The Official Super Bowl XLII Discussion!

[rocketpig]

Sqrl said:

rocketpig said:

ikilledkenny said:
This ruined my day. On every other day, the Patriots dominated, but they could not pull it off when it mattered most.

The Patriots dominated? Was I watching a different game where Brady was knocked down over 15 times?

It's hard to win when you have four to five guys rushing you and you develop eyes in the back of your head in fear of getting knocked. I guarantee that the Giants studied a whole lot of San Diego footage over the past two weeks to understand how to get under Brady's skin.

 He was saying in every other game they dominated....which of course is also false but they did dominate a lot of their games...just not all of them or even all of them except this one.

Ah, missed that. But let's face it, the Patriots aren't that good. Once they faced a few decent teams and once mediocre teams (Ravens, Eagles) got a good look at their gameplan, they barely scraped by with wins.

Yeah, they beat the shit out of teams early in the season. When push came to shove, they barely eeked out victories against some pretty lousy teams and they struggled in the playoffs.

Dominant teams destroy their opponents in the playoffs. Look at the 85 Bears, the late 80s Niners, there was no contest. The Patriots are not that kind of team. Yes, they are very good and they know how to squeak out narrow victories.

But best team ever? Ha. I scoffed at that notion two months ago when the Eagles almost beat them and then the Ravens should have beat them. They're not in the same breath of elite teams (which we may never see again because of parity) like the Steelers and Bears (and yes, I'm intentionally leaving out the Dolphins, they lucked out).