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Saturday Wild Card Preview

Andrew Chitko by Andrew Chitko
January 6, 2012
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Drew Brees
Brees and the Saints should handle the Lions.

‘Tis the season to bask in the benefits of finishing the regular season with the best record in all of football.

The Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers have taken the first round bye in the NFC and home field advantage throughout the playoffs in wire-to-wire fashion. In every preseason poll that mattered, the Packers were ranked No. 1. In every subsequent power ranking the Packers have remained the favorites and were widely recognized as the best team in football. As the Packers take the weekend off to get healthy and watch their potential competition in the Wild Card round, we’ll take a look at these games and try to make sense of them.

Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans (Saturday, 4:30 EST)
It’s the walking sick versus the walking wounded.

Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton has missed practice time this week with the flu, while the Texans roster has been bit by the injury bug the throughout year. Can Houston quarterback T.J. Yates regain the form that saw him march down the field and beat these very same Bengals just a few weeks ago? Can he lead the Texans franchise to its first playoff win? Can Dalton overcome his illness and be effective? Can he lead the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1991?

Who cares? Although this game might be mildly entertaining in that “I love old-time defensive football” sort of way, the winner of this game will be double-digit underdogs when they go on the road the following week. The AFC is so much softer than the NFC, and this game is proof.

Yates will be serviceable off play-action early, running backs Arian Foster and Ben Tate will have big games, and the Bengals will head into an offseason optimistically for the first time in ages. It isn’t yet time for the Bengals to shine, but next year watch out.

Texans 19, Bengals 9

Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints (Saturday, 8:00 EST)
It’s the unprofessionals versus the professionals.

In an attempt to improve their playoff position and avoid playing the dreaded New Orleans Saints, the Detroit Lions played their best players versus the Packers JV team. They failed. Miserably.

Does this young group of immature men really have the swagger and confidence they had earlier in the season after failing to beat the Packers backups? Can coach Jim Schwartz rally his team and give them a feeling that they can beat the team they tried so hard to avoid, even though they just lost to the Packers B-team?

Hahahahahahaha! It feels so good to be a Packers fan.

Drew Brees will do what he’s done all year — throw bombs and win games. The Lions will do what they’ve done all year when challenged — fall apart.

The Saints will come out slinging and get a big lead before the yellow flags begin flying all over the place. I predict there will be multiple Lions ejected and Schwartz will join them in the locker room late in the third quarter.

Saints 56, Lions 23

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Comments 6

  1. Avatar for Abe Frohman Abe Frohman says:
    11 years ago

    I can very easily imagine a Detroit game plan that says “beat the living shit out of Drew Brees” like NO did to Brent in 09. They’re cheap enough to do it.

  2. Avatar for iltarion iltarion says:
    11 years ago

    Houston v. Bengals- Who cares? Neither of these teams are going anywhere… unless Yates turns into Jeff Hostetler. Any QB play at all would give Houston a chance in the weak AFC.

    D-troi vs. Who Dat? – The last time these two played it was 24-17 heading into the 4th quarter and D-troi’s ball on the Saints 40. The Lions would call an idiotic 3rd down play, go backwards, have to punt, and the Saints would go up two scores shortly thereafter.

    D-troi were without Suh and committed more than their fair share of equally disastrous and moronic penalties.

    Everyone is expecting Brees to have a field day since Matt Flynn tore the Lions a new one last week, but the Lions are a better dome team, same as the Saints are. The Saints may have the 2nd best WR core in football, but they aren’t the playmakers that the Packers have.

    In short, if the Lions can get some pressure on Brees and keep their cool. They can stay in this game.

    This is a win for the Packers either way. Either the Packers biggest threat gets eliminated or the punk ass Lions and their bitch coach are one and done.

    It will be something to applaud with either result.

  3. Avatar for Mark Mark says:
    11 years ago

    I agree all the way, Lions had everything to play for last week, and weather was no factor, and the pack resting there Pro Bowlers! on defense, how many points would the Loons, I’m sorry, the lions have scored if the game was a must win for the Packers.

    New Orleans at home will score at will, and if the Lions penalties are anything like last week lookout, I thought Jim Schwartz was going to have a Heart attack, he looked rabid running the sidelines.

    Oh what the hey! Lions are Cooked.

  4. Avatar for Willard34 Willard34 says:
    11 years ago

    Schwartz is a dumb woman.

  5. Avatar for nurseratchett nurseratchett says:
    11 years ago

    Nice call on the Saints/Lions score.

    • Avatar for Andrew Chitko Andrew Chitko says:
      11 years ago

      Right? I was rather bitter they took a knee at the end. Not only would that have made my prediction look even better, but I’m certain Jim Schwartz would have thrown a hissy.

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