{"id":1869,"date":"2009-12-08T07:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T12:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/08\/falcons-still-in-wild-card-picture-at-least-mathematically\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T06:55:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T11:55:35","slug":"falcons-still-in-wild-card-picture-at-least-mathematically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/08\/falcons-still-in-wild-card-picture-at-least-mathematically\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons still in Wild-Card picture; at least mathematically."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never tell me the odds, especially when they are not pretty and downright unrealistic.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story?id=09000d5d8147d1c0&template=no-right-rail-with-comments&confirm=true\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story?id=09000d5d8147d1c0&amp;template=no-right-rail-with-comments&amp;confirm=true', 'NFL.com');\" target=\"new\">NFL.com<\/a>, the Falcons are still \u201cin the hunt\u201d for a Wild-Card picture.<\/p>\n<p>At 6-6 there are really on the outside look in at the Eagles and Packers, both of which sport 8-4 records.  Making things worse, thanks to last Sunday\u2019s debacle, the Eagles hold a tiebreaker over the Falcons.  The Giants at 7-4 are also \u201cin the hunt\u201d and much like the Eagles, they also hold a tiebreaker over the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>With four games to play, if (call it a <em>BIG IF<\/em>) the Falcons play well until the bitter end, they could go 3-1, which would earn them back-to-back winning seasons.  I think that is really all they have left to play for this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never tell me the odds, especially when they are not pretty and downright unrealistic. According to NFL.com, the Falcons are still \u201cin the hunt\u201d for a Wild-Card picture. At 6-6 there are really on the outside look in at the Eagles and Packers, both of which sport 8-4 records. Making things worse, thanks to last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/08\/falcons-still-in-wild-card-picture-at-least-mathematically\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falcons still in Wild-Card picture; at least mathematically.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}