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The Giants and the Patriots are both great teams. They share some similar strengths but I believe the Patriots have a few more weaknesses than the Giants.
It could go either way depending on how Brady plays that day. He didn't play too well against the Ravens and I believe it was the Defense who won the game for them.
But if Brady has a good day he will be unstoppable regardless of the Giants defense.
I look forward to a great Superbowl and may the best team win.
I will be rooting for the Pats even though I like both teams.
 
If both teams play like they did yesterday, Should be easy win for Giants--but, that's football. And it's why you have to play the game.
 
Gibson486 said:
Yeah, they had a game plan to contain Rice, however, they forgot that meant they would have to defend through the air, which they are not really good at it. Honestly, I think the Pats offense is overhyped. They are good when they get defenses lured into their game plan, but when people do not fall for it, they do not have a lot a talent at the WR position to over come it. Brady's fav, target is Welker and Branch...Branch....think about that for a second....Deion Branch as your WR1.
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Brady doesn't really favor his WRs, outside of Welker of course. He much prefers Gronk and Hernandez.

You find less and less teams these days that that rely on WR more than TE, it seems.


By the way--where has Vernon Davis been all year? He's dominated these playoffs! Too bad it's all over for him. 🙁
 
JS80 said:
NFL.com thinks it's the Steelers vs Green Bay http://www.nfl.com/players
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Fuck...I wish.

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I'm still pissed about the way the 9ers lost. I wouldn't care if they lost by being out played and didn't expect them to make it this far anyway. But when they were up 3 points and made two consecutive drive stops I thought they had the game in the bag. Then that fucker bumped the ball with his knee. Fuck, that was huge!
IndyColtsFan said:
Eli Manning is the man. The guy is one of the toughest QBs I've ever seen (and please, folks, don't mention McNair in this category) and comes up big when it is needed the most. If the Giants can win, I don't think anyone will doubt calling him an elite QB. I personally think he already is there.
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I agree he showed poise under duress last night but I have seen him slide way too early as well.
 
zinfamous said:
Brady doesn't really favor his WRs, outside of Welker of course. He much prefers Gronk and Hernandez.

You find less and less teams these days that that rely on WR more than TE, it seems.


By the way--where has Vernon Davis been all year? He's dominated these playoffs! Too bad it's all over for him. 🙁
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More importantly, where the fuck was Crabtree? Was he incapable of getting open last night?
 
dank69 said:
More importantly, where the fuck was Crabtree? Was he incapable of getting open last night?
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I was asking that, too. I never noticed him on the field--not sure if he was covered all night or what.

The only questionable report before the game was Ginn, JR, iirc...which meant Williams stepped in and, well....sigh. 🙁
 
dank69 said:
I'm still pissed about the way the 9ers lost. I wouldn't care if they lost by being out played and didn't expect them to make it this far anyway. But when they were up 3 points and made two consecutive drive stops I thought they had the game in the bag. Then that fucker bumped the ball with his knee. Fuck, that was huge!
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Well, he muffed that one then didn't secure the ball for the game-ender in OT. Had he not muffed, that lost field goal by the Giants could have potentially won the game for the Niners in regulation. Then, he made a great play on the net return to sort of redeem himself.

Then, the fumble in OT that lost the game. Holy fuck. Horrible loss, and that steams me the most. I don't mind the Giants winning, as I'd like to see little Manning beat up on the Pats again.


I agree he showed poise under duress last night but I have seen him slide way too early as well.
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He's become one of the most clutch players--probably the premiere clutch player--in the NFL over the last several years, including that SB that he won. He makes mistakes, but no more than Favre ever made, and he shows poise more often than not. I think he's definitely elite by now.
 
the 49ers need to upgrade their WRs this offseason. they are 0-11 on 3rd downs. Besides the two TDs by Vernon Davis, no one on offense steps up at all.
 
The_Dude8 said:
the 49ers need to upgrade their WRs this offseason. they are 0-11 on 3rd downs. Besides the two TDs by Vernon Davis, no one on offense steps up at all.
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Smith did not help on third downs. After the 2nd TD pass to Davis, he was throwing a lot of bounce passes, pulling the ball in and running for 3 yards on 3rd and long, etc.
 
BergeLSU said:
Smith did not help on third downs. After the 2nd TD pass to Davis, he was throwing a lot of bounce passes, pulling the ball in and running for 3 yards on 3rd and long, etc.
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Nobody was open, and in such a tight ballgame with your defense balling out, you can't make such gambles, especially when your receivers have a habit of tipping and dropping balls (Crabtree).

Only Eli gets away with it because the ducks he throws up for grabs are so catchable that several defenders swarm to the ball only to knock each other out.
 
The_Dude8 said:
the 49ers need to upgrade their WRs this offseason. they are 0-11 on 3rd downs. Besides the two TDs by Vernon Davis, no one on offense steps up at all.
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Crabtree has been solid, but he's definitely not a #1 receiver. As mentioned, he was nowhere to be seen yesterday.

