I hope so too. The Broncos will then control their own destiny for the #2 seed in the AFC.
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I hope so too. The Broncos will then control their own destiny for the #2 seed in the AFC.
The Pats D stepped up and Brady and the offense really shined. It was an off night for Welker and they still moved the ball very successfully.
Well that one should shut the Patriots haters up for awhile. Really impressed by the way our defense is gelling. Holding Arian Foster to 46 yards on 15 carries is really great work. Johnson had some grabs, but he didn't go insane, and we kept pressure on Schaub.
Onward.
Onward.
Browns have won 4 of their last 6.
Things are looking up. Hopefully Weeden can continue to grow with a very young, inexperienced receiving corps.
Things are looking up. Hopefully Weeden can continue to grow with a very young, inexperienced receiving corps.
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Bring on the 49ers.
Niners-Patriots would be a good Super Bowl and Patriots seem ready with both offense and defense.
I am confident that the Niners D will give Brady a harder time than almost anybody out there but SF's Kaepernick is still a big unknown. Alex Smith could probably get enough points to just get a win, but we need to have Kaepernick on fire in this postseason to do anything otherwise we are one and out. It's a weird time for SF to be rebuilding a team around an inexperienced QB, even if he ends up becoming another Montana or Young, or even pretty steady Jeff Garcia.
As Matt Ryan has proved to us the past couple of years, you can be a very good regular season quarterback but the playoffs are a completely different animal where experience is king.
I'm really looking forward to this matchup on Sunday, and it definitely could be a Super Bowl preview. Second week in a row that we have a primetime playoff atmosphere at Gillette.
I saw this on SportsCenter's facebook page a little while ago:
21 of 35 for 296 yards, 4 touchdowns, and 0 interceptions, and yet the thing that stood out the most was his 6 yard scramble on 3rd and 5 to close out the 3rd quarter. I love seeing that kind of fire and emotion out of Brady. It brought down the house in Foxboro and everyone was going nuts chanting "M-V-P M-V-P".
I absolutely love the progress our defense is making. Bring in Talib and moving McCourty to FS has allowed everyone to play to their strengths, and the vastly improved secondary is finally letting our front 7 (which is extremely talented) play up to their potential. Jerod Mayo was a MONSTER last night and proved why he is a captain and leader on this team. Gruden couldn't stop raving about all of our SEC linebackers (Mayo, Spikes, and Hightower), and last night all three of them played very well. Bill has done an amazing job completely rebuilding this defense over the past few years and with Wilfork, Mayo, Love, Jones, Ninkovich, Spikes, Hightower, McCourty, and Dennard we are set up for the future too.
I said this a few weeks ago, but once we get Gronk back, look out league.
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I think if Kaepernick comes out is best self, then I hope for no interceptions. But if he is coming out without a purpose, which is often the issue with young quarterbacks and sometimes Kaepernick's issue, then the Pat's D will be all over him.
Brady doesn't even seem to need Gronk and if for some reason the Pat's don't make the Super Bowl, then it will be because Gronk was out, or not completely recovered. I dare say that the Pats could do still well in postseason without him, but with him, then there's no team in the AFC that can stand in the way between NE and going to the Super Bowl. I don't know if Brady is on a temporary high or if this is how we should expect him for the rest of the season, but he's a man on a mission to get that 4th Super Bowl ring and that monkey off his back. Even if Brady never won one Super Bowl, his numbers put him up there as possibly the greatest quarterback ever. It's icing on the cake to have those three championships and a fourth will basically fill out his career as having been one of the greatest in regular season AND postseason.
The only thing he needs for all time, or to make him akin to the Michael Jordan of football, is to catch anything Marino, Favre, or Peyton have as records which have not been matched yet. With 329 TDs and nearly 44,000 yards passing, it's conceivable that if he stays healthy, he can own those valuable records of most TDs and most yards on top of what can be a career with four Super Bowl wins. He already stands alone as being the only 16 regular season game winner at QB and most TDs for single season. If he can get most career TDs and most yards to add to that, but also keep his QB rating at or better than Rodger's career passing efficiency, then there's no regular season or postseason argument against Brady as the best all-time in his position. I think only Peyton Manning, besides, Brady, has a shot at catching those longevity fueled records of Favre before age 40. Whatever Peyton does, it's unlikely that he will reach or pass Brady's three Super Bowl wins due to Peyton's age. Peyton will more likely be able to challenge all time yards and TDs and retire with that if all goes well for him giving him his own critics to call him all time best NFL quarterback. If both these guys can go three or four more years and add on to their impressive career stats, then football may have seen the two best of all time QBs in the same era.
