*sigh*
Well, can't say much on that one, other than to say Eli played great when it mattered. Frustrating, so many missed opportunities. Several forced fumbles that just didn't take the right bounce for the Pats to recover, couple key drops in the 2nd to last drive (the one with 4 min left). Welker catches that pass almost every time, and if he grabs it, that's another couple minutes off the clock, and likely field goal range, so Giants would have been way down with no time on the clock. The interception where Brady just underthrew Gronk, who was open by about 5 yards and had to come back on it. Hell, even the tipped Hail Mary at the end, Hernandez made a good play on it, but was just swarmed. Tipped it, headed towards Gronk, and just out of reach.
Frustrating. Was feeling good when they came out and got a TD after halftime, moved things nicely. Just never scored again. One more score, or even another 1st down to kill clock would have been enough.
Good game to watch either way. See people bitching because it wasn't 87-85 or something, but this was a pretty good game right down to the wire, can't ask for much more (if you don't have a dog in the fight, anyway).
Commercials pretty much sucked, and the Madonna thing was just a huge, boring disconnect from the game, i don't get why they went with that. Just too long and OFF for the whole thing. At least when they dragged out the corpses of the Who, the Stones, McCartney, Tom Petty, or U2, the music was really going and kinda worked. Madonna's show? Ugh.
As for the TD at the end? Exactly what should have happened (from the Pats viewpoint). They were going to kill the clock and get a gimme FG, so since you were up by 2 (before the TD), let them score and get the ball back. It was definitely intentional, they cleared the hole nicely. Spikes even came into the frame to knock the RB into the end zone if he tried to take a knee. If you don't let them score, you lose. By letting them in, at least Brady had a minute to try and take a few shots, and had a chance...
Well, can't say much on that one, other than to say Eli played great when it mattered. Frustrating, so many missed opportunities. Several forced fumbles that just didn't take the right bounce for the Pats to recover, couple key drops in the 2nd to last drive (the one with 4 min left). Welker catches that pass almost every time, and if he grabs it, that's another couple minutes off the clock, and likely field goal range, so Giants would have been way down with no time on the clock. The interception where Brady just underthrew Gronk, who was open by about 5 yards and had to come back on it. Hell, even the tipped Hail Mary at the end, Hernandez made a good play on it, but was just swarmed. Tipped it, headed towards Gronk, and just out of reach.
Frustrating. Was feeling good when they came out and got a TD after halftime, moved things nicely. Just never scored again. One more score, or even another 1st down to kill clock would have been enough.
Good game to watch either way. See people bitching because it wasn't 87-85 or something, but this was a pretty good game right down to the wire, can't ask for much more (if you don't have a dog in the fight, anyway).
Commercials pretty much sucked, and the Madonna thing was just a huge, boring disconnect from the game, i don't get why they went with that. Just too long and OFF for the whole thing. At least when they dragged out the corpses of the Who, the Stones, McCartney, Tom Petty, or U2, the music was really going and kinda worked. Madonna's show? Ugh.
As for the TD at the end? Exactly what should have happened (from the Pats viewpoint). They were going to kill the clock and get a gimme FG, so since you were up by 2 (before the TD), let them score and get the ball back. It was definitely intentional, they cleared the hole nicely. Spikes even came into the frame to knock the RB into the end zone if he tried to take a knee. If you don't let them score, you lose. By letting them in, at least Brady had a minute to try and take a few shots, and had a chance...
