Daniel Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I seriously may never watch the NFL again. The Dolphins blow chunks, and will never win the Super Bowl while I'm alive. The Pats will win the next four or five Super Bowls, so what's the point. Sports is just a big waste of time and money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'7' Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Every time Atlanta witled and gave NE an opening they barged through. And eventually the Falcons got too scared and the moment was too big for them There playcalling was the most baffling and perhaps the worst, for that situation...im NFL history. I mean they had a game icing field goal within range with 5 min to go and up 8, and they are throwing the ball(and taking 10 yard sacks) in and then taking costly holding penalties the next play. That 3rd and 1 that Ryan fumbled...what the hell was he doing even attempting a throw there? It just, it's unfathomable. Hand it off, either you get the 1st or not but you kill clock either way. And if you don't, punt and flip the field. I can't take anything away from N.E., they cashed in on every opportunity. Atlanta couldn't handle this when momentum shifted. Even opportunities to ice things they almost looked like they were trying to lose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDog2020 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 The guys are killing me: http://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/nhl/devils/fireandice/2017/02/06/devs-patriot-fans-marvel-brady-and-cos-super-win/97556696/Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDog2020 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Btw, congrats to CR. I'm sure you're enjoying this somewhere just as much as the rest of us all wanna puke. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'7' Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) 19 hours ago, MadDog2020 said: Btw, congrats to CR. I'm sure you're enjoying this somewhere just as much as the rest of us all wanna puke. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk All I know is that if I got 2001-2017 from any one of my franchises I think I may pack it in for a while. You've seen the top of the mountain...there is nothing left to conquer. Nobody else to beat. It just feels like the pinnacle of sports fanhood. You don't stop following but you take the losses and shortcomings a lot easier. That's why I'm taking this recent Devils dip in stride. 1993-2012 what they gave us. 3 Cups 5 trips to the Finals. Heck should've been 4 Cups at least (and if we got past the Rags in 1994 it would've been 5) They haven't even been a piss poor bad team since then either. Just middling and not good enough. The Blues still haven't made the finals since what...Orr leaps through the air? The Leafs will make it 50 years with no finals trips this year. Flyers - No Cups in 42 years. Canucks are going on 47 years. But 1993-2012 provided one heck of a cushion. And even pre 1993 they were icing competitive playoff teams who were getting unlucky (1991) Edited February 7, 2017 by '7' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Rockies 1976 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 18 hours ago, MadDog2020 said: Btw, congrats to CR. I'm sure you're enjoying this somewhere just as much as the rest of us all wanna puke. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thanks MD! Watched this down in Florida (Lauderdale By The Sea) with four buddies (two Giants fans, a Jets fan, and a 49ers fan). My and my brother have a condo down there. There's a circle with three restaurant/bars around it, and a bunch of shops and stores. They close off the area to traffic for the Super Bowl, and put up two huge inflatable screens...almost felt like a drive-in movie, without the cars. All of the food there was solid. Most of the fans watching were Patriots fans (it's pretty much Patriot country right there...lots of Boston-area transplants). I counted maybe 3 or 4 Falcon fans, tops. Great way to watch a game...that's what I plan to do for Super Bowls going forward, regardless of which teams are in. It was just a cool experience all around. For me, as great as it was to see the Pats win...I was completely emotionally spent by the end. At 28-3, I thought they were toast. EVERYONE there thought they were toast. I was already going into acceptance mode: Well, at least they got there, they've been to seven SBs and won four in the BB-TB era. For a brief moment, I considered leaving the scene and watching the rest of the game in the condo, with plenty of Scotch on hand, but I couldn't do it (and though it had gotten a bit quiet, I didn't see anyone leave). I didn't really think they had a chance until Edelman's catch...because that was magical. And to come back from 25 down almost halfway through the third quarter, you need some of that somewhere. The crowd by me didn't really truly start to come back to life until the score was 28-20. When Gostkowski missed the extra point, that seemed to take a little starch out of the TD. And the FG just felt like it wasn't enough. But the margin for error (though not as slim as it was at 28-9 and 28-12) still felt very small...a lot of tightly-clenched fists when it looked like the Falcons would get a FG try to go up 31-20. Even at 28-26, it was still "Can they get another 2-point conversion?" So much had to go right. The only time I really felt confident was when the Pats won the coin toss to start OT. It just felt like they were going to march down the field...that the Falcons simply had nothing left to stop them. The big debate among some is did the Pats come back, or did the Falcons blow it? There is no debate...anytime you have a comeback like that, it's going to take a bit of both. I thought the Altanta coaching staff really failed their team, especially with offensive playcalling. The Falcon D had held the Patriots to three points well into the third, forced two turnovers, and was actually outscoring the Pats' O 7-3 at that point in the game, when you factor in the Pick-6 return...sure, the Falcon offense had put 21 points on the board, but did damned near nothing to help out their D over the last 1/3 of the game...geez, friggin' RUN the damned ball! For them to not at least get a FG attempt near the end, to potentially go up by 11...absolutely terrible. I can't really kill Atlanta's D for their effort...it was on the O to burn some clock and help out a D that had done all it could. The Pats wound up running almost 100 plays by the end of the play...what D isn't going to be gassed by that point? And of course, lots of talk about how Brady is the G.O.A.T. I still think it's too difficult to try to compare QBs across eras...I've said it before, but the game Johnny Unitas played was much different than the one Joe Montana played, which is a lot different than the one Brady's playing...hell, even the game that 2001 Brady played is a lot different than one 2017 Brady is currently playing. I'll settle for the best of his era, though I think Aaron Rodgers might still have something to say about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Rockies 1976 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) 32 minutes ago, '7' said: All I know is that if I got 2001-2017 from any one of my franchises I think I may pack it in for a while. You've seen the top of the mountain...there is nothing left to conquer. Nobody else to beat. It just feels like the pinnacle of sports fanhood. You don't stop following but you take the losses and shortcomings a lot easier. That's why I'm taking this recent Devils dip in stride. 