Comments on: Bullet Dodged

By: Clothes dryers.

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By: jamesgarnerisgod

jamesgarnerisgod — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:36:20 +0000

“They’re simply tools to influence betting behavior.” God save me from my own poor spelling in the blogosphere.

By: ozzy

ozzy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:34:09 +0000

Its amazing that the Pats almost lost to a girls field hockey team they pulled off the bus from Cranston. Oh, you mean the Eagles are an actual NFL team with a .500 record. You would have never known it listening to the post game “experts”. The old adage that if you give ANY NFL quarterback enough time, he’ll kill you was never more on display than last night.

By: jamesgarnerisgod

jamesgarnerisgod — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:33:46 +0000

The fact is, the Patriots o-line was overwhelmed for most of the game — not so overwhelmed that Brady couldn’t move the ball, but overwhelmed enough that the offense couldn’t impose its will as we’ve become accustomed to seeing. Part of that was because the offense looked like BC’s in the first half, totally one-dimensional. While the passes were working, they also served to alert Jim Johnson to the fact that Brady would be going out there empty in the backfield, so he should keep up the blitzing. That also worked.

The game reminded me of the first round of Hagler-Leonard, where both men just came out slugging and, eventually, one was going to weaken.

I wasn’t surprised by the outcome: Point spreads are sometimes mistaken for a scientific analysis of a team’s ability, when in fact their simply tools to influence betting behavior: Had gamblers jumped on the 23 point spread, or whatever it was, early on, the spread would have quickly dropped to the teens or maybe even 10 or so — would that mean Philadelphia had suddenly gotten better? Of course not — it just would have meant the vigarish (sp??) would have been getting closer to his desired 50-50 split of Pats and Eagles bettors.

What was surprising, though, was the strength of the Eagles o-line, and a savvy game plan of having Feeley get rid of the ball ASAP inside the numbers, as Scott points out.

Bad news: The Pats weren’t their usual dominant selves. Good news: The Pats have proven they can win the tough ones this year.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:07:44 +0000

I think the whole ‘blueprint’ thing is overblown. It’s one thing to have the blueprint and quite another to have the personnel necessary to carry it out. Philadelphia had both the plan and the execution to nearly pull this one off, but the remaining eight teams that we’ll face (presuming we’ll get to the Super Bowl) need to execute as well as–and better than–Philadelphia did for New England to lose. Simply handing over a ‘blueprint’ won’t do the job.

By: Marima

Marima — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:49:03 +0000

I almost feel bad about what’s going to hit the Ravens next week, after the humbling, mere three point win, last night.

The Randy Moss touchdown takeaway was just plain bogus, and we all came to the same conclusion at the time — that the officials were instructed to call Moss if there were any contact whatsoever. Hey, we’ve survived bad calls before, right? At least they made the right call against the Eagles on the neutral zone infraction, giving the Pats a first down.

A game ball should also go to Logan Mankins. Take a look at Laurence Maroney’s touchdown again when you get the chance. Mankins practically pushes him into the endzone for the score. We replayed that one a few times, as well as earlier when Mankins was blocking three defenders at once. How good is this guy?!? He’s a beast!

By: TB1

TB1 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:40 +0000

Agree on the Moss issue. I came away saying they played a C game against a team that was flying from the start and still were one judgement call from 38 points. The O-Line penalties and the drops tell me they were not eating their HUMBLE PIE this last week…should get a large dose of it this week though.

By: Nopointe

Nopointe — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:01:13 +0000

The Eagles have looked ok on occasion this year. They were going for a feast or famine plan, and the breaks went their way. I guess if you’re playing the Pats you should just be aggressive and take chances – if they go for you then you have a chance, if they go against you .. giving up the onside kick, turning the ball over after passing up a field goal then you’ll get blown out, but if you don’t take chances you’ll get blown out anyways.

By: Beaker

Beaker — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:58:15 +0000

I thought the same thing about the Moss interference call. It reminded me of guys who win the Gold Glove in baseball…not based necessarily on what they did that year but on the cumulative ‘body of work’. He’s pushed off a lot more than that before.