Who's gonna watch the AFC Championship Replay tonight?

[Mooch]

After re-watching that game last night, I never want to hear another Colts fan complain about the officials letting Patriots defenders interfere with their receivers. MY GOD. In that 4th quarter, there were outright muggings on Pats receivers all over the place. The obvious non-call on Caldwell in the end zone aside, there was one play in the last FG drive for the Pats where Brady throws a dump off to Graham in the flat on second down and he gets tackled before the ball is even close to him. No call.

Illegal contact at the LOS is one thing. But there were 3-4 blatant PI/Holding calls that went uncalled in that 4th quarter...

 

[letekro]

Anyone that watches the replay will find themselves praying for an Asante deal to get done.

After watching the replay, his holdout makes perfect sense. Based off this game alone, his value approaches Champ Bailey; there's no way anything he does this year could match it.

 

[letekro]

After re-watching that game last night, I never want to hear another Colts fan complain about the officials letting Patriots defenders interfere with their receivers. MY GOD. In that 4th quarter, there were outright muggings on Pats receivers all over the place. The obvious non-call on Caldwell in the end zone aside, there was one play in the last FG drive for the Pats where Brady throws a dump off to Graham in the flat on second down and he gets tackled before the ball is even close to him. No call.

Illegal contact at the LOS is one thing. But there were 3-4 blatant PI/Holding calls that went uncalled in that 4th quarter...

After re-watching the game last night, I had the same impression I had watching it the first time - the Pats crumbled under the pressure, and the Colts excelled. There is no other way to put it. Whether it was Heath Evans's blunder, or Troy running the wrong way on the option route (if he cut outside, it was an easy completion - game over), or Reche's drops, we just fall apart under the pressure of the moment.

 

[theONLYJerseypatsfan]

Anyone that watches the replay will find themselves praying for an Asante deal to get done.

After watching the replay, his holdout makes perfect sense. Based off this game alone, his value approaches Champ Bailey; there's no way anything he does this year could match it.

I agree.........Asante may be a system player....but he plays this system PERFECTLY

 

[captain stone]

After re-watching the game last night, I had the same impression I had watching it the first time - the Pats crumbled under the pressure, and the Colts excelled. There is no other way to put it. Whether it was Heath Evans's blunder, or Troy running the wrong way on the option route (if he cut outside, it was an easy completion - game over), or Reche's drops, we just fall apart under the pressure of the moment.

That's exactly what happened. As another example, look at the first offensive series of the 2nd half. Completely AFU. Disgraceful.

Also, the thought occurred to me while watching Saturday's fumble recovery/TD: if he were the Bruschi of 2004, then Tedy rips the ball from Saturday's hands for a touchback.

So many plays...only one of which needed to go our way...

 

[He Ban Me]

After re-watching that game last night, I never want to hear another Colts fan complain about the officials letting Patriots defenders interfere with their receivers. MY GOD. In that 4th quarter, there were outright muggings on Pats receivers all over the place. The obvious non-call on Caldwell in the end zone aside, there was one play in the last FG drive for the Pats where Brady throws a dump off to Graham in the flat on second down and he gets tackled before the ball is even close to him. No call.

Illegal contact at the LOS is one thing. But there were 3-4 blatant PI/Holding calls that went uncalled in that 4th quarter...

Whiney ass Beeatches!!! What goes around comes around, shoe is on the other foot and ALL that JAZZ. You guys are a bunch of punks that can never give credit where it's due. Living on luck/and bull**** play for the last 6 years. The NFL has had enough of you. You have died!

 

[Pats Fanatic]

Re: Whos gonna watch the AFC Championship Replay tonight?

You have highlights from the 1976 playoff game @ Oakland?

Well on the Super Bowl 36 DVD highlight they have an extra of the 1976 season which isn't bad. I was watch the other night America's Game about the 1976 Raiders and they had a discussion about it. My blood still bolls watching it.
I do have a complete game from that year a Monday Night game with the Jets that is pretty cool though.

 

[PeytonManning'sbrain]

Re: Whos gonna watch the AFC Championship Replay tonight?

Come back when you are more than one and done...ok slick?

you were a cowboys fan in the 90s too right

 

[Double G]

GREAT post hebanme; you are one witty, lucid, classy guy, you of the IQ two above plant life.

 

[richpats]

After re-watching the game last night, I had the same impression I had watching it the first time - the Pats crumbled under the pressure, and the Colts excelled. There is no other way to put it. Whether it was Heath Evans's blunder, or Troy running the wrong way on the option route (if he cut outside, it was an easy completion - game over), or Reche's drops, we just fall apart under the pressure of the moment.

