I'm currently rewatching it again, its just about to go to OT and I can confirm this.No it was a given that it was over before overtime started.
I need to find my pants.
I'm currently rewatching it again, its just about to go to OT and I can confirm this.No it was a given that it was over before overtime started.
I watched it, and I hear you. But the bottom line is that it didn't really change the Pats gameplan - those other guys were all still getting 1 on 1 coverage, they just dropped the passes. Coates in particular had one or two I remember. Double teaming Brown was the game plan.Meh. Not sure if you watched it or just saw the headline, but I really am not sure what you'd expect him to say. He was asked directly if he thought the outcome would have been different had he been healthy and he basically said 'yes, it changed their game plan and our ability to keep match ups one on one for the receivers', which I don't think is really up for dispute. Don't think it really deserves 'lol boo hoo' treatment when the option was saying 'no we still would have lost'.
2 1/2 of the last four.
1 + 3/4 + 3/4 = 2 1/2
Logical, except if they actually landed DH they'd be in full troll mode right now.Well they are right in that paying him $12M a year would have been foolish since they won't be good for another few years anyway
Caught this on NFLN last week. It's just....great.Are the Patriots Bad for Football? Around the NFL Podcast
This is kind of the ultimate destination for Jetsdom, isn't it? "Please Mommy Ginger, make them stop winning!"Are the Patriots Bad for Football? Around the NFL Podcast
Jets fan guy second from the left saying Pats have the best quarterback of all time..I'm getting used to hearing this more and more from Jets fans (Mike Greenberg, people on Gang Green, etc.), but I don't think it will ever stop surprising me when I hear it.This is kind of the ultimate destination for Jetsdom, isn't it? "Please Mommy Ginger, make them stop winning!"
That would qualify as Nation's Tears. That's why people hate the Patriots.To be fair, he did follow up later and said he hates them because of their greatness.
That's downright un-American. I bet the British hated the original patriots for their greatness too.To be fair, he did follow up later and said he hates them because of their greatness.
Don't you remember the 70's, 80's, and 90's?Despite the logo, the parallels to the revolutionary war are weak. If anything the football Pats are closer to the British Empire, but competently administered.
King BB: Let the tax on tea walk, it has maybe two good years left, plus it is a distraction in the locker room. Also I know you guys like the veteran India, but I am making the rookie America our starter, this kid will grow up to be great. Also remind me in a few years to trade France for that draft pick Louisiana. I expect his contract demands will make them sell low.
Yeah but I'm freely mixing and matching as I see fit, to make the story fit my point, so your attempt at consistency is futile.Since th epost I was replying to was about the "original" Patriots and General Washington my comparison seemed more apt.
Oh, I meant 70's/80's Patriots, not USA.Also my point is the football Pats have really unprecedented success. It takes a "What if the British Empire kept America" level of dominance to create a historical parallel.
70s USA? Not so much. Handed upset loss with unmotivated road effort in Vietnam, Eastern Block steroids dominated Olympics, ending with 444 days out of the playoffs. Lots of Pundits thought USSR was building a dynasty, cetainly retrospect shows that to be wrong, but not at the time. Plus Disco.
80s closer, but Japan made a play for team of the decade, Soviets made some bad moves, hired a "players coach" though while popular with the media lost the team. "Tear down that wall" was a Roberts steal second level moment though.
90s opened with biggest rival getting an SMU level death penalty, but lockeroom politics and bickering over blowjobs makes 90s USA look like 70s Bruins, remembered more for lost chance to dominate than real dominance. Plus mullets.
Closes with, "Just reached his prime".Are the Patriots Bad for Football? Around the NFL Podcast
Does that seem right? Atlanta runs an offense where the qb can't audible?"It just doesn’t operate like that in football,” Ryan said. “You have a personnel grouping that’s out on the field that could change or limit your number of plays. So, if you want to change out of something and into something, you might not have the right guys out there.”
Is he saying that he can't audible in general, or is he saying that the package on the field that play didn't really allow for an audibled run? Like, say, if they were in a 5 wide or something.Atlanta paper reporting that two months later Matt Ryan is "still numb."
Here's a odd point--when asked why he didn't audible to a running play during the fateful 3-and-out, Ryam implied that he can't change plays at the line:
Does that seem right? Atlanta runs an offense where the qb can't audible?
Each offensive system (and coaching staffs, for that matter) vary in terms of how much freedom they give the QB at the line of scrimmage, but the idea he didn't have at least a run/pass option out of any set that had a RB on the field is absurd. Obviously your personnel limits the kind of audible you could call at the line there (you've only got so much time at the line to play around and Tyler Gabriel isn't playing TE or FB...), but if Ryan really isn't armed with a run/pass choice on a given play is absurd.Is he saying that he can't audible in general, or is he saying that the package on the field that play didn't really allow for an audibled run? Like, say, if they were in a 5 wide or something.
