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Kept not one, not two, but all 3 or their WR's (including Stokeley).
Signed Vinatieri.
And won the Super Bowl.
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Where's the mystery? They draft well, they have a HOF QB and an excellent coach.
The Colts made the decision to keep all their WR's and let Edgerrin James leave.
We made the opposite decision, highlighting our RB's and letting all the WR's leave.
Did we make the right decision?
We won those 3 SB's on Brady's arm, and not the running game.
Letting Branch leave cost us at least one regular-season game, which meant giving up the home-field advantage to the Colts.
Did we just throw away our best opportunity to pick up the 4th Lombardi this year?
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Jeez Mikey, this is aweful - the Patriots have only won three of the last 6 superbowls and now three other teams have each won one - two of them falling into the crapper the following season. What is wrong with us???? Why can't we be more like the Colts...why can't Belioli be as smart as Polian??? Why won't Belichick cater to his QB like Dungy and Cowher? Waaaahyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy????????????????
thank you!!
these woe is us, why can't we be like the colts posts are hilarious.
The Pats organization is BETTER than the Colts organization!
We won those 3 SB's on Brady's arm, and not the running game.
Gave Peyton Manning the largest QB contract.
Kept not one, not two, but all 3 or their WR's (including Stokeley).
Signed Vinatieri.
And won the Super Bowl.
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I guess I'd envy them if we hadn't won 3. I think we'll take 'em next year.
By the way, the answer to your question is they stayed with their model of offense oriented and resisted the urge to copy others when it wasn't working!
Vinatieri? Isn't he the guy with the short kickoff that was returned?
That's not exactly true Ray. I think tonight you saw something similar to what you saw last year with the Steelers. Teams (and coaches) who learned from the mistakes they made against us for 3-4 years and modified their approach to game planning to be more like us. Polian may have continued to shop for the same groceries (deluxe offense and bargain basement defense) but he picked up or retained a few pieces to placate Dungy and Dungy coached them up to play physical as well as fast. And reined in the prolific QB over the last two seasons until he learned to manage the game rather than insist on trying to dominate it. Still goes against Peyton's instincts, and you could see that a couple of times tonight when he employed the Manning face. (I think once he even stomped his foot - LOL.) But by and large he learned to do what Brady was born knowing how to do - just manage the freakin game. Take what the defense will give you and make that work. He's becoming a win ugly BB system QB - no wonder they gave him the cadillac.
Dink and dunk, my man. And plenty of interceptions. They learned this method from some other team.
I do think the Colts had a relatively easy road. The Chiefs sucked, the Ravens were about as inept on offense as the Bears. The patriots were absolutely gassed.
Their road doesn't compare to the Patriots tough Super Bowl roads.
I don't think this colts team was one of the best Super Bowl teams. I do think they were the best team this year, but that defense of theirs is so incredibly flawed. They are way too aggressive, sticking so many men on the line. But look at the teams they faced: 3 terrible quarterbacks, three teams with terrible coaches, and one team without decent wide receivers. These were the exact 4 teams to play if you were going to be that aggressive on D.
Good points.
This was their year.
I don't see it happening again.