Hope they play some classic games
Den-NE is a toss up to me.
Belichek, I believe has the coaching edge over Kubiak. Experience and game planning on Manning.
Den needs to knock Brady out of the game or get him looking over his shoulder with lots of pressure.
Well we got rotisserie wings and boneless buffalo too with home made
Honey goat cheese dressing
Pulling for all the former LSU players today in both games and of course hoping no 18 has a good day too.
We'll see how it washes out. My bet is on the New England Broncos..
I thought Belichek had a coaching advantage as well. After watching him go for it on fourth down twice in the red zone and come away with no points in a defensive struggle I'm starting to question that. If they kick field goals, assuming they make them both, they probably win the game.
Lee D, post: 354779, member: 7971 wrote: I thought Belichek had a coaching advantage as well. After watching him go for it on fourth down twice in the red zone and come away with no points in a defensive struggle I'm starting to question that. If they kick field goals, assuming they make them both, they probably win the game.
Belichek is probably a pretty experienced coach. I don't know what his reasoning was...but I'm pretty sure he thought they could convert on those 4th. down attempts. He just got beat.
Like they say: Good offense wins games, good defense wins championships.
Not trying to take anything away from Denver's defense, they were fantastic and they had Brady pretty out of sorts. I bet he knows he was in a game this morning.
The Patriots were off their game. Brady stood still too much to be effective. Bronco's held the line on both offense and defense.
Jaguars dominated the first half and almost let Arizona start a comeback, except Palmer tried to force too many passes and foiled that plan.
After watching both games, I hope the Super Bowl will be a game and not a blow out.
A Harris, post: 354806, member: 81 wrote: The Patriots were off their game. Brady stood still too much to be effective. Bronco's held the line on both offense and defense.
Jaguars dominated the first half and almost let Arizona start a comeback, except Palmer tried to force too many passes and foiled that plan.
After watching both games, I hope the Super Bowl will be a game and not a blow out.
We didn't get the Jaguar's game in Oklahoma. We had to watch the Panthers beat the Cardinals. 😉
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I am surprised I remembered they were some kind of a cat.
Don't keep up with either of them during the regular season.
The Denver/New England game was a waste. The best team did not win. I am not a fan of either team, but, Denver is weak this year.
The Carolina/Arizona game was entertaining until it got out of hand. Both teams are very good but it just wasn't Arizona's day.
Carolina should roll big over Denver unless they get overconfident or lose a few players in the next two weeks to incarceration for something stupid. It seems like every year some key players on one or both Super Bowl teams suddenly aren't available for the big game.
It's a bit odd, statistically speaking, that three out of four of the teams playing yesterday were not named after cities.
Oh I don't know Holy Cow, my Pats were whupped pretty soundly. The donkey's plan of attacking Brady was the key, that and the missed extra point! That was a game changer!
Yes sirree, that missed extra point by the most reliable placekicker in the league made the difference in the strategy. Denver's ability to pressure the quarterback this year has been outstanding. But, their offense is not outstanding at all.
That missed extra point reminded me of what happened to my old high school team in basketball last week. They played a game where the referees had to get new whistles at half time because they had worn out the ones they started out with. There were an incredible number of foul shots for both teams. The final score was only two or three points apart. The other team made about 20 points on foul shots attempted while my team only made about 10 points on foul shots attempted with about 15 more attempts than what the other team had. My old coach, back in the dark ages when I was playing, drilled foul shot accuracy into us something fierce. He would show us game after game where the final difference in the game came down to making foul shots.
Beer Legs, post: 354893, member: 33 wrote: hmm... Perhaps Brady can blame it all on Microsoft....
I think it was more likely too much air in the balls.
I would imagine most everyone in the stands are on their smart phones trying to access the wiifii and hack into the tablets and anything else they can.
Got ejected from a friends house over a year ago by showing how to play videos and such over their smart tv from my phone. It scared them to no end that it could be done....
I thought the DEN- NE game was well played to the billing. Two first ballot HOF QBs, one who given up for dead 3 years ago and even last month with serious injuries was written off. The other who has been the most consistent winner in the NFL and makes babies with a Brazilian supermodel who makes more money than him. ( young boys listen.NOW that is a role model) An unmeasured metric for Manning is his abilities to be the OC on the field at the line of scrimmage. DEN introduced a new coach and offensive system this year and that usually does not work well in the first season especially using injured QB and green back-ups. But they hung on to get to the SB
The missed extra point was a tough one BUT that is why they changed the rule this year and pushed it back to the 15. (I thought that they should have pushed it back to the 20). So forget this blabbing about this string because he wasnÛªt kicking from the 2 yard line. Looking at e replay it looked to be a bad placement from the holder. The ball was leaning to the right and it only takes a fraction of an inch to produce a different trajectory.
One thing that I dreaded during the game was the result was going to be decided by some freakish 65 yd plus FG in the friendly thin mile high air. That would have sucked.
Both teams had great defenses. No running games. Removing the FB from the game has led to more injuries for the RBS and less protection for the B too. The abundance of ÛÏprotect the QBÛ rues are a result of the former.
Nate Silver has Carolina as 3-2 favorites for SB L (He is 9-1 for the playoffs). I pay attention to only three sports sources for news; Nate Silver of 538.com ( for the math fun), Cork Gaines of Business Insider.com and the NY Daily News ( been reading it for 60 years).
I personally would love to see the kicking game remain as a very integral part of the game so that the kickoffs are returned and so that extra points are not over 99% converted because thatÛªs not what extra points were when they were initially put into the game back 80 years ago, whatever it was,Û ÛÒ Belichick,January 2014.
