lol Awesome post game interview. "they can't stop a nosebleed"
Ahh the Jets, making more and more friends everyday.
People will show you respect when
A: You win something
B: You stop acting like clowns.
B does not apply to guys who show class. I respect Mark Sanchez in this regard because he honestly seems like a cool dude. He just shuts up and plays. Similarily from a Patriot standpoint, I respect Tom Brady. Even in his post game presser, he was a class act. He just shuts up and plays. Bill Belichick on the other hand is a ######.
Rex Ryan, Bart Scott, Braylon Edwards.......go win it all/stop being clowns and then you will get respect. The Jets are a great football team and should have people's respect already IMO. It's because of how arrogant they are, that people do not give them as much as they deserve. They do deserve a ton of credit for where they are now though. I don't think they will be big underdogs in any scenario now (against Pittsburgh or in the Superbowl....they might be underdogs but not big).
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Well, guess I am cheering for the Jets now as I don't like any of the other teams.
Only reason I want to see the Jets win is so Tomlinson can win.
CFL can't start soon enough. These 4 teams, and the Giants, are the only ones I actually truly detest in the league, for various reasons.
The Jets winning would be like the Leafs winning the Cup; you'd never hear the end of it for years, given its NY, the loudmouth of a coach and several of his loudmouth players.
GB gave up fewer yards, fewer points, had way more sacks, more INT's, and played a much tougher schedule. All this with 4LB's, 3 Safeties, 2 DE's and a CB on IR. In their last 6 games they have given up 91 points, or 15 points per game. 4 of those games against playoff teams.
The defense is what carried the Packers this year and is something most of the media simply doesn't grasp. No question Rodgers and company have started to really roll on the other side of the ball and that's what they all concentrate on, but that Packer D is a beast of late as well....and has been most of the year. Dom Capers has them firing on all cylinders...the man is a genius.
If this game was back in Lambeau I have no doubt the Packers would win going away. But because its in Chicago and it being a division rival, it will be agonizingly close. Probably a FG either way and the early line is the Packers -3. GB should have won the game in Soldier Field back in September but self-destructed and were flagged for 18 penalties. It was absurd.
They should not have won the game in Soldier Field. They took 18 penalties, but most of them holding calls because of Peppers' and Briggs' rush on blitzes, false starts due to home field advantage and idiotic offensive line plays, and the occasional pass interference when Hester would blow by a safety and get pulled down. Penalties are not someting to blame a game on, especially when your team is close to getting 20 called on them
Green Bay has a great defense, as i have previously stated. But I think the Bears' is still superior.
While you mention that the Packers have more interceptions (+3) you fail to mention that the bears have more Forced Fumbles/Recoveries (+8) which had them tied for 3rd overall in turnovers for a defense. A fairly common occurance for the team as they have the most defensive forced turnovers in the NFL since Lovie Smith started coaching the team.
The Bears also have the more proven personal when it comes to comparing defenses. As Urlacher and Briggs have been among the two best linebackers at their positions since playing for the Bears and that continues to show true. While Clay Mathews is having an outstanding year, I wouldnt say that he is head and shoulders better then Julius Peppers, minus the sack differential.
While Woodson still may be the best cornerback in the game, which at his age is very impressive. I would say the Bears secondary is as good as the Packers if you take more than just interceptions into account. Interceptions, balls batted (defensed) and tackles all have a large part in a defense as a whole and Chicago is one of if not the best open field tackling team in the NFL, especially when it comes to secondary players.
The Pack have great statistical numbers, being top 5 in all defensive categories but one (rushing) which led to GB facing many more rush attempts per game and all season long. While the Bears, who ranked 2nd in rushing stats all season faced more pass attempts by opponents than GB did... and I am sure I dont have to tell you which play averages more yards between a pass and a run.
Yes, The Green Bay Packers did have a more difficult schedule,
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so we had a 2 game difference, where yes you played ATL where we played CAR. Otherwise we played SEA where you played SF... the difference is sheduling really isnt that much and it seems to be a pretty big stretch when you put into perspective that you only had 1 harder week then we did..... Although, that one harder week against ATL was 1 game removed from after a bye week, where our easiest game against CAR was 3 weeks before our bye....
