http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/c6801132fb_moss_10192007.jpg ^^^^^^^^^^^^
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the jets game was the first game of the year
Um, actually, no it wasn't. You're talking about the season opener.
I'm referring to their 20-10 win late in the season.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
ah, i stand corrected.
i still think the pats came out against the giants not expecting to play against the giants starters. i would love to know what belicheck said to the team at halftime. i think that may have been the only game i saw where they didn't give 100% for 60 minutes.
― chicago kevin, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
hate to be the one to break this to you but sometimes even great professional sports teams give just enough to win - sorry if that hurts your feelings.
Lol, I'll try to console myself later this evening.
winning two v close games doesnt prove youre a good team - especially when all the evidence from the entire season suggests youre the worst team in the playoffs.
Actually, as one sportswriter aptly said about the Patriots performance in tight games late this season, the way you perform in adversity in tough situations often tells us more about a team than the way they perform in blowouts.
its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished.
If your definition of a fluke is winning three games on the road, then you and I don't see eye to eye on that.
Besides, I hate to break it to YOU, but that's how the NFL playoffs currently work, always have worked, and always WILL work. It's less about the body of work you put up during the regular season and more about who is hot at the right time. While this is true of other professional sports, it's especially true of a sport that has a single elimination tournament to determine a champion.
It's just that typically speaking, a team that did modestly in the regular season usually did so because they didn't have the talent of upper echelon teams. Occasionally you have the opposite, like the Giants, who had a lot of talent, but underachieve during the regular season.
The Giants that have played the last 4 weeks bear little resemblance to the Giants that had to struggle to put away the Miami Dolphins at midseason. Who, besides the Patriots, has played better football than the Giants in the last month?
If the playoffs were re-run as much as even 100 more times, law of averages states you'd have several different combinations of results, and some of them may even have the Patriots losing a game. That proves absolutely nothing. If you re-ran the regular season 10 times, you'd have different playoff teams too. That's the way football works.
I won't be surprised if the Patriots win--nobody has been able to finish a game against them and they are the best team in the league, undisputed. That fact arguably doesn't even change even if they lose this game--Champions do not necessarily equal the 'best team' in a given season.
However, talk like I'm seeing here is the same talk I saw in 2001 before the Rams-Patriots Super Bowl. I got laughed at much the same way when I said the game wouldn't be a blowout. And right after that game, those excuse makers shifted their vitriol to the officials, claiming they handed the Patriots the game.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
they didnt take the jets game off - IT WAS RAINING, WITH 27 MPH WIND GUSTS. THAT IS WHY CHAD PENNINGTON HAD A GOOD GAME, NOBODY COULD PASS FURTHER THAN 7 YARDS DOWNFIELD
― cankles, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
tbh i would probably be rooting for the Giants today if it weren't for ~*&~*~*~RANDY*~*~*~*~, if he doesnt get mvp i will be fukkin pisssssssssssssed
― cankles, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
if bjo is wrong abt this game can we ban him then?
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
and omg there is no such thing as "the law of averages" lololololol wtf god
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
gene wojo from espn.com made a great point about length of prep time between first giants game and this one
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
and bjo when you bring up rams and pats plz remember which coach orchestrated that upset
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
if bjo is wrong abt this game can we ban him then?-- jhøshea, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- jhøshea, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
ONLY IF WE CAN BAN ALLY TOO
― cankles, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yah 5 days v 2 weeks
belichick gonna pwn coflign samuel gonna pwn eli brady gonna pwn strahan moss gonna pwn all
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
lol ill take vegas over dr z everyday of the week
Vegas has been wrong several times this postseason already (including all three times against the Giants, who were a 7 point underdog to the Cowboys).
They also missed the Colt game (in which at some points, the Colts were 11 point favorites), hell they wrong against the spread in both Patriots games I believe (I know they did in the Chargers, Jaguars depends as to whether it did wind up at 13 or 14).
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh come on canky u dont really wanna ban teh schef
hey bjo lik my ballz
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
jh0shea, I hope you are raped by the ancient spirits of Odin, and that you are forced to spend 40 years living in the anus of an overweight Eskimo.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
(I mean hey, why let anything like 'facts' get in the way of stupid statements like "I'll take vegas anyday!")
anyone ever notice the anal-centric nature of a lot of bjo's posts here?
― chicago kevin, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
bjo cant u see ur desecrating the corpse of this once great bord hurting everyones feelings
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
i dont mind you dude but you said you "wouldn't be surprised" if the pats won. just saying.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
PLZ SOMEONE TOM ALLY ANYONE BAN BJO FFS
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
for all intents and purposes, I do think they will win. I don't want it to happen, but I think it will.
I merely had a problem with the statement "I'll take Vegas over Dr. Z anyday" as if the Vegas line is an almost perfected method of predicting games. Vegas bookmakers know a hell of a lot about football, but their lines don't come true quite frequently. That's what makes for interesting betting.
It's just that it's hard to predict games, no matter how much you know about football!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
ban^^^^^
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
jh0shea=
http://www.vaiden.net/quick_draw.jpg
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG GOOD ONE BO JACKSON OVERDRIVE
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
if I were a magician I would turn you into a Real Audio file so that you would get caught in net congestion for eternity.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
just try and be cool is that so much to ask
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
but their lines don't come true quite frequently.
the lines always always ALWAYS do what they're supposed to do.
― chicago kevin, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, but that purpose isn't 'accurately predicting football games'. I'm well aware of why they set their lines the way they do.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
says the guy who told me to 'lik' his 'ballz'.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever dude.
y/n: the grocery store will be an absolute horror show.
― chicago kevin, Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
hope not but y
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i meant try to be cool as in try not to be the most annoying guy in the world
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
if I were a magician...
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 3 February 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Whole Foods wasn't that crowded, and also they had sample guacamole!
― polyphonic, Sunday, 3 February 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
alphabet city party with wii guitar hero and air hockey halftime show!
― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 3 February 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
this is the worst post ever on ilnfl guys respect that
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 February 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
also i ve been doing $2 "pats" & "giants" shots all afternoon along w/ $2 domestic pints so i am so ready
and all at the bar and now ive been watching madden challenge <3 <3
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 February 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
lol forks my party has rock band pregame
― jhøshea, Sunday, 3 February 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
All I've heard this week is how the Giants have a real shot at winning this since they are such a hot team and have no pressure on them. If they do win I'm gonna slap the first person who says no one saw this coming
― steampig67, Sunday, 3 February 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
re: pepsi commercial
i wish joe buck would take a nap every sunday :\\\\
― gr8080, Sunday, 3 February 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
also hey coach belicheck is that a new hoodie? :)
― gr8080, Sunday, 3 February 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf @ creepy cougar Comcast commercial
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
this superbowl would be so much better if every five minutes they cut to Peyton in the booth looking angry.
― jessie monster, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
he looks bored, much like me
― remy bean, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
whoop, spoke 11 seconds too soon
― remy bean, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
This game! Is Brady hurt or has the offensive line just sucked all night?
― daria-g, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
hay wat time does the game start
― am0n, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit kids
― El Tomboto, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE. I DRINK IT UP.
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