Brady doesn't even seem to need Gronk and if for some reason the Pat's don't make the Super Bowl, then it will be because Gronk was out, or not completely recovered. I dare say that the Pats could do still well in postseason without him, but with him, then there's no team in the AFC that can stand in the way between NE and going to the Super Bowl. I don't know if Brady is on a temporary high or if this is how we should expect him for the rest of the season, but he's a man on a mission to get that 4th Super Bowl ring and that monkey off his back. Even if Brady never won one Super Bowl, his numbers put him up there as possibly the greatest quarterback ever. It's icing on the cake to have those three championships and a fourth will basically fill out his career as having been one of the greatest in regular season AND postseason.
The only thing he needs for all time, or to make him akin to the Michael Jordan of football, is to catch anything Marino, Favre, or Peyton have as records which have not been matched yet. With 329 TDs and nearly 44,000 yards passing, it's conceivable that if he stays healthy, he can own those valuable records of most TDs and most yards on top of what can be a career with four Super Bowl wins. He already stands alone as being the only 16 regular season game winner at QB and most TDs for single season. If he can get most career TDs and most yards to add to that, but also keep his QB rating at or better than Rodger's career passing efficiency, then there's no regular season or postseason argument against Brady as the best all-time in his position. I think only Peyton Manning, besides, Brady, has a shot at catching those longevity fueled records of Favre before age 40. Whatever Peyton does, it's unlikely that he will reach or pass Brady's three Super Bowl wins due to Peyton's age. Peyton will more likely be able to challenge all time yards and TDs and retire with that if all goes well for him giving him his own critics to call him all time best NFL quarterback. If both these guys can go three or four more years and add on to their impressive career stats, then football may have seen the two best of all time QBs in the same era.
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Bring on the 49ers.
yeah yeah, enjoy your bragging while you can buddy
theyre not the first team to play a great game at home. Let's see how they finish the season.whoa, hold your horses buddy. remember this is a team with somewhat of a qb issue/concern that lost to st louis a few weeks ago and didnt really look like worldbeaters against a weak miami team this week.
Plenty of season yet to play
There's still some season left, but I don't expect Kaepernick to grow into the starter spot before the end of the season. I think he can become a legitimate starter in coming years but I think our hopes for my Niners to go to Super Bowl this season are slim at best. Look at Green Bay and Atlanta, and there's no way I can see getting past them. All the fans I talk to seem to think this way, and it would take a miracle to see San Francisco go all the way and win it. It was so much safer to feel we belonged in the postseason and Super Bowl when we had Montana and Young, even when we didn't do as well as expected.
Coming into this year with Alex Smith, after a very strong showing last year going 13-3 and making it to conference championship, it was conceivable that we were headed to the top this year, but there's too much ground for Kaepernick to make up for and get us working as a postseason team. Even if we bring back Smith now I think the disruption to the Niners has been too much. Usually, I am OK with the coach and his very careful decision making, but many of us in the bay area are questioning what he has done with taking Smith out.
Starting next year, and maybe year after, I think we should strive for 13-3 and NFC championship with Smith at helm while training Kaepernick to be the future for the Niner's after Smith's departure. We could be safe at the QB position for the next ten years with these two guys if everything goes very well. I remember all those painful, pre-Montana years when it was a chore just to find any starter level quarterback for our team. I also remember when our D couldn't stop anybody. With a strong D these days and some young players there ready to battle, and with a growing offense, I think we will definitely be away from the fear of less than 8-8 season anytime in the near future. I hope our doghouse days of some past seasons are over. We had a good run with back to back strong QBs with Montana and Young, and I hope that we get even half the period of time with winning seasons with Smith and Kaepernick.
It's a lot to ask for trying to get back to back QBs with winning potential of stuff like a 13-3 season, but you know what it's like over there with having had Favre and later Rodgers. I can't think of too many teams who have had that extended year after year success with more than one quarterback. You followed arguably the best regular season quarterback of all time with the highest rated quarterback in NFL history as did us with getting Young (during his run as all time highest rated player) after Montana who many called the best ever in his day. You know how that exact situation feels and I am hungry for that again, and I will settle for even us getting into a Super Bowl and losing with a Smith and then a Kaepernick as that's a hell of a lot better than going 7-9 or worse. On top of that, you have the fullest all time football trophy case that the rest of the teams will take decades trying to match with a dominance that only the Yankees in another sport knows what feels like. As far as the wall at the Hutson Center, you are seriously running out of banner room.
