East Coast Bias Bowl -- Running Super Bowl XLVI Thread

Yeah. I liked the touchdown. The chances of New England going 80 yards for a TD have to be lower than the chances of Tynes yanking one to the left.

 

Still does not seem clear to me yet what Coughlin really wanted. Hearing a lot of conflicting information.

Bradshaw said that momentum carried him in but it did not look like that on replay.

 

Hey sports predict. I guess my calculator was working.

 

Looked like he was trying to stop inside the one, but he was facing backwards (one point which supports his assertion) and lost his balance, falling backward.

Sure looked like Coughlin wanted to be inside the one, burn clock, then kick the field goal later, giving Brady no time whatsoever.

 

The Patriots are the Yankees. Built to dominate in the regular season by feasting on the bottom 2/3rds of the league. Head to head against the best teams in the playoffs and they struggle. Yanks cruise in the regular season by crushing the Orioles and Indians and Mariners... and playing the Red Sox, Angels and Twins to draw. Pats, too. The Tebow playoff game doesn't count, that was a bad team on a roll. As opposed to the Giants who were a very good healthy team. The Giants beat the 1 & 2 seeds on the road in playoff games.

Looking forward to next season when Vick and the Eagles are the favorites to win the NFC East.

 

Brady's a rich kid snot who grew up that way. The worst he's ever had to deal with was getting picked 199th in a draft, and then cried about it on camera 10 years later.

 

Then explain why the searing mind of Belichick has come up short at least the last three times he's gone up against Coughlin-coached teams. No question -- he surely was the greatest of all times when he had the other team's signals.

 

I didn't notice the chess board they were sitting around.

Were there actual players in those games?

 

Maybe Jerry Reese is a better GM.

 

That truly was an embarrassing piece. I can't stand the Patriots, and I thought Brady played, at worst, OK. . . So it says Wilbur is a staffer. What exactly is his role at the Globe? Full time blogger? Writer?

 

I am on the record as being in favor of scoring a TD when you have the chance, regardless of the clock, if you're behind. When you can take the lead -- especially if it means the opponent needs to score a touchdown rather than a field goal -- you take it. Too many things can go wrong on the "sure thing" field goal (bad snap, bad hold, missed kick, block, etc.), and it is very difficult to go (in this case) 80 yards in less than a minute with one timeout, even for Tom Brady.

But how about this: One of our local talk radio guys this morning said Belichick should have let the Giants score earlier -- right after the two-minute warning, when the Giants had the ball at the New England 18.

His reasoning was that at that point, the field goal was a chip shot, a turnover or big enough loss was unlikely and the Giants probably hadn't yet talked about what to do if the defense let them score (so they wouldn't have thought to stop short of the end zone). Bradshaw would have scored in a few seconds, giving the Patriots almost two minutes and two timeouts to drive for a winning TD -- much better odds than what they ended up with.

So would that have been the Pats' best chance to win? Did Hoodie screw the pooch by waiting too long to have his defense lie down?

My first thought is, you don't give up the score that early because a 35-yard FG is not a gimme (ask Billy Cundiff). But...

 

It's funny because basketball teams will allow teams to score all the time in the last minute in order to get the ball back quicker. Baseball has the intentional walk.

But when it's football, everyone freaks out about lying down.