TheBostonStraggler
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hey, the Bears ripped up Dawson's knee on the first play and the idiot started Tony "Waaaah...I'm a little turtle boy!" Eason instead of Grogs...by the time Grogs got inthere it was too late...Buddy Ryan had Dawson's knee taken out and said as much post game...THAT is why I hate all Ryans so much....scum...pure scum.
We had a shot if Grogs starts that game...not much of one BUT certainly a 1000 times better than Champagne Toe-knee.Next time you see Craig James on the tube just think...7 carries...ONE friggin yard....
In the 25 years I have been watching football I have never seen a QB as visibly afraid as Eason was in that SB. And in 25 years of football watching, I have never heard a player injury report say "stretched nerves" as a reason he was out of the game. There is NO doubt in my mind Grogan should have played that game from start to finish. Grogan took one serious royal beating like you will never see in today's NFL yet stood tall on EVERY play. Say what you want about Grogan but that guy had nerves of steel!
With that said, (if memory serves me) the Patriots drove on their first possession to the red zone. I forget who it was but the receiver had the TD pass RIGHT in his hands and just dropped it (not a Baltimore 2011 AFCCG drop, an actual 'just dropped it'). If that was held onto and considering the Bears had given up, I think, two FGs in all the playoffs, that TD could have been a Rocky IV moment. "You hurt him! You see, he's not a machine". Maybe that could have given the Patriots the confidence they needed to make it competitive.....but I doubt it. That was the most fearsome dominating defense I have ever seen (with due respect to how fearsome and dominating the Raven defense was some years ago).