Well, then, call your bookie and lay the 12. My thought is: sometimes you can take away Randy, sometimes you can not. Sometimes you can get to Brady, sometimes you can not. It's not often you can hold the Pats to under 30. But the Giants are a pretty good team too.
Last time we put up 38 on these guys, but they put up 35 on us. They're playing like a pretty talented group.
Outside of the first half of this year, this has always --
always -- been a team that gutted it out at the end, and that you could never consider beat until the clock read 0:00. That's how the Pats have won in the past.
Now: yes, Randy is here. Yes, there's lots of motivation. Yes, there are a million things like "Plaxico's 'injury', or not... big game experience... o-line starters back and healthy..." yadda yadda yadda.
After all the hype, it's just a football game. It'll eventually be 6:17 Sunday, they'll kick off, and then it will be football, determined by a lot of intangibles, game planning, and big fast guys beating the hell out of each other.
I'm sick of predictions. This isn't a slam on this thread, it's just in general. I know we have to talk about something, but we don't know jack until it's underway, certainly not in terms of "blowout" or not.
I do know this - if the Pats are to lose, the Giants will have to
make it happen. Low-risk, low-reward football will not work. They will have to take a lot of chances, and they will have to guess right a lot of the time.
On the Pats side, as long as they're in it, they win it. I don't see this going the Giants' way.
But footballs take funny bounces.
ANYWAY... at the very least, I've shown my faith by picking up 2 bottles of champagne to pop at the end of this spectacle, and I think I will keep a bottle from now on, every year, assuming this happens. Then when the last undefeated team loses... heh.
PFnV
PS, dunno what I'll do if the last undefeated team that loses happens to be the Pats....
