NFL Network March 10-16 -- Week-long Pats-gasm

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Just a heads-up: wall-to-wall classic Patriots games, docs, etc. starts Monday at 2 pm ET with Super Bowl XXXVI. You're welcome.
 

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Good news, thanks BH. I hope they have the Saints game. My DVR erased it as I went over the limit accidentally.
 
I went through the listings and didn't see that game.  I saw the Snow Bowl, the Super Bowl wins, the '06 playoff game against the Chargers, the '07 regular season finale against the Giants, and the Broncos game this year.  Along with a ton of Brady/Belichick Sound FX, Belichick A Football Life, and a lot of other random shows (Brady 6, Cleveland Browns 94, etc).
 
edit:  I now see the Pats-Saints at 5 AM Monday.
 

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Watching the first SB win right now. It was only 12 years ago but I still can't believe the differences in the game from then to now, especially from a safety standpoint. The amount of hits that would be considered late hits on defenseless receivers is crazy. On the Law pick-six, Vrabel clearly wacks Warner on the head, and nobody thinks anything of it.
 

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Kliq said:
Watching the first SB win right now. It was only 12 years ago but I still can't believe the differences in the game from then to now, especially from a safety standpoint. The amount of hits that would be considered late hits on defenseless receivers is crazy. On the Law pick-six, Vrabel clearly wacks Warner on the head, and nobody thinks anything of it.
Actually, a lot of Rams fans and other non-Pats partisans said at the time and in the aftermath of the game that Vrabel had roughed Warner on that play. 
 

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Actually, a lot of Rams fans and other non-Pats partisans said at the time and in the aftermath of the game that Vrabel had roughed Warner on that play. 
 
I was six at the time, so I don't really remember. I was referring more towards Madden and Summerall.
 

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Watching the first SB win right now. It was only 12 years ago but I still can't believe the differences in the game from then to now, especially from a safety standpoint. The amount of hits that would be considered late hits on defenseless receivers is crazy. On the Law pick-six, Vrabel clearly wacks Warner on the head, and nobody thinks anything of it.
 
Same as Woodson hitting Brady on the play everyone likes to bitch about 2 weeks beforehand.  Open hand slap to the head that went uncalled.
 

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The Tebucky Jones 97 yd TD getting called back by McGinest holding Faulk was so crushing at the time. And then Warner scores on a sneak two plays later to cut it to 17-10.
 

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Kliq said:
Watching the first SB win right now. It was only 12 years ago but I still can't believe the differences in the game from then to now, especially from a safety standpoint. The amount of hits that would be considered late hits on defenseless receivers is crazy. On the Law pick-six, Vrabel clearly wacks Warner on the head, and nobody thinks anything of it.
There is a play during that season where Brady gets hit by a Bills player that was completely legal then and might draw a multi game suspension today.
 

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NFL Network is playing each of the three Super Bowls back to back to back. Halftime with U2 is on right now.
 

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I still can't believe Otis Smith didn't return that 3rd quarter INT for a TD. He had like 4 blockers and only Warner to beat.
Haha - I was thinking the same exact thing.
 

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It's also so great to see how disciplined the D-Line play was in this game. Everyone just knew when to stop pursuing and break back to minimize big gains. And I honestly have no idea how Warner came out of that game alive, some of the hits he took were unreal.
 

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Last thing - watching Ty Law in man coverage makes me so excited for Revis.
 

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Madden: "I don't agree with what they're doing here.  They should play for overtime."
 

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Was watching this at The Harp before the Bruins are today. Bartender tried to change the channel as the last drive was starting, the whole place started booing. Place went nuts when Vinatieri made the kick. Can we have another of these already?
 

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Craziest Super Bowl ever.
 
First 26 minutes: scoreless
Next 4 minutes: 24 points
3rd quarter: scoreless
4th quarter: 37 points 
 

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Totally forgot that Collinsworth was with Buck and Aikman on the broadcast. Three-man booths typically are not that good. These guys were.
 

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Pats/Rams: How do people not talk more about this Super Bowl? Both teams scored within the last 2 minutes of the 4th Quarter. And, as others said, it's still almost impossible to believe that a scrawny, green Brady led a game winning SB drive with :40 left and no timeouts.

Pats/Panthers: Jermaine Wiggins played for Carolina in this game!? And that 4th Quarter was heart stopping, even on replay.

Pats/Eagles: McNabb took the heat, but Brady won this game. So many clutch reads and throws against a solid defense.
 

