The Swamp

Between this fucking guy:



And this fucking guy:



the karma only makes sense that Sergio Brown does this before the Super Bowl:



At least this is cool:

I am of two minds on this (being a Canadian, I am of two minds about everything).

Either a slow motion destruction by the pats 31-13ish, or the day that Luck goes from being a really good QB to becoming a legend. No bets on this one.

But I know who this guys is cheering for.

Pruitt wrote:Either a slow motion destruction by the pats 31-13ish, or the day that Luck goes from being a really good QB to becoming a legend. No bets on this one.

Indy brings their A-game. T.Y. Hilton gets 100+ yards and a TD. Luck establishes himself as a post season warrior. And, if the Colts win, it will be very close. They'd win by 3.

However, if the Pats win, it's by double digits (say 13), and the defense comes up big.

Either way, no matter who wins, Seattle rolls in the Super Bowl.

I got bets on NE -7 and Sea -7 and a big teaser on both down to -.5 (i.e. to win). I don't think either game is close. Indy's defense hasn't shown they can stop New England. I'll say this one is NE 38, Indy 24. And I won't bother to post the same thing in the other thread, but give me Seattle 27, GB 13. Seattle teed off on Rodgers all game when he was mobile. I don't think him being a statue four months later is going to improve his chances.

brian wrote:I got bets on NE -7 and Sea -7 and a big teaser on both down to -.5 (i.e. to win). I don't think either game is close. Indy's defense hasn't shown they can stop New England. I'll say this one is NE 38, Indy 24. And I won't bother to post the same thing in the other thread, but give me Seattle 27, GB 13. Seattle teed off on Rodgers all game when he was mobile. I don't think him being a statue four months later is going to improve his chances.

I agree with you that NE and Seattle both cruise this weekend, for the reasons you stated. The Colts secondary has been playing well, but even if that continues tomorrow, NE has run all over them the last 2 times they played. And I also agree with Johnnie that Seattle will roll in the Superbowl. Assuming they play NE as expected, I just don't think the NE's skill possession guys are good enough to beat that defense.

Joe K wrote:

brian wrote:I got bets on NE -7 and Sea -7 and a big teaser on both down to -.5 (i.e. to win). I don't think either game is close. Indy's defense hasn't shown they can stop New England. I'll say this one is NE 38, Indy 24. And I won't bother to post the same thing in the other thread, but give me Seattle 27, GB 13. Seattle teed off on Rodgers all game when he was mobile. I don't think him being a statue four months later is going to improve his chances.

I agree with you that NE and Seattle both cruise this weekend, for the reasons you stated. The Colts secondary has been playing well, but even if that continues tomorrow, NE has run all over them the last 2 times they played. And I also agree with Johnnie that Seattle will roll in the Superbowl. Assuming they play NE as expected, I just don't think the NE's skill possession guys are good enough to beat that defense.

I'd like to see that game, just to see the Kam Chancellor-Gronk matchup.

Woah, woah, woah...we do one game at a time here. Might be lots and lots of rain tomorrow, which personally is nice because it feels like it hasn't been over 20 degrees for the last two weeks. I'm curious to see how much Browner plays tomorrow -- the injury has been downplayed (especially in comparison to Stork's), but it's pretty concerning that he didn't return to the game last week.

By the way, Boston sports fans have a talent for awful tattoos. When I was still living there, I went to a sports bar to watch a Celtics playoff game and a guy there was showing off a tattoo he had on his thigh of Varitek shoving A-Rod. Hands down the most ridiculous tattoo I've ever seen in person.

Depends on which direction he's showing him from his thigh. Could be pretty amusing.

Not sports-related, but once in the Boston subway I encountered a guy with a sleeveless "Cape Cod Choppers" shirt and a tattoo of the Anheuser-Busch eagle logo covering most of the upper half of one arm.

Then there was the woman who got the a Bruin's logo for each ass cheek and when her husband saw it, he asked, "Who the hell is Bob?"

"A guy who wasn't on the 2010-11 team."

Colts... By a nose

Fuuuuuuuck. Revis. And then the Browner penalty.

Fuck. Edelman to the locker room.

Edit: according to Mike Reiss, it's a hip issue and his return is questionable.

Is it just me or does Brady always throw goal line interceptions?

I fully expect a Colts TD on this drive.

That throw from Luck was ungodly. And Hilton's footwork almost as good.

Those fucking penalties. Just absurd. Ugh.

Andrew Fuck!

Gronk had an arm around him the entire time on 2nd down.

Nasty Nate. I'm liking that.

what the hell was Indy doing in this game again?

Rex wrote:what the hell was Indy doing in this game again?

Absolutely nothing. I am just sick to my stomach about this performance.

Fuck. And. Yes.

Shows how scary the Ravens were. Never want to play those.

That Brandon Bolden block. Holy shit. That shit was serious.

The dude Bolden hour was coughing up blood. Whoa.

Internal injuries. Mo lewis style.

Sickening. What a terrible game. Offense sucked ass. Defense sucked more ass. Special Teams were just as bad. Here is hoping Pep Hamilton leaves for college and the Colts get a real OC.

duff wrote:Sickening. What a terrible game. Offense sucked ass. Defense sucked more ass. Special Teams were just as bad. Here is hoping Pep Hamilton leaves for college and the Colts get a real OC.

I think that they need to change the philosophy of the front office. They've tried to get by with a superstar at QB meh to slightly above average elsewhere. They need bee on the DL, some better runblocking OL so that teams can't tee off on Luck, and someone better than Patriot castoff across from Davis.

This patriots cheating stuff is fake, right? It has to be fake.

Deflating footballs? WTF? Can there just be a win without surrounding it with drama?

I'm almost hoping it was just floated out there so everyone on Twitter could make the same Mike McCarthy joke.

Bill Burr did his Monday Morning Podcast while the game was on in the background. He'll go from his stream of consciousness and randomly shout out what's going on in the game. It's hysterical.

Is the allegation that the Pats were only using the under-inflated balls when they were on offense? Because otherwise, both teams would in theory be similarly advantaged.

Johnnie wrote:Deflating footballs? WTF? Can there just be a win without surrounding it with drama?

I'd like this too. You thoroughly whooped our ass. Unless a fully inflated ball can play inside linebacker or get some separation from a CB, I don't want to hear it.

Good game. No one schemes like Belichick. No one.

"Looks like we would have won even without cheating this time, boys. LOL." - Bill Belichick, probably

I doubt they did, but just for the sake of argument assume the Patriots did what they're being accused of here.

What's the punishment? Obviously the NFL isn't going to replace them in the Super Bowl with the Colts, so there's almost no incentive NOT to cheat if you think it'll give you an advantage. The NFL already hit them with a feather for Spygate, I don't think they're at all afraid of punishment from the NFL.