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I'm a die hard Steelers fan and have followed NE a LONG time. The scary thought is this is the best NE team I've ever seen. (and they have had real good ones this last decade!)
Can they get beat? Sure. Will they? Only if you bring your AAAAA+ game to the table from the get go.
When the Steelers went 15-1 we had some big breaks along the way. So far NE is absolutely dominating people. Great for NE fans - real bad for the rest of us.:eek:
They won't go undefeated. Teams just don't go undefeated, even if they are huge favorites in every game. They let there guard down for one game, and its over, don't forget that they have to play the dolphins twice still, if a team is undefeated, the Dolphins take the game to heart. Remember last year how everyone was saying Indy is going to go undefeated(this is before the **** about how weak their run defense was), and they went into Dallas and got owned.
well he had 100 but then ran for a loss... just saying, yards in the nfl come from straight ahead running, not a 3 ring circus in the backfield... and don't bring up barry sanders! he was a fluke, there will NEVER be another.Quote:
I think that he ran for like 97... at like 5.1 per carry. Also received for liek another 40. Close to 100. A very good day by the looks of it.
Yea... my quiblle with your statement was minor. 97 yards is damned close to 100.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asstagger
Didn't see the game, but it didn't sound like Bush was pulling a Sanders in the backfield.
And as far as Sanders goes... never say never. Someday there will be someone who comes along who has a similar style who is successful at it. There always is.
I agree.Quote:
They won't go undefeated. Teams just don't go undefeated, even if they are huge favorites in every game. They let there guard down for one game, and its over, don't forget that they have to play the dolphins twice still, if a team is undefeated, the Dolphins take the game to heart. Remember last year how everyone was saying Indy is going to go undefeated(this is before the **** about how weak their run defense was), and they went into Dallas and got owned.
People always talk about an undefeated season. But realistically... how many times has it ever happened? Once? Never say never... but my money is on that it won't happen for quite some time. No matter how dominating a team looks.
Look at all the great teams of the past 10-20 years.
San Francisco, Dallas, Green Bay, Denver, New England, Chcago, Washington... no matter how awesome that any of them have been... they didn't go undefeated... usually a ways from it.
Undefeated is one of these things that egt's talked about EVERY year... but almost never happens.
I just watched the Peterson highlights from Sunday.
http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d803425c4
Holy crap! That guys is a freakin stud. I can't say Im excited to play him twice a year.
I was hoping Dallas would put up a better fight then they did against NE. Hats off to Brady and Belacheat.
The other side to the undefeated season is not having an injury to a major player. Luckily NE hasn't had Brady out over that last couple years and the same thing for Peyton.
When looking at NE schedule, I can see the Steelers, Ravens at Baltimore, Colts at Indy, and the Dolphins games as possible stumbling blocks. Also have to remember that the Dolphins perfect season was only 14 games and I'm sure they didn't play 4 preseason games. I just don't see it happening again, just like the Bull's 72 win season will be hard to beat.
I think the bulls winning 72 games is more impossible than going undefeated in the NFL. How many games are there in the basketball season? 76? That is insane.
True.Quote:
Originally Posted by rabidmoose171
But injuries also play a lot bigger role in the NFL I think.
How so? In the NBA, there are 82 games not to mention Playoffs and then the Finals. If Nash went down for Phoenix, I think that would devastate the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spank_Me_Hard
I think he meant they're more prevalent in the NFL because it's a more dangerous sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by hongsc
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
I see, football is a more physical sport for sure and more likely to have players injured with less time to recover. And it also depends on which players are injured such as starter or a 3rd string QB.Quote:
Originally Posted by monroeski
You can see how injuries are so much part of football by the ~3 average career. For every Favre, there is 5 guys that couldn't go a year. Just look at all the running backs that Denver has seen over the last 10 years. Half of them seem to have never got into full swing. Players like Bettis are just freaks to have lasted that long.
Giants pwned. Jacobs keeps getting hurt, maybe he's just too tall, can't get low enough.
espn sucks too, in the 4th quarter aaron ross got hurt on a play away from the ball. All they did was mention he got hurt and then continued talking about the vick bs, the camera was on the guys in the booth the entire time only cutting away to show the falcons owner or gm whoever he was. No replay of Ross was shown, no information on what he hurt at all. So everyone watching is clueless as to what happened.