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With MNF being irrelevant this week, here are the current playoff matchups at the half-way point of the season:

 

NFC

 

Atlanta/Chicago - BYES

 

Seattle @ San Francisco

Green Bay @ NY Giants

 

 

AFC

 

Houston, Baltimore - BYES

 

Pittsburgh @ New England

Indianapolis @ Denver

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That would be an awesome playoffs.

 

Absolutely. Some great stories in the Wild Card games. Plus in the divisional round you could get a NE-Baltimore rematch plus GB/NYG vs. Atlanta (the two teams that pounded Atlanta in the playoffs the last two years).

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With MNF being irrelevant this week, here are the current playoff matchups at the half-way point of the season:

 

Indianapolis @ Denver

 

There'd be no hype for that game. None at all.

 

Colts still aren't making the playoffs though -- five more road games.

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With MNF being irrelevant this week, here are the current playoff matchups at the half-way point of the season:

 

Indianapolis @ Denver

 

There'd be no hype for that game. None at all.

 

Colts still aren't making the playoffs though -- five more road games.

 

I'm not quite that definitive about their playoff chances. The last playoff spot will likely be a 9-7 team. Two winnable road games (at Jac and at KC). Split those, win the two home games they're favored in (BUF, TEN) and they are just looking to steal one more at that point to probably get in. It could come down to if Houston rests starters or not in week 17.

 

If I had to go between the Colts and the field, I'd take the field. But I have a hard time picking out a 6th playoff team. San Diego has struggled outside their division, and none of the 3-5 teams are good bets to suddenly take off. Miami is probably the best of the lot, and the Colts have now a lead and the tiebreaker on them.

 

Of course, the Colts could easily lose a few close games going down the stretch and only win 7 as well.

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With MNF being irrelevant this week, here are the current playoff matchups at the half-way point of the season:

 

Indianapolis @ Denver

 

There'd be no hype for that game. None at all.

 

Colts still aren't making the playoffs though -- five more road games.

 

I'm not quite that definitive about their playoff chances. The last playoff spot will likely be a 9-7 team. Two winnable road games (at Jac and at KC). Split those, win the two home games they're favored in (BUF, TEN) and they are just looking to steal one more at that point to probably get in. It could come down to if Houston rests starters or not in week 17.

 

If I had to go between the Colts and the field, I'd take the field. But I have a hard time picking out a 6th playoff team. San Diego has struggled outside their division, and none of the 3-5 teams are good bets to suddenly take off. Miami is probably the best of the lot, and the Colts have now a lead and the tiebreaker on them.

 

Of course, the Colts could easily lose a few close games going down the stretch and only win 7 as well.

 

Yeah, I know I'm more bearish than you (and most?) about the Colts. With so many close wins, it's hard for me to be sold on them. I don't believe a 5-1 record in one-possession games is sustainable (maybe with prime Peyton Manning, but Luck isn't at that level). They're also 1-2 on the road, with two blowout losses (though I doubt they lose both at Jacksonville and at Kansas City).

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Yeah, I know I'm more bearish than you (and most?) about the Colts. With so many close wins, it's hard for me to be sold on them. I don't believe a 5-1 record in one-possession games is sustainable (maybe with prime Peyton Manning, but Luck isn't at that level). They're also 1-2 on the road, with two blowout losses (though I doubt they lose both at Jacksonville and at Kansas City).

 

I think when you've got a guy like Luck, who is proving to be everything the experts thought he could be thus far, keeping it close and giving him a chance to win it late isn't a bad play. Also, those two blowout losses, to the Bears on the road in week 1 and to the Jets on the road the week after the emotional Pagano stuff and win against the Packers.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to see them win both of the Jax and KC road games. The two home games they're favored in are good bets for Ws as well. And with as bad as the rest of the AFC appears to be, 9-7 probably gets them in.

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With MNF being irrelevant this week, here are the current playoff matchups at the half-way point of the season:

 

Indianapolis @ Denver

 

There'd be no hype for that game. None at all.

 

Colts still aren't making the playoffs though -- five more road games.

 

I'm not quite that definitive about their playoff chances. The last playoff spot will likely be a 9-7 team. Two winnable road games (at Jac and at KC). Split those, win the two home games they're favored in (BUF, TEN) and they are just looking to steal one more at that point to probably get in. It could come down to if Houston rests starters or not in week 17.

 

If I had to go between the Colts and the field, I'd take the field. But I have a hard time picking out a 6th playoff team. San Diego has struggled outside their division, and none of the 3-5 teams are good bets to suddenly take off. Miami is probably the best of the lot, and the Colts have now a lead and the tiebreaker on them.

 

Of course, the Colts could easily lose a few close games going down the stretch and only win 7 as well.

 

Yeah, that Houston game at the end could be the tipping point for them. Houston already has H2H wins over two of the current division leaders (Baltimore and Denver) and they play at New England later in the year. Winning that game would make it even more likely they have home field wrapped up before Week 17.

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Reggie Wayne is on pace for 122 catches and he leads the league in targets (95), nine ahead of Marshall. If the Colts are seriously challenging for a playoff spot in the last two weeks of the season there's got to be a good chance he breaks Harrison's record.
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Reggie Wayne is on pace for 122 catches and he leads the league in targets (95), nine ahead of Marshall. If the Colts are seriously challenging for a playoff spot in the last two weeks of the season there's got to be a good chance he breaks Harrison's record.

 

Harrison's mark is 143 so he'd need to average almost 10.5 per game to get there (he's averaged 7.6 per game so far). He's had one game this year with at least 10 receptions. There's a very slim chance he gets the record.

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Reggie Wayne is on pace for 122 catches and he leads the league in targets (95), nine ahead of Marshall. If the Colts are seriously challenging for a playoff spot in the last two weeks of the season there's got to be a good chance he breaks Harrison's record.

 

As you said, he's on pace to finish 21 catches behind Harrison. He would have to average over 10 catches a game the rest of the season, and even with his monster start he's only had one game of double digit catches so far this year. I don't see that happening. Welker and Harvin probably have slightly better chances of catching Harrison this year, but I don't see anyone getting particularly close.

 

And I see that soccer beat me to it!

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also bad: michael vick.

Pretty bad pick (although due to a blown call, Saints defender had Celek's left arm locked up) but his sacks and fumble are on the O line. Amazingly terrible.

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That would be an awesome playoffs.

 

Agreed but it'd be downright scary to know we'd be playing GB, NYG or SF in the 2nd round

 

Bears will need to go through one of those teams regardless. So....which one would you prefer?

 

 

I vote SF :)

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