Brady's Bedtime Buddies

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by holmester

And when luck whens you 3 out of 4 superbowls let me know so i can shove a rabbits foot up leprechauns ass and then shove that leprechaun up Snyders ass.

Being the best team in the league in 2003 and 2004 certainly had a lot to do with that. Just because you are the best team doesn't make you a champion. Just ask 2005 Indy, and 2006 SD and Baltimore. If the Patriots had gotten the bounces those teams had (although for 2005 Indy, they just ran into Pittsburgh on the wrong day), we wouldn't be hearing much about them, would we?

Don't even get me started on the 2001 team. They were maybe the 11th or 12th best team in the regular season, only got into the playoffs playing a last place schedule, and as we all know, probably shouldn't have gotten by a much better Oakland team in the divisional round. Not to mention their path after than included a team Quarterbacked by Kordell Stewart, and a Rams team who certainly did not play their best game in the Super Bowl. 2001 NE was probably the luckiest season ever.

2002 NE was a much better football team than 2001 NE, and they didn't even make the playoffs. How's that for luck varience?

So if you can find THAT leprechaun, I will bend Danny Snyder over myself.

[Pocket$ $traight]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Being the best team in the league in 2003 and 2004 certainly had a lot to do with that. Just because you are the best team doesn't make you a champion. Just ask 2005 Indy, and 2006 SD and Baltimore. If the Patriots had gotten the bounces those teams had (although for 2005 Indy, they just ran into Pittsburgh on the wrong day), we wouldn't be hearing much about them, would we?

Don't even get me started on the 2001 team. They were maybe the 11th or 12th best team in the regular season, only got into the playoffs playing a last place schedule, and as we all know, probably shouldn't have gotten by a much better Oakland team in the divisional round. Not to mention their path after than included a team Quarterbacked by Kordell Stewart, and a Rams team who certainly did not play their best game in the Super Bowl. 2001 NE was probably the luckiest season ever.

2002 NE was a much better football team than 2001 NE, and they didn't even make the playoffs. How's that for luck varience?

So if you can find THAT leprechaun, I will bend Danny Snyder over myself.

Bend Danny over? AHHH What is next, rainbow avatars?

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

Bend Danny over? AHHH What is next, rainbow avatars?

You are homophobic aren't you?

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Being the best team in the league in 2003 and 2004 certainly had a lot to do with that. Just because you are the best team doesn't make you a champion. Just ask 2005 Indy, and 2006 SD and Baltimore. If the Patriots had gotten the bounces those teams had (although for 2005 Indy, they just ran into Pittsburgh on the wrong day), we wouldn't be hearing much about them, would we?

Don't even get me started on the 2001 team. They were maybe the 11th or 12th best team in the regular season, only got into the playoffs playing a last place schedule, and as we all know, probably shouldn't have gotten by a much better Oakland team in the divisional round. Not to mention their path after than included a team Quarterbacked by Kordell Stewart, and a Rams team who certainly did not play their best game in the Super Bowl. 2001 NE was probably the luckiest season ever.

2002 NE was a much better football team than 2001 NE, and they didn't even make the playoffs. How's that for luck varience?

So if you can find THAT leprechaun, I will bend Danny Snyder over myself.

01 Pats did not have the most talent. That is for damn sure. But they were the best team. Look at the 05 Redskins? We played some of the shitiest teams in the NFL on our playoff run. We got to play teams that were on their 2nd and 3rd qb's. But no one cares. A win is a win in the NFL.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

01 Pats did not have the most talent. That is for damn sure. But they were the best team. Look at the 05 Redskins? We played some of the shitiest teams in the NFL on our playoff run. We got to play teams that were on their 2nd and 3rd qb's. But no one cares. A win is a win in the NFL.

There was the Rams game...and that was it right?

Yeah, a win as a win, and the goal of the game is to win, but not all wins are of equal difficulty, obviously. The 01 Pats didn't get a lot of quality wins, and you could make a case that there were teams more deserving of their playoff spot than they were. But due to the way scheduling is designed to help lesser teams win more games (thus, parity), NE just happened to win 11 games.

I mean, obviously the biggest function of luck was Bledsoe getting injured...the only time he missed games in his career. Thats not going to be an 11 win team with Bledsoe, not even close.

Even with Brady, they lacked a lot of talent. I mean, they were among the better half of teams that year, but I mean shouldn't have been able to run with Oakland or Pittsburgh, much less the Rams.

The tuck rule received a lot of publicity, but what sometimes goes unnoticed is that had the weather not been such a big factor in that game, the score wouldn't have even been close.

Oakland lost the last three games of their season after starting 10-3 and clinching their division in Week 14. They lost to Tennessee, Denver, and someone else that year to end the season, all three on the last play of the game. Crazy finishes, too. But thats how close they came to securing the No. 2 seed, and being able to blow out an inferior New England team in the divisional round, assuming they even made it that far.

But that's the role that luck plays in football. Makes legends out of players who aren't necessarily deserving (and Brady would become deserving within 2 years, but we didn't know that).