1993-2012 what they gave us. 3 Cups 5 trips to the Finals. Heck should've been 4 Cups at least (and if we got past the Rags in 1994 it would've been 5) They haven't even been a piss poor bad team since then either. Just middling and not good enough. The Blues still haven't made the finals since what...Orr leaps through the air? The Leafs will make it 50 years with no finals trips this year. Flyers - No Cups in 42 years. Canucks are going on 47 years. But 1993-2012 provided one heck of a cushion. And even pre 1993 they were icing competitive playoff teams who were getting unlucky (1991) We had something pretty close to this with the Devils...playoff clinching had become a formality for many years...and of course, they won some championships to boot. Even the one season in 2010-11 where they should've had NO business even flirting with a playoff spot, they made a little interesting. Yeah I still watch a lot of Devils games and try not to let the losing bother me too much (though sometimes it just does)...just like I still watch a lot of Mets games even when they suck. Yeah, insane run by the Pats for sure...I remember when they fell apart under Pete Carroll (going 2-6 to finish the season at 8-8), then went 5-11 under BB in his first year as HC, then 0-2 to start 2001...a 7-19 stretch where no one really knew if BB was the answer, and it just seemed like everything was headed in the wrong direction (and Bledsoe had become maddening to watch by this point, especially with the annual second-half-of-the-season disappearing acts). Though the Pats obviously had some good years with Parcells and Bledsoe, it just seemed like that's where they were destined to have peaked for a while...you lose Parcells, then Martin goes bye-bye, then Robert Edwards tears up his knee in a friggin' beach football game...then Bledsoe gets hurt...I just never dreamed in a million years that a run like this was coming. Edited February 7, 2017 by Colorado Rockies 1976 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'7' Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said: We had something pretty close to this with the Devils...playoff clinching had become a formality for many years...and of course, they won some championships to boot. Even the one season in 2010-11 where they should've had NO business even flirting with a playoff spot, they made a little interesting. Yeah I still watch a lot of Devils games and try not to let the losing bother me too much (though sometimes it just does)...just like I still watch a lot of Mets games even when they suck. Yeah, insane run by the Pats for sure...I remember when they fell apart under Pete Carroll (going 2-6 to finish the season at 8-8), then went 5-11 under BB in his first year as HC, then 0-2 to start 2001...a 7-19 stretch where no one really knew if BB was the answer, and it just seemed like everything was headed in the wrong direction (and Bledsoe had become maddening to watch by this point, especially with the annual second-half-of-the-season disappearing acts). Though the Pats obviously had some good years with Parcells and Bledsoe, it just seemed like that's where they were destined to have peaked for a while...you lose Parcells, then Martin goes bye-bye, then Robert Edwards tears up his knee in a friggin' beach football game...then Bledsoe gets hurt...I just never dreamed in a million years that a run like this was coming. That's how it always happens. I mean weren't the Isles like a hair away from blowing that team up? Then boom...4 straight cups...5 straight trips to the finals. And they carried on that success into the 80s though they never got to the finals again they were still a respected and feared foe even when they were decaying. The closest comparison to the Patriots is the Yankees of 1995-2009. 5 titles but two distinct eras within the dominance. And though I hate to lay expectations at their feet (because of how "well" they've handled them in the past) but most impartial observers would agree that the NY Mets are absolutely expected to win a World Series within the next 3 years. You can't throw that starting staff out there, and have one 5 game loss to the Royals in the WS be the pinnacle of this era. Edited February 7, 2017 by '7' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Rockies 1976 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Just now, '7' said: That's how it always happens. I mean weren't the Isles like a hair away from blowing that team up? Then boom...4 straight cups...5 straight trips to the finals. And they carried on that success into the 80s though they never got to the finals again they were still a respected and feared foe even when they were decaying. The closest comparison to the Patriots is the Yankees of 1995-2009. 5 titles but two distinct eras within the dominance. What also links the Pats to the Yanks (somewhat) is that you have that one guy who was there for all of it, and just had that larger than life vibe in Jeter. Jeter obviously isn't to baseball was Brady is to football, but he was the one guy on the field who really was the symbol of continuity. Really would've been interesting to see how long Bledsoe would've lasted had he not gotten hurt...he was the $100 million man and everyone thought that the O-line was the problem, not him (though his prior three seasons had been pretty meh, prior to his injury). I've heard different things on that...supposedly BB was just starting to get down on Bledsoe just before he got injured, but I didn't hear a peep about Brady possibly getting a shot at Bledsoe's expense...it didn't really feel like his job was in jeopardy at the time. As much as it sucked for Drew, it was the best thing for Brady, in that the severity of Bledsoe's injury made sure that BB couldn't go back to Bledsoe if Brady struggled for a few games...BB just had to roll with Brady and hope it would work out. I remember when Bledsoe came in for an injured Brady in the AFC title game against the Steelers, and quickly completed three passes, with the last one culminating in a TD...I always felt the reason he was able to do that was because he didn't have time to think. Bledsoe had a great arm, but was definitely prone to overthinking behind center and some very bad decisions. He was also a slow reader...once Brady became the QB, the O-line suddenly wasn't a problem anymore, seemingly overnight. As good as Bledsoe could be, he could also really drag a team down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevsMan84 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Got back from Houston with the wife last night. Will provide a detailed report and some pictures before the end of the week as there is a lot to say about it. In short: we had a blast and we were lucky enough to witness history and see one of the better halftime shows in recent memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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