OT: Who Else Is Tired Of The NFC West Bashing?

[Osbern61]

If we merged all 4 NFC West teams could they be a legit team?

 

[ajcardfan]

I would say the only disappointment in the NFC North would be Minnesota.

1. Chicago is kicking butt and taking names
2. Green Bay was rolling until the injuries started piling up
3. Detroit is much improved
4. Minnesota sucks

That's this season. I was talking about playoffs over the last decade. That's were the NFC North has been disappointing. Other than Chicago's run to the Super Bowl, they've underachieved in the playoffs.

 

[NJCardFan]

I don't have any issues NFC West bashing... they fully deserve it.

Agreed, however, we didn't hear this stuff in 2008 or when any other 9-7 team makes the playoffs.

 

[az1965]

Agreed, however, we didn't hear this stuff in 2008 or when any other 9-7 team makes the playoffs.

2008? How about the famous "worst team in the history of NFL to make the playoffs" comment in 2008?

 

[WarnerHOF]

Yes the division sucks this season and yes there is a very good chance our division winner will be 7-9 but more than likely either Seattle or St. Louis will go 8-8 depending on what happens next week. And even if we have an 8-8 division winner, so what? I don't recall anyone complaining like this 2 years ago when San Diego won the AFC West at 8-8, hosted a playoff game, and beat the Colts. Now all of a sudden these commentators want to change the rules because a team with double digit wins won't make the playoffs because a division winner happens to play in a crappy division. So what. Stuff happens. Denver missed the playoffs in 1985 at 11-5 but the 8-8 Browns made it and nobody cried. These people need to get over themselves and their east coast bias.

The Chargers had a points differential of +92 in 08 compared to what is it... -1000(?) for the NFC West leading Rams.

 

[Duckjake]

However, since they increased the playoff teams in 1978 to 2 wild cards and increased the schedule to 16 games, only 3 seasons(1985, 2008, 2010) has a team without a winning record made the playoffs. It isn't like this is a yearly thing that might warrant changing the format. Mike Golic said it best this morning when he said "talk to me when it happens 5 years in a row" and he's right. Instead of looking at this in a negative light, how about looking at it from this perspective: if the Rams make it, they would have gone from 1-15 to the playoffs in 1 year. How many times has that happened? IMO, this is a great story. And, if the Rams do win the division, Bradford is the league MVP down. Never before has a rookie so turned a franchise around like this. Never.

The Dolphins did it just two years ago. Only they went from 1-15 to 11-5.

The Jets went from 1-15 in '06 to 9-7 in 2007 but they didn't make the playoffs.

Of course it is very rare because so few teams ever finish 1-15. As poor as the Cards have been they've never been 1-15. Unlike some other team that will be in Arizona this weekend.

However, you have to hand it to the Rams for winning as many games this season as they had in the previous three combined.