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Not only is this week's column laughable, it is also poorly researched...
TMQ just gets nerdier and nerdier.
It gets better...If New England wins, the Patriots will not be the greatest team ever -- at least conditionally, until such time as the NFL reveals what was in the Patriots' cheating videos and documents that the league destroyed in September. Maybe once we know the full truth, then a 19-0 Patriots team could be considered the greatest, depending on what the full truth turns out to be.
When will he understand that this occurred in the first game of the season, and could have had nothing to do with the Patriots performance this season? And by asking if they are cheating now, he challenges us to prove they are not. So, wouldn't it also be necessary to prove that neither have the remaining 31 teams in the league also cheated?Until we know what was on the videotapes and in the documents the NFL destroyed, there will always be a cloud of suspicion over the Patriots. How much of an advantage did they gain by cheating? Did they really hand over everything to the league? Are they still cheating now? Most important by far, have they cheated in the Super Bowl? ...
But until such time when we learn what was in those files, even at 19-0, the New England Patriots should not be considered a great team because we cannot be sure whether these wins were earned or stolen. Nor can we be sure whether New England's three Super Bowl rings were earned or stolen.
This is simply false. It's been well documented that the Pats were missing two starting offensive line men, which may have been crucial consdiering how Maroney has run in the playoffs with a fully staffed OL. You think just a modicum of research would have revealed that to TMQ?As for the Giants, should they win, that would be an upset, but not one of historic proportions. After all, New England was fortunate to prevail by a field goal when these two teams met a month ago. That day, Jersey/A played most of the game without starters Shaun O'Hara and Kawika Mitchell, both of whom will be healthy Sunday, but the Flying Elvii personnel will be the same as in the previous meeting.
Gee, what was that thing at the end of the 2001 season? Isn't it a bid absurd to rate SB XXXVI as any less memorable than SB XXVI? 1991 certainly isn't that recent. Oh, that's right, the Pats must have cheated, so the game can't be considered a memorable upset (although if you ask me, if they really did cheat, that in itself would be very memorable!).The most recent memorable Super Bowl upset was the Giants over the Bills in 1991, the game that ended on the infamous Scott Norwood missed field goal with four seconds remaining.
TMQ just gets nerdier and nerdier.