2008 NFL Playoffs: Wild Card Game #1- Open Thread

by Brad Wells on Jan 3, 2009 3:30 PM EST in Game Threads

This is your open thread for the first game today. Use the NFL Scoreboard hub link button below to track what Revenge of the Birds and The Falcoholic are writing about the game, along with the rest of SB Nation's great football blogs. I know some of you are nervous (because that is your tendency during playoff time), but if you can take the time to watch the early game and see what our guys are writing about it. Get the nervous jitters out of your system, and have a little faith.

These are the playoffs. You're supposed to enjoy them, not fret nervously over them.

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Unfortunately

I think Collinsworth is calling this game…

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 4:23 PM EST reply actions

And I was right...gah.

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 4:31 PM EST up reply actions

Prediction: Falcons Bring the Pain

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 4:25 PM EST reply actions

Yeah

I’m feeling the Falco’s in this game.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:41 PM EST reply actions

wow

Matty Ice, first drive INT

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:42 PM EST reply actions

Um, Matty Ice? You guys are wearing white today, not red.

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 4:42 PM EST reply actions

Edge

Looks good….

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:45 PM EST reply actions

Holy Shit

That was a fucking catch for the ages.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:46 PM EST reply actions

OMG Flea Flicker!!!

What a catch by Fitzgerald

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 4:46 PM EST reply actions

Well

It looks like it’s just me and you there, MrNFL

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:48 PM EST up reply actions

Strange

Usually this blog is never deserted…

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 4:50 PM EST up reply actions

well

i think i have fitz on one of my mgrex challenge teams…

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 4:50 PM EST reply actions

Sweet

What’s up Zack? How’s that 70 degree weather, damn you?

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:51 PM EST reply actions

/reply FAIL

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:51 PM EST up reply actions

damn it it only 70?

i was doin some stuff outside and sweatin like crazy!

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 4:52 PM EST up reply actions

what state are you in?

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 4:53 PM EST reply actions

dallas fort worth

cowboys country

but no worries… i have my colts flag flying outside my house

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions

I just got back from indy, I'm in Bradenton FL

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 4:55 PM EST up reply actions

Probably 80

But I wasn’t trying to depress myself too much. I freeze my digits everytime I go for a smoke.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:53 PM EST reply actions

Turner the Burner is getting shut down

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 4:57 PM EST reply actions

I can't believe

How well the Arizona defense is playing

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 4:59 PM EST up reply actions

He looks worn down

Guys who have that many carries always seem to suck by playoff time

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 5:00 PM EST up reply actions

Can we say

Colts era Edge?

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:01 PM EST up reply actions

Speaking of Edge, Why is he playing?

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:02 PM EST up reply actions

Because

They realize they’ll need him in the playoffs. And they realized that he was pretty pissed after he mouthed off earlier this week.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:03 PM EST up reply actions

I would love to have him back

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:04 PM EST up reply actions

stopping in on the home desktop (which doesn't have a view of a TV)

Thoughts so far
sick catch by Fitz, Turner’s numbers are the product of the massive # of carries he got, despite acknowledging he’s very good and I was wrong I still hate Matty Ice.

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Jan 3, 2009 5:06 PM EST reply actions

AHHH! It's Tom Hammond

Sorry, just turned the game on. And I hate Hammond.

by mgrex03 on Jan 3, 2009 5:07 PM EST reply actions

AND Collingsworth

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:07 PM EST up reply actions

- the g

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions

double kill

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, it's pretty brutal

At least we get Al Michaels

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions

I guess NBC is leaving their A team

for the Colts/Chargers tilt

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions

They were in SD last weekend

So no travelling via bus for Madden.

by mgrex03 on Jan 3, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions

Bertrand Berry from

Notre Dame. I told you the Cardinals were better than they have shown.

by mgrex03 on Jan 3, 2009 5:09 PM EST reply actions

Man the Cardinals D

reminds me of the Colts D last season

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:10 PM EST reply actions

I mean

in ’06

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:10 PM EST up reply actions

Dolphins-Cards Super bowl - LOL

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:10 PM EST reply actions

almost int

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:11 PM EST reply actions

Falcons driving?

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:18 PM EST reply actions

sure looks like it

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:20 PM EST up reply actions

What a hit

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:20 PM EST reply actions

Wow

The Spirit of Bob was in him

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:20 PM EST up reply actions

poped

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:20 PM EST reply actions

Marcus Pollard?

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:22 PM EST reply actions

and ben hardstock

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:23 PM EST up reply actions

More like

Hartsock

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:24 PM EST up reply actions

idk lol

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:25 PM EST up reply actions

So we get Ron Winter as referee tonight

His crew likes to call Pass Interference, and called that ridiculous penalty on Jennings for Defensive Delay of Game on the punt.

