The Worst 18-1 Team of All Time
Posted by Hasan H, February 4, 2008 - 7:06 am
Turns out the two week layoff wasn’t a momentum-killer for the Giants after all.
Instead it became an incubating period for the Patriots’ ever-increasing false sense of inevitability. As I had predicted and hoped, the Patsies looked sluggish and over-confident throughout the game. 
Yes it was the same old Pats at first but as the game went on, it became clear that they had taken the whole ”showing up is half the battle” anecdote a bit too literally. I guess they forgot that that the other team shows up too and the Giants showed up pissed off and ready. Brady’s “We are only going to score 17 points?” line now belongs in the All Time Worst Egg in Your Face Comments Hall of Fame. Two weeks ago, everyone was anointing the Patriots the Super Bowl champions and now they are the worst 18-1 team in football history and staring SpyGate 2.0 square in the face. What a turn of events!
The Giants on the other hand showed up to play, especially on defense. Brady looked rushed, under pressure and angry on almost every pass play and that’s exactly the way the Giants wanted him. For all the talk of this Pats’ offensive line that I got sick of hearing, they delivered an embarassing performance. Justin Tuck made Matt-hall-of-famer Light his personal biatch all night. Forget Manning, the Giants D-line was the real collective MVP of the game.
Enough is going to be said and written about this Super Bowl. Personally, I love the collapse angle more than I do the over-achieving underdog angle given the circumstances. The Giants are a solid team and deserved every bit of their victory but this game was the Pats’ to lose. Sure the perfect regular season can’t be taken away from them but what does that even mean if you don’t win it all? There have been other 18-1 teams but they all won the Super Bowl. This 18-1 team did not win the Super Bowl. So they are the worst team in that group. Looks like karma finally caught up to the Patsies. No one cares about Pats 52, Redskins 7 today. The only score that matters is Giants 17, Pats 14. This was one of the biggest choke jobs of all time. Here’s to 18-1!
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“…Forget Manning, the Giants D-line was the real collective MVP of the game.” I hope you are not on crack or anything.
Have you seen the “Great Escape”? or the fact that Manning made accurate tight throws to Steve Smith, Kevin Tyree, and
Plaxico Burress? If you ask Gilbride, he mentioned that some of the plays were not in the playbook [kinda reminds you off
Peyton Manning?].
Now people are beginning to realize how great the defense is…how about the amazing pass rush that consistently attacked the
quarterbacks. You failed on a lot of technical points: a) Giants has a physical offensive lineman that can block fairly
well and their dynamic duo of Jacobs&Ahmed can rush over 100 yds, b) Spagnuolo HAD A SCHEME and found out Patriots’
weaknesses, c) Giants have three solid receivers: 1) Burress who is very physical 2) Armani Toomer who runs pretty good routes, and
3) Steve Smith who is playing very well and furthermore, Kevin Boss is 6′6″ and can block very well, d) the secondary played
amazing throughout the playoffs, e) and the most important element is that Eli finally grew up and did not panic [kinda
reminds you of the “drive” by elway] and executed with tremendous determination[to be honest with you, Brady would’ve been
sacked on that play]
So please don’t tell me “forget Eli”…the man had only one turnover [smith couldn’t catch the ball] and he used a lot of
time on the clock in the first quarter [check the possession time]. Giants won not because the Pats were overconfident, but
they were very talented both on Defense and Offense
Am I on crack? Look at the contradictions in your post. I don’t think it even merits a response.