To be fair to Rodgers, how would he know that she has cancer? Also, she never said anything to him/the camera man never said anything to him. He was listening to music and seemed in a zone. When Mathews walked out, the camera person said something to Mathews. If the camera man or the lady told Aaron Rodgers that this lady was looking for an autograph/she had cancer, I am sure he would have signed it.
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What a garbage hit piece. The guy is walking into work on one of the single biggest days of his career, he has every right to go about his business as he needs to at that time. Some guys can stay loose and do the whole autograph thing and not have it impact their play, some guys need to put themselves into a zone and stay there. Anybody calling out Rodgers on this is a full blown idiot.
To be fair to Rodgers, how would he know that she has cancer? Also, she never said anything to him/the camera man never said anything to him. He was listening to music and seemed in a zone. When Mathews walked out, the camera person said something to Mathews. If the camera man or the lady told Aaron Rodgers that this lady was looking for an autograph/she had cancer, I am sure he would have signed it.
Apparently, from what Matthews told her as signing, the stewardess had told everyone that she was there waiting.
Whatever, not a big deal, but optics look real poor here.
Honestly, that doesn't matter. He's there to work, not to sign autographs. I know people like to pretend like athletes owe every fan an autograph and a hug, but that's total BS. He has a job to do, and he shouldn't hear a peep out of anyone for doing what he needs to do in order to perform at his best. This isn't the pre-season, this isn't tuesday of a bye week, this is the playoffs.
Edit: Is this on the way back from Atlanta? If so that looks much worse, I thought it was on the way into the game. Still, I hate it when athletes get treated like they should be required to do every little thing anyone asks of them. It would be great if they could, but they're still human beings for christs sake. They get treated like they should do everything for everyone but they still have their own stuff to deal with too.
What a garbage hit piece. The guy is walking into work on one of the single biggest days of his career, he has every right to go about his business as he needs to at that time. Some guys can stay loose and do the whole autograph thing and not have it impact their play, some guys need to put themselves into a zone and stay there. Anybody calling out Rodgers on this is a full blown idiot.
To be fair, I posted it as more of a joke and am sure that Aaron Rodgers doesnt hate people with Cancer.
The 'jack-ass' Quaterback seems to the the theme in the NFC North this year as there are articles about Jay, Aaron and Brett (obviously) on their arrogance and flat out disregard for media personalities. To me it seems like the same treatment Darryl started getting for not co-operating with the media
Honestly, that doesn't matter. He's there to work, not to sign autographs. I know people like to pretend like athletes owe every fan an autograph and a hug, but that's total BS. He has a job to do, and he shouldn't hear a peep out of anyone for doing what he needs to do in order to perform at his best. This isn't the pre-season, this isn't tuesday of a bye week, this is the playoffs.
I doubt the private jet pulled up 10 minutes before game time in the Georgia Dome parking lot. Its one old lady awaiting the team in the airport, likely a day or two (maybe more) before kickoff.
To be fair, I posted it as more of a joke and am sure that Aaron Rodgers doesnt hate people with Cancer.
The 'jack-ass' Quaterback seems to the the theme in the NFC North this year as there are articles about Jay, Aaron and Brett (obviously) on their arrogance and flat out disregard for media personalities. To me it seems like the same treatment Darryl started getting for not co-operating with the media
Sorry, I could tell you were joking, I was more pissed at some of the articles and comments. Didn't mean to call you out there.
I doubt the private jet pulled up 10 minutes before game time in the Georgia Dome parking lot. Its one old lady awaiting the team in the airport, likely a day or two (maybe more) before kickoff.
I'm confused on the timing here, but my point still remains.
And if it's on the way to Atlanta I don't have any issue with it whatsoever. I played at a decently high level, no pressures anywhere close to those on Rodgers whatsoever though, and I started flipping the switch on thursday for a saturday game.
I'm confused on the timing here, but my point still remains.
And if it's on the way to Atlanta I don't have any issue with it whatsoever. I played at a decently high level, no pressures anywhere close to those on Rodgers whatsoever though, and I started flipping the switch on thursday for a saturday game.