Also, it was a rain game, so not a lot of air activity was expected.
 
zinfamous said:
I was asking that, too. I never noticed him on the field--not sure if he was covered all night or what.

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Oh, I saw him from time to time but it was always after the routes had failed and he was just coming back to the QB way too late as Smith was throwing it away.
 
zinfamous said:
Well, he muffed that one then didn't secure the ball for the game-ender in OT. Had he not muffed, that lost field goal by the Giants could have potentially won the game for the Niners in regulation. Then, he made a great play on the net return to sort of redeem himself.

Then, the fumble in OT that lost the game. Holy fuck. Horrible loss, and that steams me the most. I don't mind the Giants winning, as I'd like to see little Manning beat up on the Pats again.




He's become one of the most clutch players--probably the premiere clutch player--in the NFL over the last several years, including that SB that he won. He makes mistakes, but no more than Favre ever made, and he shows poise more often than not. I think he's definitely elite by now.
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Yeah, I'm not really questioning his elite status, rather his toughness.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
That was the most amazing play to me. He HAD to feel that hitting his leg and he definitely saw it bounce off, yet he just stood there and didn't even try to chase it down.
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I was baffled. BAFFLED. 10 seconds before that happened I had just finally gotten to the point where I had confidence in my team.
 
IAteYourMother said:
Only Eli gets away with it because the ducks he throws up for grabs are so catchable that several defenders swarm to the ball only to knock each other out.
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gah, I forgot about that! 2 INTs that could have been, if Niners defenders hadn't taken themselves out on each play. 🙁
 
IAteYourMother said:
Nobody was open, and in such a tight ballgame with your defense balling out, you can't make such gambles, especially when your receivers have a habit of tipping and dropping balls (Crabtree).
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The 49ers FO lost this game. The 49ers went into the NFC Championship game with 2 roster WRs (#2 and #4) and 2 practice squad scrubs. Their WRs had a combined ONE catch. The WRs weren't open because they were a group of SCRUBS.
 
Patranus said:
The 49ers FO lost this game. The 49ers went into the NFC Championship game with 2 roster WRs (#2 and #4) and 2 practice squad scrubs. Their WRs had a combined ONE catch. The WRs weren't open because they were a group of SCRUBS.
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Oh please, yes the WRs were the weakest part of the team, but it's also a group that lost 3 of its 4 top WRs (Braylon Edwards, Joshua Morgan, and Ted Ginn).

This team was good enough to win it all, all they had to do was execute the game plan, and they did. All except one player.

Nothing bounced the 49ers' way, I knew we were going to lose with the way the game unfolded. Aside from Kyle Williams' 3 (3!!!!!!) fumbles, his diving catch, and terrible fair catches, there were Eli Manning's 2 easy INTs that were thrown up for grabs only to be negated by colliding defenders.

Then, there was the fumble that was negated by a forward progress whistle. WHY WAS THE WHISTLE BLOWN AS SOON AS HE WAS HIT??? That hadn't happened all game for the refs to blow the whistle immediately. I saw Alex Smith get stood up and held for seconds before getting pulled to the ground and heard no whistles. To add insult to injury, the whistle was blown AFTER the ball was stripped.

Just all around terrible luck and circumstances, and the 49ers were still oh so close to pulling off the victory.
 
zinfamous said:
Crabtree has been solid, but he's definitely not a #1 receiver. As mentioned, he was nowhere to be seen yesterday.

Also, it was a rain game, so not a lot of air activity was expected.
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Eli was airing it out 64 times. There are plenty of air on the giants offense because they have 3 of the best wrs in the league in the reg. season and post season that can catch the balls.

49ers offense is their running game,no passing game but the giants did a pretty good job contain Frank Gore last night.

49ers should go after Vjax during the offseason.
 
dank69 said:
I'm still pissed about the way the 9ers lost. I wouldn't care if they lost by being out played and didn't expect them to make it this far anyway. But when they were up 3 points and made two consecutive drive stops I thought they had the game in the bag. Then that fucker bumped the ball with his knee. Fuck, that was huge!
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I think the worst part of this isn't that he touched it with his knee, even though that was horrible...but that he didn't even go after it after he touched it. He just left the fucking thing on the ground for a Giant to snatch up. There was deflection on the replays from where it bounced off his knee so I don't see how he could have not felt it hit him. Which leads me to believe he planned to just pretend it didn't hit him and hope no one would notice!
 
PingSpike said:
I think the worst part of this isn't that he touched it with his knee, even though that was horrible...but that he didn't even go after it after he touched it. He just left the fucking thing on the ground for a Giant to snatch up. There was deflection on the replays from where it bounced off his knee so I don't see how he could have not felt it hit him. Which leads me to believe he planned to just pretend it didn't hit him and hope no one would notice!
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Even with kneepads, he had to feel it hit him and you can tell he knew by the way he looked as it bounced off his knee. He just watched it bounce off and didn't even bother going after it. That isn't even taking into account that he shouldn't have been anywhere near the ball in the first place.
 
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