The Super Bowl Thread
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Saw this tidbit on ESPN:
With a good game Sunday, he could jump from seventh to second on this list, which is pretty cool.
I'm pissed I woke up before the halftime show!
That had the potential to be fucking strange.
You could've foreseen Gaga's hair color, before Prince unzipped his Gaga suit and did a mash up of Pussy Control Monster.
“@brianmacp: Marshall Faulk on the way the Patriots use their running backs: ”It’s awful. You never know when you’re going to play. You have no idea.“”
“@cpriceNFL: Marshall Faulk still believes the Patriots taped the Rams’ walkthrough before Super Bowl 36.”
“@TyDunne: Marshall Faulk on young Tom Brady: ”I knew what everybody else knew about him —- he sucked and he couldn’t beat out Drew Henson.“”
Patriots take up so much real estate in his head
“@cpriceNFL: Marshall Faulk still believes the Patriots taped the Rams’ walkthrough before Super Bowl 36.”
“@TyDunne: Marshall Faulk on young Tom Brady: ”I knew what everybody else knew about him —- he sucked and he couldn’t beat out Drew Henson.“”
Patriots take up so much real estate in his head
15 years later, and he's so salty. It's hard to believe he's so uneducated about SpyGate and the alleged walkthrough taping. But maybe it isn't, old beliefs being hard to change and all that.
Once a Colt, always a Colt. Used to bother me but now I can't get enough of this.
Cris the Fall Guy Carter was on Katie Nolan earlier in the week and was talking about the taped walk through as though it were a well known fact and I'm pretty sure he thought that was spygate. She seemed incredulous and shot him down really quick but this is a guy who has covered the league as his profession in the time since he retired and even he had no idea. There's no hope for casual fans and babies like Marshall Faulk.
That said I love love love how much Bill and the Patriots are in the head of people like him and Joey Porter
That said I love love love how much Bill and the Patriots are in the head of people like him and Joey Porter
This taping thing has stuck like superglue. GJGE, John. I hear it all the time here in NYC.
I'm irrationally upset any time I turn on WEEI and he's filling in for someone or it's his weekend show. Someday when I have the time I want to call in with a legit topic to get through the screenings and then just get on live air and call him out. How he has a job in this business and this town befuddles me.
Ian Rapoport @RapSheet 19m19 minutes ago
#Patriots QB Tom Brady says at his press conference that he's still hopeful that his mom will be there but isn't sure. Good sign.
#Patriots QB Tom Brady says at his press conference that he's still hopeful that his mom will be there but isn't sure. Good sign.
This is the most disconnected I've felt to any Patriots SB run up. Not sure if it's work schedule, personal life crap, politics, or what, but I keep forgetting the game is 3 days away.
One "concern" that I have is that the Pats have played poorly each time they have had more than a week to prepare. Two losses and an error prone effort against the Texans.
Well, no matter how hard we might try to check our privilege, the lack of novelty is certainly an issue too, no?
(All those other things matter too, obviously)
(All those other things matter too, obviously)
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. BB is too smart of a coach to do that. Miss 1 or 2 of those conversions, and you end up chasing points the entire game.
I agree that it isn't going to happen, but not because BB is "too smart." There's certainly a point where a team with a big enough edge in converting vs defending the 2 point try would be mathematically correct to use it as a strategy. And using it as a surprise in a huge game, when the other team doesn't have a chance to prepare, would increase the edge.
The fact that it hasn't been tried is an indication that nobody thinks they have a big enough edge, and/or the variance over the short term isn't worth it. But if, say, BB thought he had an absurd edge in expected points on the 2pt try (like 90 percent conversion for us vs 20 percent for them), and expected a lot of TDs on both sides, I could totally see him playing the percentages and trying it.
I assume this is related to his shout out to his Mom post-AFCCG. What's the story? Is she ill?
Yeah, of course he could play the odds. Which is exactly what I think he does all the time anyway.
I mean this...an extra point has a much higher success rate than a 2 point try. Which is why I think that unless the Pats need the 2 point conversion late in the game, he kicks the extra point every time, regardless of how good or bad the Falcons might be defending the 2 pointer.
I was like that for much of the season. Changed jobs, moved to another state, had a shit ton of stuff to get in order, so I just sat down to watch the games, basically, without really experiencing the season. It's been a couple of weeks now since I've gotten back into a routine, and I can barely go 20 minutes without the game popping back into my mind. The wait has been excruciating, which is weird considering this is the Super Bowl I'd be less devastated if they were to lose in.
It must be that time of year again...
Tim Brown says Tom Brady would be nothing without the tuck rule
"I wanna thank the Oakland Raiders . . . . . . . .
for being unable to convert several simple plays that any championship team would have converted. Without the raiders' multiple, inexcusable failures, we might not ave had the opportunity to win."
The second bolded part kind of suggests that you don't understand what the first bolded part means. But whatever.
I don't know what this is, but when somebody responds to your post with "yeah yeah I get it. Now here's a sentence that indicates I clearly don't get it!"... whaddya want.
People that would watch that and say "asshole" or "cheater" are really fucking joyless.
I mean, all he did was a hard count in a neutral stadium, and the other guy jumped offsides.
And in this manner, his previous Super Bowl win was sealed.
Oh, and there is no worse team of sore losers in NFL history than the 2001 Raiders.
Edit: In addition to everything mentioned above, they lost their last three games of the year which is why that game was even being played in Foxboro. One of those was to the fucking Jets!
Edit: In addition to everything mentioned above, they lost their last three games of the year which is why that game was even being played in Foxboro. One of those was to the fucking Jets!
It's kind of nice, if fairly inconsequential in the grand scheme, to have Michael Floyd "playing" Julio Jones for the scout team this week. Not that he's even within miles of the guy, talent-wise, but he can give them looks better than a typical practice squad-er would.
I've seen him then go on the NFL network and be fairly complementary to the Patriots. It's a weird existence some of these goofs live. Troll here, give straightforward option/analysis there. I guess you just can't be reasonable and consistent, and hope to get any notice in that business anymore. Put me in the camp of thoroughly enjoying the salty goodness of their tears now.