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2011-12 NFL football season thread

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ucfgrad93 said:
Well at least you have admitted that you are a hater.
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I'm not a hater. Look at the Broncos regular season performance against stronger teams and it was quite weak. But, whatever, you can label me a "hater" if you want to look juvenile. "hater" is just a cop out for failure to admit that the Broncos lack fundamentals.

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63dot said:
Nine times out of ten, if this game was played over that many times, I would give it to the Pats.

However, as we have seen with the Steelers, the Broncos can get it done. I have not seen too often where an underdog team has beaten two really strong opponents in a row in postseason, but Tebow and co. can be the first to do so. A lot of people are going to love the underdog that the Broncos are and like me, root for them. It really is a David vs. Goliath thing and that's what makes it fun.
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We didn't see the Steelers. We saw a 50% Steelers teams and a healthy Denver team, that won in OT. Hardly commendable.
 
rdowns said:
Interesting stat of the day - Patriots played only 2 teams with winning records in 2011 and lost to both of them (PIT, NYG).
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They beat Denver. And both teams are about the same as they were in week 14.

There are three differences in this game.

A. Denver really wants to win
B. the patriots want to make sure Denver doesn't win
C. They are playing in foxboro.

Patriots 44-21
 
63dot said:
Nine times out of ten, if this game was played over that many times, I would give it to the Pats.

However, as we have seen with the Steelers, the Broncos can get it done. I have not seen too often where an underdog team has beaten two really strong opponents in a row in postseason, but Tebow and co. can be the first to do so. A lot of people are going to love the underdog that the Broncos are and like me, root for them. It really is a David vs. Goliath thing and that's what makes it fun.
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Where was all the love for the Jets last year when they beat both the Colts and the Pats on the road? :(
 
acidfast7 said:
I'm not a hater. Look at the Broncos regular season performance against stronger teams and it was quite weak. But, whatever, you can label me a "hater" if you want to look juvenile. "hater" is just a cop out for failure to admit that the Broncos lack fundamentals.

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We didn't see the Steelers. We saw a 50% Steelers teams and a healthy Denver team, that won in OT. Hardly commendable.
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Look, I'll be the first to admit the Broncos have looked pretty bad at times this year. And yeah, we are lucky to be in the playoffs. However, they played a good game against the Steelers and to just totally deny that seems pretty juvenile to me.

Yeah, the Steelers were pretty banged up. But that is part of the game. Their backups did not step up and do the job. Too bad, so sad.
 
ucfgrad93 said:
However, they played a good game against the Steelers and to just totally deny that seems pretty juvenile to me.
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We must define "a good game" differently. They got lucky in OT. "You have to be in it to win it" and all those Americanisms. But, they never looked in control. And, they totally let the Steelers back into the game.

Good teams "close out" games, and the Broncos didn't do that.

No kudos from me.

They escaped; that's all.
 
ucfgrad93 said:
Really, a 20-6 halftime lead isn't in control? Ok, I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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LOL.

Half-time, schmaf-time ... shoulda closed it out.

If the game ended 20-6 or even 20-12, they'd get some respect.

They won a blown coverage, on the first play, with new overtime rules.

Colour me not excited, at all.
 
acidfast7 said:
LOL.

Half-time, schmaf-time ... shoulda closed it out.

If the game ended 20-6 or even 20-12, they'd get some respect.

They won a blown coverage, on the first play, with new overtime rules.

Colour me not excited, at all.
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Hey, can you ease up on the douchey bravado? It's bad karma and makes the rest of us Pats fans look bad. Denver's offense is hot/cold and not trustworthy in my opinion, but they beat the Steelers fair and square.

And out of curiosity - how did you become a Patriots fan if you're not an American?
 
acidfast7 said:
We must define "a good game" differently. They got lucky in OT. "You have to be in it to win it" and all those Americanisms. But, they never looked in control. And, they totally let the Steelers back into the game.

Good teams "close out" games, and the Broncos didn't do that.

No kudos from me.

They escaped; that's all.
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The refs don't blow that lateral call and it would have been a blow out.
 
Queen of Spades said:
And out of curiosity - how did you become a Patriots fan if you're not an American?
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I'm not 'mercan either, but wouldn't have been a Patriots fan because I spent time on a combination of playing Madden and staying up late to watch Football when it would come on channel 4/channel 5 to see who I liked in the way they played. I also didn't want to be a complete glory hunter.

One of my mates back in England has been a Patriots fan since before the Brady years... We have red, white and blue in the Union Jack so I think that was why he went with the Patriots, plus time difference isn't quite as bad as if they were a team on the West Coast.

I always liked the way the Giants played defense, so I think that's why I started supporting them. Ending up in New York was a happy coincidence :)
 
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