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Evans was on DA last nite and D&C this morning.
Really intriguing - albeit painful - stuff. Gives some behind the scenes insight and a look at it we haven't quite heard before.
On DA last nite, he said he and Pioli were talking in Mobile this week, and Scott said that they were a "tired, exhausted football team."
Sounds like they just ran out of gas.
It Is What It Is » Heath Evans on D&C: ‘I’m going to second-guess Bill Belichick’ on some decisions before Super Bowl XLII
Really intriguing - albeit painful - stuff. Gives some behind the scenes insight and a look at it we haven't quite heard before.
On DA last nite, he said he and Pioli were talking in Mobile this week, and Scott said that they were a "tired, exhausted football team."
Sounds like they just ran out of gas.
It Is What It Is » Heath Evans on D&C: ‘I’m going to second-guess Bill Belichick’ on some decisions before Super Bowl XLII
We all completely agreed with the full pads Thursday Friday Saturday in Foxboro, the bye week. When we get to Phoenix, Wednesday was kind of a lackluster practice and I think Bill kind of thought maybe we were overlooking the [Giants] team. I don’t think we were. It was just, you have a bad day. Bill opted to put us in pads again on Thursday, which is that the reason we lost the game? Probably not. But if there was a way to freshen us up …
"You flash back to 2007, the game plan was to run the football. We had some key mistakes early on in the game. Josh McDaniels, Bill Belichick elected to get away from the run game, put the weight of the world on Tom Brady‘s shoulders. Ultimately, he did his job.
“Yes, 14 points, people said, ‘No, you should have scored more,’ but he drove us down the field. We scored. Just left a little too much time for young Eli Manning at the time.”
But the better team won that day so it’s not an excuse, but you get done with the season and you reflect back and you’re just like, ‘Wow. We were a tired football team.’”
“The second thing which is kind of odd and I would suspect they would do it again this year too. Saturday night, kind of the rule of thumb is let’s get the players and the team away from the family/team hotel, away from all the distractions. Let’s put them where we can kind of get on a normal Saturday night routine so everything is structured perfectly like it’s been from Week 1 through Week 18. It really kind of backfired.
“The hotel was horrendous. We literally had guys with M-16s walking around the outside of our hotel. They warned us, ‘Don’t go outside by yourself.’ We were literally in the hood of Arizona. My room smelled like smoke. I remember Randy Moss being like, ‘I can’t sleep in this place. It’s like sleeping on a plywood.’ … but it was just little things like that. Again, is it the reason we lost? I don’t know. But you look back. Hindsight’s 20/20 and you say, what if?”
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