Over/Underacheivers, NFC

[sailorsam]

NFC East
Cowboys; overacheivers. won in December and in playoffs. monkey gone.
Eagles; meh. looked great, hit a wall. Reid/McNabb get another chance.
Giants; underacheive. fired d-coord after late fade. was Plaxico that important?
Skins; way under. Did they really start 6-2 last year?

NFC North
Vikings; borderline over. stumble in NFCC leaves a bad taste. doubt Brett wants to end that way.
Packers: overacheive. finished strong. Vikes-Packers next year should be fun.
Bears; underacheive. Lovie & co get on more chance.
Lions; borderline over. breaking the losing streak is an accomplishment.

NFC South
Saints; way over. New Orleans finds out playing in the SB is even more fun than hosting it.
Falcons; borderline under. like Dolphins, a little fall to earth. decent long term prospects.
Panthers; way underacheive. big collapse, and no one know why. was it Delhomme or is there more to it?
Bucs; underacheive. every loss added $ to Jon Gruden's next contract.

NFC West
Cards; overacheive. Kurt Warner has won more playoff games for this franchise in 2 years than anyone else in its 60-year history.
49ers; meh. looks like they found a qb.
Seahawks; way underacheive. qb is old, coach fired...these guys collapsed quick.
Rams; non-acheive. what a mess.

[psuasskicker]

Nothing but nit-picks that aren't worth calling out, looks good.

On the flip side to the AFC one, I like the Panthers over on win total next year quite a bit. They had a tough schedule this year (#2 toughest according to FO) and Delhomme was a disaster. Moore, on the other hand, looks like he could be a pretty good solution. Panthers go 4-1 down the stretch with him under center, and he finishes with a 4:1 TD:INT ratio - only Brett Favre had better - and over 8 AYPA - better than Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Kurt Warner. Their O and D will remain mostly in-tact from what I can tell, they were a bye-week team last year and if Moore really is the solid QB he seemed to be at the end of last season, I think they've got a really good chance at nothing less than 11 wins.

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[sailorsam]

Nothing but nit-picks that aren't worth calling out, looks good.

On the flip side to the AFC one, I like the Panthers over on win total next year quite a bit. They had a tough schedule this year (#2 toughest according to FO) and Delhomme was a disaster. Moore, on the other hand, looks like he could be a pretty good solution. Panthers go 4-1 down the stretch with him under center, and he finishes with a 4:1 TD:INT ratio - only Brett Favre had better - and over 8 AYPA - better than Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Kurt Warner. Their O and D will remain mostly in-tact from what I can tell, they were a bye-week team last year and if Moore really is the solid QB he seemed to be at the end of last season, I think they've got a really good chance at nothing less than 11 wins.

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you wonder if, like the raiders and Titans, their season would have been completely different wi an earlier qb change.

[Ravenator]

49ers; meh. looks like they found a qb.


Who, Alex Smith? I don't know, he still seems shaky. It wouldn't surprise me if they took a QB in the first round if it's available.

[psuasskicker]

you wonder if, like the raiders and Titans, their season would have been completely different wi an earlier qb change.

I legitimately believe the Raiders would have been a playoff team had they started Garcia rather than cut him.

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