERE a playoff team, we made retarded mistakes that cost us it, but it doesnt mean we werent a playoff caliber team.Well... were weren't a playoff team. At least I didn't see us play any playoff games.The Chiefs were 9-7. We were 8-8. We beat them in week 1, and proceeded to finish 7-8. The finished 9-6. If you are what your record says you are... then yes, they were better than us. Maybe not more talented... but more complete, more consistent, more successful.As for the Giants... I agreed that we might have made the playoffs had we been in the NFC... but that doesn't count for much. Being one and done doesn't feel much more successful than missing the playoffs completely. It just happens a week later. We weren't Super Bowl caliber... and that's what the playoffs are for. Therefore, we didn't belong there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMC Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 While being in the NFC would likely have gotten us into the playoffs... it would not have gotten us to the Super Bowl. We were a .500 team this year. 6-6 in the AFC, 2-2 in the NFC. Maybe it was Carson's rust, maybe it was all the injuries. Whatever it was... we were not a playoff caliber team this year. It doesn't matter what conference we're in. Either you're good enough, or you're not. This year we weren't.Here's to next year!Tampa Bay is in the NFC and our game with them didn't go so well....Either did the one with the Falcons....And those are two teams that didn't even make the playoffs....It all evens out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jditty47 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 are you telling me we were worse than the chiefs this year? or the giants? we WERE a playoff team, we made retarded mistakes that cost us it, but it doesnt mean we werent a playoff caliber team.Well... were weren't a playoff team. At least I didn't see us play any playoff games.The Chiefs were 9-7. We were 8-8. We beat them in week 1, and proceeded to finish 7-8. The finished 9-6. If you are what your record says you are... then yes, they were better than us. Maybe not more talented... but more complete, more consistent, more successful.As for the Giants... I agreed that we might have made the playoffs had we been in the NFC... but that doesn't count for much. Being one and done doesn't feel much more successful than missing the playoffs completely. It just happens a week later. We weren't Super Bowl caliber... and that's what the playoffs are for. Therefore, we didn't belong there.are we really supposed to believe and buy into this philosophy? just cuz we werent in the playoffs does not mean we weren't a PLAYOFF CALIBER TEAM. My whole argument with you is that. and your argument about the chiefs is laughable, look what happened to them vs indy - THEY DIDNT BELONG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HairOnFire Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Being one and done doesn't feel much more successful than missing the playoffs completely. It just happens a week later. We weren't Super Bowl caliber... and that's what the playoffs are for. Therefore, we didn't belong there. Agreed. The Bengals found ways to lose important football games too many times for anyone to believe that they would have suddenly turned things around in the playoffs. Simply put, whatever life they showed getting themselves into position to reach the playoffs (8-5) was snuffed out by a shockingly inept 0-3 stretch drive. Yeah, they could have qualified if a break or two would have gone their way, but in the end they left very little doubt that they didn't belong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jditty47 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 so you are telling me after the chiefs performance that they did belong? give me a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 so you are telling me after the chiefs performance that they did belong? give me a break.More than the Bengals belonged. The same goes for the Jets. Those teams took care of business late in the season to squeak in. The Bengals didn't.Are you telling me a team that loses two straight weeks down the stretrch on botched kicks deserved it anymore than the Chiefs did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Perhaps you missed it... but we also played a game against the Colts just a few weeks prior to the Chiefs/Colts playoff game. You can argue that the Cheifs didn't belong... but you'd have a hard time convincing me that the Bengals looked any better. Maybe the '06/'07 year in the NFL was such that only 6 or 7 teams really belonged in the playoffs, but 12 made it. I don't know... but I do know that 8-8 teams should not complain about being snubbed because of the conference they play in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spor_tees Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Maybe they need to adopt a system so that if not enough teams from a conference are at least above .500, then teams from the other conference that are above .500 and didn't make their conference playoffs take their place.I know that sounds silly and crazy and will never happen, but at least it is logical. Having the best "teams" in football in the playoffs vs. just having the best teams in the conference in the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Maybe they need to adopt a system so that if not enough teams from a conference are at least above .500, then teams from the other conference that are above .500 and didn't make their conference