| RolStoppable said: If you watch football each and every week, you are poised to see catches where the receiver barely gets the tips of his toes in the field or not. Manningham's catch was a clear one, meaning there's no question whatsoever whether it was a catch or not. He jumped in the air, caught the ball and landed with both feet clearly inside the field before he was pushed out and he maintained possession while going to the ground. Eli Manning played well under pressure. His passing stats on third downs prove it. Overall he had also a high completion rate and no interceptions and no fumbles. Downplaying such a QB performance is nuts. The bitterness is because if the Patriots had won the game, you most certainly wouldn't have come into this thread to demand a best of three series in the playoffs. |
I was mainly looking at his foot and it was right about to lift when it looked like he finally had control of the ball. I know there are closer plays than that but it was pretty damn close. I'd also like to mention that wide receivers get to wear pretty nifty gloves that basically act like super glue now. Being a receiver before these pretty cheap gloves took a little more talent. He had good foot and ball control in the that play I'll give him that.
Reason why downplaying Eli... I didn't even know who they gave MVP to consider I turned the game off right away. I knew of course they would give it to him. I suppose you kind of have to when no one else stood out. I am just saying the game didn't look that exciting to me because the only stars you really had there was Brady and Eli. There was no bad ass receiver. Sure there were very good ones (Welker having to let me down a little with that major drop in the end) but no super star that could take the game over. You didn't have Walter Payton running over guys but the Giants backs did have a few decent plays but nothing dominating. Basically it was a lackluster game to me because I've seen better.
Yea, I have bitterness when I see a team win a championship that they were pretty much given to by the mistakes of the other team. The Pats pretty much gave the Giants the Super Bowl.
