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Credit should rightly go to the Pats 'D' as well.
1 posted on 02/07/2005 8:48:25 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Maybe McNabb is overrated.


2 posted on 02/07/2005 8:49:06 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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Sure he came up shakey....Rodney Harrison will do that to ya.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO PATs!!!!!


3 posted on 02/07/2005 8:50:22 AM PST by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years....Nec Aspera Terrent!!!)
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Its not McNabb's fault. The first turnover was his fault, but the Eagles never got a running game going due to the Pats defense. By the half the Eagles were one -dimensional and eventually thye were going to force a bad decision from McNabb into mistakes, which they did.


5 posted on 02/07/2005 8:50:58 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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Good for the Pats. Happy here the Philly trophy case remains empty.


6 posted on 02/07/2005 8:50:59 AM PST by LH24 (Larry/Houston)
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Did anyone notice that early in the game McNabb left the huddle, went up to the center and had never fastened his chin strap for the play? I knew then he was nervous.
8 posted on 02/07/2005 8:51:24 AM PST by Cagey
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So, how did Freddy Mitchell do, and did he ever give whatever it was to Harrison like he planned?


10 posted on 02/07/2005 8:52:21 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Celibacy is a hands-on job.)
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Credit for the failure should got to Andy Reid as well. What kind of gameplan was it to throw the ball 50 times in a close game?


12 posted on 02/07/2005 8:52:55 AM PST by spycatcher
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Perhaps Mom should have made him some soup before the big game?


13 posted on 02/07/2005 8:52:55 AM PST by RexBeach
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The Pats D was solid, and the Eagles D kept the point total down.
The Pats offense was efficient, and the Eagles receivers were making some very impressive catches. Westbrook made up for low rushing numbers with a good receiving effort.

McNabb was the only one with a "shaky" day. 21 incomplete passes, 3 INT's and 3 others that were close.

20 posted on 02/07/2005 8:54:52 AM PST by Teacher317
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The last four minutes of the game exposed what a fraud McNabb is.

No two minute offense, time management that looked like union rules, no fire, no passion, no guts,

T.O. was the real player of the Eagles. He's a punk, but a gutsy one at that

22 posted on 02/07/2005 8:55:34 AM PST by Popman (Take that, you suck up Eagles fans. Buccaneer fan with a long memory)
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Looks like Rush lost his job (as football analyst)to PC but time rings in his truth.


26 posted on 02/07/2005 8:56:13 AM PST by fish hawk
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McNabb did well. Perfect? No, but he had a good season and the Pats are a tough team. He did well.


28 posted on 02/07/2005 8:56:56 AM PST by Drango (tag line under repair)
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Look I agree McNabb didn't have his best game and didn't look on top of his usual form. Yet there were two things beyond his control that would have hampered anyone -- one was that some significant Eagle players had the flu, were coming down with it or were not quite recovered from it. How else to explain all the cramps? The Eagles have excellent physical conditioning and training, the weather in J-ville was great -- so why the cramps? The flu. We heard that there were a few cases written up -- I suspect there were more. Maybe most of the team.

The second was the TO factor. TO played superbly and with great gusto and heart. Yet he hadn't played for many many games and the team hadn't adjusted to having him. It was a factor in not getting much of a ground game or offensive synchronicity going. I suspect it was a big factor.

37 posted on 02/07/2005 9:02:01 AM PST by bvw
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Pat's played a great game, so did the Eagles... It was a fun SB to watch (for a change!)...

My only question is the bad time management by Philly at the end of the 4th... I mean, was it just me, or were they just wasting precious time?

What happened to the 2-minute drill?
49 posted on 02/07/2005 9:06:10 AM PST by Barney59 (Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!)
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That "flop-the second-time" chart is for baseball. In football, the team that lost the superbowl has often won the next year.


72 posted on 02/07/2005 9:15:34 AM PST by expatpat
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80 posted on 02/07/2005 9:18:02 AM PST by Idisarthur
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Oh please.

I hate pandering to blacks more than arguably anyone on this forum but all this McNabb crap is enough already.

The Eagles would not have gotten there if he weren't decent enough.

I feel sorry for the guy. He gets his team to the big game and they lost barely against a team that was far better in almost every way measurable.

We all know most sports talking heads are the most liberal and race pandering fools around but why must folks drone on and on. McNabb is not the black messiah of quarterbacks. That was Warren Moon.

Rush should have shown better tact when he shot off his mouth on this before. McNabb has had to live that down forever.

Now why the media gives a pass to black( and some "cornfed") thuggery in sports is one aspect of this sort of stuff I WOULD like to see harped on. It has ruined a good bit of it for old farts like me but McNabb has been beat up enough.

This is why I watch so little of this overhyped junk since the late 70s. I did see the last bit and I respect that player who played hurt...forgot his name....so many sissies now....they used to always play hurt. Inject cortisone or carisprodial and lidocaine and play that game!

Damn...the good ol days.

Is Paul Horning still alive? Anyone remember the size of Namath's knees when he played....those were heroes....real hombres with huges stones.


101 posted on 02/07/2005 9:24:32 AM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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True, but it wasn't the Pats' D that was causing the Iggles to burn off the better part of two minutes going less than 30 yards at the end of the game. Peyton Manning would have at least run 2-3 plays per 30 sec. It was as bad clock management as I've ever seen, anywhere, and much of the blame MUST go to McNabbit.


109 posted on 02/07/2005 9:30:16 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news (there is no c in Amtrak and no truth in MSM news))
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The Pats D just never let's the opposing team get out of the gates. They are also very well coached and are masters at disguising their defensive coverage. No quarterback looks good against that D - you simply cannot figure out the coverage scheme even when the play is underway. Rodney Harrison made that first interception and was a good 20 yards from the ball when it was thrown. There was a lot of air under the ball, but he still came from nowhere to pick it off.


118 posted on 02/07/2005 9:38:20 AM PST by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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These Patriots remind me of the great Packer team of the 60's in that they don't often beat themselves and play as a team. I hope they don't win next year though: 3 titles in a row belongs to the Packers and the Packers alone.
119 posted on 02/07/2005 9:38:25 AM PST by PMCarey
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