For all intents and purposes, it DOES end the game. How fast can you score 1 TD from 95 yards away, let alone 2??
Hypocrit. The Colts are no one to talk about scoring while ahead by 2 TDs. They certainly have no reason to complain about not turning the ball over on downs when up by 14. How long to score a couple TDs?A long bomb to TO, an onside kick recovered for a TD, or a long pass play to the endzone, either completed or PI called in endzone.
Don't tell me you never saw a team score 2 TD in the space of less than a minute. You are obviously a recent Colt fan, never having seen an incredible comeback made against the Bucs. I'll be the Bucs wished they'd tried harder to score when up by a ton. Look up some Colts stats sometime.
Dallas must have thought there was a chance to tie for OT. Why else would they call a time out?
Had Dallas not called the timeout, BB said he would have knelt. You kneel when you can end the game by kneeling. Period. You don't kneel and give teh ball back after kneeling. That is plain stupid.
Easterbrook's mistake is thinking they could run the clock out by kneeling, and not realizing the Pats in effect had not three but two downs, becasue the clock did not begin until they snapped on second down (due to Dallas's timeout), and the clock would stop on the change of possession. The COwboys would have had the ball back with about 40-50 seconds left. Not a lot of time to make up 14 points, but it's been done and why give them the opportunity. They obviously that it was possible, or why call a time out?
But none of this matters. The point is not that the Pats scored; the pont is that Easterbrook has an agenda and is too cowardly to admit it.
If the Cowboys had done this, he would not paint them evil, he wound invoke the football gods repaying BB. He has no comment on any of the times the Colts scored a lot of points.
The whole thing is stupid except for the fact that it angers BB and therefore gets the players riled up.
He just doesn't know how much he is helping BB this year.
THe fact is that BB always played conservatively. We remember, if Esterbrook doesn't, our agonizing over the Pats inability to put teams away and constantly win by a TD or less. In fact, one of the knocks agaisnt the Pats was that they never dominated.
If the league wants to take our #1 draft pick, yeah, that is annoying. But what really must burn is the League doing nothing when teh Dolphins BRAGGED about stealing our signals. And what burns most is other coaches and players hypocritically calling the Pats prior wins tainted. Every team tries to steal signal. The call it spygate, but no spying was involved. It was done out in the open. People scoff when BB said he thought it was legal, but have never answered why the video-taping was done in the open by a badged staffer. Sorry, that isn't spying.
I doubt BB feels any compassion for very few teams right now, certaoinly not Dallas whose head coach had just called his prior superbowls tainted.
Hey, be real. You have poked a lion with a sharp stick when he was down. What did you think would happen when the lion got up?
Although it annoys me, I am willing to accept the LeBatards and Esterbrooks of the world. Without them we would not have the record we have now, nor would we be as dominant.
Teams go into a game now thinking how great the Pats are, and wondering if they can win. That can only be a plus. Soon everyone in the NFL will start thinking this is the Patriots year. When that happens we will be hard to beat.
