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With the Bengals' win over the Raiders on Saturday, the Detroit Lions now own the NFL's longest playoff-win drought ...... in 1991, they beat the Dallas Cowboys in an NFC Divisional Playoff game before losing to the Redskins in that year's NFC Championship game.



(Eric Woodyard, ESPN Reporter)



1991 LIONS STARTING OFFENSE


QB llll) Erik Kramer

RB llllll Barry Sanders

WR lllll Mike Farr

WR lllll Willie Green

WR lllll Herman Moore

WR lll) Aubrey Matthews

LT lllll) Lomas Brown

LG llllll Eric Andolsek

CT llllll Kevin Glover

RG llll, Ken Dallafior

RT lllll, Scott Conover


1991 LIONS STARTING OFFENSE


LB llll) Marc Spindler

LB llllll Lawrence Pete

DE llll) Dan Owens

LB llllll George Jamison

LB llllll Chris Spielman

LB llllll Victor Jones

LB llllll Tracy Hayworth

CB llll, Ray Crockett

CB llll, Mel Jenkins

SS llll, William White

FS llllll Bennie Blades

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4 out of the 6 playoff games played this past weekend were not competitive.

In the old format (6 playoff teams from each conference), fans would have watched 2-out-of-4 interesting games, instead of 2-out-of-6.

This writer chimes in on the NFL's decision to expand the playoff format last year.



The NFL Chose Quantity Over Quality, and Its Product Suffered

(By Jerry Brewer)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...panded-format/

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I don’t like the expanded playoffs at all, the 7 seed shouldn’t be in there the #2 seed should have a bye

Instead the 2 is setup for success because they get a tuneup vs a shitty team that historically wouldn’t be there

Meanwhile the 1 seed has to play the hottest team in the playoffs on both sides

If you don't like it now, just wait until they expand it to 8 teams.

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Cooper Kupp l is having an incredible season, and is in the prime of what very well may wind up being a Hall-of-Fame career. In addition to his outstanding pass receiving statistics, he is also an exceptional blocker. I think that he is mildly reminiscent of the late l John Mackey l ...... does he and his Rams teammates have enough to beat the Buccaneers this weekend ????



(THREAD) ) http://www.coltfreaks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138155




https://www.pro-football-reference.c...pCo00_2021.jpg llllllllllllllllllllllll https://www.pro-football-reference.c...kJo00_2019.jpg

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I hope they can put the cheater and his refs out of the playoffs, but like I said, they are his refs.

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Additional hypothesis on the potential future rivalry of Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes ......



Manning-Brady 2.0 ??? Why Patrick Mahomes vs. Josh Allen Could be the AFC's Next Great QB Rivalry

(By Alaina Getzenberg and Adam Teicher)

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...eat-qb-rivalry

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