PatsBoy12
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I agree. But stick around and you'll see some all out bombs being thrown around sometimes. It's funny, unless you're caught in the crossfire.
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I agree. But stick around and you'll see some all out bombs being thrown around sometimes. It's funny, unless you're caught in the crossfire.
I imagine having you as a manager would be the equivalent of the eleven 240 lb dudes coming at you.I think the napkin dispenser analogy is a little off base. I would have went with the toothpick loading guy myself because that's more the equivalent of catching a football in inclement weather while eleven 240 lb dudes are sprinting full speed downfield hoping to knock the living crap out of you on your second day at work.
In fact I once fired a guy for loading the toothpicks into a dispenser backwards. That sucked because he had the potential to cook up some mean hashbrowns but you know, it is what it is at Denny's.
Big play? Yes. Changed momentum? Yes, no doubt. The biggest reason they lost? Not by a long shot. That play happened with something like 14:26 on the clock and NE was still up two scores. That muff didn't magically put 14 points on the board for Denver. The refs did that all by themselves. Sorry, I agree that the Harper play was huge, but it's not "the biggest" reason they lost, from my view. There were a lot of questionable things that certainly contributed and at very key points in the game after the muff.
With that "logic" you don't put a rookie, UDFA at that, in to defend on the goal line stand that will decide the Super Bowl.
Those guys are all on the roster. No need to free roster slots for any of them.
I guess you missed the fact that both he and Martin were practicing kicks before the game, Harper did the better of the two and Martin fumbled as reported by Ben Volin here...
Lmfao... You win this thread sir.
Respect, but probably because were there really that many other guys on the team who would likely have done better? Chung, McCourty did it mostly in college. White is not any more experienced than Harper. I guess one could legitimately ask why not Martin, since he did it so much in Houston. But who knows? Maybe he is not 100 percent and only played last night because NE has nobody else to suit up at WR. Look, that play could have happened to someone who has returned 100 punts. That's just the type of play that happens in a football game sometimes. It was huge and swung momentum, but it was hardly the reason why NE lost the game. If the game at that point was one possession, then maybe I'd be more inclined to take up that argument. But it was a still a two score game with over 14 minutes left in the game. For those reasons alone I will NEVER concede that the muff was the "biggest" reason NE lost the game, nor will I question BB too critically. You've got to trust that guys will make the plays and understand that sometimes they don't and all the rationalizations in the world won't change that f-ed up things happen in a game sometimes, just like life.
