I don’t know why linesmen on both sides don’t get paid more.
I can only wonder about how New England will salivate after watching the NFC championship game. I’d be thinking ‘Those are the best the NFC has?’
I don’t think the Superbowl outcome is a given. Last year showed what a superstar defense can do to a superstar offense.
One thing for sure (IMHO), both teams deserve to be there, tho I hate saying that about either franchise
The ends are eligible or not based solely on their position as an uncovered (the furthest outside) player on the line. Reporting to the referee as eligible is based on having a jersey number that is not appropriate to your position on the line. As That Don Guy said numbers 70-79 are reserved for tackles, in general, and thus need to report when they are positioned as ends.
Interestingly, players with receiver-type jersey numbers don’t need to report if they line up in positions that would render them INeligible.
Well I hope the Superbowl is a lot more competitive in the first 3 3/4 quarters than these games were.
ETA: Not that I’d be against a monster comeback that resulted in an OT.
My friend had a “Legion of Boom” T-Shirt with 31, 29, 25 and 39 – except, there is no 39 on the Seahawks. That was Brandon Browner who, as it happens, is currently wearing a Patriots uniform.
According to Golic, yes they do. He went on and on explaining that after last week’s Patriots-Ravens game, when one of the big plays that got the Ravens so pissed was on a play where a wide receiver properly declared himself ineligible to the refs.
Go Patriots! Firmly on the Patriots bandwagon, as any Superbowl win after 2011 further validates the two Giants rings.
That was a brutal stat for the NFC North about NFC Championship games that went to OT. It’s now happened five times, and four of those five times, the loser was from the NFC North. (Packers twice, Vikings twice.)
Not relevant to anything, Giants have two of those OT wins.
I think it’s far more likely that the NFC game was close because both of those teams are good, Indy isn’t.
The Packers only scored 22 points despite getting FIVE turnovers - Seattle’s defense is for real. It’ll be interesting to see if the Patriots can replicate the Packer’s relative success against their offense.
FWIW, the immediate Vegas line was Seahawks -2, and betting quickly pushed it to Pick 'Em.
The Seattle D was the reason the Pack didn’t run away with the game early. No doubt. However the Seattle O (and Special Teams) didn’t show up until very late in the game.
If you ask all the bookies why Seattle would win would it even come close to what happned?
They can salivate all they want, Seattle is posted a slight favorite in the game, and was a 3 point favorite to win the Bowl before the AFC game started.
Watching the performances today, I would confidently pick the Patriots to romp all over the Seahawks at the Superbowl.
Of course, if you had asked me one year ago, I would have confidently picked the Broncos to romp all over the Seahawks at the Superbowl.
Which is why one shouldn’t make a decision based on one week’s worth of games, no?
I was going from the 1994 edition, Rule 7.2.3 (supplemental note). And after reading it again I’m absolutely wrong, at least the part re reporting. I appreciate the catch.
And twenty years between editions is long enough…
Green Bay did beat the Patriots in November, 26-21, in Green Bay. But, as we saw in the college games, just because A beat B and B beat C is no guarantee that A will beat C.
MVP for the Seahawks-Packers game: The people they put on their kicking team.
Miracle kicking. First, the touchdown pass from the kicking unit, then the onside miracle.
Pay those people more money.
Who was that guy, Sherman, who kept playing with an obviously effed up arm?
And was still playing well enough that the offense didn’t just direct all their energies against that one guy?
Hella respect.
I’m a Patriots fan and although I could sit here and poke fun at the Seahawks for an overall very ugly performance, I’m not going to.
They came back from way behind, and played more than 4 quarters of football, and the Packers seemed to stop playing after 3 1/2. So the win might not feel deserved, but you can’t just run out of steam like that and hope everything will be okay.
And if your kicking team is throwing touchdowns and giving you the ball right back after touchdowns, and you got guys with hyperextended arms threatening their offense, then you have heart.
I respect that.
All all the Pats haters can hate, and that’s fine. It’s nice being the biggest junkyard dog that everyone hates. I’m still going to show respect to Seattle because not quitting and continuing play until the last possible second for a win is why my team is the biggest junkyard dog. The Pats have won some ugly, ugly, desperate, come from behind games.
But a win is a win, at the end of the day.
Champions play to win. Runners up give up before the finish line.
One led by Peyton “Big Game” Manning, anyhow.
Still…
This Superbowl is stacked up to be a pretty decent game, I think. When Seattle plays hard D and Lynch goes into “Beast Mode,” they have the chops to beat anyone. When NE’s offense clicks on all cylinders {the Brady to Gronk pipeline is assisted by a good running game}, and their D gets behind the O-line on running plays as well as pressuring the QB, look out.
Sure, seems obvious to say it like that, but these two teams are peaking at the right time. I wonder if we’ll see the first OT in SB?
The Seahawks won’t play as sloppily in the Super Bowl. I think that was their rare really sloppy game. Next game, you’re going to see NE struggle to put points up. There will be no blowout.
Things are gonna tighten up. Hawks need to do their homework, though. You either need to counter the Pat’s eligible player scheme, or you need to copy it and beat them at their own game.
You know it
12th MAN!!
Believe in yourself and stay the course.
He KNEW Kerse was going to get the touchdown pass. That’s confidence in your teammate.
Believe in God and Baby Jesus since they both drink at Starbucks.
12th MAN!!!