That's a painful truth for a Pats fan to accept but "it is what it is". I had this really bad feeling when we were up 21-6 that the Pats wouldn't score until Indy tied it up (or took the lead) and that's EXACTLY what happened. Our offense shuts down when there is a big lead, but we never had to pay for it like we did that evening.

The Pats came out and played 30 minutes of great football and wanted to leave the building. This was plainly obvious in the 3rd quarter. I'm noticing a weird trend in Belichick's AFC title games- get out to a big first half lead, then try to "hang on" in the 2nd half, relying mainly on defensive stops.

The 21-3 lead was more of an illusion than anything. The 2006 Pats hadn't played that well all year long against a good team, it was just a matter of time before the wheels would fall off.

I have to give credit to the Colts for the most unexpected series to open the 3rd quarter - a methodic "take what they give you" drive WHILE DOWN 15 POINTS!!! Such a ballsy move, many teams would be impatient and try to force the issue, but the Colts didn't hit the panic button. It did 2 things to kill the Pats - tired the D and kept the offense off the field and out of sync (I believe the offense went 1 full hour between snaps).

It's tough to think that in spite of the uninspired 2nd-half performance, the Pats were just one play from winning. But the Pats couldn't make that play and the Colts made a ton of plays to win. To put it simply "they wanted it more".

 

[pepper03]

Re: Whos gonna watch the AFC Championship Replay tonight?

I still don't want to watch the game but if you think about it, we could have lost in a way that would have been much, much, much, MUCH worse.

Late in the game with it tied at 31 and we were driving, I started getting a sick feeling of how the game was going to end up. For some reason I was almost certain that Gostkowski was going to miss a FG only to see the Colts drive down the field and AV would kick the game winner.

I can't even begin to imagine the type of hell this offseason would have been if that had happened. Never-ending articles about how foolish it was to let him go, endless trash from fans, it would have been awful.

The way we lost was pretty bad but it could have been a lot worse.

You know, somehow I feel better after reading this-it could have been worse.

I will never watch that game-it still pains me all this time later.

 

[IndyDrummer]

maybe just to count how many ways the pats got screwed in that game

Screwed?......or CHOKED ?

 

[Bruschi 3:16]

Screwed?......or CHOKED ?

Did you ever hear the theory of a broken clock being correct twice a day? Indy's win was a fluke and will be paid back with severe pain this year. With NE's offense and Indy's pathetic and stripped down defense, the Patriots could score 50 that day.

 

[Brady'sButtBoy]

I finally made myself watch it - ugh. The refs did screw the Pats several times but the Pats failed to execute a number of times also - any one of which would have won the game. I'm talking about the offense here for the most part - those last two field goals weren't good enough, had they scored a TD on one of those possessions, we win. They knew Manning was on fire and they had to get TDs not FGs.

Dropped balls, stupid penalties, questionable play calling, marginal effort at burning up the clock and we still had a chance if Brady and Brown hook up for that first down. Ugh, we were so close....

 

[BelichickFan]

I can't believe you guys can watch it. Just reading your comments about watching it make me want to throw up. Even 20 years from now I doubt I'll watch it.

 

[captain stone]

Re: Whos gonna watch the AFC Championship Replay tonight?

Well on the Super Bowl 36 DVD highlight they have an extra of the 1976 season which isn't bad. I was watch the other night America's Game about the 1976 Raiders and they had a discussion about it. My blood still bolls watching it.
I do have a complete game from that year a Monday Night game with the Jets that is pretty cool though.

No wonder I didn't see it; I have only the 3GTG on VHS, which still misses a lot of action. And NFL Films really sucks if you are looking for a chronological, above-ground replay of a game.

 

[IndyDrummer]

the Patriots could score 50 that day.

With who?........ THIS GUY ?.....Good luck with that one. 'Another' asskicking will be headed your way......again.

 

[richpats]

With who?........ THIS GUY ?.....Good luck with that one. 'Another' asskicking will be headed your way......again.

I believe the Pats are the only owners of a playoff 'asskicking' in this series. You remember when your team only showed up to score 3 points?

 

[IndyDrummer]

I believe the Pats are the only owners of a playoff 'asskicking' in this series. You remember when your team only showed up to score 3 points?

You guy's are smart enough to know it's all about 'what have you done for me lately?'..........and lately you have lost how many in a row over the Colts? Your domination over the Colts is history. Remember when your team showed up and gave up 32 second half points......of course you do.

 

[richpats]

You guy's are smart enough to know it's all about 'what have you done for me lately?'........

Lately we've found out that Hayden and Jackson will be covering Moss and Stallworth on November 4th. Sleep tight now.