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Ravens' 2011 Schedule: Home Games Key to Getting Back to Playoffs

The Baltimore Ravens made franchise history last season as they made the playoffs for three consecutive years. The Ravens had dreams of winning the Super Bowl for the 2010 season, but a nightmare of a meltdown against the Steelers in the playoffs -- they blew a 21-7 lead en route to losing 31-24 -- may have slammed shut...

The Top 5 Reasons the Green Bay Packers Are in the Super Bowl

For the past 10 years, the NFC had 10 different representatives in the Super Bowl, so one of the 16 teams from the conference had to go to Dallas on Feb. 6 to play in the biggest game in all of sports. But to the Packers' credit, they were one of the few legit teams from the NFC predicted to go to the Super Bowl. While...

Maurice Jones-Drew Says He Was Only Joking About Jay Cutler

Maurice Jones-Drew says he was only joking. Jones-Drew, the Jacksonville Jaguars' two-time Pro Bowl running back, also said his on-line comments about Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler on Sunday were taken out of context, Mark Long of the Associated Press reported Tuesday. "I never attacked him, called him soft or a...

Lovie Smith Sticks Up for Jay Cutler, Praises Backup QB Caleb Hanie

With criticism of Jay Cutler showing no signs of dying down, Bears coach Lovie Smith defended his quarterback on Monday, saying Cutler had suffered an MCL sprain during the NFC Championship Game and was in no condition to return. "For guys to take a shot that weren't there, to try to look at his body language and figure...

Jay Cutler Has Torn Knee Ligament, According to Report

In news that could force some of his fellow NFL players to eat some crow, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has reportedly been diagnosed with a torn knee ligament suffered in Sunday's NFC Championship Game loss to the Packers. Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cutler has an MCL tear. Cutler was harshly...

Background on playoffs

The playoffs, postseason, or finals of a sports league are a game or series of games played after the regular season by the top competitors, usually but not always with a single-elimination system, to determine the league champion or a similar accolade.

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