SEA_Pat
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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Okay, the letters are there, but not in the right order. It's similar to how teams win in the NFL in a way.
We might look back at the end of the year and say that the Patriots won yesterday because they finally found their identity as a team. We focus too much on individual players. Teams are forged through adversity. Look at the Packers last year, they lost more players through injury than any other team. It brought them together and made them believe they could beat anyone. The Giants this year are playing the same way.
This IMHO is part of the so-called "Ewing Theory", where guys know they have to step up because a key player is lost to injury. Then they start playing more selflessly and with higher intensity and effort and build real trust with their teammates.
That's the story of all of our Super Bowl teams, guys overachieving by buying into the team concept. We kind of lost that when the hardcore veterans of those years moved on or retired. I think we may have found it last night.
We might look back at the end of the year and say that the Patriots won yesterday because they finally found their identity as a team. We focus too much on individual players. Teams are forged through adversity. Look at the Packers last year, they lost more players through injury than any other team. It brought them together and made them believe they could beat anyone. The Giants this year are playing the same way.
This IMHO is part of the so-called "Ewing Theory", where guys know they have to step up because a key player is lost to injury. Then they start playing more selflessly and with higher intensity and effort and build real trust with their teammates.
That's the story of all of our Super Bowl teams, guys overachieving by buying into the team concept. We kind of lost that when the hardcore veterans of those years moved on or retired. I think we may have found it last night.