The Super Bowl Thread
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True but if you order the fish but get the steak instead you'll likely not eat the steak. I'm expecting lower than usual ratings. And if the Pats get ahead early, huge tune out.
Nope. This isn't dinner. It's the super bowl. If people were expecting football and it was baseketball, maybe the ratings would be poor and your analogy would hold up. Otherwise, the Super Bowl is an event that is consistently watched by gobs of people no matter who is playing.
Yeah, haven't the Patriots historically been great for playoff ratings? People love to rally around a common enemy, and this SB is set in the context of DFG. The flip side of wanting to avoid seeing the Patriots win again is wanting to see them lose.
Yes, djbayko. People are losing their minds. IT'S THE SUPER BOWL. The ratings are always good. The matchup doesn't matter, it's nearly a national holiday. And Atlanta v. the Pats is an awesome matchup.
True, and it helped that all those games were close.
My point is the gen pop wanted the Cowboys and/or Rodgers and I think some Pats fatigue has set in. Not having the Cowboys has hurt the gate. SB ratings are pretty bullet proof but if Dallas was there they would have been higher.
Okay, but I'd think SB ratings are always going to sustain well in a close game and tail off in a blowout. I'm not sure how that's relevant, unless you think a blowout in this game is a lock.
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I think this particular matchup will likely keep people around a bit longer, too. With these offenses, any one defensive stop could be a 14 point swing, and it would have to be really late in the game with a large deficit for either team to truly feel "out of it".
Two high quality, disciplined teams, that appear to match up really well against each other? This should be an awesome game.
I can't imagine why not. Houston traffic makes any other city, Boston included look like a walk in the park. I can only imagine what it's gonna be like with 80,000 yahoos who don't know where the fuck they are going added into the mix.
George went to Andover, Yale, and had a house in Maine.
It's in the bag.
Edit: actually a decent prop bet would be whether an announcer notes that Bill and George both graduated from Andover.
Houston doesn't quite make the US Top 10 in traffic. Nearly a tie with Boston according to Tom Tom, but last year (SF/San Jose area to get to Santa Clara) was significantly worse.
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/trafficindex/city/HOU
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/trafficindex/list
High scoring game will keep eyes on the television. This is not going to be a 10-7 snooze fest that appeals to just the diehards.
I am glad the hotel room bookings are down and the ticket prices are low.
Atlanta to Houston is a cheap flight and a do-able drive. I was/am worried that this is going to be a defacto home game for the dirty birds. So I'll take this as a good sign for crowd noise issues.
Atlanta to Houston is a cheap flight and a do-able drive. I was/am worried that this is going to be a defacto home game for the dirty birds. So I'll take this as a good sign for crowd noise issues.
I feel like the Patriots are winning the distractions game at the moment. What have they had to face, some idle DFG-related Goodell chatter and some associations with Trump? The Falcons have a star running back who wants a pay rise, a missing offensive playbook, a divisive ex-QB writing an open letter to the city of Atlanta, and - most importantly - a coordinator looking to recruit a coaching staff to San Francisco (and a head coach trying to recruit replacements and/or keep some of said staff from defecting). None of these are necessarily big deals, but I'm definitely a touch more pessimistic than I was this time last week.
Or maybe that's just residual pessimism from hanging out too much in V&N?
Or maybe that's just residual pessimism from hanging out too much in V&N?
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18599645/barnwell-super-bowl-li-preview-new-england-patriots-atlanta-falcons
Barnwell picks the Pats, 34-17. His logic boils down to the fact that the Pats have really only lost in the playoffs when opposing defenses get to Tom regularly, and he doesn't see the Falcons being able to do that. There's more to it, and the column has much more meat than most others, but that's essentially it. I agree with his point and I remain with the view that the Falcons have to do that to win. That's a bit of an overstatement, of course, in that Pats turnovers could tilt the game, even without intense pressure on Tom. But with that caveat, I think Barnwell is right and makes a good case for his proposition.
Barnwell picks the Pats, 34-17. His logic boils down to the fact that the Pats have really only lost in the playoffs when opposing defenses get to Tom regularly, and he doesn't see the Falcons being able to do that. There's more to it, and the column has much more meat than most others, but that's essentially it. I agree with his point and I remain with the view that the Falcons have to do that to win. That's a bit of an overstatement, of course, in that Pats turnovers could tilt the game, even without intense pressure on Tom. But with that caveat, I think Barnwell is right and makes a good case for his proposition.
I will eat a log of Rocco Graziosa's turd if the Pats hold the Falcons under 20 points. Just ain't happening.
I had a dream last night that the Pats were winning 18-3 with the Falcons driving right before halftime.
And I've been told that if you can dream it...you can do it! Which I assume also works for other people, so the Pats can do it!
And I've been told that if you can dream it...you can do it! Which I assume also works for other people, so the Pats can do it!
Interesting score. Some mixture of safeties/2 point scores/missed XP going on in that scenario, amd who doesn't love that?
What, you don't think Ghost is good for 6 FG? Hell, if that guy from Pittsburgh can do it.....
Gostkowski gets hurt so you have to go for two every time and then you get a safety.
Or miss the first XP and go for two to make it up and then miss it. 12-0. Two more FGs and you're at 18.
It kind of depends on the other score, doesn't it? At 18-3, there's no reason for anyone to be going for 2 in that game. It looks like a PIT-like 6 field goals to me. But we're analyzing someone else's dream score...
For those who can't see this, Bleacher Report is reporting that McCourty may shift to CB for the Super Bowl.
I was talking about this with my brother earlier this week and we both expected the Pats to have 5+ DBs on the field for most snaps: Butler, Ryan, Chung, McCourty, Harmon. Whatever you call McCourty in that setup couldn't this just mean he'll be matched up with a lot of receivers?
Oh, man. That's amazing, but this is a definite case of "he's an asshole, but he's ours."
The first thing I thought was not "asshole" but rather a large eye roll at how many millions of Patriot haters are going to chalk this up as just another way the Patriots cheat.......I found it pretty funny though.
Just heard the audio (played it on 98.5).
Cole said that BB might put McCourty at CB over Julio Jones with a CB over the top. This would prevent JJ from overpowering a CB at the LOS
Most conventional way would be a TD, 3 FG and a safety. But seems kind of unlikely you would get that particular combo in the 1st half of this game.
Pats going for 2 on every score against a terrible red zone D would be an interesting gamble to put extra pressure on both sides of the ball for ATL.
If anything, DMC and Chung will roam around to cover Coleman/Freeman. I have a hard time seeing him covering Sanu when Butler is the logical choice.