Mike Lupica talked yesterday about how this Super Bowl would be a battle of legacies. He's also right that Deflategate was a silly diversion. You have to laugh at what he calls the 'Old QB's club'-Aikman, Bradshaw, and Simms, et. al.-no one is a bigger fan of Simms than me- declaring that Brady's legacy is tainted.
"There were so many false narratives about DeflateGate you lose track by now, starting with the ones from all the loud ex-quarterbacks — the Old Quarterbacks Club doesn’t seem like such a fun fraternity to join anymore — who all threw Tom Brady under the nearest Super Bowl party bus."
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/lupica-battle-legacies-article-1.2099199
We kept hearing is this talk about Deflategate: 'It's called cheating.' Well we know what all this talk from the Old QB's club is: it's called sour grapes. With this win Brady's legacy-which was already tremendous-is simply cemented. You just can't say enough about how much this franchise as achieved the last 14 years going back to Brady's first year as a starter.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/02/bellichick-and-brady-may-be-greatest.html
I will go out on this limb: Bellichick is the greatest coach of the SB era and Brady is the greatest QB bar none. I explain a lot of why I say that in the link above, but for me it comes down to 1 word: longevity. In that department-and I consider it the most important department-nobody comes close-not Noll, and Bradshaw-actually Noll had longevity but his teams were ordinary after the 70s ended-not Montana not Walsh; Walsh actually did a Tiki Barber and retired too early.
No one compares to these 2 men, no one. Again, I'm a Giants fan so I'd rather talk about Eli and Tom Coughlin-we can at least boast to have been the Patriot killers-but as to longevity and consistency forget about it: no one comes close to New England.
As to the game itself Mike and Mike on ESPN this morning made some good points. Mike Greenburg points out that the 85 Bears have nothing to worry about-Seattle's performance didn't come close. Yes-in last night's game that's true, but is that the fair comparison? If you want to compare a team to th 85 Bears shouldn't it be the 2013 Seahawks rather than 2014?
If you compare the 2014 Hawks to the 1986 Bears the they win the comparison as the Bears as great as they were for 1 year never got back to the SB.
Still, Greenburg's point is well taken: Seattle's defense hardly distinguished itself in the 4th quarter. Yet, I think this underscores why you can't blame this all on the one play where everyone thinks that they should have given the ball to Marshawn Lynch on that last play on the 1 yard line.
Even though often games seem to hinge on one play games really don't come down to one play. Seattle's defense let Brady pick it apart when in mattered in the 4th quarter. Mike Golic also makes a great point-as a former great defensive player he wants to speak up for the defense a little-sure the defense didn't play well in the 4th, the offense sure didn't help either by going three and out again and again in the 4th till that final drive where the Hawks almost pulled one out after the crazy catch by Shane Vereen that everyone thought was on the ground.
Often what seems like bad defense is bad offense or special teams. My new theory is that you have to compare a team's points scored vs yards gained and points allowed vs. yards allowed. If these numbers don't mesh it's quite possible the other unit and the special teams more at fault.
In last night's game the Hawks didn't play well in the 4th in any phase of the game. They almost stole the game after Vereen but they really hadn't earned the game the way the played on both sides of the ball in the 4th quarter.
UPDATE: I wrongly identified Shane Vereen when it was Jermaine Kearse who had the big catch that almost won it for Seattle.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/jermaine-kearse-s-insane-super-bowl-catch-that-didn-t-end-up-mattering-054654958.html
"There were so many false narratives about DeflateGate you lose track by now, starting with the ones from all the loud ex-quarterbacks — the Old Quarterbacks Club doesn’t seem like such a fun fraternity to join anymore — who all threw Tom Brady under the nearest Super Bowl party bus."
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/lupica-battle-legacies-article-1.2099199
We kept hearing is this talk about Deflategate: 'It's called cheating.' Well we know what all this talk from the Old QB's club is: it's called sour grapes. With this win Brady's legacy-which was already tremendous-is simply cemented. You just can't say enough about how much this franchise as achieved the last 14 years going back to Brady's first year as a starter.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/02/bellichick-and-brady-may-be-greatest.html
I will go out on this limb: Bellichick is the greatest coach of the SB era and Brady is the greatest QB bar none. I explain a lot of why I say that in the link above, but for me it comes down to 1 word: longevity. In that department-and I consider it the most important department-nobody comes close-not Noll, and Bradshaw-actually Noll had longevity but his teams were ordinary after the 70s ended-not Montana not Walsh; Walsh actually did a Tiki Barber and retired too early.
No one compares to these 2 men, no one. Again, I'm a Giants fan so I'd rather talk about Eli and Tom Coughlin-we can at least boast to have been the Patriot killers-but as to longevity and consistency forget about it: no one comes close to New England.
As to the game itself Mike and Mike on ESPN this morning made some good points. Mike Greenburg points out that the 85 Bears have nothing to worry about-Seattle's performance didn't come close. Yes-in last night's game that's true, but is that the fair comparison? If you want to compare a team to th 85 Bears shouldn't it be the 2013 Seahawks rather than 2014?
If you compare the 2014 Hawks to the 1986 Bears the they win the comparison as the Bears as great as they were for 1 year never got back to the SB.
Still, Greenburg's point is well taken: Seattle's defense hardly distinguished itself in the 4th quarter. Yet, I think this underscores why you can't blame this all on the one play where everyone thinks that they should have given the ball to Marshawn Lynch on that last play on the 1 yard line.
Even though often games seem to hinge on one play games really don't come down to one play. Seattle's defense let Brady pick it apart when in mattered in the 4th quarter. Mike Golic also makes a great point-as a former great defensive player he wants to speak up for the defense a little-sure the defense didn't play well in the 4th, the offense sure didn't help either by going three and out again and again in the 4th till that final drive where the Hawks almost pulled one out after the crazy catch by Shane Vereen that everyone thought was on the ground.
Often what seems like bad defense is bad offense or special teams. My new theory is that you have to compare a team's points scored vs yards gained and points allowed vs. yards allowed. If these numbers don't mesh it's quite possible the other unit and the special teams more at fault.
In last night's game the Hawks didn't play well in the 4th in any phase of the game. They almost stole the game after Vereen but they really hadn't earned the game the way the played on both sides of the ball in the 4th quarter.
UPDATE: I wrongly identified Shane Vereen when it was Jermaine Kearse who had the big catch that almost won it for Seattle.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/jermaine-kearse-s-insane-super-bowl-catch-that-didn-t-end-up-mattering-054654958.html
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