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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll the salty around here over the Pats Super Bowl/Brady MVP...
...gives me legitimate joy.
Keep crying. I will water my lawn with your tears.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)I yelled at the TV, lay down, dont risk a fumble or an injury.
His leaving the game was a HUGE difference in the outcome.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,648 posts)is the players name.
Will, I made more or less the same bet with Oberliner which is why his name is mentioned in my sig line. Being a native of Michigan, having Brady win his 4th SB is ok with me on a certain level.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)onenote
(43,070 posts)Jeremy Lane played in 7 regular season games this year. He only started one. He made a total of 13 tackles (solo or assists) and had no interceptions.
Yeah, his absence is the reason the Seahawks lost.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Like the announcers on NBC who know more about it than I do, assume more than you but maybe not...
onenote
(43,070 posts)Of course they'd make a big deal out of someone going out with an injury. But the New England defensive backfield has three pro-bowlers and Lane isn't one of them. His interception in the first quarter was his first interception in his three years in the league. Yeah, Simon was picked on. But there is no reason to think Lane would have been significantly better. The problem for the Seahawks is that they played man-to-man and Brady picked them apart.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)It's a game of matchups. The Seahawks losing came down to the last play.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)uppityperson
(115,684 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/1/31/7923869/super-bowl-2015-betting-prop-bets-gambling-wager-nfl
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)I'm not even mad. Hard to get mad when the damage was self-inflicted.
You rightly took advantage of our mentally defective offensive coordinator. You 100% deserved the win for being smarter.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)but I saw that pass play for the final touchdown to be absolutely awful...
is that what you are referring to?
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)As Emmitt Smith rightly points out, the "dumbest play in NFL history"
That play is a wound that will never heal. A lot of Seahawks fans have hated Bevell for years because he's incompetent. We see it every week. Came back to bite us in the most crushing way.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Truth is the play calling in the first half, well at least first quarter and much of the second, was strange at best. Carroll took the blame, but I'd bet Bevell may take the brunt.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"we want the ball and we're gonna score"
Then there was NFC championship game Seattle vs. Chicago. Game is tied, Seattle is almost in field goal range. In the penultimate play, Hasselbeck just kind of freezes and takes a sack, the field goal is missed, Seattle loses in overtime. I swear he had a clear running lane. If he had just taken off he could have gained five yards instead of losing a dozen. Gove the kicker another ten yards and he'd likely have made that field goal.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I had my hands over my face because I knew Seattle was going to run the ball in....even if the whole team had to shove him over the line.... What on earth was that coach thinking?
The game was so close, so exciting. They played great. Seattle has ZERO to feel bad about (except maybe the guy that tried to punch Gronk).
If the pass strategy had worked, the whole discussion would be moot.
It would have been a brilliant move otherwise, right?
Any play can turn into a stinker, and any play can be absolute genius.
You just never know...
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)You can try any low percentage play and say afterwards "but if it had succeeded".
In fact, it's a great excuse to ignore percentages. If it succeeds, he's a genius. If it fails, if it had succeeded he'd be a genius.
Running a crossing route into a packed defense is a low percentage, high risk play. Like Emmitt said, even if it had succeeded, it was still dumb because it ignored percentages and situations.
KT2000
(20,630 posts)bad form....
adigal
(7,581 posts)And he loves his cheaters.
NutmegYankee
(16,221 posts)Frankly, I'd like to use more salt as the grinding compound with an industrial buffer.
BTW:
New details have surfaced in the NFLs investigation into whether or not the New England Patriots cheated in the AFC Championship game by using deflated footballs. According to NFL Networks Ian Rappoport, previous reports of 11 of 12 footballs being under-inflated by two pounds are incorrect a detail first reported by ESPNs Chris Mortensen.
Rappoport reports that 11 of 12 footballs were deflated; however, many of those footballs were under-inflated by a few ticks under the minimum 12.5 PSI mark. One of the footballs was two pounds under the 12.5 PSI mark. He also says that an elderly man in charge of bringing the footballs to the field went into a bathroom for 98 seconds. There is video of the man entering and exiting the bathroom.
Rappoport also says that both Bill Belichick and Tom Brady were truthful when they said they have no knowledge of what happens with the footballs on gameday. According to the report, Belichick doesnt know what happens with the pregame preparation for footballs and Brady doesnt know what happens to them on gameday.
Read more at http://fanbuzz.com/story/report-new-england-may-not-have-deliberately-deflated-footballs-in-afc-championship-game/#UWHIEjVaQ1GGuCpe.99
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)That was substantial and won't be forgotten. Same owner and coach as they have now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_videotaping_controversy
Or, perhaps related to the puritanical influence in New England, guilt about just enjoying something. So you have to get pissed off at others even after you've won.
Just celebrate the win, congratulate your opponents for bringing out the best in your team, and be done with it.
I've never seen so many fans still whining after their team won. It's hilarious.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)this story doesn't even get half the publicity the "deflategate" story did.
Nothing pisses off the haters more than finding out that the target of their hatred is innocent of wrongdoing.
In fact, I can imagine some of them persisting in their hatred even if a perpetrator came forward to confess and it turned out to be someone from another team who wanted revenge.
The whole cheating accusation is ridiculously stupid anyway. Cheating is supposed to help the cheater(s). It's hard to figure out the mental processes of people who say, "They didn't need to cheat" but they still believe the team cheated even though there is ZERO evidence of cheating, and there is ZERO evidence that "cheating" even helped them.
I'm just glad that the whole thing happened before the Superbowl and that the game balls were kept under strict supervision by an independent party.
If the integrity of the game balls is that damned important, they should have been kept under guard anyway in every single game. Hopefully this will be a new rule in future games.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Submariner
(12,529 posts)We can relate to that awful feeling, so we should lighten up a bit.
I think the coolest story is that Butler, the un-drafted rookie, was making Popeye's Fried Chicken up to last April, and I don't suspect he will be going back there anytime soon.
Submariner
(12,529 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)mountain grammy
(26,728 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I was really impressed by his whole demeanor. He will never have to pay for a drink in New England again.
mountain grammy
(26,728 posts)but that Butler kid! I'm so happy for him.
uppityperson
(115,684 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It will take a couple days to get it out of our systems.
Love ya <3
Marrah
Takket
(21,827 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)...gotten to feel less comfortable about being too 'rah-rah' about my favorite sports teams.
gopiscrap
(23,810 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)~grins~
the Patriots should have been kicked out of the Super Bowl for cheating
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Better luck trying to make nothing into something next time.
olddots
(10,237 posts)damn we forgot Cheetos .
roamer65
(36,749 posts)That's how you win football games. You don't chase the ball, you play where the ball is going to be.
Gretzky was like that in hockey. He played where the puck would be, not where it was.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)In fact, the more they bitch, the more I know we are doing something right.
Let them wail, gnash their teeth and rend their clothing....I'll just hold up 4 fingers and smile.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)They lost.
Sore winners suck.
melman
(7,681 posts)It's just football.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)the fucking used car salesman.