Classy Championship Game (NFC and AFC) Game Thread

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My predictions:

TB is all conservative, tried for FG
FG is missed
GB drives the whole field. Goes for 2, misses.
TB drives most of the field kicks a gw FG at 0:00
 

ngruz25

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Well that was a pretty terrible sequence from Tampa. Huge FG though.

Maybe leaves time to get the ball back if Green Bay scores, too.
 

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Between that big Gronk play and the TD at the end of the first half, that’s a couple brilliant schemes by the Bucs’ coaching staff.
Huh the TD at the end of the first half was a go route against man coverage with no help...what scheme am I missing?
 

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GB is gonna come down and score and get the 2-pt conversion with about a minute left and Brady will have one more chance to drive them for a game winning FG.
 

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Brady made the right move just burying the ball in the dirt. He was spooked by the early snap and knew he absolutely could not take a sack.
 

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Huh the TD at the end of the first half was a go route against man coverage with no help...what scheme am I missing?
The safety wasn’t there because he was covering a post route down the middle. Great call going for the end zone when the defense was pulled up to deny the 7-yard out; someone was going to have single coverage, the coaching staff trusted Brady to find it, and he did. Yes, they benefited from a bad defensive scheme, but you don’t automatically get to capitalize on those sorts of mistakes.
 

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4 and a half minutes to go. There's still time for a tying drive, a Tampa FG to take the lead again, and the Pack to try to tie it again.
 

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...and if St. Brown hadn't dropped that two-point conversion catch, Green Bay could win it here with a TD.

(responding preemptively to the first person who says "And that's why you kick the PAT if you're Green Bay")
That will be a great consolation to them when they score and then lose by failing to convert a 2pt conversion that they shouldn't have had to try.
 

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This is why you take the XP on the previous touchdown.
Green Bay? Absolutely not. They need a 2 either way. Better to get it out of the way earlier and know that you’re chasing a TD and not a FG.
 

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Brady made the right move just burying the ball in the dirt. He was spooked by the early snap and knew he absolutely could not take a sack.
Boy they need James White David Andrews
 

AB in DC

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...and if St. Brown hadn't dropped that two-point conversion catch, Green Bay could win it here with a TD.

(responding preemptively to the first person who says "And that's why you kick the PAT if you're Green Bay")
Yep. The problem wasn't going for 2, the problem was throwing it to their 5th string receiver.
 

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The safety wasn’t there because he was covering a post route down the middle. Great call going for the end zone when the defense was pulled up to deny the 7-yard out; someone was going to have single coverage, the coaching staff trusted Brady to find it, and he did. Yes, they benefited from a bad defensive scheme, but you don’t automatically get to capitalize on those sorts of mistakes.
In any other situation I agree, but the defense was inexcusable...against cover three that play doesn't work and so hard to give anything other demerits to GB