The Patriots have a better chance of winning the super bowl this year than the Colts.
You can quote me or whatever...like I said I'm a Bills fan.
The Patriots have a better chance of winning the super bowl this year than the Colts.
You can quote me or whatever...like I said I'm a Bills fan.
ming ding xiong wrote:
The Bare Facts wrote:What I saw last night tells me the Patriots are a better team than the Colts
Tell me what you say that tells you the Patriots are better. What I saw showed a 35-34 Colts win. I saw two Patriots turnovers, bad coaching and atrocious defense (21 points in the fourth quarter).
The Patriots seem to be getting better each week, and the Colts seem to be hanging on.
That's fantastic spin. The Patriots won last week and lost this week, but they're getting better each week? All the Colts can do is hang on, they're doing nothing but win.
I don't see, still, how the Patriots are one of the three best teams in football. There are four teams with better records, and five other teams with the same record.
Record isn't the most important factor. It's about how a team is playing now, and what their potential for the rest of the season is.
In January 2008, the Giants had a worse record that the Patriots (much worse) but were arguably a better team at that point in the season. The Giants were hot, and their defense was playing lights out. The Patriots had more than peaked and were just hanging on.
If I were a betting man, I'd bet the Patriots or the Colts will represent the AFC in the Superbowl this year.
Watch out for the Bengals.
They swept the Ravens and the Steelers (lasts year's AFC Championship match up).
I don't see the Colts or the Patriots facing a schedule like that.
The Bare Facts wrote:Record isn't the most important factor. It's about how a team is playing now, and what their potential for the rest of the season is.
Right, so why does a 6-3 team that lost to a 9-0 look better than the 9-0 team? I'm not sure how well the Patriots will do this year, but I'm pretty sure that someone in the AFC will do better than the Colts because the Colts are like robots who execute with perfection in the regular season and get confused in unfamiliar situations during the playoffs.
In January 2008, the Giants had a worse record that the Patriots (much worse) but were arguably a better team at that point in the season. The Giants were hot, and their defense was playing lights out. The Patriots had more than peaked and were just hanging on.
That's true, but the Giants played three good playoff games to prove that. Losing to the Patriots at the end of the regular season didn't prove that they were going to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
X-Runner wrote:
Watch out for the Bengals.
They swept the Ravens and the Steelers (lasts year's AFC Championship match up).
I don't see the Colts or the Patriots facing a schedule like that.
I agree, the Bengals are serious. Their 7-2 record is impressive considering their division and schedule, but I still don't understand how they wound up in overtime against the Browns.
Colts are 9-0 and won the game. If anything it proves that Manning isnt crapping down his leg anymore when the going gets tough. Both teams made a lot of mistakes in this game, but when it came down to it Manning moved the ball, scored, and won. It wasnt pretty, but they got it done. Go Horse!
How many Super Bowl rings do YOU have?
rockhound wrote:
either way, it was the most badass call I have ever seen in football. For a coach to go so far against conventional wisdom really shows you that he has cojones.
Haven't seen much football have you?
Voter wrote:
How many Super Bowl rings do YOU have?
Speaking as a Pats fans, that defense is getting old. Let's stop talking about the ones we already have, and go out and get some new ones instead.
typical thought wrote:
rockhound wrote:either way, it was the most badass call I have ever seen in football. For a coach to go so far against conventional wisdom really shows you that he has cojones.
Haven't seen much football have you?
No I've watched hellas football.
Give me examples of a coach ever doing something so much against the norm of coaching. I bet almost every other coach would not of even thought about going for it because they know that you never go for it on your half of the 50 let alone inside the 30.
That being said, I think it was a good call to go for it, just a very questionable play call assuming that Faulk was the first read.
It's pretty obvious Belichick let the Colts win. He dominated them with the Pats the majority of the game to show his team that they are easily the better team, then let up at the end so the Colts would win & will get overconfident in the playoffs & get smoked.
Never doubt Belichicks intelligence. If the Pats won he knew the Colts would still win the rest of the games & clinch home field advantage. Winning this game would hurt the Pats more than losing.
If he's so brilliant, why didn't he come up with that bright idea in 2007, when the team went 16-0, and then succumbed to the pressure in the biggest game of the year against the Giants? You are saying he is setting the Colts up for that scenario to play out? That's quite a reach. He just made a poor decision, and it bit him.
John Jackson wrote:
X-Runner wrote:Watch out for the Bengals.
They swept the Ravens and the Steelers (lasts year's AFC Championship match up).
I don't see the Colts or the Patriots facing a schedule like that.
I agree, the Bengals are serious. Their 7-2 record is impressive considering their division and schedule, but I still don't understand how they wound up in overtime against the Browns.
Or lost to the Texans at home...
I'm with you that they are for real, more just helping point out that teams seem to be extremely up and down this year (more than in the past) from what I've seen.
If Belichick could go back and retry that play over again, anyone think he would go for it again? I say he would punt.
nfool wrote:
If Belichick could go back and retry that play over again, anyone think he would go for it again? I say he would punt.
No way. I say, if he could play it over again, he would do EXACTLY the same thing. Why? Because he is arrogant. If just about any other coach in the league makes this call, his ass is fired.
How exactly did that game show you that the Pats are better than the Colts. The Colts played terrible and still managed to win, and the Pats just proved they can't hold a lead.
Read his book, "The Education of a Coach". Very good read and explains the man and why he is how he is.
the top story on yahoo is that the refs actually blew the game not belichick.
Like I said, the refs blew the spot.
Yeah your probably right, if the Pats didnt drive down the field so fast in scoring all those points then they wouldnt have just barely enough time to score against them and win by one point......oh wait.