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Post by bluemeii on Aug 6, 2015 19:00:58 GMT -5
Realistically, that game shouldn't have even been close. They were at the precipice of immortality and played so tight you couldn't get a pin up their ass. You won't get a disagreement on that out of me. Looking back, the best thing that could have happened for the 2007 Patriots would have been losing that Monday night game in Baltimore that they literally won by one yard after a Ravens Hail Mary fell just short of the end zone. Had New England lost that game, they could have refocused their efforts and rested their players for the stretch run, but the pursuit of 19-0 was so encompassing, they had no choice but to go all-in every week and it caught up with them at the most inopportune time. In hindsight, Patriots fans should have realized trouble was on the horizon during the playoffs, when they won nailbiters against a woefully-undermatched Jaguars team and a battered and bruised Chargers team. Neither of those games should have been within 20 points but the Patriots were so tight on every single snap that it just started weighing so heavily on them. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go chug bleach because I'm remembering Super Bowl XLII. ALL THOSE HOURS OF THERAPY, WASTED! (And for what it's worth, there isn't a single Patriots fan that likes or even acknowledges the 16-0 banner. It's just a constant, painful reminder of what could have been.) Know what...been though that. I was at that cold as hell Broncos game, that they went to Giants stadium in '98 and lost to a pretty bad Giants team led by freakin Kent Graham after winning their first 13 games. Gotta say as much as it sucked seeing them lose, the other side of me let out a huge sigh of relief knowing that they had the #1 seed locked up and could start resting players. Honestly don't think they would have won that year if they went to the SB at 18-0.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Aug 6, 2015 19:13:57 GMT -5
Just because you only watched two Colts games last year doesn't mean that it was not a year that produced exciting highlights. I watched 5 Patriots games last year. Should I have judged their season from the Dolphins, Chiefs, and Packers games? A few pages back you said: It seems like you already are judging the 2014 Patriots by watching only a handful of games. And I'm cracking these kinds of jokes because I find the Colts' superiority complex so utterly laughable. They hang "AFC FINALIST" banners after getting dominated by 38 in the conference championship and hand out DVDs for seasons in which they didn't even advance to the Super Bowl, let alone win it. I'm honestly waiting for them to announce that the entire 53-man roster from 2014 will be receiving "participation rings". That's some impressive false equivalency you got there. You highlight a statement by me stating that the Bills might have favorable matchups based on past performances and claim I was judging the team's upcoming season as a whole based on that observation. It was not. I judged their odds of winning that one particular game based on their past performance against that particular team. Also, I must say that I commented on your earlier post because it rubbed me wrong. This newer post rubs me even worse. Posts like this is why I have a problem with the Patriots, to be honest with you. I don't begrudge a team that is successful, even if that success comes at the expense of my favorite team. I don't begrudge players and coaches that are more successful than my favorites. I just cannot stand the attitudes of so many Patriot fans. You said the Colts have a superiority complex in the same post that you make statements that suggest that they have no reason to feel any pride in a season where they did not win the Super Bowl? Just who do you think has the superiority complex? Granted, I doubt that you go onto the blogs for other teams to troll their fans on their own site like so many Patriots fans do (seriously, half of all posts on most Colts blogs are Patriots fans trolling. People who do that can just Smurf themselves with a rotten, thorny Smurfberry bush!), but it still rubs me the wrong way.
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Post by Hugh Mungus on Aug 6, 2015 19:15:55 GMT -5
To be fair for the Pats, it took an AMAZING play by both Eli and Tyree to beat em. That's not really a choke job. That, or the Patriots D blowing it in crunch time, in both of their losses. Peyton, OTOH, threw a pick six against the Saints, and got badly manhandled against the Seahawks. EDIT: I forgot to mention that the 1985 Bears, 1998 Broncos and Vikings, the 2004 Steelers, the 2009 Saints, and the 2011 Packers all tried for perfection, the 2007 Pats almost had it, and the 2009 Colts quit on it (likely because of Bill Polian, who was on record saying that a perfect season was meaningless to them). I guess he doesn't believe in "HELLO? YOU PLAY... TO WIN... THE GAME!"
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Aug 6, 2015 19:39:40 GMT -5
To be fair for the Pats, it took an AMAZING play by both Eli and Tyree to beat em. That's not really a choke job. That, or the Patriots D blowing it in crunch time, in both of their losses. Peyton, OTOH, threw a pick six against the Saints, and got badly manhandled against the Seahawks. EDIT: I forgot to mention that the 1985 Bears, 1998 Broncos and Vikings, the 2004 Steelers, the 2009 Saints, and the 2011 Packers all tried for perfection, the 2007 Pats almost had it, and the 2009 Colts quit on it (likely because of Bill Polian, who was on record saying that a perfect season was meaningless to them). I guess he doesn't believe in "HELLO? YOU PLAY... TO WIN... THE GAME!" His thing was that you play to win the Super Bowl. Had they actually done that that year no one would say anything about not going all out towards the end.
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Post by BRV on Aug 6, 2015 22:24:36 GMT -5
To be fair for the Pats, it took an AMAZING play by both Eli and Tyree to beat em. That's not really a choke job. That, or the Patriots D blowing it in crunch time, in both of their losses. I wouldn't necessarily say the defenses blew it on either of those final drives, they fell victim to a couple of fluky plays. For example, if the Seahawks score a touchdown instead of throwing an interception on the goal line, could we really say the Patriots defense blew it? Or did they just fall victim to yet another 1 in a million play? The only play that I look back on and say, 'man, they really let that opportunity slip away,' was Asante Samuel letting a sure interception slip through his fingertips. And there I go again, recalling Super Bowl XLII. Somebody find the cyanide.
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Post by Hugh Mungus on Aug 6, 2015 22:27:31 GMT -5
That, or the Patriots D blowing it in crunch time, in both of their losses. Peyton, OTOH, threw a pick six against the Saints, and got badly manhandled against the Seahawks. EDIT: I forgot to mention that the 1985 Bears, 1998 Broncos and Vikings, the 2004 Steelers, the 2009 Saints, and the 2011 Packers all tried for perfection, the 2007 Pats almost had it, and the 2009 Colts quit on it (likely because of Bill Polian, who was on record saying that a perfect season was meaningless to them). I guess he doesn't believe in "HELLO? YOU PLAY... TO WIN... THE GAME!" His thing was that you play to win the Super Bowl. Had they actually done that that year no one would say anything about not going all out towards the end. At the time, there were 43 Super Bowl Champs (now 49), but only one truly undefeated team. Colts fans very much shat all over Polian's decision to pull their starters.
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Post by bob on Aug 6, 2015 23:10:13 GMT -5
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