19-0 CURSE OF THE PERFECT SEASON
by kinky on Sep 22, 2009 6:06 PM EDT
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This is just speculation. Just like the curse of the bambino. The Patriots are victims of their own bad karma. Spygate tainted their 3 Super Bowl wins and their claims of dynasty. The unfortunate and irresponsible printing of the 19-0 book by the Boston Globe. The book was printed the week of the Super Bowl before the game was played. Im sure everybody knows what happens next the Patriots lost the Super Bowl in the biggest upset in Super Bowl history. Let's look at last year the Golden Boy Tom Brady gets injured in the first quarter of the First game in a freak injury torn acl he's out for the season. That's ok the Patriots have Matt Cassel come in and lead them to 11 wins so maybe there's not a curse. But wait they don't make the playoffs and become the team with the most wins to miss the postseason ouch. Before Tom Brady recovers fully from knee surgery Bill Bellicheck outsmarts himself by trading Matt Cassel for a second round pick oh yeah lets just include Mike Vrabel to make the deal that much better. This year Tom Brady looks like he has Steve Young Syndrome that's when the the quarterback is scared to death of all 11 defensive players mistaking them all for the grim reaper. Tom Brady's case is not as bad as Steve Young's in his last season but once a quarterback loses his air of invincibility the fear grows with every hit. Only time will tell if there is a curse or not but looks like its gonna be a long cold season.
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Are you naive or just an idiot?
The Giants had their book on pre-order too.
Here is an excerpt of the AP article from January of 2008: The Globe isn’t the only publisher jumping the gun. “New York Giants: 2008 Super Bowl Champions” is also available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. The book, published by Sports Publishing Inc., goes for $10.17.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the Amazon site said for both books: “This title has not yet been released. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives.”
It’s become standard procedure for writers to prepare for an early release of a book commemorating the win, even though it hasn’t even been completed or the outcome known.
As to your other points, they are really too juvenile to even refute. Did you happen to check out Peyton Manning’s statistics in 2008, the year he came back from knee surgery? The first half of the season the Colts were 4-4. Nine of his 12 interceptions for the year were in the first half. Nine of the 14 times he was sacked (losing 62 yards out of 86 total) were also in the first half. Manning went on to become the MVP of the league.
Did it ever occur to you that it might be tough for even an elite QB to come back from major knee surgery and missing an entire season? That just may have something to do with his sluggish start. I’m thinking that you just like typing the word ‘karma’ because you think it makes you sound smart. It doesn’t.
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Sep 22, 2009 6:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
look at it this way
If some internet troller takes the time to write up a (poorly composed) fan-shot denigrating the team, it means the team is strong enough to make them scared.
by jctsai12 on Sep 22, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good Call
Pretty sure you won’t find articles like this on the Lions or Rams blogs.
by Justin_Bobo on Sep 23, 2009 7:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yet again, Brady and Manning are directly comparable
Manning, coming off injury and surgery, looked like an average QB for the first half of 2008; half the knee-jerk writers/prognosicators/idiots who follow the NFL were predicting his demise. The self-same writers were saying how all defensive backs in the league were waiting to have interceptions dropping in their laps; linebackers were queueing up for sacks. They were measuring Manning’s career so they could prepare an adequate coffin for it.
Then he got healthy, got comfortable and got some game-time under his belt and torched the league.
Brady had 18 months out of football. He has had what… 50 snaps… in 18 months? He’s bound to be out of football shape, mentally and physically. A curse? Please.
by Comedic.Sans on Sep 22, 2009 7:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
why does everything have to be a curse.
ITs called tradining/losing most major pieces of your team. Vrabel, Bruschi, Mayo, Welker, Harrison, and Seymor arent going to forgotten easily.
In Kobe we trust!
by robi s on Sep 22, 2009 10:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
curse and karma
it explains everything to the ignorant, stupid and lazy.
No one can earn anything on merit, and it’s never anyone’s fault. The ultimate cop-out response for those who are incapable of exercising their brains or thinking for themselves.
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Sep 23, 2009 6:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Curse is BS
The NFL always have 2-3-4-5 teams that are dreadful over a long period of time and 2-3-4-5 teams that are elite over a long period of time. The last ten years the Patriots have been an elite team, so if it simply slides back to the 80 percent of the league which is mediocre – like the Jets or the Vikings: sometimes they make the playoffs, sometimes they win 5 games – it is a simple regression to the mean, not a curse.
by hythlodaeus on Sep 23, 2009 8:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You need to get off the crack pipe.
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory...lasts forever."-Shane Falco, "The Replacements"
by Ironman63 on Sep 23, 2009 1:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
kinky, what you’ve just posted here is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no recs and may God have mercy on your soul.
by RSNexile on Sep 23, 2009 3:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
No wonder Jets fans claim to be suffering from a curse
they’re all a few neurons short of a synapse. I wonder if I’d get cogent responses if I posted “Bambino banana curse curse Steve Young chainsaw karma” on their site. It’s tempting to see.
by Comedic.Sans on Sep 23, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Billy Madison is funny……. but it should be blockquoted ;)
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying
by J2 on Sep 24, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rec'd
This man is truly a genius. He is obviously so much smarter than everyone else that we cannot even comprehend the true extent of his geniusnous. If you replaced Bill Belichick with him he would easily lead you to a 19-0 season while simultaneously unraveling the meaning of life and finding the cure for cancer. He is what you would get if Steven Hawking and Jesus had a baby. You are truly blessed to have him posting on your site. You truly, truly deserve him…
"Flying blind on a rocket cycle?" -Vultan, from the movie "Flash Gordon", for no particular reason...
by peytonsurdaddy on Sep 24, 2009 1:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
ummm... thanks?