I’m sure there will be 1 or 2 bad calls. Hopefully they go the right way for us.

by mgrex03 on Jan 3, 2009 5:25 PM EST reply actions

TD CARDS

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:31 PM EST reply actions

WOW 14 zip already…go Kurt

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:31 PM EST reply actions

14-3 Actually

But I guess that’s just semantics

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:32 PM EST up reply actions

THis is REALLY gonna F with my family's playoff smackdown challenge...

May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.

by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 5:31 PM EST reply actions

hey if u lose ur job u can return your Hyundai…nice

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:32 PM EST reply actions

What?

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:33 PM EST up reply actions

Saw that

That’s a pretty smart marketing gimick

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 5:33 PM EST up reply actions

my bad 14-3

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:34 PM EST reply actions

adn thats why the Falcons should have gone for it

You cant settle for FG’s against a team like the Cardinals

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:34 PM EST reply actions

They were probably hoping they'd be playing the December Cardinals

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 5:35 PM EST up reply actions

I agree, very smart idea

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:36 PM EST reply actions

Boldin down

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:36 PM EST reply actions

Ryan looks like a nervous rookie..

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:36 PM EST reply actions

DROPPED

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:38 PM EST reply actions

lets hope roddy white

is doing his vincent jackson impression

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 5:38 PM EST reply actions

You gotta catch that white

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:39 PM EST reply actions

C'm on, there should be a law against dance competition ads during the playoffs

especially the kind where the commentators have to read them.

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 5:39 PM EST reply actions

I hate what TV has become...

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 5:40 PM EST up reply actions

Matt Ryan really impresses me atm

I have this gut feeling that if this one comes down to a nailbiter, Warner will crumble under the pressure before Matty Ice.

by jocre on Jan 3, 2009 5:43 PM EST reply actions

i think that first career pass was scripted tbqh

by skywalker on Jan 3, 2009 5:44 PM EST reply actions

like set up

by skywalker on Jan 3, 2009 5:45 PM EST up reply actions

First TD/Pass for Ryan...........against the Lions

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:45 PM EST reply actions

Exactly my thought as well.. :)

Burner TD!

by jocre on Jan 3, 2009 5:46 PM EST up reply actions

TD Turner the Burner

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:46 PM EST reply actions

int

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions

Nice catch Urban,,,

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions

Oh crap…this isn;t going well

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions

Warner is such a liability..

He will break the Cardinals’ fans’ hearts.

Not that the INT was his fault though

by jocre on Jan 3, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions

Marcus Pollard!!!

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 5:51 PM EST reply actions

MP is/was a beast

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:52 PM EST up reply actions

Its good to see Pollard play

by Aerostar193 on Jan 3, 2009 5:52 PM EST reply actions

didnt know Pollard was a Falcon

nice to see some former Colts out there.

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:53 PM EST reply actions

LT looks OK 2 me

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:53 PM EST reply actions

nice jump

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:55 PM EST reply actions

was he planning on getting the QB

he shot so far by Ryan its not even funny

Let's go Colts!

by JustAJ on Jan 3, 2009 5:56 PM EST up reply actions

White would have dropped it anyway

by PantherfaninNY on Jan 3, 2009 5:55 PM EST reply actions

Poor poor throw by Matty Ice

by jocre on Jan 3, 2009 5:56 PM EST reply actions

learn to tie your tie

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 5:57 PM EST reply actions

collinsworth

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 5:58 PM EST up reply actions

I got some McNuggets, who wants to play poker?

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:58 PM EST reply actions

TD

Atlanta

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 5:58 PM EST reply actions

TD dirty birds

by colts9318rock on Jan 3, 2009 5:58 PM EST reply actions

Not gonna lie, the grouping of Costas, Millen and Bettis is FAR better than having Collinsdouche and Olbermann there.

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 6:06 PM EST reply actions

but can you take a network that employs Millen as a football analyist seriously?

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Jan 3, 2009 6:08 PM EST up reply actions

Well, NBC STILL sucks

Just a little less hard

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 6:30 PM EST up reply actions

Tony Dungy

like Brett Favre except decisive (and still good)

Shonn Greene for Heisman
Doak Walker award winner
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Jan 3, 2009 6:11 PM EST reply actions

I hope Tony comes back

A great Coach and even better man. But ill respect his decision and at least he doesnt take forever like Favre to decide.

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 6:12 PM EST reply actions

Yes, he's smart to be honest and say simply that he's not saying because he knows he's changed his mind before.

He’s honest, not coy. He actually doesn’t want to be the center of attention.

May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.

by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:14 PM EST up reply actions

I think the reason why Dungy is not sure right now

is because he doesnt want to make the mistake Bill Walsh made. Walsh Stated that retiring too early was probably the biggest regret of his life.

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 6:16 PM EST up reply actions

Huge Play

By Dockett and Rolle.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 6:18 PM EST reply actions

Man that window was tight

never mind, play negated.

