Calling All Football Fans

I didn't even recognize these Packers tonight. The Giants played a great game and Green Bay did not.
 
Go Pats!

All season, I have dutifully managed my expectations, given the horrendously porous nature of the Patriots' defense and their sub-par strength of schedule. I proclaimed to all and sundry throughout the season that "I wouldn't be surprised if the Patriots got knocked out of the playoffs in their first game off the bye week." I know, I KNOW, I KNOW that good defense beats a good offense, and that a good pass rush, like a virtuous woman, is worth more than rubies. I know that Tom Brady can't complete passes to the complete and utter physical beast that is Gronkowski if ol' Tom is sitting on his kiester, courtesy of such a pass rush. The Super Bowl loss to the Giants still stings in memory's darker recesses.

But yet . . . I find myself gaming out how the Pats could get to the The Big Game and maybe even win it all . . .

Intervention needed, clearly.
 
Well Academyfriend:I think the Pats are going to eat them up and you will watch Brady teaming with Gronkowski, Hernandez and Welker to pick the Ravens apart. I predict- Patriots -49ers in the SuperBowl.
 
bruno said:
Well Academyfriend:I think the Pats are going to eat them up and you will watch Brady teaming with Gronkowski, Hernandez and Welker to pick the Ravens apart. I predict- Patriots -49ers in the SuperBowl.
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That same Ravens team went into Foxboro just 2 short years ago and hung 33 points on them, giving them a slap-down like no other.

The horrible Patsies defense could make Flacco look like the reincarnation of John Unitas, and NE has no answer for Ray Rice.

In the playoffs, Flacco is 1-0 vs Brady, in New England.

Super Bowl XXX Rematch - Giants vs Ravens.

(Remember, Pittsburgh was going to destroy Denver, and SF had no chance against the high-powered Brees & Co. :rolleyes: )
 
XLII Redux. Giants are -2.5 against 49r's. Pats vs Giants would be a great game with all the emotion even though most current players weren't there then.
 
Luigi59 said:
The horrible Patsies defense could make Flacco look like the reincarnation of John Unitas, and NE has no answer for Ray Rice.

In the playoffs, Flacco is 1-0 vs Brady, in New England.
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Close but no cigar. Would sure hate to be the Ravens kicker for the next few weeks though.
 
bruno said:
Close but no cigar. Would sure hate to be the Ravens kicker for the next few weeks though.
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The kicker will never be able to return to Baltimore. Not really a problem, since tomorrow he will be out of a job. You pay them the big $$ to make 32 yard FGs
 
pennak said:
The kicker will never be able to return to Baltimore. Not really a problem, since tomorrow he will be out of a job. You pay them the big $$ to make 32 yard FGs
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I dunno if that will really be the case but it will be tough for Cundiff. Of course- if Evans hadn't lost the ball in the end zone on a perfect pass from Flacco on the play before- it also would have been all over for the Pats.

As far as Niners/ Giants: same deal- Kyle Williams gets to spend a long spring and summer fielding punts in his head.

Well- 1 for 2 predicting the playoffs- I'm as good as the weather service anyway. My forecast for Pats/Giants: Pats by 10.
 
bruno said:
I dunno if that will really be the case but it will be tough for Cundiff. Of course- if Evans hadn't lost the ball in the end zone on a perfect pass from Flacco on the play before- it also would have been all over for the Pats.

As far as Niners/ Giants: same deal- Kyle Williams gets to spend a long spring and summer fielding punts in his head.

Well- 1 for 2 predicting the playoffs- I'm as good as the weather service anyway. My forecast for Pats/Giants: Pats by 10.
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I live in Raven country in Maryland. All fans will remember is the last play. Poor Cundiff is toast. You got to feel for the guy -- how do you hold your head up in the locker room after muffing a 32 yarder. As for Williams, he is trade bait, assuming anyone wants him. TWO massive errors that cost the 49ers the game. Unbelievable. I gotta agree with you on the Super Bowl. Heck the Giants lost to the lowly Redskins this year and the Pats are on a real roll. But, you know, the Pats looked real beatable in the Ravens game, so who knows.
 
pennak said:
I live in Raven country in Maryland. All fans will remember is the last play. Poor Cundiff is toast. You got to feel for the guy -- how do you hold your head up in the locker room after muffing a 32 yarder. As for Williams, he is trade bait, assuming anyone wants him. TWO massive errors that cost the 49ers the game. Unbelievable. I gotta agree with you on the Super Bowl. Heck the Giants lost to the lowly Redskins this year and the Pats are on a real roll. But, you know, the Pats looked real beatable in the Ravens game, so who knows.
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Perhaps they should dial up Bill Buckner for some advice...:rolleyes:
 
goaliedad said:
Perhaps they should dial up Bill Buckner for some advice...:rolleyes:
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ah, yes, the error at first base that will live in infamy for all Red Sox fans... Buckner was hounded until the Sox released him next year. He was a star player who was playing hurt that day with a bad ankle. No matter.
 
Luigi59 said:
Scott Norwood would seem to be more appropriate for Cundiff to call. :wink:

Norwood's miss in Super Bowl XXV - still wide right 21 years later.

Perhaps Lee Evans could call Jackie Smith, he of the famous dropped pass in the end zone which cost Dallas a Super Bowl victory.

The legendary John Facenda calls it in this video from Super Bowl XIII
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Once upon a time, in addition to my other duties of warming the bench for the starting offense and defense (I was entrenched strongly on the second string), I did a bit of kicking/punting for my high school team. My folks sent me to a camp one summer run by Chip Lohmiller (who was the PK for the Redskins during their last Super Bowl....you know, 20 years ago). Scott Norwood was a speaker at that camp and I got the chance to meet him. A very nice guy, who had some encouraging words for a group of high school kids. Still......no one brought up the huge turd in the punch bowl, and this camp was far away from Buffalo (would be summer '92).
 
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