Super Spoiled....if you can

[prinzeofmoval]

Wow it must suck to be a Patriot right now huh? To forever be seen as a trivia question, to choke when it mattered the most. For me the lost was a bitter sweet one. I hoped to see a record broken if not tied but i had no real alliance to anyone but i would've love to see Moss get it. If you had to say one thing to the patriots right now what would you say?


Me: 52-7..october 28....thats called karma belicheat

[I LOVE THE REDSKINS]

nice try

[skinsguy]

What would I say to a Pats fan? Skinsguy said, "Bhaaa haaa haaa haaa haaa!!!!"

[SFREDSKIN]

They will be forever remembered as the almost perfect season and best team ever. The sad thing is that it reminds me of our '83 team that lost to the Raiders.

[Beemnseven]

Well, the secret is out on how to beat the Patriots. Get in Brady's face.

Look for every other team in the AFC East to put a new emphasis on their pass rush.

[Twilbert07]

I've been waiting for the Patriots to lose since Brady's BS sneak on 4th and 1 against the Skins when they were up by a ton. It's extra sweet that ot cost them 19-0 and the Super Bowl.

[BrunellMVP?]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Well, the secret is out on how to beat the Patriots. Get in Brady's face.

Look for every other team in the AFC East to put a new emphasis on their pass rush.

this is not a secret, its a universal truth. you beat teams by applying pressure in the back field, be it against the run or the qb. Its analogous to saying, "the secret to beating the other team is to have more points when time expires."

[Beemnseven]

Well, the secret is out on how to beat the Patriots. Get in Brady's face.

Originally Posted by BrunellMVP?

this is not a secret, its a universal truth.

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

That was a secret?

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I dont know why it was such a secret.

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I think everyone knew the "secret" to beating New England.

Jeez Louise, people. I get the point already.

Yes, there was no 'secret' to it, but it does seem lost on many front offices around the league as to how vital a menacing front four is to the success of a football team. Or maybe it's incredibly difficult to find 4 guys who can do it the way the Giants did it all year.

I remember some people found it mystifying when the Giants took Mathias Kiwanuka when they already had Strahan and Umenyora. I thought it was brilliant. And to the best of my knowledge, this guy Tuck basically came out of nowhere. To be able to have four fresh DE's who can wreak havoc on the best offensive line in the league can very often be the difference maker.

Look for the buzz words around draft time to be "QB pressure". I'll bet there's a huge rush on defensive ends come April.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Jeez Louise, people. I get the point already.

Yes, there was no 'secret' to it, but it does seem lost on many front offices around the league as to how vital a menacing front four is to the success of a football team. Or maybe it's incredibly difficult to find 4 guys who can do it the way the Giants did it all year.

I remember some people found it mystifying when the Giants took Mathias Kiwanuka when they already had Strahan and Umenyora. I thought it was brilliant. And to the best of my knowledge, this guy Tuck basically came out of nowhere. To be able to have four fresh DE's who can wreak havoc on the best offensive line in the league can very often be the difference maker.

Look for the buzz words around draft time to be "QB pressure". I'll bet there's a huge rush on defensive ends come April.

Considering there's a good crop of d-lineman coming out I don't think that will be much of a shocker.

Teams always covet pass rushers, it's just not an easy position to stock up on. What the Giants have going is pretty rare. I don't think I've seen a d-line able to apply that kind of pressure on their own in a very long time.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Well, the secret is out on how to beat the Patriots. Get in Brady's face.

Look for every other team in the AFC East to put a new emphasis on their pass rush.

That was a secret?

Seriously though, the Giants smothered the pass impressively from a secondary standpoint also.

This wasn't the first time that someone did this to the Pats this year, but it is the first time someone was able to avoid the inevitable for 60 minutes. By shortening the game and running the clock, the Giants were able to keep the score low. Because of that, scoring 14 points in the 4th quarter made all the difference.

If the game was 35-32, 14 points in the fourth quarter likely doesn't make a difference, even if the defense had played relatively well.

For the Pats, this only shows how much of a struggle it will be to get to 19-0. No team, no matter how dominant, will go for an indefinite amount of games undefeated. Not the '72 Dolphins and not this Pats team. The Dolphins almost met their match in their 17th game, and the Pats outlasted that. Unfortunately for them, this wasn't double jeporady, it was 19-times jeporady, and in that case, 18 wins and 1 loss earns you second place.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Well, the secret is out on how to beat the Patriots. Get in Brady's face.

Look for every other team in the AFC East to put a new emphasis on their pass rush.

I dont know why it was such a secret. Every time I watched them this year and they weren't dominant it was because Brady was getting pressured. Hell they almost lost to an awful Baltimore team because Balt was in his grill for most of the night. They only won because Ryan called off the dogs late in the 4th for some unknown reason and Brady had time to pick them apart.

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

They will be forever remembered as the almost perfect season and best team ever. The sad thing is that it reminds me of our '83 team that lost to the Raiders.

same here, though this game was close & that one wasn't, the feeling is the same. The Skins were "supposed" to win that one & they'd even beaten the raiders 37-35 in the reg. season, eerily similar to the 38-35 game these teams played this year.

[WillH]

From now on if someone is untouchable until a championship loss, it ill be said: "They pulled a Patriot"

[prinzeofmoval]

Originally Posted by WillH

From now on if someone is untouchable until a championship loss, it ill be said: "They pulled a Patriot"

no longer called pulled a manning

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

What I love is that Brady bristled at Plaxico's prediction that the Pats would only score 17 points. Well, Plaxico was wrong....the Pats only scored 14 points.