playoffs take their place.I know that sounds silly and crazy and will never happen, but at least it is logical. Having the best "teams" in football in the playoffs vs. just having the best teams in the conference in the playoffs.That'd kinda screw the traditional format that ends with the AFC/NFC Superbowl. If the two conferences aren't represented equally in the tournament, then having conferences at all would be pointless... Too big a change to be worth it, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonahdsage Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 if we were a playoff caliber team . . . we would have been in the playoffs. name any reason you want but we had plenty of opportunities to get there and we didn't. if you're a playoff caliber team, by definition, you go to the playoffs. we didn't make it, so we're not a playoff level team. not to say we can't be there, but we didn't deserve it, don't belong, and wouldn't have gone too far. i'm as frustrated as anyone that the bengals weren't playing indy two weeks ago or the eagles last week, but i'd rather earn it than argue our way in or act like the bengals deserved something just because we like them the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jditty47 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 in what world do you people live in? playoff caliber does not always mean you are in the playoffs. the arguments you guys try to make arent even arguments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HairOnFire Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 in what world do you people live in? playoff caliber does not always mean you are in the playoffs. the arguments you guys try to make arent even arguments. All you're doing is making a semantic argument. You're spinning your wheels debating if the Bengals were worthy of playoff consideration while ignoring the fact that at 8-5 the Bengals were perfectly position to make the playoffs, but couldn't win another game due to their own mistakes. So their own play determined that they be considered a pretender and not a contender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi32 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 If the Bengals were a "playoff caliber" team in 2007, then they were also under-achievers. Using the term playoff caliber after the season is a pretty hollow argument. They didn't make it in, so what difference does it make? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoTbOy Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 What exactly does playoff caliber mean, does it mean we had the talent to be in the playoffs, if that's the case we were playoff caliber...but that talent didn't get us into the playoffs so we are not a playoff caliber team... IMO you have to be IN the playoffs to be to be playoff caliber...the Cardinals have a ton of talent but are they playoff caliber, just like the Falcons, so someone define playoff caliber... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spor_tees Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 What exactly does playoff caliber mean, does it mean we had the talent to be in the playoffs, if that's the case we were playoff caliber...but that talent didn't get us into the playoffs so we are not a playoff caliber team... IMO you have to be IN the playoffs to be to be playoff caliber...the Cardinals have a ton of talent but are they playoff caliber, just like the Falcons, so someone define playoff caliber...I think playoff caliber is defined as being somewhere between 38 and 40 caliber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jditty47 Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 i cant believe there are football fans that do not understand what the word caliber means in a sports sense. sheesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkendall Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 What exactly does playoff caliber mean, does it mean we had the talent to be in the playoffs, if that's the case we were playoff caliber...but that talent didn't get us into the playoffs so we are not a playoff caliber team... IMO you have to be IN the playoffs to be to be playoff caliber...the Cardinals have a ton of talent but are they playoff caliber, just like the Falcons, so someone define playoff caliber...Caliber reflects quality and worth -- not in the gun sense you dorks. Playoff is used as the standard of the good teams. Therefore, this phrase means playoff (which is a good goal) caliber (worth) team. That's always been my interpretation. I could be wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripes Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 i cant believe there are football fans that do not understand what the word caliber means in a sports sense. sheesh.The phrase "in a sports sense" would suggest that such an interpretation is at the disgression of the individual, yes? I say no, you say yes. Fair enough, cool beans, et cetera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkendall Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 i cant believe there are football fans that do not understand what the word caliber means in a sports sense. sheesh.The phrase "in a sports sense" would suggest that such an interpretation is at the disgression of the individual, yes? I say no, you say yes. Fair enough, cool beans, et cetera.In the same way that good and bad is based off a point of view? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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