While the Giants as a whole are the ONE team I would have chosen not to play given a choice.......
I still feel VERY GOOD about our chances. In fact, I'm confident we get this done. I'm typically not the superstitious type and this might sound a little silly........ but I get the sense that Myra's guiding hand is helping out from somewhere beyond.
Just TOO many things have gone our way to just say it's the hands of fate.
- We take advantage of a "soft" schedule and get HFA through the playoffs and a much needed bye.
- Along the way, we beat Indy (prolly our longest, deepest rival in the BB/TB ear) and the Jets (x2), who handed us prolly one of our biggest (top-5 for sure) post-season losses ever last year.
- We have a defense, that while playing much better lately is one that have given us ALL fits all year long and is suspect.
- We draw a cheesy HS offense and overall weak opponent in the first round and we kill them rather easily. Of course it happens to be a team that handed us a huge post season loss in 05 too.
- We get a second chance at a Ravens team that devastatingly ended or 09 season in what could be termed another top-5 heartbreaker losses
- In that game, almost NOTHING goes our way and we have zero momentum to carry us to a OT win, when their kicker goes Ray Finkle on us and virtually HANDS us the win outright. Think about it...... when ranking high percentage points scoring plays, a 32 yrd FG is very high on that list. We could go 20 years and not see another shanked 32 yarder to outright lose a playoff game.
- On the other side of the Conference an average team gets "hot" after a mediocre year and makes it to a Super Bowl that probably 3-4 other teams in that conference are prolly more deserving of. Oh yeah........ it happens to be the EXACT same team that handed us our MOST DEVASTATING loss in franchise history that got into that game in the EXACT SAME fashion.
Think about it....... You rarely get opportunities in your life to "go back" and redo something that you have regretted in life. This Patriots team has that opportunity RIGHT NOW. It's a gift that WILL NOT be lost on the Greatest Coach that has ever roamed the sidelines and the greatest QB to have ever picked up the pigskin.......
No way we lose this game.......... and I don't give a fu(k who the "matchups" favor.
If it's not Myra herself guiding the "hands of football fate" in our favor, then she certainly is bending the ear of the one that does.
I will enjoy ever minute of this next two weeks and I hope that all of you do too.
