NFL Playoffs 2007

[BadMoon]

Yeah, you did

You were quite, um happy

You gotta love the drunk calls.

 

[The ill Jedi]

https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-morningrush020408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

The wore black when they went to the stadium 'cause "that's what you wear to a funeral." Gotta love the Giants D ...

I LOVE that...awesome!!

I especially loved this quote from Brandon Jacobs, "Most definitely, other teams gave the Patriots too much respect. Our attitude was, '(Expletive) them (expletives). We're gonna beat these (expletives)."

Yeah, you did

You were quite, um happy

Okay, I think I remember it now.

 

[The ill Jedi]

You gotta love the drunk calls.

Hey, Loki was nice enough to send me a PM congratulating me on the Giants win, so I gave him a buzz and thanked him!

 

[BadMoon]

Hey, Loki was nice enough to send me a PM congratulating me on the Giants win, so I gave him a buzz and thanked him!

Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Hey, Loki was nice enough to send me a PM congratulating me on the Giants win, so I gave him a buzz and thanked him!

 

[bagelsncheesey]

It's not too bad, I did some late night munching so I think that helped. Me and my brothers were drinking 'til like 2 AM.

P.S. Dude, did I call you yesterday or did I dream that? I think I called Bagels too, but I was f.@#kin' hammered.

Yep, you called me. I was hammered too though, so

 

[Bannister]

 

[The ill Jedi]

 

[IronFingaz]

That's almost my favorite part of the game. Seeing Brady get knocked down like that.

 

[Dusty]

That's almost my favorite part of the game. Seeing Brady get knocked down like that.

Aw, come on, be nice to the pretty boy

So yeah, I went in cheering for the Pats, but as the game progressed I really started rooting for the Giants. They definitely deserved it, and I like to cheer for the underdogs when I'm not emotionally tied to one team or the other. My grampa was from Boston and always rooted for the Pats, even when they sucked, so that's the real reason why I was going for them.

It was a really exciting 4th Quarter! :chew

 

[The ill Jedi]

So yeah, I went in cheering for the Pats, but as the game progressed I really started rooting for the Giants. They definitely deserved it, and I like to cheer for the underdogs...

This is a seriously sweet victory for my boys and a hard fought game!

 

[OSCORP]

Brady, Moss pull out of Pro Bowl

Tom Brady and Randy Moss pulled out of the Pro Bowl on Monday, a day after the New England Patriots were beaten in the Super Bowl.

After throwing a league-record 50 touchdown passes during the season, Brady was battered by the New York Giants during their 17-14 win Sunday. He has been bothered by a tender ankle and was photographed in New York wearing a protective boot two weeks prior to the Super Bowl.

Brady, who first injured his ankle against San Diego in the AFC championship game, was sacked five times by the Giants. He will be replaced by Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson.

Moss, who caught a record 23 TD passes from Brady during the season, had five receptions for 62 yards and a TD in the Super Bowl. He will be replaced by disgruntled Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson.

San Diego tight end Antonio Gates and defensive tackle Jamal Williams also decided to skip the All-Star game on Feb. 10 in Honolulu.

Browns tight end Kellen Winslow will go in place of Gates, bringing the number of Browns players in the Pro Bowl to six, the club's most since sending six in 1994. Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Casey Hampton takes Williams' spot on the AFC roster, his third-consecutive trip to Hawaii and fourth overall.

The Patriots have not said why either of the Patriots stars' opted out.

Anderson, who began the season as Charlie Frye's backup, threw for 3,787 yards and 29 touchdowns while going 10-5 as a starter. Cleveland was edged out of a playoff spot because of a tiebreaker. In a release, the Browns did not provide a reason for Anderson replacing Brady.

https://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7760410?MSNHPHMA

 

[pickard]

We've known for weeks that Brady wasn't going to the Pro Bowl. He was planning to play in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, though he backed out today.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I'm sure they both are just feeling a bit too emotional and rattled from the game to get right back out there and play again... I would back out too... Hey, Brett Favre backed out after his loss to the Giants... nobody got on his case.

I read this article today, thought I would share it with the Patriots haters out there... Sums up my feelings exactly... don't forget what we accomplished.

Don't be too hard on the Patriots. They're the reason we'll never forget Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning's improbable final drive and quite possibly the NFL's best regular season.

The football men of Foxboro are the straws that stir the drink, the men we love to hate. They're led by the J.R. Ewing of sports, head coach Bill Belichick, who in a final act of belligerence walked off the field with :01 left on the game clock and the Giants lining up for a final play.

Sore losers? Yeah, you would be, too, after 18 straight victories, sharing your undefeated spotlight with a grandstanding running back, Mercury Morris, and a grandstanding politician, Sen. Arlen Specter, and having bull(spit) called on your entire legacy because you circumvented the rules better than your opponents.

I'm not saying it's unfair what happened to the Patriots Sunday evening or what might happen to them if Sen. Specter gets his way. This is not a Patriots pity party. Bill Belichick thought he was man enough to go Barry Bonds, pursue one of sports' most hallowed records while giving the media, his critics and opponents the middle-finger salute.

I'm saying let's not get things twisted -- let's recall who made the 2007 season memorable and Super Bowl XLII extraordinary.

In this instance, you can hate the playas and marvel at how well they played the game.

The 2007 Patriots are still one of the all-time great teams, right up there with the '72 Dolphins, the '85 Bears and 1962 Packers. It's been 35 years since the Dolphins won 17 straight, including the Super Bowl. It just might be another 35 years before an NFL team rips through the regular season unblemished, advances to a Super Bowl and beats every team on its schedule.

