I really wanted Kraft to just come out with an expletive laden tirade then
I really wanted Kraft to just come out with an expletive laden tirade then
How does it feel having a Trumpie as CEO
Told you all Gurley wasn't fit.
All the one year contract guys on the Rams will be off now and the shitehawks will be division champs again.
Those winning windows really are tight.
Was that the worst Super Bowl ever?
That was complete bobbins, but the Sky coverage did throw up one of the most surreal studio moments I can remember, with one of the pundit chairs being filled for a good five minutes by Gareth Southgate.
I've seen worse games.
Patriots
I didn't mind that too much, at least the low scoring was often due to actual good defence rather than just idiots who couldn't move the ball (though there was some of that and that open pass Goff completely missed wasn't a good look.)
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It wasn't a great free scoring game as we had last year(what did we have 1 punt all game?), but that was defensive mastery from both teams. Tactically was spot on. There was only really 1 big play in the entire game for either team(Brady to Gronk to set up the score).
The Rams have been a great offence all year but it's a system offence. Belichick was brilliant in stripping that all away and putting everything on the Rams weakest player, Goff.
It wasn't the best game for a neutral wanting to see offensive football on top, but we've had plenty of that.
Agreed, but then I was the only person who was annoyed by the Rams/Chiefs point fest so of course I’m in for the lowest scoring SuperBowl of all time.
You just have to sit back & appreciate the excellence of the entire Patriots organisation. Edelman was a 7th round QB, Brady was a 6th rounder, the entire O-Line is 3rd round or later, and most of the defence is the same. It’s absolutely unheard of to build a team like that, and yet they’ve done it over & over again for two decades.
They have the greatest QB & head coach ever, as well as the best O-Line coach of all time in Dante Scarnecchia, and they can just roll players & coaches through without ever losing a step. Welker goes, here comes Edelman. Edelman gets hurt, there’s Danny Amendola. Randy Moss in, Randy Moss out. Brandin Cooks in, Brandin Cooks out. Josh Gordon in, Josh Gordon out. It just doesn’t matter. Hell, even when Brady went down they just got Matt Cassell, Jacoby Brissett or Jimmy G out there & kept rolling.
They’re probably the greatest sports franchise of all time, and they’ve done it by being the most adaptable team in the league & the best game planners on both sides of the ball.
God I hope they all retire soon
They're going to have to change the name of that trophy at this stage.
The Bill Belichick trophy doesn't sound as good though.
First time I sat through an entire Superbowl after boarding the hype train on this being the 'year of the offense'. I'm never watching NFL again.
I got round to watching the half time show today. It really was completely fucking awful.
Watched this back immediately after and my god, what a 12 minutes that is.
Left Shark was the MVP I seem to remember.
It's a world class spectacle from start to finish. The massive gold lion, Kravitz/Elliott doing their best to steal the show, and Perry closing it with Fireworks while she gets flown off on a literal firework. It's all gold and I can't believe how much standards have dropped. Maroon plop doing a bunch of songs from 15 years ago to barely-Eurovision-par production.
All aboard the AAF train now.
Rewatching that Shark has made me very happy.
Well, that happened. Maybe just Goff's.
Managed to catch up on this last night after somehow avoiding the result through all of Monday.
Far from being the worst game ever, I thought it was one of the best Superbowls I've seen. Majestic defence is way better than processional 80 yard drive scorefests, even made the Pats winning it seem tolerable as it wasn't really on the back of Brady and yet another improbable drive or ridiculous piece of good luck (they fully deserved it, which really hasn't been the case with some of them). They should have given MVP to McCourty for that play to break up the TD on Cooks, that was insane.
Feel for the Rams defence (well, as much as one can) but Goff was just so, so bad.
I think I've finally reconciled that Pats in my mind in a similar way to I did with Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns (although I still feel bad about hating them as they never actually managed to win a championship). It's always good to have an evil empire.
McCourty deserves it for going from 0-16 last year with the Browns to Super Bowl champ.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...ensive-players
No votes were cast for any defensive players for MVP.
How Gilmore and Jason McCourty didn't get any is baffling.
That Gilmore didn’t get a single vote is flat out insulting
Are you even remotely surprised?
Somehow, yes I'd have thought Gilmore would have at least got a couple of votes, but I guess it shows how nobody cares about defensive football unless it's a sack or a turnover (even then Gilmore had a pick & a forced fumble, while Hightower had two sacks, but lol)
So how does Bill Billibill keep donning everybody year in year out? I know he has Tom Brady, who you all assured me was the best ever a while back, but what does he know that everyone else doesn't? I was reading about him today and he just seems to be constantly ahead of everybody, including in this when he appears to have single-handedly ruined the OFFENSIVE FOOTBALL trend.
I bet it has something to do with MIND GAMES.
And cheating, if you listen to all the bitters.
Basically though, he seems to be able to specifically game plan for teams better than anyone else (and do it more than anyone else).
There's a direct comparison to be made between Belichick and Alex Ferguson. Both were exceptional at what they did and both had a very team first mantra with zero tolerance on ego or selfishness.
The thing that he does have on his side is his division. The Bills haven't been properly good since the early 90's and the Jets and Dolphins are a joke most years. So he pretty much auto-qualifies for the play-offs every season. Once he gets there he's unrivalled in preparation and game plan. As shown in the game against Atlanta he's also very good at making the needed changes and adjusting.
The only times he has lost in a Superbowl have been against stellar defence in the case of the Giants both times and in the case of the Eagles, they had the absolute game of their lives to get through that.