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BULLNBEAR52. Jeeze, I was only talking smack. Was I really that offensive to others too? Can't let no one get away with dissin' Tom or Bill dontchano!!!
which one?...LOL
we need to find other Pats fans and get em to beef up the board... NFL SMACK TALK got like 30 something... I wanna see us match that
Probably the person I offended yesterday!
How the hell did we lose a board mark... lol
gametime weather will most likely be in the teens for the Patzzz and yes snow!
I agree, but would love to see the Colts lose today. <g>
Id love to play them next week... Chargers are good but we have already beaten them up pretty good too
Patzzz are super bound....
Charger - Pats makes no difference...LOL
Yup, and they just got another interception. <g>
they are doing very well i think... wouldn't be surprised if they pull it off
Chargers certainly are making a game of it.
I personally would love to see SD and NY win today... Taking the underdogs...
Even though we beat SD, NY, INDY, and DALLAS... buhahahahah
09/16 W San Diego Chargers 38-14
10/14 W Dallas Cowboys 48-27
11/04 W Indianapolis Colts 24-20
12/29 W New York Giants 38-35
Preview - Box Score - Recap
By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
January 12, 2008
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback David Garrard leaves the field after their 31-20 loss to the New England Patriots in an NFL divisional playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots advance to the AFC Championship game.
AP - Jan 12, 11:32 pm EST
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Tom Brady was almost perfect. The Patriots still are.
Their poised and prolific quarterback knocked another mark out of the books in their record-breaking season, completing all but two of his 28 passes to lead New England to its second straight AFC championship game with a 31-20 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday night.
The Patriots pulled away in the second half to improve to 17-0, matching the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only team to go unbeaten from the first game of the season through the Super Bowl.
Two more wins and the Patriots will join them -- much to the chagrin of some of those Dolphins.
Just one more win next Sunday at Gillette Stadium will put the Patriots back in the Super Bowl for the first time in three years after three championships in the previous four years. They'll face the winner of Sunday's game between San Diego and Indianapolis, which beat New England in last year's AFC title game.
"The thing about it now is that none of it matters." Brady said. "For 17 games, it all comes down to this and we were here last year. I hope we perform better."
Brady completed 92.9 percent of his passes, breaking Phil Simms record of 88 percent (22-of-25) set in the Super Bowl after the 1986 season in which he led the New York Giants to a 39-20 win over the Denver Broncos.
And Brady did it mostly without Randy Moss, who had only one catch against double- and triple-coverage.
"They went back to the old way of covering me," Moss said. "We win as a team. I've never been a greedy guy. I'm not going to start now."
Brady hit all the other receivers -- throwing for three touchdowns and 262 yards.
"When they're open like that, it's my job to hit them," he said. "They were open every time, so it's easy to play quarterback."
While Jacksonville's defense struggled to stop Brady and crew, New England's defense had no such problems against the Jaguars' one-two rushing punch of Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew. The league's second-most productive duo during the regular season combined for just 66 yards.
New England Patriots fans hold up signs celebrating the team's 17th straight win of the season after their 31-20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in an NFL divisional playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 in Foxborough, Mass.
AP - Jan 12, 11:30 pm EST
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It was the Patriots who dominated on the ground as Laurence Maroney rushed for 122 yards, including a 1-yard touchdown.
Add Brady's on-target passing to these regular-season records -- 50 touchdown passes by Brady, 23 scoring catches by Moss and 589 points by the team -- and Jacksonville (12-6) became just another team that couldn't stop the Patriots.
And they're not done yet.
"Brady's been great all year," Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said. "He's as good as they come."
Brady completed his first 16 passes before the next one went off the hands of Benjamin Watson, who caught two others for touchdowns.
The next nine passes found their targets before one went right through Wes Welker's hands with 6:46 left in the game.
"I thought he managed the team well," coach Bill Belichick said. "Of course, he threw the ball well."
One throw the Patriots didn't make may have helped the Jaguars take a 7-0 lead. David Garrard completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to Matt Jones on their first possession. He threw as he was going down while in the grasp of Mike Vrabel, and his knee might have touched the turf before he released the pass.
Belichick pulled the red challenge flag from his sock, but held on to it.
"It was just too late by the time we got a look at it," he said.
New England Patriots fans celebrate their team's 17th straight win of the season after they beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-20 in an NFL divisional playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, in Foxborough, Mass.
AP - Jan 12, 11:26 pm EST
Brady tied it on the Patriots' first possession with a 3-yard scoring pass to Watson.
New England capitalized on Garrard's fumble on Jacksonville's second possession when he was hit by Ty Warren and Vrabel recovered at the Jaguars 29. On the first play of the second quarter, Maroney ran in from the 1.
But Garrard, in just his second playoff game, kept matching the success of Brady, a two-time Super Bowl MVP. He completed 22 of 33 passes for 278 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
Garrard directed a 95-yard drive after Jones-Drew misplayed the kickoff and recovered at his own 5. With an excellent blend of passing and running, the Jaguars covered those 95 yards in 11 plays -- never even reaching a third down -- and tied it on Garrard's 6-yard pass to Ernest Wilford.
