By Mark La Monica
Feel free to post pictures of cheese in the comments section here because this is some serious whining coming up. Maybe not as bad as LaDainian Tomlinson after the game, but close.
Fourth-and-friggin-5, down eight points with 6:25 left.
Tom Brady throws an interception, promptly fumbled away by intercepter Marlin McCree and recovered by, of course, the Patriots!
(Turn on Joe Benigno voice now.)
You just knew that when Brady threw that interception, the Patriots were going to still win the game.
(Turn off Joe Benigno voice now.)
(Turn on Tom Jackson voice now.)
Hey, McCree, it's fourth down. KNOCK IT DOWN!
(Turn off Tom Jackson voice now.)
If you needed more reason to hate on the Patriots for always managing to pull something out of their patoots to win, here it is.
Some call it "finding a way to win." I call it "pure bullschtein."
This is really just me whining about how the Patriots win every playoff game ever and I realize this. However, can someone please show me the schematic for the "throw an interception, then strip the defender" play in Belichick's playbook? I'm sure he probably has one.
Comments (5)
As a NY transplant living here in Pat's country (NH), it is hard to stomach the seemingly endless string of good fortune this team has. I mean c'mon! Brady has a very subpar game and they still win. That INT-fumble was classic!! That was the game! It was over! That's just the way it goes up here. And I have to listen to these spoiled kool-aid drinking knuckleheads for yet another week. One can only hope that when the wheels FINALLY fall off -when Brady retires or is finally hurt in a very bad way - that they really fall off. In the meantime, I always have two teams to root for - my fav team, and whoever the Pats are playing that week. GO COLTS!!!
It's called having smart, heads up players to begin with, and then preparing them for all contingencies. It's having a WR play DB where he can practice ball stripping. It's coaching kick coverage players not to go for the ball if the returner fumbles it but instead hit the returner so he can't fall on the ball and it stays loose on the ground thereby increasing the likelihood that there will be a recovery by your team.
In other words, it's front office and coaching. And while you cannot diagram, with Xs and Os, an interception and a strip/fumble, you can prepare your players for all situations that might arise. That takes a coach who pays attention to detail and who has been burned in the past by certain things and then acts to correct it going forward.
This is not a matter of luck. It is a matter of design.
Sound like a Yankees fan to me, howie roever.
How does it feel on the other side?
Chuck Mayhew,
Clinton, Ma
Gads - I've come to dislike the Patriots intensely. Its just not fair that every break goes their way.
And I'm so sick of all the praise heaped on Brady. Sure, hes not bad under pressure. But so many people are ready to appoint him to the right hand of God.
HE THREW A CRITICAL INTERCEPTION! And then the Pats got very, very lucky! Lets here the announcers say that, "This guy is the luckiest SOB on Earth." Because that's the truth.
The Patriots have got to be the luckiest team I have ever seen.
I think players are so rich and full of themselves that they think there above learning the most fundamental of plays. Like when it's fourth down, just knock the ball down. Duh!!!