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NFL Week 17 Thread: Kyle Orton's Chance of a Lifetime?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Michael_ Gee, Dec 24, 2013.

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  1. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Packers have gone from 4.5 underdog to 3-point favorite with the announcement that Rodgers will start. Also went from 30-1 to 12-1 for winning it all.
     
    old_tony, Dec 27, 2013
    #49
  2. Uncle Frosty

    Uncle Frosty Member

    Playoff scenarios: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/27/making-sense-of-the-nfl-playoff-picture-with-16-games-to-go/
     
    Uncle Frosty, Dec 27, 2013
    #50
  3. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    It would not have been too terribly difficult to move the Jets-Dolphins game to the 4:25 window. They moved the start time of some other games. Not like that game is being shown to a very wide audience to begin with. Oh, well, doesn't matter too much.
     
    Mark2010, Dec 27, 2013
    #51
  4. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    MisterCreosote, Dec 27, 2013
    #52
  5. NDJournalist

    NDJournalist Active Member

    To me, the Packers should be favorites now. Aaron Rodgers has shown he can win on the road en route to a Super Bowl and now he's had weeks to rest and not get hit? Lights out, NFC.
     
    NDJournalist, Dec 27, 2013
    #53
  6. Mark2010

    Mark2010 Active Member

    It all depends on what his condition is and how sharp he is after a 7-week layoff. That's hard to predict. I'm taking the Bears at home.
     
    Mark2010, Dec 27, 2013
    #54
  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    It's more than just the Dolphins game that plays into the last wild card. It would be Steelers-Browns and Ravens-Bengals that would have to get moved as well. Then you're looking at two games in the 1 p.m. EST window -- with no games that mean anything -- and six games in the better-rated 4:25 p.m. EST window, with a fractured distribution that would keep the ratings down.
     
    MileHigh, Dec 27, 2013
    #55
  8. NDJournalist

    NDJournalist Active Member

    I've always wondered, well I guess not always, why Fox and CBS can't splinter off their games in scenarios like this to their other networks. Why can't CBS, for examples, have the local game on the main channel, one other important game on the CBS Sports net, and maybe another game or two on their news channels if they have them?

    Same thing for Fox and Fox Sports 1 and Fox News and Fox Sports 2, etc.
     
    NDJournalist, Dec 27, 2013
    #56
  9. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    ATTN: MileHigh.

    There are times I thought you were a little rough on ND for no good reason.

    I apologize for ever thinking that.
     
    BurnsWhenIPee, Dec 27, 2013
    #57
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Apology accepted. :)
     
    MileHigh, Dec 27, 2013
    #58
  11. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I am enjoying the Mark2010 and NDJournalist debates on multiple threads. Its an electronic version of eggnog.
     
    poindexter, Dec 27, 2013
    #59
  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Yet massive shots of Brandy need to included to get us through them.
     
    MileHigh, Dec 27, 2013
    #60
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