NY Post headline: “Spoiled Bostonians unwilling to get arrested after Super Bowl”
Apparently we are so jaded from winning championships that we can’t be bothered to riot and commit mayhem. 8-|
Also in the news this morning: Johnny Football is in rehab. Hopefully he gets his stuff together.
Have any of you looked closely at the video of Jeremy Lane at the point of his injury? OMG.
Nfl requires the half time performances to be pre recorded. They don’t want any surprises.
I think Carroll was out-coached by Belicheck in the last 6 minutes of the game. After the first 3-and out in the 4th quarter Carroll should have been more conscientious in his play calling. It’s fool’s gold to think a double-digit 4th quarter lead is 100% safe when Brady has time left on the clock.
And why are we letting the Seahawks receiver off the hook on the last play? He clearly WAITED for Wilson’s pass to come to him at the goal line when he should have been coming for the ball. He should have never let the defender get between him and the ball.
I don’t think the last call was bad. It’s just Wilson made a bad throw like the two bad throws made by Brady under pressure. Unfortunately, Wilson’s throw was more fatal.
The half time program does not have to be pre recorded, Katy Perry was lip synching because quite frankly, like many modern pop starts, she can’t sing, and it would have shown if she was forced to sing live, like Madonna and many others their stage shows are usually lip synch fests. Other performers have performed live after the Janet Jackson fiasco, the Black Eye Peas did (and were aweful), but the NFL doesn’t require they lip synch.
I think the game was okay, though there were a lot of mistakes. Seattles vaunted defense didn’t exactly do that great, given that NE scored two touchdowns in the second half and Sherman with his ‘24’ antics was bush league, among other things, Revis on that TD was screened by the ref, and had he done what he should have, thrown the ref aside, he would have been tossed from the game. Put it this way, the two Brady picks were not great plays by the Seattle D, they were horrible throws and rested on him, and without those picks the game wouldn’t have been close. Wilson had a couple of big plays, but other than that he looked like he did in Green Bay, shaky other than the couple of good plays. That last pass play that took them downfield was pure luck, that was a classic “look what I found” play.
That said, it at least was a close game. That final call was idiotic, that was a Schottenheimer pere or fils special, snatching defeat from the Jaws of victory, it was just too risky a play against a defense that had been pretty solid.
I think the funniest thing is that the “official” Madden simulation of the game picked it perfectly, NE 28, Seattle 24, and they predicted that the last TD would go to Edelman.
Irvin most certainly will face a stiff fine and also I believe can face suspension for at least a game next season, game misconducts like that usually draw suspensions as well as fines. I am only sorry they didn’t let Gronkowski kick the crap out of Irvin, he deserved it, and quite frankly, Seattle went from being last year the darling to being one of two obnoxious teams in people’s eyes, things like Sherman’s mouth, Lynch’s antics, and some of the borderline ways Seattles D operates (there were a lot of non calls in last nights game, facemasks, pass interference, defensive holding), as well as more than a few times when hits could have been called personal fouls…
I didn’t really have a horse in this race, what I really wanted to see was Gronkowski getting thrown to more, would love to have seen him routinely on Sherman, that would have been awesome but NE didn’t do that.
Nothing else? Perception is interesting. I don’t remember the play by play guys talking about anything except the dramatic scene unfolding on the field.
Re the “witch hunt” – To bring in the NBA again (sorry, but that’s really my wheelhouse), Patriot Nation could take a lesson from the Lakers, circa 2002. They believed they were the best team, and their fans believed it too. LAL was on the receiving end of lots and lots of criticism, accusations of cheating, all kinds of slings and arrows. They loved it. They didn’t go buggy-eyed at press conferences, or speak darkly of witch hunts. Just the opposite. Ask Kobe if the refs were in cahoots to hand them the title, and he’d laugh. Ask Laker fans if Shaq’s camping out in the lane was cheating, and they’d smirk at you. It was infuriating. If you really want to somehow get even with everyone, that’s how you should play it.
With a quarterback as evasive as Wilson and the toughest back in football in Lynch that call was ridiculous! There was no need to risk putting the ball in the air. You go with what got you there, they took unnecessary risk and it failed miserably.
Yep - Lockette could have fought harder for it but that’s why Lockette, despite his speed, isn’t one of the main receivers. He is primarily a special teams gunner. When you have Lynch’s pure force of will and Wilson’s scrambling ability throwing to Lockette should be one of the very last things that you consider doing. It was poor execution, but any play like is going to be lower percentage than the alternatives.
I double checked the nfl info and you are right, they require that the instruments be taped but are more flexible with vocals.
Great QBs don’t have interceptions when they have short throws to the end zone.
This is not a discussion about whether Wilson is a great QB. At least on this end it is one about whether Lynch is a great RB. I would argue that he is and in that case on that team the ball should have been in his hands to win or lose the game. If you’re going to go down, go down doing what you do best.
In her defense, I would think it’s really hard to sing live in such a huge, noisy venue. A singer HAS to be able to hear herself and the music to make sure she is on point. Even with earbuds in, I don’t see how that was possible the way the show was staged and given the large crowd.
That said, I’ve heard her sing live in a small venue, and I thought she was terribly off key. So maybe she really isn’t all that great.
Again, with 1 time out and 3 downs and 8 big guys on defense, all attacking the line, the smart call is to pass with onl 3 DB’s in the game and save the timeout for the next down. That it didn’t work out doesn’t mean that wasn’t the right thing to do; that kind of logic considers only the result and works backwards.
I just realized Doug Baldwin pretended to take a crap on the ball after his one catch on a pick play - where Revis was run into the official. Classless.
Russell Wilson is the epitome of class. A lot of the Seahawks are the opposite.
When Baldwin scored, I got a glimpse of him appearing to simulate pulling down his pants. The camera cut away after that. I was thinking “WTH?!” I thought he was going to fake moon someone.
I am just considering the result of all the other short yardage goal line situations they’ve had this year where either Lynch or Wilson ran or sometimes walked it in to score. I am also considering a similar past situation where they threw rather than hand off to Lynch and did not score. It was a pretty big deal in the same way where Lynch had a monster day and they threw to some random guy who didn’t catch it and the game was lost.
I agree on the Baldwin thing - never seen him do anything like that before and I am aghast that he did it there.
I have to admit that I saw a little bit of premature cocky behavior on the part of a couple of the SH. I turned to my DH and said “that’s going to come back on them, I think.” It reminded me of the Miami Heat/Mavs game in the playoffs where a couple of the Heat players began doing the cocky dance right in front of the Mavs bench, in a game where the Heat had a sizeable lead.
They ended up losing that game and looked like total idiots.
The mood in Seattle today is very dour. People are usually smiling and friendly, but everyone looks cranky and unhappy. People are driving more aggressively than usual, running lights and not letting you merge. Almost like living in a normal place. I hope this doesn’t last. The Seattle Times headline is the word DEFLATED, written in massive letters. That’s kind of what it feels like here, everyone is deflated. Even the psychiatrist on the radio who was telling people how to deal with this kind of thing sounded depressed.
Really, I’m glad I’m not into sports that much. Unless your team always wins, do people feel like this all the time? Seems like a way to just stay unhappy. On the good side, there’s a nice picture of the quarterbacks giving each other a hug after the game on Yahoo. I can’t imagine the intensity of their stress and emotions.
Today is a day to wallow in it but it will be better tomorrow. I am cold turkey after today. Besides, there’s only 3 weeks until pitchers and catchers report in Peoria!