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Pats/Rams: How do people not talk more about this Super Bowl? Both teams scored within the last 2 minutes of the 4th Quarter. And, as others said, it's still almost impossible to believe that a scrawny, green Brady led a game winning SB drive with :40 left and no timeouts.

Pats/Panthers: Jermaine Wiggins played for Carolina in this game!? And that 4th Quarter was heart stopping, even on replay.

Pats/Eagles: McNabb took the heat, but Brady won this game. So many clutch reads and throws against a solid defense.
 
Still a crime to me that Branch was the MVP of the 3rd Super Bowl. Thought Rodney, Bruschi, and Brady all deserved it more. IIRC Branch didn't even score in that game.
 

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If coaches were eligible, Charlie Weis. People can make fun of him all they want, but he knew play calling and had a beautiful sense of the rhythm of a game. Pats had nothing going well into 2nd qtr. Weis adjusted and Dillon turned the tide.
 

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Crime?  Branch had 11 catches for 133 yards and some big third down catches.  The catch total tied a Super Bowl record.  You can make arguments for others, but Branch was a deserving choice.
 
Dexter Reid.  Jesus.  It's pretty amazing some of the bums they had playing crucial roles in the secondary for those last two Super Bowls.  One of the reasons they got torched in the 4th Quarter against Carolina was because all the starting DBs kept getting knocked out of the game.
 

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We played the game with street free agents in the secondary. But we had Bruschi, Rodney, Dillon and Faulk. I hope we have acquired similar mental toughness this offseason.

And as I am watching, Charlie Weis is screening a very good Eagles defense to death.
 

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@ Soxy yeah a crime. Did he have a very good game? Yeah. But Rodney had 2 picks. Brady was razor sharp. And again, Branch didn't score.

Edit: Branch was more deserving vs. Carolina IMO
 

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Watched the Snow Bowl one earlier this week. One thing that jumped out is what a loser mentality Lincoln Kennedy had. Saying shit like after the tuck play it was over. Our sales were deflated. We couldn't win. What a loser.
 

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I still can't believe Otis Smith didn't return that 3rd quarter INT for a TD. He had like 4 blockers and only Warner to beat.
I watched this last night on DVR and it's probably the first time I've seen it in a full broadcast since 2001. The Pats D should have had about 15 turnovers in this game. The number of dropped / out of bounds picks is crazy.

Outside of the late hits I wish the NFL still allowed the secondary to play. Ty law would have recieved about 18 pass interference calls today.

I forgot as well how close the pats were to
Blowing it.

I strongly believe it'd help player safety as well if they let the cbs get more contact and limit full speed hits.
 

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Thanks. Workmanlike. And very gutsy performance by Phillip Rivers.
 

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I'd sort of forgotten all about the '06 playoff game @ 14-2 San Diego, I guess what happened the next week kind of overshadowed it. But how that game isn't remembered for the epic pants-shitting by the Chargers is beyond me. Just stupidity all over the field. Obviously credit to the Pats for taking advantage, but that was brutal.
 
Also, did anyone want Brady to take a knee and go to OT vs. the Rams? I know I didn't, not even a little bit. 
 

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I'd sort of forgotten all about the '06 playoff game @ 14-2 San Diego, I guess what happened the next week kind of overshadowed it. But how that game isn't remembered for the epic pants-shitting by the Chargers is beyond me. Just stupidity all over the field. Obviously credit to the Pats for taking advantage, but that was brutal.
 
Also, did anyone want Brady to take a knee and go to OT vs. the Rams? I know I didn't, not even a little bit. 
I don't remember there being much time to think about it. Once the drive got started with the pass to Redmond, there was barely time to breathe.
 

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I'm half-convinced Brady's high ankle sprain in that game (4q?) was a pretty big factor in the 19th game of that year. 
It was a broken foot, I believe, not an ankle sprain.
 

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It was a broken foot, I believe, not an ankle sprain.
At the time I think it was reported as a high-ankle sprain. But who knows what it really was?. But whatever it was I think it had an impact on the game. Although on the bright side a bunch of kids in the jungles of South america got some great T-shirts.
 

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Caught "A Football Life: '95 Cleveland Browns" last night, which I hadn't seen before. Very well put-together and worth a watch.
 

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BB seemed on the cusp of achieving in Cleveland what he achieved for the Pats, but with an incredibly stellar supporting cast there. Check out the names. Then Modelll administered the mother of all cock punches. Since, the Pats and Ravens have combined to win 5 of 19 Super Bowls ( see role of Ozzie in that 95 squad.) And the Pats, of course, appeared in 2 others.