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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
I think the Cowboys have the most complete team this season and they should be the team to beat. If the Steelers make the playoffs, which they should, they are probably going to the Superbowl assuming their roster gets healthy
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The thing is that it's still week 9. If we look back thru the league the past several seasons, I suspect the team playoff picture in week 9 is always different from the one at the end of the season.
Dallas does look to have a good team, but they also did in 2007, and the Giants went into their house and won the game that counted. They're also the one blemish on the Cowboys record this year. At this point who remembers the 15-1 Packer team who were defending Superbowl Champions. The team that won was a 8-6 won it's final two games to get into the playoffs. I think the NFC is lending itself to something like that this year.
In the Giants, the logical side of me see's a team that seems to have the pieces in place to be capable of a spurt of really good games. Not that different than the two years where they won the Superbowl. Both those teams squeeked into the playoffs but managed to play really good for 4 games. Similar to this years edition they had the parts but couldn't seem to get it together for long stretches.
Over in the AFC, Pittsburgh if healthy is capable of making a run. The issue they have is that I don't know if they have all the pieces on defence to get hot enough to win 3-4 games in a row. Mind you they might only need the defence to help them beat New England. They certainly can run with Oakland in a track meet, and Denver doesn't have the horses on offence to force the Steelers defence to win a game. Cincinatti was a pre season darling and they should be dead and buried by now...but they're not. So I wonder if they can make a second half run.