I’m sure you’ve been blessed with your own special doozies geniuses over there as well.
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Sep 24, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
… “geniusnous”? Fivehead would hang his gigantic melon in shame.
by Comedic.Sans on Sep 24, 2009 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Always critimacizin' people...
"Flying blind on a rocket cycle?" -Vultan, from the movie "Flash Gordon", for no particular reason...
by peytonsurdaddy on Sep 24, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe it's a curse?
And thus, not my fault. It’s just fate/karma/planetary alignment. Huzzah!
by Comedic.Sans on Sep 25, 2009 5:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here ya go.
1) Nothing’s tainted according to the NFL, and they matter infinitely more than you can even dream of mattering.
2) Brady is fine.
3) You can fit what you know about football on the head of a pin.
Warm up the Duck Boats!!!
by BabeParilli on Sep 25, 2009 12:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
But would angels dance on it?
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by Dave the Falconer on Sep 25, 2009 1:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No
Even that much crap on a pin-head would be slippery.
by Comedic.Sans on Sep 25, 2009 5:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why would he...
Want to fit everything he knows on your head?;)
"Flying blind on a rocket cycle?" -Vultan, from the movie "Flash Gordon", for no particular reason...
by peytonsurdaddy on Sep 25, 2009 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't you
have a tractor pull you need be attending?
Warm up the Duck Boats!!!
by BabeParilli on Sep 26, 2009 2:47 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Already there...
I’m commenting from my iPhone.
"Flying blind on a rocket cycle?" -Vultan, from the movie "Flash Gordon", for no particular reason...
by peytonsurdaddy on Sep 26, 2009 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Pats should take a leaf out of the Colts defensive training book
and learn how to tackle by chasing around greased pigs for the 6 months of the offseason :) Haha.
by Comedic.Sans on Sep 26, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I do. We had a few in B-more- Peter Angelos, Brian Billick, Glenn Davis and Travis Tayor.
by raven on Sep 29, 2009 11:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Billick was fun to have coaching in the league
(maybe not on our team but…) That sideline kiss he blew to Rodney Harrison was a classic.
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Sep 30, 2009 7:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
at least Billick won a SB
so for all the wierdness afterword, you could still have 1999-2000. I was there – that was a very special team.
As for the other names… Travis Taylor was simply a bust draft choice. Those happen all the time.
Angelos …. yeah, he was a classic sports franchise ownership curse personified.
Glenn Davis – oh my god. For those that are too young: That probably was the worst trade outcome to happen to the Orioles organization in decades. Geeze I feel for that guy because so many blame him personally for what happened. The guy simply had the most freak career ending injury. If I recall, he actually was playing great (4 HRs in 12 Games to start that season) and then poof. It was “Times Up!”. Freak neck/nerve injury that eliminated one of the games best power hitters just like that. Gone. It wouldn’t have been so bad except that they gave up Steve Finley, Pete Harnish and Curt Schilling to get him.
I don’t know if the Davis event counts as a ‘curse’. Its more of just a really terrible event that had bad repercussions. A curse causes the bad events to happen so the real curse must have been something before that.
Heh, memories.
by mmmmm on Oct 5, 2009 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s not a bad guy just fun to rag. He couldn’t get out of his own way on offence. When he was in Minn. a player said they would change the calls in the huddle. LOL. Then again, they did have 4-5 Pro-Bowlers on that O.
by raven on Sep 30, 2009 11:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
And the calls they'd change it to would still presumably be in the coach's playbook
So even if the players are changing the call, they’re still basing it on the coaching they’ve received. If players changing the calls on the field made Offensive Co-ordinators completely redundant, the Colts wouldn’t bother hiring one – Manning’s bound to change the play anyway, if only out of sheer force of habit. If he isn’t flapping his arms and calling audibles, fake audibles or weird chicken noises, he isn’t playing.
by Comedic.Sans on Oct 1, 2009 6:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
makes me wonder
just how deep the audible stack is for Manning. I get the feeling most teams have just a handful of audibles from each formation while with Manning I think he must have a dozen for each down & set! Hell, he’s such a football nerd he probably would have more but his poor teammates would rebel at having to memorize all of them!
by mmmmm on Oct 5, 2009 3:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I remember one of the Colts defensive players saying
that most of what Manning spews are fake-audibles. He’ll say in the huddle “ignore x, y and z calls” and then he’ll wander up and say them all on the line of scrimmage, with the real one buried in it somewhere. Add in fake-audibles he makes up on the spot, and even the Colts defensive players who’ve been with the team for years have no idea what he’s audibling the calls to.
by Comedic.Sans on Oct 5, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe, but to be realistic (and to get the defense to change), you’d want the offense to change set in response to each audible otherwise the defense should just ignore it.
by mmmmm on Oct 5, 2009 6:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think part of what was meant
was that a few of them aren’t actually intended to change the play, but mess with the formation. I’ve noticed some of them put a TE in motion, and promptly the TE motions back to the initial position. In the meantime, Manning’s seen how the defence adjusts, realises they’re in zone/man, whatever, and calls another audible accordingly.
by Comedic.Sans on Oct 5, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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