Tom vs. Patrick -- Super Bowl LV thread

[swingline]

Every morning and twice on Sunday.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

May be my favorite sj.com take since the poster commented when GD Spradlin died that he didn't know Spradlin from The Godfather Part II or Apocalypse Now, but loved him in Canadian Bacon.

Wasn't that smallpotatoes?

 

[JC]

Wasn't that smallpotatoes?

Yes.

 

[Junkie]

Is this a serious post? Look at the link I posted above. He saw Williams leak out of the backfield as he was rolling right and tracked him the whole way.

Mahomes literally had his back to the end zone for about 10 strides. But yeah, he was tracking a receiver. With what? his side-view mirrors? The Jumbotron? Williams was standing on the goal line facing back up field before Mahomes threw the ball. He was tracking a guy standing still?

But to clarify, since you all seem to love a dogpile, when I said any quarterback could do that, I was referring to the tweet gushing at him throwing the ball 30 yards while falling. That's not all that far. Then again, Romo and his ilk blow loads when Mahomes throws an underhand shovel pass two feet to Kelcie.

 

[Pilot]

Yeah, we definitely shouldn't comment positively on throws like this. It was incomplete. Because it hit the receiver in the face mask.

This pass in particular should have been picked. I mean, it's amazing he didn't throw it into the turf 4 feet in front of him, or best case for most humans, launch it into the stands, but it went right throw a LBs hands, which is why the RB didn't catch it.

 

[bigpern23]

Mahomes literally had his back to the end zone for about 10 strides. But yeah, he was tracking a receiver. With what? his side-view mirrors? The Jumbotron? Williams was standing on the goal line facing back up field before Mahomes threw the ball. He was tracking a guy standing still?

But to clarify, since you all seem to love a dogpile, when I said any quarterback could do that, I was referring to the tweet gushing at him throwing the ball 30 yards while falling. That's not all that far. Then again, Romo and his ilk blow loads when Mahomes throws an underhand shovel pass two feet to Kelcie.

That's not what you were saying when you posted:

Agree to disagree, I suppose, but he had no idea where that ball was going. It hit a teammate in the facemask. Calling him a receiver, like he meant to throw it to that particular guy, is a stretch.

You're strangely ignoring the fact that Mahomes knows generally that his running back is supposed to release in that situation and, on fourth-and-goal at the 12, he knows to look near the goal line for a receiver.

On top of that, you're ignoring the visual evidence in front of you that shows he saw Williams release and, despite a couple of sideways glances at the defender, he was mostly looking downfield.

The idea that he had his back to the end zone for too long to find a receiver and had no idea where the ball was going is farcical.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Mahomes literally had his back to the end zone for about 10 strides. But yeah, he was tracking a receiver. With what? his side-view mirrors? The Jumbotron? Williams was standing on the goal line facing back up field before Mahomes threw the ball. He was tracking a guy standing still?

But to clarify, since you all seem to love a dogpile, when I said any quarterback could do that, I was referring to the tweet gushing at him throwing the ball 30 yards while falling. That's not all that far. Then again, Romo and his ilk blow loads when Mahomes throws an underhand shovel pass two feet to Kelcie.

This is the most ridiculous take since someone tried to defend the Jets tanked the end of the Raiders game take.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Brady didn't have to make that throw because his team protected him better than Mahomes' team was capable of doing.



That was the key difference in the game — one quarterback in command, the other constantly in a panicked escape.

One QB having 30 minutes to boil water in the Chopped kitchen, the other having his pocket collapse like a dream in Inception

 

[Scout]

Here's another hot take: I actually respect Mahomes more today than last week because of how he handled himself when everything was collapsing around him. Plus, he's the most talented QB I've ever seen.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Doing some off the top of my head reminiscing, I count about 15 or 16 Super Bowl matchups between Hall of Fame QBs or QBs most think will be in the Hall, like Russell Wilson. Relatively few of them were good games. The matchup most cited before this Super Bowl, Montana-Marino in SB 19, was also a dismal rout with a score very similar (38-16) to last night's. Bradshaw and Staubach had two good games, but Staubach-Griese was too dull to even be a rout. Same for Bradshaw-Tarkenton. Then there was Montana-Elway (55-10). We perk up a bit with the Elway win over Favre and Brady's first Super Bowl win over Warner. Roethlisberger-Warner was great, but Rodgers-Roethlisberger was only so-so. Brees v. P. Manning was a pretty good game. Wilson and P. Manning was a horrorshow worse than last night, but Brady-Wilson was superb.
Moral of the above paragraph: Maybe there's more to a football game than the two forkin' quarterbacks, no matter how great they are.

 

[Songbird]

 

[BTExpress]

You have a far less chance of catching COVID than you do of catching "I don't know how to use forking apostrophes" disease.