The 2011 NFL season was a fantastic journey that saw some of the best football played in years. Every team (except the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts) made for some great football moments and one fan has created a sweet video showing his favorite catches from the 2011 NFL season.

Clocking in at 8 minutes +, this video pretty much encompasses it all and if you dig it you can catch more of his awesome work at his website, The Vikings World.   This guy does a sweet job editing some nice videos. Hope he goes to town on some Super Bowl videos to get us excited for the big game.

Baltimore fans are still in shock and I don’t blame them.  After holding in for a close game with the New England Patriots, the Ravens had a chance to go into overtime but Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff pulled a Scott Norwood after missing a 32-yard field goal with 11 seconds left.

Here’s one Ravens fan reaction to Cundiff missing the field goal.

Replays would show that the snap and hold were not perfect. Say what you will about Cundiff but the game is 60 minutes long and what happens in last 20 seconds isn’t what won or lost the game. The Ravens had several opportunities to take the game and they fought hard. I feel for Cundiff for being the brunt of the blame.

Houston hosted their first NFL playoff game since a team named the Oilers live in the Astrodome and the wait was worth it for some fans. Despite a long drought from the postseason, the fact is the Texans franchise hasn’t been around that long.

It did take them a bit longer than expected to reach the playoffs but they did well in refocusing the team over the last year to make the Texans a competitive team and one of the best defenses in the league.

The Cincinnati Bengals, fueled into relevance by rookie QB Andy Dalton, had their hopes on an upset in Texas Saturday but in reality had little chance against the dominant Houston defense.

Not since James Harrison’s INT in Super Bowl XLIII has a defensive player turned a game around. In Saturdays’ match, Texans defender J.J. Watt shows off his tight-end skills as he plucks a ball from the air, while being blocked, and returns it for a TD to suck all the wind out of the Bengals for quite awhile.

Similar to Harrison’s Super Bowl INT, Watt’s gets the INT and on the board just before halftime. Seemingly, the Bengals never recovered and it gave Houston a seven-point lead heading into halftime.

Aaron Rodgers is one of the elusive quarterbacks in the NFL. He may not always look it at a quick glance since he’s more prone to fire a laser than run the ball but in this video shows how Rodgers putting a move on Brian Urlacher & Lance Briggs, two future Hall Of Fame defenders!

Rodgers jukes the two defenders and then cuts upfield in a sweet scramble.

This is not the first time I’ve been in awe of a clip showing the skills of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson. The first one was more of a clip that should be sent to the Academy Awards for best flop in a game. Or at least he could have been a professional soccer player.

But today’s weekend game of the Bengals and Cardinals saw a clip on the other end of the spectrum. Instead of making a clip great by acting funny, Simpson showed off his acrobatic skills as he jumped and flipped over a player to get into the endzone and score.

Epic!

Ah yeah, Roddy White is paying huge divadends lately for my fantasy team. After a slower then expected start to the season, in which White only scored 3 TD’s and had one 100-yard game in the first 11 games, Roddy has turned it on and matched that effort in just the last 3 weeks.

The Atlanta Falcons got their Bye Week on primetime this week as the Jacksonville Jaguars, the saddest franchise in professional sports, derped their way into Hot-lanta to try and upend the Falcons.

Powered by Matt Ryan’s 3 TD’s, the Falcons obliterated the Jags 41-14 on Thursday Night football. Roddy himself grabbed 2 TD’s and 135 yards. The best one was this nab in the endzone that saw a pass that could have been for White or maybe Tony Gonzalez.

Doesn’t matter because White wanted it more and

Seriously. I will miss old Todd Haley. Not for his coaching or anything like that. Mainly, for the GIFs and his vibrant pictures from the sidelines. It seems just like yesterday that he and Josh McDaniels had their little sideline tiff.

I can’t think of someone who has provided as much fun as Haley making his faces and gestures on the sidelines. But after a crappy start to the 2011 season, the Chiefs said no more. Larry Johnson must have been right. Todd Haley just wasn’t cracked up to coach the team.

With the sad departure of the guy who gave us the most awesome gif ever:

Goodbye, Toddy. We’ll miss you.

Matt Ryan just seems to have it in for the Carolina Panthers. The big guy tossed 4 TD’s in Sunday’s game in Carolina for his 6th win in 7 games vs the Panthers.

Two of those 4 TD’s were to Julio Jones, who is having a very nice rookie season. One of those two was this sweet 75-yard toss as Jones tacks on 55 yards after the catch to help lead a 4th-quarter comeback for the Falcons to win 31-23.

Well, we all knew it wasn’t going to be Matt Leinart to lead the Texans to their first playoff spot ever.  Seriously, think about that. The team has never made it to the post-season and after a solid start to the year the Texans ran face-first into the IR bus.

QB Matt Schaub went out a few weeks ago and Iron-man Matt Leinart came in to keep the fire going. Leinart lasted about 3 quarters because he’s a wuss who is content to ride the bench. He reminds me more of the character Alex Moran from “Blue Mountain State” who’s there just for the glory.

So enter third stringer T.J. Yates. The man stepped up and kept the Texans going and late in the 4th quarter did what we all were hoping for….he got that elusive playoff berth with a win.

And what better way to show it than the game-winning TD mixed in with some epic music.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet your new record holder for TD’s in a season by a tight end. The Patriots Rob Gronkowski, who I gladly (and luckily) have on my fantasy team, snagged a couple of TD’s the break the record held by San Diego’s Antonio Gates in 2004, and tied by San Francisco’s Vernon Davis in 2009.

The man is a machine and cannot be stopped. I believe the Redskins sent a machine from the future to kill him before today’s game but they didn’t know Gronk is indestructible.

Check out this fantastic catch/steamroll video by Gronkowski as he barrels over everyone in a red jersey. It’s not his epic TD catch for the record. It’s better. Keep in mind this guy is as big as a VW Bug and more nimble than most RB’s.