If Minnesota beats Green Bay Saturday, they are a 99%....

I think you mean when!  B) 

Good to know...Hope Zimm puts it on the locker room chalk board. We should win Saturday night, but its a divisional game and crazy s hit can happen. 

Back in 88 or 89 GB had 4 wins. 2 of em against The NFC Central Division Champion Vikings. Swept.

And those losses made the Vikings go back to SF in the playoffs where we got smoked (instead of hosting them here) the year after the Anthony Carter game at Candlestick.

Or think back to that December game in 09. The one when the 12 win Brett Favre led Vikings lost to the frigging sorry asz Bears.

Win that game? We host Brees and The Saints for the NFC CG.  

This is an important game. History reminds us not to f uck it up. Hopefully this is the year to kill demons past. 

The interesting part is who the Eagles and Vikings would play after their byes if that happens. Vikings would play the highest seeded remaining winner and the Eagles the lowest. It could be anyone as the teams seeded #3 through #6 are very evenly matched.

@"purplefaithful" said: Good to know...Hope Zimm puts it on the locker room chalk board. We should win Saturday night, but its a divisional game and crazy s hit can happen. 

Back in 88 or 89 GB had 4 wins. 2 of em against The NFC Central Division Champion Vikings. Swept.

And those losses made the Vikings go back to SF in the playoffs where we got smoked (instead of hosting them here) the year after the Anthony Carter game at Candlestick.

Or think back to that December game in 09. The one when the 12 win Brett Favre led Vikings lost to the frigging sorry asz Bears.

Win that game? We host Brees and The Saints for the NFC CG.  

This is an important game. History reminds us not to f uck it up. Hopefully this is the year to kill demons past. 

Coaching?

@"StickyBun" said: The interesting part is who the Eagles and Vikings would play after their byes if that happens. Vikings would play the highest seeded remaining winner and the Eagles the lowest. It could be anyone as the teams seeded #3 through #6 are very evenly matched.

I think most nfl fans would rate the NFC today as 

Eagles
Vikings
Then who's #3? Thats where it gets grey imo; Saints or Carolina? Maybe even Falcons, but they should have been beat by The Bucs Monday night. 

@"StickyBun" said: The interesting part is who the Eagles and Vikings would play after their byes if that happens. Vikings would play the highest seeded remaining winner and the Eagles the lowest. It could be anyone as the teams seeded #3 through #6 are very evenly matched.

And whats the logic of the #2 seed playing the highest seed left and #1 playing the lowest??

I keep messing with the playoff machine and it actually seems like Detroit has a very good shot at stealing the #6.  If you auto set it by win % they do.  It really feels more likely that they beat both the Bengals and Packers than Atlanta winning in NO or against Carolina.  Maybe I think less of Atlanta than I should...

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: The interesting part is who the Eagles and Vikings would play after their byes if that happens. Vikings would play the highest seeded remaining winner and the Eagles the lowest. It could be anyone as the teams seeded #3 through #6 are very evenly matched.

And whats the logic of the #2 seed playing the highest seed left and #1 playing the lowest??

Regardless of what happens down the stretch the most likely #3 seed in the NFC is the Rams. Its going to be awfully tough for a team to head into LA and beat them. So if MN can lock up the #2 seed there is likely rematch in the divisional round. That leaves the Eagles more likely than not playing at home against the Saints, Panthers, Falcons. I think they'll have a hard time beating any of those teams to be completely honest. 

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"StickyBun" said: The interesting part is who the Eagles and Vikings would play after their byes if that happens. Vikings would play the highest seeded remaining winner and the Eagles the lowest. It could be anyone as the teams seeded #3 through #6 are very evenly matched.

And whats the logic of the #2 seed playing the highest seed left and #1 playing the lowest??

@"Geoff Nichols" said: Regardless of what happens down the stretch the most likely #3 seed in the NFC is the Rams. Its going to be awfully tough for a team to head into LA and beat them. So if MN can lock up the #2 seed there is likely rematch in the divisional round. That leaves the Eagles more likely than not playing at home against the Saints, Panthers, Falcons. I think they'll have a hard time beating any of those teams to be completely honest. 

Dayum, I completely forgot about the Rams Geoff! 

I could absolutely see a rematch with them...

I think we see Carolina in the USbank for the NFCC game.

@"JimmyinSD" said: I think we see Carolina in the USbank for the NFCC game.

I just dont have a good feel for how beatable the Eagles are...at home in the playoffs.  It would be great to see them get knocked out early and we gain homefield against ANYONE.

@"purplefaithful" said: Or think back to that December game in 09. The one when the 12 win Brett Favre led Vikings lost to the frigging sorry asz Bears.

Win that game? We host Brees and The Saints for the NFC CG.  

This is an important game. History reminds us not to f uck it up. Hopefully this is the year to kill demons past. 

Oh my, I totally forgot about that. The one that sticks in my craw more than any other is the '75 game. That was our best team of the 70s. But it wasn't the Hail Mary that haunts me as much as the play before, when Staubach completed a pass to Drew Pearson on 4th and 17!! Pearson caught the ball out of bounds but it was ruled that he was forced out. 

@"JimmyinSD" said: I think we see Carolina in the USbank for the NFCC game.

Based on how the teams are playing right now, that would seem to be the most likely. Nothing like home field advantage throughout and including the Super Bowl. 

@"JimmyinSD" said: I think we see Carolina in the USbank for the NFCC game.

Rams or Carolina.  And I like our chances at home.

@"MaroonBells" said:

Oh my, I totally forgot about that. The one that sticks in my craw more than any other is the '75 game. That was our best team of the 70s. But it wasn't the Hail Mary that haunts me as much as the play before, when Staubach completed a pass to Drew Pearson on 4th and 17!! Pearson caught the ball out of bounds but it was ruled that he was forced out. 

it is going to be the Rams, which is AS GOOD AS WE COULD ASK FOR. I would rather play the best team in the NfC in our first game at home. Especially now that Legatron is out, the Rams will need to score TDs, doing that in Minnesota is hard to do. 

Get the toughest team out of the way, regardless who we play in the championship game. 

No one will have a better WR, better RB, better defense, better ST than the Rams

The thing that's crazy about the NFL playoffs (vs every other major league sport) is one bad game and you're done.

Zimsu called that out to the players after Carolina.

As some sage posters have posted here in the past "the best team doesn't always win the game, but it's who plays better that day"

No room for a bad game...Soul crushing if you lose and euphoria with a win.

 

Have Rams fans begun to out-number the opposing team's fans at their stadium yet?

It would suck to clinch home field advantage and listen to DEFENSE chants on offense for two straight weeks.