The Best Ever!
Feb 4th, 2008
by HT
Last night, those of us who turned on our TV’s and watched the big game were treated with a special delight. The greatest quarterback to ever play the game, Tom Brady, was there to put on a show and what a show it was. Throughout the stunning, unbelievable game we saw nothing but spectacular perfect passes and poise under pressure. Never faltering Brady orchestrated drive after drive of football that was closer to perfection than anyone in the game has ever managed to accomplish. The man is a brilliant passing genius and second to none. I can’t even begin to hail his praises as he single-handedly carried his team on his back, the entire season, to their undefeated record. Without Brady this season would have looked more like the Dolphin’s brush with futility. The way he engineered a last second comeback to once again pull the team up by his bootstraps was again one of the great moments in NFL history.
Pause a moment and allow the sarcasm to sink in a while before continuing for as you must have known by now - Brady did none of those things. In fact he looked down right pathetic in the face of pressure and was able to muster up no last second miracles to keep his team from the best worst record of all time, 18-1. You see for months sports writers and broadcasters have been mindlessly repeating things similar to what my first paragraph implies. They will state absolutes without taking a moment to step back and examine the bigger picture. The fact is, that while Tom Brady is a good quarterback it is his team that makes him appear great. The 2007 Patriots team is or was one of the greatest of all times. Brady had one of the best offensive lines in the game, 3 amazing receivers including but not limited to a guy in Randy Moss who could catch passes that weren’t well thrown, and a defense that has kept even good teams from consistently scoring.
You see Tom Brady wasn’t the reason for this team’s success, but he sure did contribute to its failure. Failing to receive near perfect pass protection like he had throughout the regular season, Brady showed nothing but a lack of ability in the pocket. Sure don’t worry all you commentators out there he still had “poise” but that was about it. Passes were flying right and left but many of them went nowhere near the intended receivers. Sure he did lead the team to two successful TD’s, one in the first half that I missed and really can’t comment on, and one in the second half where rather than showing us how amazing he was, he showed us how when given time in the pocket and given a single receiver who the Giants couldn’t seem to cover he was somehow perfect again. Now don’t get me wrong it was a good drive to go ahead 14-10, but all he did the whole time was dump the ball off to Wes Welker who was somehow wide open almost every play. Now does that show Tom Brady’s greatness or Welker’s? The Super Bowl commentators seemed to think it was Brady who was the second coming of Joe Montana when he hit a wide open Randy Moss in the endzone after his defender tripped and fell. He couldn’t hit a wide open Randy Moss in the endzone the play before when the defender hadn’t fallen so it would stand to reason that he managed to do it the second time around.
This will go down as perhaps the biggest upset in Super Bowl history and may be the greatest Super Bowl flop allowing the 2007 Patriots to eclipse the futility of the 1991-1994 Buffalo Bills. The Patriots had a great team, but in the end they couldn’t get it done and no matter how sweet that 16-0 season was, they will go away with nothing but bitterness in their mouths. You have to figure Bill Belichick wishes he would have gone for the field goal instead of going for a foolhardy 4th and 13 at the 31 yard line, but hey these things happen. Have to hand it to him for being so unsportsmanlike like and running off the field to cry at the end of the game - quality coach to be sure. In the end though none of this matters because the Super Bowl Champions are none other than the New York Giants…of course I trust you will always remember this as the season that the New England Patriots almost went undefeated.
Yeah.. watching the coach storm off the field was priceless. So much for the traditional appeasing of the media blitz.
I should mention that this was also the return of the good superbowl commercials. By my count 11 were pretty good. Check tomorrow for an update (ie. when youtube has them live)
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I think I will dread going to work today… this will be all anyone talks about. xP I shall look forward to commercial posting though!
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I think they should hire you and Ohyo to do the commentating the next time…you guys were a riot!
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*wakes up*
oh good, you posted.
Well I gotta say, this game was entertaining. I just watched a replay of the ‘helmet-catch’ play. Terrible catch, but a catch nonetheless. Skip Bayless is now my favorite sports announcer. >_>
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um… I’m pretty sure the patriots went 18 and 1. … not 16, but ya know, who’s counting?
I must say that I went into this game expecting to see the Patriots take over control from the beginning and just keep on rolling, but I was pleasantly surprised because there was really no telling who was going to win until the very end. That said, I was one of the few (that I know of) that actually wanted the Patriots to win simply because a loss-less season is not something that happens every year, not to mention the past thirty-six! The Giants definitely deserved to win though, and Belichick storming off the field leaves some doubt as to whether or not he deserved it.
I must also concur with Dan regarding the commercials: some of them were funny this year.
One last thought…any guesses as who will do it next year?
My prediction is that NE doesn’t even make the playoffs. Packers and Colts if Favre sticks around.
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16-0 is their regular season record Sugar. I actually found very few commercials to my liking, although I did miss a good chunk of the first half, so I’ll have to go back and rewatch those on youtube.
As for Dan’s prediction…haha, I’d love to see that happen, but have you seen the state of the AFC East lately? No the Patriots will be back in the playoffs but who knows whether they’ll win it all or not. They won’t go 16-0 though, I think that’s safe to say.
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that was a really good game. i was glad that the giants won.
i was telling my friend before the game started pride comes before a fall.
and what a great fall it was :]
HT and Ohyo commenting? I might actually watch the game if that were the case. xD
I was half right about the talk at work. The second half of conversation centered around the engagement of the biggest football fan in the deli. He proposed to her right after the game. A football fan’s conception of romance….?
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