I agree with you to a point. I know that there comes some resposibility as a professional athlete to sign autographs and etc for the fans, but your never going to get to all of them and you will always dissapoint someone. This just happens to look pretty bad on camera as it would if he rejected a child and the cancer story leading up to it makes it look 10x worse
The fake punt, the horrible clock management, the loss challenge in the 1st quarter and no half time adjustments that came even close to working. It may not have come down to that, but Rex Ryan certainly should be applauded for outcoaching him like that in Foxboro.
Patriots punter Zoltan Mesko said that the fake punt call was Patrick Chung's idea:
Hmm... would hate to be Chung right now...although im also surprised that a teammate would expose this as someone's direct fault... feels a bit like he is being thrown under the bus. He did have a big opening if he does take that snap clean
Too many dropped passes as well. Not Brady's best game, but I thought he played better than Sanchez, and Manning last week.
Manning had a QB rating of 109 last week and drove Indy into FG range for Vinatieri's 50 yard FG to take the lead with 53 seconds left. Special teams killed them in giving Cromartie a big return and then a bizarre timeout really hampered them. Brady had a QB rating of 89 on Sunday and that was with a last minute TD. If not for Crumpler hustling back from 50 yards away, he throws a pick 6 early. Neither played up to their standards, but Brady did not play better then Manning.
Manning threw for less yards (74 yards), and had one fewer touchdown than Brady.
Besides, of the 16 incompletes Brady had, I say 6 were due to bad receiver drops, 6 were forced passes (groundings for the most part), and 4-5 were Brady's fault entirely. I for one don't fault Brady for the loss somewhat. Deion Branch is no longer the deep threat he once was, especially compared to Randy Moss, or the Jets wide receiver core (Holmes, and even Edwards). Welker, and Woodhead are both nice short yardage guys, but Brady rarely threw the deep ball.
At least Manning still had Reggie Wayne to throw to last week.
The pick Brady threw was pretty crushing though. The Pats drove the ball pretty well in the first quarter, but to only come out with a field goal was a huge blow. Even if they get to the half only down 14-10 they probably end up winning the game. The INT, and the drop by Crumpler caused them the game imo.
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Manning threw for less yards (74 yards), and had one fewer touchdown than Brady.
Besides, of the 16 incompletes Brady had, I say 6 were due to bad receiver drops, 6 were forced passes (groundings for the most part), and 4-5 were Brady's fault entirely. I for one hardly fault Brady for the loss. Deion Branch is no longer the deep threat he once was, especially compared to Randy Moss, or the Jets wide receiver core (Holmes, and even Edwards). Welker, and Woodhead are both nice short yardage guys, but Brady rarely threw the deep ball.
At least Manning still had Reggie Wayne to throw to last week.
He also had 1 INT less then Brady that nullified a nice opening drive by NE that could have put them up 7-0 early that could have changed the game. 74 less passing yards on almost 20 fewer passing attempts. And the 1 TD with 20 seconds left hardly meant a thing. NY was giving them the short passes that late to avoid the big play. 109 QB rating to 89 QB rating as well. And Indy did not have 3 of it's top 5 offensive weapons either. Clark, Collie and Gonzalez were all injured. Jacob Tamme and Blair White hardly scare anybody. Revis did a great job on Wayne so all Manning had was Garcon.
I don't think it was Brady or Manning's fault they lost. Jets defense just played great and covered recievers.
Manning threw for less yards (74 yards), and had one fewer touchdown than Brady.
Besides, of the 16 incompletes Brady had, I say 6 were due to bad receiver drops, 6 were forced passes (groundings for the most part), and 4-5 were Brady's fault entirely. I for one don't fault Brady for the loss somewhat. Deion Branch is no longer the deep threat he once was, especially compared to Randy Moss, or the Jets wide receiver core (Holmes, and even Edwards). Welker, and Woodhead are both nice short yardage guys, but Brady rarely threw the deep ball.
At least Manning still had Reggie Wayne to throw to last week.
The pick Brady threw was pretty crushing though. The Pats drove the ball pretty well in the first quarter, but to only come out with a field goal was a huge blow. Even if they get to the half only down 14-10 they probably end up winning the game. The INT, and the drop by Crumpler caused them the game imo.
Brady had the better season of the two and I don't pin that loss on him, but you can't talk about that game and not mention his brutal clock management on that 4th quarter drive.
