Great playoffs so far in the NFL. The Romo play dominated the headline last weekend when Dallas and the Giants lost to Seattle and Phily respectively in the NFC. AFC sent the Patriots and the Colts to the Divisional round. This past weekend, the headliner was the Patriots at the Chargers. Another heart-breaking loss for Marty. I think he is really unlucky. The play where the Chargers intercepted Brady only to lose it on a fumble is what you might call "unlucky". But, from the Patriots perspective, that was a great play by Troy Brown. That guy is just awesome and the Hooded sweat-shirt is lucky to have him. Unlucky or not, Marty did screw up a few things. My main beef on this one were the timeouts. The Chargers had no business using all 3 before that last drive. Marty should have never challenged that interception-fumble play as big as that play was, and I don't even know what happened with the other 2 timeouts. One more timeout, and Rivers could have gotten another 5 or 10 yards closer for Nate Keading. Now Marty is 5-13 in the playoffs and they say his job is in danger. The Patriots are moving on again. Their defense looks suspect. Brady actually had a bad game. But still they just win. May be they are just better prepared and coached. I think you need to give the Devil it's due and say it's Brady and Belichick's greatness that win these games for the Patriots. Now they are going to Indy for the AFC championship.
I think the Colts win this home AFC championship game against the Pats. The Pats are just not that good defensively and I don't know how they are going to stop Manning and the boys. Peyton is having a horrible playoffs himself with 5 INTs and that might have to continue for the Pats to win. The Colts have played 2 great defensive games and the Pats may not be able to run against them either. This might be the year, Peyton makes the Super Bowl. I would love that for him and Tony Dungy too. But then again, would any of us be surprised if the Pats make it again? Colts beat the Ravens in a defensive struggle and ran the ball effectively on the Ravens D. Dominic Rhodes came through for them big-time in the second half after Addai was up-and-down in the first half. Steve McNair had a critical interception at the goal-line and couldn't move the ball with any effectiveness at all. For all the talk of Brian Billick's offensive genius back in the day, his offense has been a complete failure in Baltimore since the day he took over.
On the NFC side, the games were real close. Chicago beat Seattle in OT. Both teams had several chances to win this game and Seattle couldn't get it done. Rex was decent and made a couple of key plays to win the game. In the other game, New Orleans played well to put Phily away. Duece McAllister, the forgotten man, came through big for the Saints. The Eagles just could not stop him and the Jeff Garcia world tour came to an end.
In other news, LT threw a tantrum at the end of the Chargers game and even called Belichick classless! Shocking to hear that coming from LT. Not sure what happened, but LT seemed to over-react to the Pats dancing on the Chargers midfield.
Indianapolis @ Baltimore - 15-6
Philadelphia @ New Orleans - 24-27
Seattle @ Chicago - 24-27
New England @ San Diego - 24-21
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