Poll: How Confident are you about SB53?

[ashley]

I'm going to be nervous... Hopefully this game won't kill me like the AFC championship game almost did...Can we please just win one of these games in a blowout!!!

 

[ralmat55]

All stories like that are tired, trite, and annoying.

As I'd hope everyone knows, Parry's crew is not officiating the game. Parry is the head of an "all-star" team of officials.

So any stats about what Parry's crew did during the regular season are irrelevant and meaningless to this game, other than perhaps flags personally thrown by Parry.

Sorry to annoy you, sir. Referees do throw flags you know.

Employees like to please their employers. It may not even be a conscious thing, but trying to please those who promote you or can give you a raise is a common human trait. When leadership expresses its biases through it actions such as Goodell or the NFL competition committee, league officiating supervisors and game officials either consciously or unconsciously are motivated to please their superiors by supporting their biases. A “fish rots from the head down” is the old saying for this.

The NFL league office has made no secret of its bias against the Patriots. So, is it so “tired and trite” to be concerned Super Bowl game officials might not try to gain favor with their superiors by throwing flags or not consistent with their biases? Sorry but I am concerned.

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

I'm going to be nervous... Hopefully this game won't kill me like the AFC championship game almost did...Can we please just win one of these games in a blowout!!!

I want the heart attack game. Loved the KC game for that reason. I vaguely remember the blowouts. I vividly remember the nailbiters.

Regards,
Chris

 

[QuantumMechanic]

The NFL league office has made no secret of its bias against the Patriots. So, is it so “tired and trite” to be concerned Super Bowl game officials might not try to gain favor with their superiors by throwing flags or not consistent with their biases? Sorry but I am concerned.

It's tired and trite and outright wrong to use stats from Parry's crew during the regular season to try to make any point.

If you want to say you're worried about the NFL putting thumbs on the refs, fine. But quoting Parry's crew's stats for anything is bogus.

 

[sb1]

Can’t put a finger on it but something just seemed off to me last year leading up to the game.

Falling way behind to the Jaguars at home in the AFCCG. Didn’t know about Butler obviously but there was the situation with Branch too.

No such feeling this year.

 

[TheRainMaker]

I actually feel good right now. This is pretty much the same team as last year and they’ll be talking about that loss last year and not want to repeat it.

This team reminds me of the 2012 Ravens as nobody took them seriously, yet somehow kept beating the best teams in the league.

 

[sb1]

I have two concerns: turnovers and officiating. Courtesy of Pat Kirwan on SiriusXM radio today, the Rams are 7-0 in games officiated by Super Bowl referee Jon Parry while the Patriots are 9-5 with the flag fest in Pittsburgh being his last Patriots’ game. You remember how flags just happened to be thrown whenever the Patriots got into the red zone that day.

You would think the NFL fixers would lay low a little after their New Orleans heist letting things blow over. But, these are the Patriots. Who’s going to complain if the Patriots and their fans get screwed out of a Super Bowl win? Who cared last year when the NFL changed the rules for the Super Bowl and awarded a touchdown to Corey Clement on a play that by the rules on the books should have been an incompletion.

There were a half dozen bad calls or no calls that favored the Chiefs in the 2nd half of the AFCCG which really were what got the Chiefs back in that game, but all the NFL’s media partners wanted to talk about after the game was the clear offsides by Dee Ford and the roughing call on Chris Jones while ignoring completely that a Chief DB was practically taking a piggy back ride on Julian Edelman on the same play.

A lot of money changed hands to get the NFL back in the LA market, and the NFL is desperate to see it work. I hope I’m just being paranoid. I guess we’ll see.

If there’s going to be any bias imo it will favor us. The NFL will be too happy to see the Saints controversy made moot by a Patriots win. And I think the league knows they did Brady wrong in Deflategate and will try to right it as best they can.

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

 

[zoostation]

It took me months to patch the hole in the wall caused by my (usually calm and very well mannered) 14 year old sons fist. So the man-cave walls are begging for a Patriot blowout. Having said that..... I think it's a 60 minute, down to the wire game.

 

[LightSkinSmurf]

If we play anywhere near as well as we have been we win. I'm pretty damn confident................Then again, I was confident against the eagles too.......In my defense though, I didn't know belichick planned on benching our best CB.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

If there’s going to be any bias imo it will favor us. The NFL will be too happy to see the Saints controversy made moot by a Patriots win. And I think the league knows they did Brady wrong in Deflategate and will try to right it as best they can.

I want to live in your world. Where do I get the drugs?

 

[sb1]

I want to live in your world. Where do I get the drugs?

High on optimism. Or naivete?

I really think so though. Rams win and a lot of people are putting an asterisk on it because of that call. See Rule, Tuck. The league will be happy to make this go away. As for Brady- him and BB still have books to write after they’re done. Probably best for the league to move on and bury the hatchet.

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

No guarantees, but this is the most confident I've ever felt.
That means nothing, but it is what it is.

This team came out of nowhere, and with a vengeance.
The more the mediots, opposing fans, the world at large keep poking us, the more confident I feel.

The FU tour continues.
...And to any delusional lurkers?... FU.
We got this.

...And we ain't done yet

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

The Oline and run game will win it.

The secondary is playing well too.

This team is different than any other I've seen.
They are confident, without being obnoxious and ****y.

I'm buying in.

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

The Oline and run game will win it.

The secondary is playing well too.

This team is different than any other I've seen.
They are confident, without being obnoxious and ****y.

I'm buying in.

The thing I love most about this run game compared to the Blount years.. As good as Blount was at times, he also got stuffed a ton, he's more predictable. Michel and White are way shiftier and the o-line, Gronk, Allen and Dev have been beasting. Hopefully they can all continue their effectiveness as of late.

 

[RobertWeathers]

High on optimism. Or naivete?

I really think so though. Rams win and a lot of people are putting an asterisk on it because of that call. See Rule, Tuck. The league will be happy to make this go away. As for Brady- him and BB still have books to write after they’re done. Probably best for the league to move on and bury the hatchet.

The Tuck Rule was an accurate call.

The blow call(s) vs NO were missed ones.

The 01 NEP deserved to be there.

The 2018 Rams? Questionable.

 

[Redman443]

Well I was pretty confident last year and it blew up in my face. I was heartbroken seeing brady put up 500 yards passing and still taking a big fat L to philly. I’m not going to be as confident until we have the most points and the clock hits triple zeros. Rams are not KC but they can hurt you in other ways.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Can’t put a finger on it but something just seemed off to me last year leading up to the game.

Falling way behind to the Jaguars at home in the AFCCG. Didn’t know about Butler obviously but there was the situation with Branch too.

No such feeling this year.

What was the situation with Branch?

He wasn't a problem. He fell off the cliff and was useless.

 

[Mountain_Commando]

If there’s going to be any bias imo it will favor us. The NFL will be too happy to see the Saints controversy made moot by a Patriots win. And I think the league knows they did Brady wrong in Deflategate and will try to right it as best they can.

 

[sb1]

What was the situation with Branch?

He wasn't a problem. He fell off the cliff and was useless.

I remember hearing someone talk to him during Super Bowl week where he made it clear he had no idea why he was benched or what they were doing. I just got the feeling that something wasn’t right and we found out it was around Butler.