That's a noticeable contrast to Brady, whom Belichick has praised for his famous ability to get the Patriots out of potential bad plays and into plays that stand a better chance of being successful. Obviously holding any QB to Brady's standard is a tall bar to clear, but if you want to beat the best....“Talk to 99 percent of the guys and they will tell you that what comes in is what we are going to run,” Ryan said. “As a player, it’s your job to make the plays work. I’ve always believed that whatever the play call is, it’s your responsibility to go out there and make it work. We didn’t get it done on those couple of plays.”
Oh yeah? Your...your brain has the shell on it...Nobody's made a BC joke yet?
It's been mentioned before, but it's worth bringing up again -- the other Patriots on the field have this power and responsibility, at least in some situations. In the Do Your Job film, Danny Amendola calls off the double pass against Kansas City. Brady then audibles to a quick slant to Brandon LaFell 1v1 on the other side of the field, and LaFell breaks it for a score.That's a noticeable contrast to Brady, whom Belichick has praised for his famous ability to get the Patriots out of potential bad plays and into plays that stand a better chance of being successful. Obviously holding any QB to Brady's standard is a tall bar to clear, but if you want to beat the best....
"I watched it the day after. I watched it two days after. And then I watched it three days after," Ryan told 680 The Fan radio in Atlanta during a Monday interview prior to his charity golf tournament. "For me, it was one of those things, I think; you kind of want to be able to deal with it appropriately. Maybe that's different for everybody. Some people bury it away. ... For me it was, 'All right, let's watch.'
Nope. Still not watching the Tyree catch.That's actually the correct response from a psychological standpoint from what I've read. You should re-watch painful moments/losses until the negative response wears off.
I still deny that the 1986 World Series ever occurred.That's actually the correct response from a psychological standpoint from what I've read. You should re-watch painful moments/losses until the negative response wears off.
I actually watched it in my recording of SB LI, although not live on February 5. It probably took both 04 and 07 to erase 1986 for me, although I still to this day get thoughts of what if Gedman caught that dervish of a slider by Stanley. As for Buckner's error, it was too late by then.Nope. Still not watching the Tyree catch.
IT ... NEVER ... HAPPENEDI actually watched it in my recording of SB LI, although not live on February 5. It probably took both 04 and 07 to erase 1986 for me, although I still to this day get thoughts of what if Gedman caught that dervish of a slider by Stanley. As for Buckner's error, it was too late by then.
I'll take your word for it.That's actually the correct response from a psychological standpoint from what I've read. You should re-watch painful moments/losses until the negative response wears off.
Funny you mentioned that one; I was on the phone with my uncle from Arizona as we both watched that game while talking back and forth, as soon as I heard the crack of the bat, I shut the TV off, then I told him I had to go.Took me a good long while to watch Boone's dinger off Wakefield. I didn't even see it live -- muted the TV as soon as the ball left the bat, glanced a moment later during the celebration to make sure it was over, and headed out for a late, cold walk.
Several years later, I couldn't care less. The Boone disaster just made 2004 a tad sweeter. The Idiots changed everything.
The pain from that HR has been drowned out by what came after, but I still don't care to watch it. I still have the video of that swing ingrained in my head from that night. Of course, I probably saw about a dozen replays in the immediate aftermath as I just stood there completely despondent.Took me a good long while to watch Boone's dinger off Wakefield. I didn't even see it live -- muted the TV as soon as the ball left the bat, glanced a moment later during the celebration to make sure it was over, and headed out for a late, cold walk.
Several years later, I couldn't care less. The Boone disaster just made 2004 a tad sweeter. The Idiots changed everything.
Took me a good long while to watch Boone's dinger off Wakefield. I didn't even see it live -- muted the TV as soon as the ball left the bat, glanced a moment later during the celebration to make sure it was over, and headed out for a late, cold walk.
Several years later, I couldn't care less. The Boone disaster just made 2004 a tad sweeter. The Idiots changed everything.
There is just no shame in Foxborough, Mass. — they do whatever it takes to win...Those of us who don’t drink the Patriots Kool-Aid know the truth, but unfortunately the fans of that crooked organization don’t want to accept it. Thus, it’s imperative that the Falcons win Sunday.
If the Patriots win, Belichick and Brady will become the first coach/quarterback tandem to win five Super Bowls. That’s one more than Noll/Bradshaw and two more than Walsh/Montana (who won a fourth with George Seifert), though it should be pointed out that neither of those duos ever needed a tuck rule or deflated footballs to keep their Super Bowl hopes alive, nor illegal videotapes to win a Super Bowl.
Zeise did not post a column about the Super Bowl outcome.That’s why the final score will be Falcons 38, Patriots 28, and all of humanity will be spared the nauseating love-fest of Belichick and Brady. Well, at least for one more year. I’d pick a wider margin of victory, but I had to factor in all the Xerox copies of Kyle Shanahan’s playbook the Patriots surely (allegedly) have in their possession...