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wow, well I knew the patsies wouldn't dominate again this week since they're not playing another creampuff afc team, but didn't expect SF to handle them so definitively. 9ers look good.
Pats are the best come from behind 4th quarter team ever. Sure, late in the 3rd quarter Brady had 28 points to make up but this is in his sphere of experience.
We have a good D but sometimes Kap seems lost after he seems to look like a legend in the making and it's too hot and cold for my tastes. I don't know how he's going to handle this last quarter and if he could hold onto the ball and let the clock beat Brady. This is precisely where an Alex Smith would have control of a game. Kap's great at making great plays and extraordinary shows of athleticism, but controlling the clock is not his thing.
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So the Texans are a creampuff team? Really? Your Patriots haterade is showing again.
We might not win, but I love the fight. And you guys can suck it.
Too big of a hole, too many fumbles and BS in the beginning. But I loved that they never stopped fighting, and I loved the 4 straight TD drives on that defense when they needed it the most.
Special teams and go F itself, but we'll be all right.
Special teams and go F itself, but we'll be all right.
Who's hating? It was more being surprised because to go up 31-3 with CK against Belichick? Nah that doesn't happen. If you thought SF would run the table for 3 QTR's, you're delusional or a straight up fanboy.
So we won over there, but hellishly sloppy and gives me more to worry about than to celebrate.
We are supposed to have this great defense and then they just take a vacation. Kap starts ignoring open receivers and handing off to Gore who keeps running into his own men and not making good. We can't go into the playoffs with such a hot and cold team lest we look like the New York Giants. I will take this win, but only as a way to stay ahead of Seattle but not as something that will give me a good feeling. I bet our coach is pissed with those 28 unanswered points in second half. If it weren't for that long kickoff return after a 31-31 tie, we would have been sunk.
How on earth can we stop our rival Seattle? I will happy if we could get in with a wildcard. All this is happening while Atlanta and Houston are showing the rest of the NFL that this is a great time to be peaking.
We can bask in the glory that we are now #1 in the ESPN Power Rankings, but that is going to be temporary. There are several teams better and I guess those analysts have forgiven the defense for that four touchdown slide in the game.
We are supposed to have this great defense and then they just take a vacation. Kap starts ignoring open receivers and handing off to Gore who keeps running into his own men and not making good. We can't go into the playoffs with such a hot and cold team lest we look like the New York Giants. I will take this win, but only as a way to stay ahead of Seattle but not as something that will give me a good feeling. I bet our coach is pissed with those 28 unanswered points in second half. If it weren't for that long kickoff return after a 31-31 tie, we would have been sunk.
How on earth can we stop our rival Seattle? I will happy if we could get in with a wildcard. All this is happening while Atlanta and Houston are showing the rest of the NFL that this is a great time to be peaking.
We can bask in the glory that we are now #1 in the ESPN Power Rankings, but that is going to be temporary. There are several teams better and I guess those analysts have forgiven the defense for that four touchdown slide in the game.
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Broncos lucked out with a cakewalk last couple of games, but with a healthy Gronkowski, I'm not worried about any team. The bye would have been nice, but only for health reasons.
34 points without Gronk, against the best D, in the rain with 4 turnovers, and showed some serious fight. We'll be fine. Just hope Dennard is okay.
And I feel sorry for the Jaguars next week.
34 points without Gronk, against the best D, in the rain with 4 turnovers, and showed some serious fight. We'll be fine. Just hope Dennard is okay.
And I feel sorry for the Jaguars next week.
Pats vs. 49ers was quite a game, very entertaining. I think the Pats are the better team and too many mistakes tonight cost them. I also think the rain was a big factor in the game as well. Boy, that comeback was pretty awesome to watch. But, you have to give credit to the 49ers for not falling apart, but responding when they needed to do so. The defense stepped up big to stop the Pats on the two drives following their quick score to go back up by 7 with around six minutes left in the game. It would be fun to see a rematch in the playoffs.
I am hoping this is sarcasm....
Beat down would be what the Falcons did to the Giants.
Not in any way shape or form was the Pats loss a beat down.
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