I have been a football fan for many years, but I don’t remember ever seeing this many uncompetitive playoff games in one year.
So far only two games have been decided by one score, Arizona’s shoot-out, overtime, 6 point victory over Green Bay, and the Jets 3 point win over the Chargers. Excluding those two games ALL of the rest of the games were won by at least 10 points, and on more than one occasion by as many as 31 points.
To me, the most shocking aspect of the past two weeks was seeing teams on a veritable roller coaster, like Baltimore or Dallas. Watching Baltimore blow out New England, and then embarrass themselves against Indianapolis was like watching two totally different teams. Dallas didn’t fare much better against the Vikings after blowing out the Eagles, but they can blame Minnesota’s stifling defense for their meteoric decline.
I expected a lot from several of these match-ups. Most of those expectations were never met, but I’m OK with that, because it has led to the showdown of the best defense in the AFC versus the best offense in the AFC, and a showdown of two of the best offenses playing in the NFC. Let’s just hope that the games this weekend are as exciting as Reggie Bush’s return against the Cardinals, and more exciting than the game it happened it (if you are a Cardinals fan).
I don’t mean to take anything at all from any of the winners, they came out to win, and took advantage of the opportunities laid in front of them, but I expected the games to be closer, and more competitive.
