{"id":504,"date":"2013-01-11T22:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T03:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-01-11T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T03:22:20","slug":"afc-divisional-round-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"AFC Divisional Round, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore at Denver (-9)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn’t get much better than Divisional Round Playoff Football!\u00a0 This weekend features the eight best teams vying for a chance to play in their conference championship game.\u00a0 Again we’re treated with a two-pack of\u00a0games on Saturday\u00a0AND Sunday.\u00a0 God bless!<\/p>\n

Other than The Silverbacks face palming of Richard Sherman, the Wild Card Round was a snoozefest…..(that doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy every minute of it and slam beers until the clock read\u00a000:00).\u00a0 This weekend features a promising platter of tasty matchups that will surely excite the senses.\u00a0 However, the guys in Vegas are none to impressed with the AFC matchups this weekend as both visiting teams are 9 point dogs (both NFC visiting teams are 2.5 point dogs).<\/p>\n

The Ravens were able to parlay home field advantage and the emotional return of Ray Lewis into a 24-9 win over the Colts…..who were starting a rookie QB….and who went 2-14 the previous year with almost the same roster.\u00a0 But hey, we’ll give credit to the Ravens because they took care of business, but it was ugly.\u00a0 Ray Rice put the ball on the ground, twice.\u00a0 Flacco\u00a0only played good ball for 2 quarters.\u00a0 The Colts offensive line was overmatched and they failed to capitalize in the redzone\u00a0(0 TDs\u00a0in three chances).\u00a0 So again, the Ravens did what they had to do, but they won’t get away with that kind of sloppy football against Sheriff Manning.<\/p>\n

The Broncos have the longest current streak in the NFL at 11. Further, they won 7 of those games by a double-digit\u00a0margin.\u00a0 Sure, Manning is going to garner all the discussion and praise, but the defense has been nasty too!\u00a0 They are allowing an AFC low 17 points-per-game-against.\u00a0 Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil\u00a0are bringing the heat from the edges (29.5 combined sacks), forcing quick (and often poor) decisions by the opposing quarterback.\u00a0 The rest of the defense is flying to the ball and capitalizing on those mistakes.<\/p>\n

Much has been made this week that Peyton Manning is 0-3 in playoff games under 40-degrees (weather outlook at kickoff: 19 degrees, snow).\u00a0 It sounds like an odd stat that is gaining way too much traction this week; in other words, something here stinks.\u00a0 The Machine did a little internet research of our own and found that two of those games where against Brady-Belichick\u00a0(in New England) and the other was a beat down at the hands of the Jets, 11 years ago!\u00a0 Nothing to see here folks!<\/p>\n

The Machine doesn’t trust Joe Flacco, or the Ravens receivers\u00a0(Anquan\u00a0meet Champ, Champ meet Anquan), or whomever is calling the plays, or the ageless defense, or these bogus weather stats……and neither does Vegas!\u00a0 Make it 12 in a row.<\/p>\n

Denver 27, Baltimore 16<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baltimore at Denver (-9) It doesn’t get much better than Divisional Round Playoff Football!\u00a0 This weekend features the eight best teams vying for a chance to play in their conference championship game.\u00a0 Again we’re treated with a two-pack of\u00a0games on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Bp3y-88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}