People are whining about running up the score now??Wait till the Jets come to Foxborough on December 16th..
I'd rather have them forfeit then have to play the Pats.
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I'd rather have them forfeit then have to play the Pats.
Go Favre! Amazing. I love him. I grew up a Pack Fan and he is the reason why I love the game so much. I do watch and enjoy other players, Sure there are other greats playing the game today, but I feel he is one of the most true guys on the field.
Real class.
Real class.
Winner of the Packers/Cowboys on November 29th will be the favorite in the NFC...Favre sure is fun to watch..Especially late in the game.. And especially in OT
It was like being up 13-0 in the 9th inning of a baseball game and stealing second base. There is a way to win and a way to rub it in. Belacheat rubbed it in.
Football is not like baseball in that way. Belicheck would rather test out a 4th down play against a real team than kick another field goal. I can see that.
Going for it on 4th down actually gives them a chance to stop them rather than just putting 3 points up on the board.
Odd..The haters have a problem with it, yet these current coaches had no problem with it:
Coaches weigh in on piling on
Posted by John Tomase at 4:32 pm
A number of NFL coaches have appeared on Sirius NFL radio recently and offered their thoughts on whether the Patriots are running up the score. Here’s a sampling:
John Fox, Carolina Panthers: “Typically in this league when you have the game in hand you do call off the dogs a little bit but not to the point where you could lose the game. You never can relax too much.”
Jack Del Rio, Jacksonville Jaguars: “You play to win. If you can score, score. Your job, as a defense, as an opponent, is to slow them down. Offensively you want to score. Obviously, late in the fourth quarter you’re going to make sure your starters don’t get hurt and things like that going forward but you still keep playing football.”
Herm Edwards, Kansas City Chiefs: “I just think that obviously [the Patriots] are going at a pace right now, they’re just playing. They’re having fun playing football. You’re caught in a bad situation there when you have a lead like that. All coaches have been in that situation. Sometimes you’ve been the guy that had the lead and sometimes you’ve been the guy on the other side of it. And that’s what’s great about athletics. People always look into things, trying to figure out is there something that he’s trying to do or say. The coach that is winning, does he run the ball on fourth down or does he pass the ball on fourth down? I don’t know what to tell you. It’s just one of those deals. There’s a lot being made out of things and at the end I think the thing you’ve got to realize is this. You’ve got a team that is playing very very good, setting all kinds of record. When I watch those guys play, they’re having fun. They’re just having fun playing football.”
Brad Childress, Minnesota Vikings: “You’re talking about the Washington Redskins and one of the highest paid coaches in the National Football League and a staff full of head coaches and they’re coaching, too. Games can get left-handed like that, unfortunately, and New England has a way of making you be left-handed.”
Lane Kiffin, Oakland Raiders: “Coach Gibbs, I believe, said he had no issues with it. It’s so hard to win and so hard to score I don’t think that there really is running up the score. You’re just playing your players and trying to get better. In this league your backups do have so few opportunities to play that, from my perspective, if we were ever in that situation we would definitely run plays and put in some of our younger guys that otherwise don’t play.”
Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers: “We’re responsible for keeping their score down. They aren’t. That’s just being competitive. That’s what this game is about. That’s what any game is about. I have no comment or opposition to them ringing up as many points as they’re capable of.”
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And the best quote of all,from Joe Theisman:
"If the Patriots want to play 60 minutes of football, good for them," Theismann told The Post's Mark Maske. "What happens if you play Tom Brady three quarters every week and you have your team used to playing three quarters, and then you go to Indianapolis and you can't get by playing three quarters?"
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On to this weekend's game.......
Favre sure is fun to watch..Especially late in the game.. And especially in OT
Of course he's fun to watch late in the game... especially when he has to do something to win the game... it's a 50/50 shot (roughly) of either a spectacular pass/reception or a spectacular interception.... (OK, in recent years the turnovers have become more prevalent but with him in there's always the chance of the last second comeback).
I do have the feeling that the Cowboys will be the favorite in the NFC before the meeting at the end of December. The Pack has been making games they should be winning handily closer than they should be for most of this season. their 4-0 start was promising, the loss to the Bears was completely unnecessary, and the Redskins game was an exercise in figuring out who wanted to lose more.
We shouldn't have gone to overtime in Denver, after the first half we should have continued to control the game in the second half. Much like the Bears game I'm seeing a strong pattern of coming out and doing well the first half but showing an inability to make adjustments in the second half after our opponents have the chance to take a break at half time and adjust to the Packer's playing. This does not bode well for future games, we need to learn how to adjust at half time so we can hold a lead and continue to control the game rather than lose our lead and have every game come down to the final plays.
If we keep playing like this, even if we win the next three games, I have a feeling Detroit will beat us on Thanksgiving (much like many previous Thanksgiving games, don't get me started on the advantage enjoyed by Dallas and Detroit always having a home game with their opponents on a very short week). The loss in Detroit will not bode well for going to Dallas a week later...Oh, how I'd love to go to that game considering I live on the outskirts of Dallas, but alas the tickets are now all sold to the resellers and cost 3-5x their original price, I'll just have to watch it on TV like everyone else...
Sunday's game is huge,even though it's the first weekend in November..The winner will more than likely be the number one seed in the AFC. HFA throughout the playoffs....
Teams are about to start going after Brady and I don't blame them. He's gonna still be in there when they're up big and somone's gonna take a shot at him. Think running up the score is such a good idea then?
Yeah, 'cause everyone gets suspended like 8 games for a late hit or roughing the passer.
Lethal
Are you kidding me.
Kellen Clemens is the next Joe Namath.
Instead of pissing,moaning and whining,maybe the fans of other teams in the NFL should ask their players,GM's,coaches and owners why their teams suck so bad and are getting blown out?Or is that all the Pats/Brady's fault too?
Instead of pissing,moaning and whining,maybe the fans of other teams in the NFL should ask their players,GM's,coaches and owners why their teams suck so bad and are getting blown out?Or is that all the Pats/Brady's fault too?
I know why my team sucks so bad, they're cursed. We even managed to drive Bellicek into coaching your team.
I know why my team sucks so bad, they're cursed. We even managed to drive Bellicek into coaching your team.
I thought Rich Kotite was the answer years ago?
Nope, Joe Walton. I've never seen an NFL coach who could get a finger that far up his nose.
By way of explanation, cameras would catch him picking his nose every week on the sidelines.
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