Recent content by Luke Skywelker

Pats hold onto Mallet only if they feel he is in line to take over as their franchise QB and if Brady goes down, they continue to have a legitimate chance to contend if he has to play for an extended period of time. Otherwise maximize his value now and build what you can while you still have Brady.

This rationale make little sense when prospects like Christian Ponder, who had never played a meaningful professional down in their life either, gets drafted at 15. As insists with franchises and QB's, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and O'Brien has intimate first hand experience with...

Re: Momentum stopping Momentum stopping infers that we actually had momentum at some point. In this case, it might be more appropriate calling it lack of momentum sustaining moments.

I put a lot on Brady in this one. It was his responsibility to make the call at the line and sustain a couple of drives early to keep the defense fresh in that altitude and the ball out of Manning's hands. To go three and out two consecutive drives was a horrible omen. The play selection was...

Amendola - I'll tell yeah, can we please keep McDaniel's far away from any talent evaluation. His track record at this point between referring retreads from his tenures away from the Pats to his draft picks while with the Broncos(Tebow) leave a lot to be desired. Couple that with the...

The play I forget about is the Reggie Wayne catch on the Pats 20 on Indy's final drive where he basically loses the ball/fumbles and the balls goes straight up in the air about 3-4 feet and somehow miraculously comes straight down to him while in a sea of defenders. He regains it. If that...

Weather forecast looking mild a week in advance(high 50's), which may play to a bit of a higher score.

The reason Rivers is getting crushed is because SD's offensive gameplan is so unbelievably vanilla/predictable, they're putting Rivers in predictably third and throw situations every series. It's one thing to go in with a strong run first strategy, it's another to basically tell the defense...

If Denver marches down and scores again here, it basically blows up the recipe for the SD game plan, which is run, ball control, keep the Denver offense off the field. They needed to come out strong to keep the slant of the game plus or even. They're going to have to scrap the super...

I'd start game planning for Denver. The little things are already showing that San Diego didn't come to play. They look like they're sleepwalking. Missed tackles, dropped picks, missed blocks. They're not winning this game.

I tend to think it's just the branding - NFC is Fox, lot's of metallic uni's, the new hybrid QB's leading the charge. It tends to have kind of a Big 12 feel to it on the college level. Like I said, it feels synthesized. With teams like Carolina and Seattle, all the trash talking, it feels...

I couldn't agree more on the NFC, although not sure that is quality of football more than my allegiance/bias to the AFC. There is something about FOX tied to it that makes it feel too synthesized. I don't need to see robots/transformers seeing a break into commercials. I am 10 times more...

Not sure if it was shown on TV for obvious reasons, but across from the Pats sideline in the 100's, there was a lass with a sign that read "Hey Tom Brady, I'm Wet". Not sure if any other posters at the game saw it.

Give me SD. The six seed, if they win, gets Denver, and likely takes out Cinci, who I don't really want to face. I want the best team possible in that 6 slot and after watching SD against Denver, I really think it's them. Say what you want about Rivers, but he's a fun player to watch...

Love the idea of a NY Snowy Super Bowl - has a hunger games, adapt to your environment quality to it. I wouldn't want it every year, but for sheer entertainment purposes, it's going to be fun. It's going to be interesting to see how NYC stages this one as well. It's a bit of an experiment...