45-7 is a beat-down. It was nice to see Belechick not only take his starters out late in the game (having Brady get crunched on a sack is a powerful motivator), but give his partner in crime and paduwan Tom Brady a curtain call. He deserved it. If, as it seems, his erstwhile "nemesis" (and friend) Peyton Manning is either done or fading away as a top-line QB, Brady's ascendance to that throne deserves at least that acclimation from his (rain-soaked) home crowd.
Speaking of Brady, he's about to start his sixth Super Bowl, which means he's started about one-eighth of ALL THE SUPER BOWLS EVER. Pretty good considering he wasn't alive for the first third of them... He won his twenty-first playoff game (as did Belechick, setting a record for both quarterback and coach, let alone partnership). To put that in perspective, excluding the Patriots of course, only ten of the other thirty-one teams have ever won that many playoff games in their franchise histories! That's an amazing fourteen year run for a sixth-round QB who subbed for an injured Drew Bledsoe and a cast off coach who failed at Cleveland and started his career doing bedchecks for the Colts and coach Ted Marchibroda in 1975 in Baltimore.
7:10) Haven't had much to say for a while...but that's because New England's just making the game boring for everyone who's not a Pats fan. 31-7, and they're just wearing the Indianapolis defense out, while Andrew's just having no Luck against his opposite side. Don't expect another thrilling ending here - and since it's past nine Boston time, that's just as well for anyone with a bedtime. And the weather's let loose in Foxboro...
So....Seattle/New England. Who ya got?
6:00) Haiku 4...
Laugh when I hear that!
After the score, the F-bomb
Got the mic slammed off!
5:55) Haiku 3...
If the Colts EVER
needed an interception,
THAT was the moment!
5:35) Haiku 2...
Hey, Packer faithful!
See the touchdowns the Pats scored?
THAT'S how it's done, folks!
5:25) Before getting TOO excited, Patriots fans, remember that YOUR team was down an early 14-0 last week.
Ah, an unbalanced line, eh? You DO realize that the rule ONLY says "seven on the line - only the outside two are eligible receivers", right, Colts? (Right, Ravens?) At FF, we happen to like things like the A-11 formation, similar to the Patriots/Alabama set up, except even stranger, maybe closer to the Oregon Duck extra point formation. Go for it, Belechick....
5:05) Haiku 1...
Touchdown, Patriots.
Though it took a second try,
Blount still ran it in!
4:55) First oops of the game - the punt bounces off Cribbs' face mask (a la Bostick last game) and New England recovers! Wind and rain couldn't have helped.
It's 6:50 pm Eastern, and the game's just starting, thanks to overtime across the country, thanks to the miracle of transcontinental television broadcasts. Take a step back from sports for a moment and respect that for a moment.
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