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 6:24 PM EST reply actions

Battery is dying Be back for the Colts' game.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 6:24 PM EST reply actions

Pre game prep

OK, I’ve got my “away” #4 jersey on, my colts tankard full of rum & Coke Zero, my Colts fleece on my lap, and very importantly, the Jagermeister in the freezer.

The Jaeg is important because my hubby has agreed to reprise our drinking game of past years in which we have a Jaeg Bomb (w/ Red Bull) after each Adam V. playoff field goal.

The Cards vs. Falcs is just a lovely appetizer for the real focus of the day. GO COLTS!

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:29 PM EST reply actions

Lucky

I wish my husband I rooted for the same team, but he just fed me a taste of my own medicine by saying he hoped the Colts go 1-and-out. That’s ok – the hatin’ goes both ways between my Colts and his Pats. At least we still have a solid marriage otherwise. I think.

by LovinBlue on Jan 3, 2009 6:34 PM EST up reply actions

*my husband AND I

by LovinBlue on Jan 3, 2009 6:34 PM EST up reply actions

Uh, we didn't exactly root for the same team that year.

He (and the kids) are die-hard Bears fans, but that preseason we were excited for both our teams to advance in the playoffs. They did, and we rooted for each other all the way, with the very notable exception of the Superbowl itself.

Took a while for him to recover from that, but now he’s OK again to root for the Colts when the Bears aren’t involved.

Must be tough to have a Pats/Colts union though!! Yeesh. So many AFC champ games! :)

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:38 PM EST up reply actions

So....

Is it time yet?
Is it time yet?
Is it time yet?
Is it time yet?
Is it time yet?

by LovinBlue on Jan 3, 2009 6:32 PM EST reply actions

I know, I can't wait!!!

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 6:33 PM EST up reply actions

EDGE!

by LovinBlue on Jan 3, 2009 6:38 PM EST reply actions

I'd love to see him back

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 6:42 PM EST up reply actions

any of you guys remember ran carthon?

i was just reminded of him when they just mentioned his dad, Maurice Carthon right now.

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 6:45 PM EST reply actions

Wow, the Cardinals lead by two possessions

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 6:47 PM EST reply actions

Arm Punt by Ryan

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 6:51 PM EST reply actions

lol

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 6:51 PM EST up reply actions

Unbelievable. I had the Falcons winning, hands down.

Great game to watch tho.

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:52 PM EST reply actions

Yeah

Talk about shutting up the critics

by LovinBlue on Jan 3, 2009 6:53 PM EST up reply actions

I love listening to the critics try to adapt their own opinions to suit whatever is playing out under their noses

Like we never heard what they said in the first quarter. Happens all the time.

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:55 PM EST up reply actions

The Cards sure didn't make much out of the INT, but it stopped the Falcs.

May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.

by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:54 PM EST reply actions

Peyton Mannings Legacy:

3 NFL MVP awards, and the funniest SNL episode ever.

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 6:56 PM EST reply actions

Who's calling tonight's game?

I just noticed that NBC has both the games today, back to back. Please, please don’t say we have to endure marble-mouthed Madden and his man-crushes on various players…

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 7:01 PM EST reply actions

Yeah

Its Madden and Michaels. I actually like them

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 7:03 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for the info.

I guess it’ll be ok. Since it’s not the Steelers playing, we don’t have to hear John Madden describe Big Ben’s thighs.

And really, as long as it’s Colts postseason, who cares???

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 7:05 PM EST up reply actions

Better than having Collinsworth/Hammond

Who are both awful. At least Michaels is great

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 7:03 PM EST up reply actions

Oh man

one hour left till our game. Im so psyched

by metal_militia on Jan 3, 2009 7:01 PM EST reply actions

I told the kids to fend for themselves for dinner; I AIN'T Cookin!

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by juperee on Jan 3, 2009 7:06 PM EST up reply actions

Ah yes

1 hour. I haven’t gotten the butterflies out of my stomach.

by Colts Homer on Jan 3, 2009 7:03 PM EST reply actions

ESPN.com reporting that Tomlinson will play with groin injury

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs2008/news/story?id=3808204

by LovinBlue on Jan 3, 2009 7:03 PM EST reply actions

Well

I guess this will be LT’s last game of professional football.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 7:07 PM EST up reply actions

Geez, safety

I can’t believe the Cardinals are doing this well

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by MrNFL on Jan 3, 2009 7:07 PM EST reply actions

homefield advantage

has me worried

by zkmavz on Jan 3, 2009 7:08 PM EST up reply actions

I think

The Cards had more on the line here. They haven’t hosted a playoff game in 61 years. That’s a long ass time for your franchise to suck. This is about pride.

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by Bullard47 on Jan 3, 2009 7:10 PM EST up reply actions