The Patriots then moved to the Jaguars 19, but a chop block against guard Stephen Neal set them back 15 yards and Stephen Gostkowski ended up missing a 35-yard field goal, leaving the score tied at 14 at halftime.
They came out of the locker room with trickery on their minds.
On a first-and-goal at the Jacksonville 6, Brady put on a good acting performance as he jumped and raised his empty right arm, making it appear as if Kevin Faulk had taken a direct snap. The quarterback, meanwhile, hid the ball in his left hand.
Then he switched to his right hand and found Welker at the back of the end zone to give the Patriots the lead for good, 21-14.
"I'm looking for my Academy Award on that play," Brady said. "They bit on the run pretty good."
And the Jaguars couldn't come back they way they did a week earlier when they beat Pittsburgh 31-29 on Josh Scobee's 25-yard field goal with 37 seconds left.
One of their last chances ended when Rodney Harrison intercepted Garrard's pass with 4:34 left. That gave Harrison four interceptions in his last four playoff games, tying Aenaes Williams' record for the NFL's longest playoff streak.
"Rodney's interception at the end sealed it," Brady said. "We really needed that play."
New England 31, Jacksonville 20
Preview - Box Score - Recap
By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
January 12, 2008
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Jack Del Rio walks along the sidelines in the second half of an NFL divisional playoff football game against the New England Patriots Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, in Foxborough, Mass.
AP - Jan 12, 10:41 pm EST
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- Tom Brady was almost perfect. The Patriots still are.
Their poised and prolific quarterback knocked another mark out of the books in their record-breaking season by completing all but two of his 28 passes to lead New England to its second straight AFC championship game with a 31-20 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday night.
The Patriots pulled away in the second half to improve to 17-0, matching the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only team to go unbeaten from the first game of the season through the Super Bowl.
Two more wins and the Patriots will join them -- much to the chagrin of some of those Dolphins who cling to their no longer unique status.
Just one more win next Sunday at Gillette Stadium will put the Patriots back in the Super Bowl for the first time in three years after three championships in the previous four years. They'll face the winner of Sunday's game between San Diego and Indianapolis, which beat New England in last year's AFC title game.
Brady completed 92.6 percent of his passes, breaking Phil Simms record of 88 percent (22-of-25) set in the Super Bowl after the 1986 season in which he led the New York Giants to a 39-20 win over the Denver Broncos.
And Brady did it mostly without Randy Moss, who had only one catch.
He hit all the other receivers -- throwing for three touchdowns and 262 yards.
Jacksonville's defense struggled to stop Brady and crew. New England's defense had no such problems against the Jaguars' one-two rushing punch of Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew, second-most productive during the regular season, who combined for just 66 yards.
It was the Patriots who dominated on the ground as Laurence Maroney rushed for 122 yards, including a 1-yard touchdown.
Add Brady's on-target passing to these regular-season records -- 50 touchdown passes by Brady, 23 scoring catches by Moss and 589 points by the team -- and Jacksonville (12-6) became just another team that couldn't stop the Patriots.
And they're not done yet.
in a way I wouldn't mind seeing them accomplish that then I wouldn't have to watch Shula drink champaign every year
17 - 0... 2 games away from being the ALL TIME BEST EVER team in the NFL
this game is over good game Pats fans guess I'll be eating this for breakfast
thanks man... looks like 17 - 0 right around the corner!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
good luck tonight guys
oh yea ladies and gentleman... about 4 hours to kick off and 60 beers till i pass out... GO PATZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Oh yeah baby! Hot wibs BBQ'n, quahogs stuffed, mugs are frosted, BRING EM ON!!!
Big game tonite... We got them Jagz... lol PATZ OVA JAGZ BABY!!!
Patriots, Jaguars plan strong effort from start to finish
By HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
January 11, 2008
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The clock ticks down and the pressure builds. Often, the final minutes of a game are the most important.
The Patriots stayed undefeated with a touchdown with 44 seconds left in their 12th game. The Jaguars won their playoff game last weekend on a field goal with 37 seconds remaining.
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On Saturday night, the final minutes of the AFC divisional playoff game between those teams will be the final minutes of the season for one of them.
"Whoever is playing their best football at the end is going to be winning the game," New England cornerback Ellis Hobbs said. "They're a team that obviously is not going to back down and we're not going to back down from them."
Jacksonville (12-5) advanced with a 31-29 win at Pittsburgh that was decided by Josh Scobee's 25-yard field goal followed by a recovery of Ben Roethslisberger's fumble.
"When we bring that intensity and energy to the game for 60 minutes," Jaguars cornerback Terry Cousin said, "I like what we are going to do."
Even if the Patriots, two-touchdown favorites, are way ahead, don't expect them to let up.
They put Tom Brady back in the game in the fourth quarter of a 49-28 win after the Miami Dolphins made it 42-21 on an interception return for a touchdown against backup Matt Cassel. And Brady didn't leave a 52-7 win over Washington until it was 45-0.
Coach Bill Belichick's message was clear: play all-out no matter what the score. It will become second nature when the games are tight.
