Nor would he permit his players, who were off today, to discuss playoff scenarios.

"This has been the most complicated the playoff scenario has been," he said.

Someone from the Giants' public relations staff went around and gave the players a two-page playoff scenario.

Due to the playoff scenarios, the Titans missed the playoffs.

The lopsided loss simply puts them back with a gaggle of other teams, scrambling for the most positive playoff scenario.

Kansas City clinched the final playoff berth with Denver's loss to San Francisco and fulfilled an almost impossible playoff scenario.

The Islanders did not just stop at trash-talking their way through tonight's do-or-die playoff scenario at the raucous Coliseum.

We shouldn't be thinking about any playoff scenarios or anything like that.

"I don't think fans understand the playoff scenario because it's so nontraditional," Carol Blazejowski, senior vice president and general manager of the Liberty, said.

But the 86-year-old Mara wasn't about to discuss any "what if" playoff scenarios.