They did it. The Giants won. The Patriots perfect 19-0 season was not realized. They finally lost one. Not only that, they lost the wrong one. An 18-0 team, which could have wound up being the best professional sports team I've ever seen, was just a couple minutes away, and failed. We know how Miami fans everywhere feel so there is no need to discuss the happiness, relief, pride, you name it feeling that we all feel. We all owe a lot of thanks to the New York Giants. The Dolphins surely weren't in a position this year to protect that record for themselves. We had to hope that in the other seventeen games against fourteen different opponents that somehow they would wind up on the wrong end of the scoreboard after sixty minutes. The Giants, in their second try, did it. It wasn't a fluke, or lucky. They beat the Patriots. Thank you Giants.
MVP
- Eli Manning won the official MVP and I'm not suggesting he shouldn't have, but mine goes to the Giants front four. They beat up the Patriots offensive line. Sure there were some schemes and blitzes, but for the most part it was several one on one fights that the Giants dominated.
- The Giants secondary did an outstanding job. Sure you can get pressure on the quarterback, but you still have cover real well and make plays when the ball is in the air. The Patriots weren't able to throw the ball down the field like they were so comfortable doing the rest of the season.
- Jeff Feagles had a great game punting the football. He had a big 55 yard bomb in the first half and the other three resulted in Patriots drives starting at the 10, 11 and 20 yard lines.
- The decision not to kick a field goal. In the third quarter the Patriots went for a 4th and 13, rather than attempt a 49 yard field goal. I thought it was a bad decision at the time and it becomes more stupid the longer you think about it. They lost the game by three. They never really moved the ball effectively. The kick was not 50+ yards. It was in a dome. It wasn't 4th and short, it was 4th and long. You need to kick that field goal.
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BTW, note Bill Belicheat at the end of that game.
And they say our '72 boys are classless.
Yeah, he left his players out on the field to deal with loss while he went to the locker room. He's a sore loser and a sore winner and just a sore person for the most part. Great coach, but he should've dealt with that better.
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