Your NFC guide to the rest of the NFL season..(updated weekly)

[Samuel L. Jackson]

As of right now, the NFC standings are as follows:

Saints 9--0

Vikings 8--1

Cowboys 6--3

Cardinals 6--3

Eagles 5--4

Falcons 5--4

Packers 5--4

Giants 5--4

49ers 4--5

Panthers 4--5

Bears 4--5

Redskins 3--6

Seahawks 3--6

Here's who you should root for next week...

Week11

TB over NO, SEA over MIN, WAS over DAL, STL over ARI, CHI over PHI, ATL over NYG, SF over GB, CAR over MIA

I'll update this thread each week thereafter, with a "who to root for this week" list...

Basically, this thread will size up the playoff picture as long as the Panthers remain in it...

As of right now, I think the Panthers (if they keep improving in all areas of the game) have a shot at 9-7 or, even better, 10-6...

IF we go 10-6, I think we have a shot at sneaking into the last wildcard slot, as I see the end of season records (looking at teams' opponents each week) looking like:

Saints 14--2

Vikings 12--4

Cardinals 10--6

Eagles 9--7

Packers 10--6*

Panthers 10--6

Cowboys 9--7

Falcons 9--7

Giants 9--7

49ers 9--7

Bears 6--10

Redskins 5--11

Seahawks 5--11

* I see the Packers going 9-3 in the conference, and us 8-4 (long shot, but doable)... This would give them the tiebreaker in a wildcard race with us...

I'm being overly optimistic with this whole thread idea, but it's something to keep me interested... We should honestly take things one game at a time...

[Samuel L. Jackson]

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[davos]

SF beating GB and STL beating ARI and Chicago over Philly are all good possibilities.

[rayzor]

Here's who you should root for next week...

Week11

TB over NO, SEA over MIN, WAS over DAL, STL over ARI, CHI over PHI, ATL over NYG, SF over GB, CAR over MIA

here's what it would look like if that happened.

Saints 9--1

Vikings 8--2

Cowboys 6--4

Cardinals 6--4

Eagles 5--5

Falcons 6--4

Packers 5--5

Giants 5--5

49ers 5--5

Panthers 5--5

Bears 5--5

Redskins 4--6

Seahawks 4--6

i am going to be pulling for the giants over the falcons. i can't see the sense in not. we aren't really in contention for the division champs at this point but still...i think that pulling for the giants makes more sense.

everything else looks good, though.

[MaineManPanther]

Two questions:

Dont we want Dallas out right to win? That way they securely lock up the East. And let philly and Giants fend for the wildcard battle. I would think we wouldnt want the NFC East to be all muddled up come playoff time.

Also wouldnt we be wanting ultimatley the Cardinals to drop to wildcard and have the 49ers win the divison? That way,if are records are the same, we have a direct head to head win over Arizona.

[unicar15]

I predict that no NFCS team gets a wildcard.

This is the playoff bracket IMO:

South - NO (1 seed)

North - Minn (2 seed)

East - Dal (3 seed)

West - Arizona (4 seed)

Wildcard:

Eagles (They get the Bears, Falcons, 49ers, and Broncos so if they can beat either the Giants or the Cowboys then they are going to go 10-6 IMO.)

Packers (They have 5 more games that are really winnable against the 49ers, Lions, Bears, Seahawks, and Cardinals).

So far for us I see 3 more "winnable" games. Not only that, but we are a game behind both the Packers and the Eagles. The last 4 games of our schedule are just way too brutal and giving up a game in the process (being 4-5 instead of 5-4) is just too much to overcome.

If we hadn't folded against the Bills and not dug ourselves such a deep hole at 0-3 to start the season then I'd say we were a wildcard team. But the reality is that the schedule just isn't going to play out for us.

Maybe the organization will learn from this. They need to realize that you can't have a QB that is going to lose games for you or else you will dig 0-3 holes where you can't recover.