In last year's AFC championship game, the Patriots coughed up an 18-point lead and lost to Indianapolis 38-34 on Joseph Addai's touchdown with 60 seconds to go, followed by Marlin Jackson's interception with 24 seconds left.
So from the first play of this regular season until the last, Belichick's "60 Minutes" mantra was implanted in their minds.
"Teams are too good and athletes are too good at this level to not finish the game off," Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel said. "We've seen other teams come back on us, not this year but certainly as soon as last year."
Their closest call in their 16-0 season came on a Monday night in Baltimore.
Trailing 24-20, Brady threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Jabar Gaffney with 44 seconds left.
"Bill does a great job of putting us in those situations in practice," Gaffney said. "When they happen, it's all about your keeping your composure."
Still, the Ravens nearly pulled the game out with a desperation, 52-yard completion to Mark Clayton. But backup linebacker Eric Alexander tackled him at the 3-yard line with the scoreboard showing no time left and the Patriots leading 27-24.
"We've had some games in the last month that basically took 60 minutes and that, I think, have gotten us used to playoff football," linebacker Tedy Bruschi said.
The Jaguars already have their last-minute playoff win.
They squandered an 18-point lead -- just as the Patriots did in the AFC title game -- but came back to beat the Steelers on Scobee's kick.
"It's a 60-minute game," said Jaguars quarterback David Garrard, whose 32-yard run with 1:56 left set up the winning kick. "You can't get bent out of shape early on because things happen. Maybe you don't play it perfect every play, but you move on and continue the process. You never know, maybe they slip up."
With the Patriots, that rarely happens late in the game.
They won two Super Bowls on field goals -- one on the last play, the other with 4 seconds left. They clinched another by recovering an onside kick and intercepting a pass in the last 2 minutes.
"I mean, honestly, do you think we would ever tell our team, `Just 50 this week, fellas? That's all we need. Just 45 and then we'll take a quarter off.' We always try to play 60 minutes," said Belichick, in his eighth season as head coach. "We talked about that in 2000 and every year since then in every game.
"There are a lot of close games, a lot of them come down to one possession, a lot of them come down to the final possession, a lot of times the final play. So you just have to be ready to go for 60 minutes every week."
His team is chasing an unprecedented start-to-finish feat: the first 19-0 season in NFL history. The 1972 Miami Dolphins were the only team to finish the regular season and playoffs unbeaten when they went 17-0.
The Jaguars would love to keep it that way. They already made NFL history as the only team to win twice at Pittsburgh in the same season.
"We have a tougher challenge on our hands ahead of us this week and that is what we are worried about," running back Maurice Jones-Drew said. "You can't live in the past."
The emphasis figures to be on whether Brady, Randy Moss and the Patriots' top-ranked passing attack can outscore Jones-Drew, Fred Taylor and the Jaguars' second-ranked running game.
Jacksonville is a bigger team that plays a physical game. New England is older, especially at linebacker. The Jaguars will be without their most experienced linebacker, Mike Peterson, who will miss his eighth consecutive game with a broken right hand.
"I always say youth is overrated," 35-year-old Patriots safety Rodney Harrison said, "because you can run fast, but if you don't know where you're going, guess what? You're just running in circles."
Harrison was in the right spot last season to secure a 24-21 win at Jacksonville that clinched the AFC East title for the Patriots, who finished at 12-4. Naturally, it came down to the final minutes when he recovered Garrard's fumble with 1:46 left.
On Saturday, the Jaguars will face a better team.
"They just added weapons," Jacksonville coach Jack Del Rio said. "Last year that team was beaten a couple times and didn't end up winning the Super Bowl. I think they took that and went into this year with more determination and resolve than ever, and you see the result."
hey whats up aqua
Goood Moorrrning GTP!!
We got some breaks last night. And some help from the officials no doubt O.G.
I am hung over a bit today. LOL
No man, he's right. That "excessive celebration" penalty was total BS, and uh... oh yeah, the phantom "not enough men on the line of scrimmage" call sure was bogus. So I agree with him!! heh..heh. Here's you, me and the 16-0 PATRIOTS...
i wouldnt go that far
Good game... Im very upset by the calls by the officals... Again............The post season shold be fun though.. Patz are a amazing team, but at least they have the officals on their side...
I dont care if you've been a Patz fan for 30 years or not you CAN NOT argue that the officals are not making calls the way they should...... Patz get breaks on everthing............
I wonder if the same situation with Tim Donaghy(aka fake ass basketball ref) is happening in Football....
Incredible.
Who da thunk that Mini Manning woulda have all this help tonight.
The talk on the sports shows tomorrow will be, where have these Giants been all year.
yea this games def gonna be an over... lol
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was fucken Awsome brother.
You notice the running game is attracting alot of attention.
Like the Pats care about the running game.
What the fuck just happened?
As I'm typing this, the Giants take one back.
Holy shit.LMAO
3 NFL Records in one play... booooyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Nephew is a big fan, here is his
bedroom
Same here.LOL
Game on.
i think he should run for president... id vote for him... lol
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