Steelers/Broncos Gamethread
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If the Steelers can give the Broncos that much trouble without their top two running backs, their top WR, and Ben shot up on pain killers, what can I say. The Pats are going to crush the orange.
Go get 'em Brady. BB will draw up defenses that will make Peyton cry.
Go Pats.
Go get 'em Brady. BB will draw up defenses that will make Peyton cry.
Go Pats.
The screw job will come in the form of non-calls. They will ignore Denver holding on run plays, Gronk being mugged, etc.
The Pats were rolling without JE and before Hightower got hurt. No reason to think they won't run away and hide with the game this time. Also Brock is better than Manning so that helps as well.
I foresee three ill-timed Pats OPI calls to the Broncos' none. Broadcast booth refers to Pats plays as "illegal pick plays" while identical Broncos plays are hailed as "nifty rub routes".
I couldn't believe he said that. I missed the part where he became CJ Anderson for a play.
True and this is a concern; images of past games keep recurring. It will be key for a healthy Pats offense to build an early lead, force Manning to throw more, win the turnover game, and not allow the game to get close enough to allow any odd call have an impact. Will be four hours of stress, but the Pats team of yesterday should be able to do it.......serenity now...
Right -- a quick check didn't reveal fares that would trump my using my miles.
So how to get game tickets?
Everyone already complaining about the fix being in for next week is fun.
Even if that is the case, Denver will be demolished by Carolina or Arizona.
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Even if that is the case, Denver will be demolished by Carolina or Arizona.
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We gave HFA away against the Eagles. It is that simple. Easily top 5 UnPatriot-like performance in the last 16 years.
The exact quote was "I got that touchdown." In fairness, Peyton went on to say the defense guided us to this victory and he is honored to being on the same team as them. He also quoted BB.
"We didn't give them any short fields, and obviously when we needed it we had a big drive and I got that touchdown that really put us up."
I didn't, I figured drops are pretty subjective and it wasn't entirely fair to bet on an outcome like that.
Let's split your initial idea of $20 and the children benefit, deal?
But they could want Manning to get one in his last year in the league (is he really coming back next year?).
That game was terrible but I think it's too easy to assign blame. The last quarter—even third—of the season the roster was a complete mess, which impacted everything. Guys were playing positions or carrying workloads they were unfamiliar with. Special teams, normally a strength for this franchise, was raided for starters on both sides of the ball and it showed. Game plans had become so simple and vanilla out of necessity – and more reliant on trick or surprise plays to compensate.
I get why it's frustrating. It was to me as well. But the idea that they just "gave HFA away" is wrong. There is no "right way" to manage roster devastation at the scale this team faced. Honestly, we should be thankful on some level that they ended up with the second seed with as many guys coming back to full or mostly full health as they are.
Plus, if they got the #1 seed they would have played Pittsburgh this weekend, and who knows what would have happened if they had -- they likely would have won, but maybe Brady or Gronk or Edelman gets knocked out for the season. They came out of the KC game relatively healthy ("relatively" being a key word). We should be grateful for that.