East Coast Bias Bowl -- Running Super Bowl XLVI Thread

Yes. Brady is great, but what is his signature moment? The tuck rule? Vinitieri against the Rams and Panthers? John Kasay kicking it out of bounds? McNabb puking? Once it became all about him, the titles were as elusive as they were for P. Manning and all of the "elite" moments evaporated.

As Christian Shepard said, " Nobody does it alone. You needed all of them, and they needed you."

 

Never has been a doubt in my mind.

G'night everyone!

(Saints will be there next year and I'll change my avatar once again!)

 

Glad to see the Boston media is dealing with this in a mature, rational way that rises to the moment with insightful commentary.

http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/wilbur/2012/02/not_so_safety_c.html

BLOGS!

 

Did the Globe just add community bloggers? Please tell me they don't really pay a person to be that big of a moron. All that was missing was a FAWK YOO TOMMEE!

 

Eli had how many yards rushing? Brady?

The real winning QBs win with their ability to throw and play the position, their football intelligence, not tucking the ball and running. It may be exciting sometimes but it doesn't win championships.

 

Football is a team game.

It's hard to say Eli is better than Peyton is better than Brady because of the teams they had around them.

Peyton covered up a lot of warts on otherwise mediocre teams -- esp. after Harrison retired -- and those got exposed this year. Eli wasn't able to save a badly injury-riddled Giants team mid-year, but was gold in the playoffs. When Brady was hurt, the Pats still went 11-5.

That said, all 3 are great QBs, but it takes a team to win. In the NFL, you've got to have a better-than-average QB to be a contender, but the difference between the good teams and the great teams is very, very small, and the other guys around you make a big difference.

 

I couldn't finish that. It was embarrassing. Yuck.

 

Somebody got paid to write that shat-out piece.

 

Where is Bostonbred

 

I'm going to throw out a few caveats here before I say something mean.

--I assume that Eric Wilbur is young, and will learn from this mistake.

--I assume there was some kind of deadline situation, even on the web, and he felt compelled to "go with his gut."

--I assume that the Globe, having been a little embarrassed over the last few years by the realization they could have had Bill Simmons and were too "old school" to make that happen 10 years ago, has tried to make up for that by hiring young, immature writers inspired by Simmons, and giving them "columns." And this is not exactly what I would call proper mentoring from a major metro newspaper.

--I assume Mr. Wilbur is a fan first, and columnist second, and that he is from the greater New England area, and being young and regional, he has a bit of a warped perspective on how hard it is to win a Super Bowl, and how shitty the Pats were not that long ago, when he was perhaps in diapers.


All that said, that "column" was awful. A screeching rant that lived up to every Bostonian cliche.

I see he's trying to walk it back a bit on Twitter, claim it was sarcasm. But if you go back in time and read his Twitter timeline, it is clearly not sarcasm. And if it was an attempt at sarcasm, it failed miserably as a piece of writing.

Sorry to be so harsh, if you're reading this, Eric. I hope you learn from it. But ... ugh. Not good.

 

Now everyone can go ahead and stop comparing him to Montana.

 

Tom Brady lost the Super Bowl. Then he went back to the hotel and fucked Gisele Bundchen.

Eric Wilbur, whoever that is, wrote that piece of shit column and then jerked off, alone. While crying and wearing his Patriots jersey.

I know who I'd rather be right now. And it ain't Eric Wilbur.