Monday, February 07, 2005
Super Bowl
chris,
you're pretty much right, the game made absolutely no sense by any definition of the word 'sense.' first, the eagles had 3 fake turnovers in the first 10 minutes and still weren't losing by 21 points. i mean, how pissed was tedy bruschi that he actually sacked mcnabb on that, and more importantly, when was the last time you saw a quarterback telling the refs that he knee was actually down? i've definitely never seen that before. second, it doesn't make any sense how mcnabb almost threw for 400 yards but you never once thought they'd really score after the first quarter. i mean, owens and pinkston were awesome but nothing ever seemed to actually happen. and yes, the slow-down-hurry-up offense was the most absurd thing i ever saw. do you realize it took them 3 minutes on that drive to go from their own 20 to their own 41 yard line? that's not so good when the freakin SUPER BOWL is on the line. and also in the 2nd half mcnabb couldn't even come close to hitting a receiver in stride. he kept throwing down and low and everyone had to dive and couldn't run after the catch.
but then the patriots never seemed like they wanted it either, except in their first drive after halftime when you knew belichick simply said, "all right, let's stop fucking around and just run it down their throats on this drive," and that's pretty much what they did.
so the eagles could have won by 30 if they would have actually scored as many touchdowns as they should have in the first quarter, but after not being able to capitalize on any of that nonsense it was clear they were doomed.
the best part was roman phifer knocking out dorsey levens on a screen pass in the 2nd quarter. that was hilarious.
>From: Chris Balakrishnan
>To: Matt Wasowski
>Subject: super bowl.
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:35:33 -0500
>
>Thoughts?
>
>I think that was one of the weirdest games I've ever seen. During
>the first half the Eagles kicked the Pats ass, but it ended up 7-7.
>During the second half the Pats kicked the Eagles ass, won by 3, but
>the game was not suspenseful at all. McNabb looked terrible but
>threw for 350 yards. Dillon/Faulk looked unstoppable but did not run
>at all in the first half. Then there was the hurry-up offense of the
>eagles...I have no idea what that was. But it was one of the worst
>things I've seen. Eagles should have won the game I think.
>
>The best thing about the whole game was Josh Miller punting to the
>corner, getting the ball out of bounds at the 4, thereby ending the
>game. I love punting to the corner. I guess there were two
>ridiculously good catches. One TD throw by McNabb, and one catch by
>Branch.
>
>Chris
>
you're pretty much right, the game made absolutely no sense by any definition of the word 'sense.' first, the eagles had 3 fake turnovers in the first 10 minutes and still weren't losing by 21 points. i mean, how pissed was tedy bruschi that he actually sacked mcnabb on that, and more importantly, when was the last time you saw a quarterback telling the refs that he knee was actually down? i've definitely never seen that before. second, it doesn't make any sense how mcnabb almost threw for 400 yards but you never once thought they'd really score after the first quarter. i mean, owens and pinkston were awesome but nothing ever seemed to actually happen. and yes, the slow-down-hurry-up offense was the most absurd thing i ever saw. do you realize it took them 3 minutes on that drive to go from their own 20 to their own 41 yard line? that's not so good when the freakin SUPER BOWL is on the line. and also in the 2nd half mcnabb couldn't even come close to hitting a receiver in stride. he kept throwing down and low and everyone had to dive and couldn't run after the catch.
but then the patriots never seemed like they wanted it either, except in their first drive after halftime when you knew belichick simply said, "all right, let's stop fucking around and just run it down their throats on this drive," and that's pretty much what they did.
so the eagles could have won by 30 if they would have actually scored as many touchdowns as they should have in the first quarter, but after not being able to capitalize on any of that nonsense it was clear they were doomed.
the best part was roman phifer knocking out dorsey levens on a screen pass in the 2nd quarter. that was hilarious.
>From: Chris Balakrishnan
>To: Matt Wasowski
>Subject: super bowl.
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:35:33 -0500
>
>Thoughts?
>
>I think that was one of the weirdest games I've ever seen. During
>the first half the Eagles kicked the Pats ass, but it ended up 7-7.
>During the second half the Pats kicked the Eagles ass, won by 3, but
>the game was not suspenseful at all. McNabb looked terrible but
>threw for 350 yards. Dillon/Faulk looked unstoppable but did not run
>at all in the first half. Then there was the hurry-up offense of the
>eagles...I have no idea what that was. But it was one of the worst
>things I've seen. Eagles should have won the game I think.
>
>The best thing about the whole game was Josh Miller punting to the
>corner, getting the ball out of bounds at the 4, thereby ending the
>game. I love punting to the corner. I guess there were two
>ridiculously good catches. One TD throw by McNabb, and one catch by
>Branch.
>
>Chris
>
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