New England's 18-0 start is the second-greatest team accomplishment in NFL history. Go ahead and knock the Patriots for losing the most important game. You can claim they choked, wilted under the pressure, folded under the weight of Belichick's defiance.

I don't really buy it.

Belichick's Patriots did pretty much what they did in three previous Super Bowl appearances. They played relatively error-free football and killed the opposition with a last-gasp drive.

The Patriots win Super Bowls by three points, with last-second field goals and late-game pin-point passing from Tom Brady.

This time Brady marched the Pats 80 yards in 12 plays and put New England ahead 14-10 with a six-yard strike to Randy Moss. On a day when New England's offensive line couldn't hold off the New York Sack Exchange, surrendering five Brady sacks and too many hurries to count, Brady improvised and threw underneath routes to Moss and Wes Welker on what looked to be the game-winning drive.

Hadn't that been the Patriots' story the second half of the season? They no longer blew out opponents. They reinvented themselves mid-game and did whatever was necessary to win.

Mike Strahan, Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck took away the Moss long ball by knocking Brady to the ground, so Brady hit Moss on crossing patterns in the closing minutes. Did Brady and Belichick wait too long to make the adjustment?

Maybe. But the Patriots ran just 27 offensive plays in four first-half possessions. They had 18 games worth of proof that their offensive line could protect Brady, and give him the necessary protection to locate Moss deep downfield. It's tough to abandon a game plan after so few plays, especially when you have a QB who doesn't fear a pass rush.

And please, don't get caught up in the instant analysis that Brady got rattled. Not true. Yeah, he yelled some tough-love encouragement to his linemen, but Brady did not lose any of the composure that has made him great.

At the end of the game, Brady was unflappable and precise. His crime was leaving too much time for Eli Manning.

And even at that, the Giants do not win this football game if Manning doesn't spin out from two New England rushers and unspool a 32-yard alley-oop prayer to David Tyree, who miraculously caught and hung on to the football despite a terrific defensive effort by safety Rodney Harrison. The catch, the best in Super Bowl history — yes, even better than Lynn Swann's Super Bowl X jaw-dropper — converted a third and five and moved the Giants to the Patriots' 24.

I'm not calling the Giants lucky. The best team won Sunday night. I wrote in my Kansas City Star column after the AFC Championship that the Patriots were gassed and would likely lose the Super Bowl. I picked the Giants to win by 3 in my newspaper.

My point is that there's a thin line between immortality and a history-halting defeat. Despite Sunday's outcome, the Patriots are who we thought they were: one of the three or four best teams we've ever seen. What does that make the Giants? Super Bowl XLII champs.

 

[BadMoon]

I'm sure they both are just feeling a bit too emotional and rattled from the game to get right back out there and play again... I would back out too... Hey, Brett Favre backed out after his loss to the Giants... nobody got on his case.

I read this article today, thought I would share it with the Patriots haters out there... Sums up my feelings exactly... don't forget what we accomplished.

I don't believe that one bit. Guess which 4 teams this year all had a top ten defense and top ten offense. I will tell you. It was the Patriots, Cowboys, Colts, and Eagles. Yet no one gives the Eagles props because they lost. So did the Pats they lost. LOL! Too bad so sad.

 

[pjam]

Damn, you know that left a mark.

Stuart Scott described it as digging a hole under the ground with that hit.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I don't believe that one bit. Guess which 4 teams this year all had a top ten defense and top ten offense. I will tell you. It was the Patriots, Cowboys, Colts, and Eagles. Yet no one gives the Eagles props because they lost. So did the Pats they lost. LOL! Too bad so sad.

Hey, I don't discount the Cowboys, Colts or the Eagles either. They all did great work this year. I think Brady dropping out was mostly about the ankle and all of the sacks he took during the game. Moss I am not so sure about.

Still though, Giants did what they did. They made it happen at the end, when it counted. They deserve the championship and I give them my salute..

Now, on to next year...

 

[Darth Loki]

People need to get off Bilichick. The clock had expired, then he and Coughlan went to the center of the field to shake hands. The refs then decided to put :01 second back on the clock. Why? Who the **** knows. It was stupid as about 400 were already on the field.

It's not like the guy through off his headset and ran to the locker room after the failed 4th down. The guy just lost the f'n Super Bowl and a chance at immortality. What the **** would you have done?

 

[Bannister]

Damn, you know that left a mark.

Stuart Scott described it as digging a hole under the ground with that hit.

That hit looked like something out of a movie.

 

[KitFisto]

People need to get off Bilichick. The clock had expired, then he and Coughlan went to the center of the field to shake hands. The refs then decided to put :01 second back on the clock. Why? Who the **** knows. It was stupid as about 400 were already on the field.

It's not like the guy through off his headset and ran to the locker room after the failed 4th down. The guy just lost the f'n Super Bowl and a chance at immortality. What the **** would you have done?

In a word....BULL!!!!! They put the second back on before they met up. There were people telling good old Bill there was a second left. Bill pretty much shoved someone out of the way that was giving him the info and then left the field. He knew there was a second left and didn't care.

He ran the score up all season and had no problem making other coaches watch him go for it on 4th down in the 4th quarter when the Pats were up 40 points already, but he was too much of a poor sport to stay on the field for the final tick in the SB.

He's a little b!tch and a classless jerk plain and simple.