Should they even play the Superbowl?Follow

Just for old times sake, they should play..

I suppose it's possible Carolinia could win....

If the patriots defense all die suddenlt from being hit by a comet or something I guess.

I don't guess anyone saw what the Panthers did to the Birds?

Final score

Panthers 21

Pats 10

I'll put a 1000 plat on it.

i didnt expect the pats to beat the colts..

but since they did and since carolina beat my team (cowboys) go Pats!

You know, I knew crystal meth was a problem in the Carolinas, but I never realized smoking crack was so prevelant.


Ran the ball against a team with a bad running defense? Won't happen against New England. Davis will get about 20 yards in 20 carries against NE. You can't run the ball up the middle with Ted Washington sitting there. Davis can't run the ball on the outside. So now you're down to one running back who can run around the outside....and get crippled by the hardest hitting secondary in the NFL.

Let's see, what else did the PAntehrs do to Philly? Injured a quarterback? I wouldn't pin my hopes on that one. Brady may be a metrosexual, but he's not fragile. Oh you had the Eagles drop about 100 balls. Troy Brown drops about one every thirty games.

Let me provide you a preview of the Super Bowl. DelHome holding the ball and looking around confused as he gets sacked. Steven Smith unconcious on the sideline from Harrison driving his helmet through his sternum. Ty Law running into the end zone after DelHome get's so confused and deperate over the defense that he starts taking chances. The boring Patriot offense grinding time off the clock with short passing plays and by running the ball not for yards, but to use time.

Feild goal after feild goal putting the game further and further out of reach.



That's laughable. You'll be lucky to hold the Patriot DEFENSE to 10 points.

Smasharoo wrote:

"Let's see, what else did the PAntehrs do to Philly? ...."

Well for one they scored 11 more points than Philly. Any other questions?

And?

Was there someone, somewhere in the country who thought the Eagles were an equivilent team to the Patriots? What happened when New England played the Eagles earlier this year? Oh yes, that's right, they crushed them.

You know what the freaking Houston Texans did to Carolina? They scored 4 more points than them.

Well, golly, gomer! I guess that means that the Texans are the best team in the leuge and can't lose a game, right? I mean they BEAT CAROLINA!

New England has won FOURTEEN GAMES IN A ROW.

New England has been there before.

Belicheck is a better coach.

New England's defense is better.

New England's offense is better.

New England's special teams is better.

New England's whole coaching staff is better.

New England's kicker is better.

Carolina's running game is better.

Let's add that up.

Right. You lose.

You *are* going to see lot of hype trying to make this match up seem like it's closer than it actually is. New England and Carolina are like mirror images of each other. They both have the same basic philosophy. The problem is New England is just better all around. Carolina would have been much, much better off facing Indy. Simmilarly New England would have been better off facing Philly.

For either team, that would have involved game planning against a very good offense and a weak defense. I think Carolina beats Indy in the super bowl if that had been the match up. It's not, however.

The matchup now is Carolina having to Gameplan against a defense that looks entirely difrent every week. They have to try and run against one of if not THE best run stopping defense in the NFL. They have to try to somehow score points without relying on the running game against a secondary that will absolutely devestate recivers going over the middle.

Davis will be a non factor. He's a downhill runner who will be staring at 400 pounds of Ted Washington all day. Smith will probably catch about 2 passes for 20 yards. Ty Law is a shut down corner. He's without a doubt the best CB playing in the NFL at the moment.

What does that possibly leave you with?

Hope that Brady will throw interceptions? Not likely.

Hope that you can run the ball against the Pats? Very not likely.

Hope that DelHomeboy can outsmart Bellicheck and read into defenses that make every QB in the leuge look like pop warner players when they go against him? You're better off hoping for the comet hitting the team plane on the way to Texas.

So really, I'm at a complete loss here. Take me down the yellow brick road here.


HOW do you envision Carolina being anyhting but a 15 to 1 shot to have any chance of winning this game?

If there were no such thing as an upset, then the patriots would not have their last ring. They sure as hell were not as good a team as the Rams that year.

Are the Patriots the favorite? duh. Does the favorite always win? No.

Panthers 17
Patriots 10

Tacosid

Neither team has home field advantage here. This is the Superbowl, not the World Series. While I suppose it's possible for a city to host the Superbowl and have their team play in it, I can't recall a game when that's happened (not that I've been paying attention though).

Superbowls tend to have an effect on all teams similar to playing an away game. Kinda. Teams with more veteran players and lower choke factor tend to do well and teams that don't tend to do poorly. It's that "everythings on the line in this one game" factor that you just don't get with any other sport that makes it that much better (IMO).

I'm leaning towards the Pats as well. More experience in the team. More consistency in their play. That's a combo that usually wins the Superbowl.

Oh but he will. Bet on it. He'll have the best D line in the NFL right now crawling up his *** every play. It won't be an easy day for Brady, win or lose.

Things are going to be a mess here in Houston on superbowl day. I plan on barricadeing myself in my appartment with my bow and several pointy objects at the ready to fend off the hords when the rioting begins.

I will of course be following my 12 year old tradition and rootign for the dolphins during the superbowl. Yes. I know... And yes, I am aware of that fact. No, I don't think it is crazy to root for a team that is not, in point of fact, IN the superbowl. It's a washington thing.

I have to go with smash on this one-- Brady is the best quarterback in the NFL today. Again, as I said earlier, his short-short passes for 3-5 yards makes up for the running game that the Patsies don't have. It's a high percentage, low yardage set of plays which keeps the interceptions down, a high 3rd down conversion rate, and a quick play which keeps Brady from having to take a beating from the defense while waiting for the wide receiver to run all the way down the field for the big yardage pass action play.

The problem for either team is the cooling off period which occurs in the two weeks which lead up to the Superbowl. The anticipation builds, the tension gets racheted up, and teams can get tight no matter how good they are. Then when they take the field during the first quarter it becomes a comedy of errors and the other team if they are more relaxed can take advantage of them.

Regardless, NE has to be the odds-on favorite.

Totem

Indeed. That's why I say they're 1 in 15 shots. Might be that one time on Super Sunday.