But probably not as enjoyable as it was for me to watch the Giants beat the Pats a couple of years ago.
For a Peyton Manning hater like Hart, it was very enjoyable.
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For a Peyton Manning hater like Hart, it was very enjoyable.
Sandra
But probably not as enjoyable as it was for me to watch the Giants beat the Pats a couple of years ago.
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Hey what is the mood like in Indiana?
Who is getting the blame there? Payton for the pic, Caldwell for kicking that 51 yard FG, Hank Baskett or Tony Dungy for giving the Saints extra motivation?
I feel for you, I know how tough it was in 2007. I still haven't forgiven Assante Samuel, and still would like to see the execution of John Tommasse.
And most of you doubted the Saints!
What a great game! The second half was awesome! I'm still pinching myself this morning...
It was nice to see Porter pick off another one in the 4th quarter and seal the game.
After the game was over we went outside. My neighborhood is normally a very quiet one. All you could hear from all directions was yelling, screaming, and fireworks. The shots they were showing on the news of Bourbon St was insane! Wish I could have been there. That party is not going to stop until after Mardi Gras.
What a great game! The second half was awesome! I'm still pinching myself this morning...
It was nice to see Porter pick off another one in the 4th quarter and seal the game.
After the game was over we went outside. My neighborhood is normally a very quiet one. All you could hear from all directions was yelling, screaming, and fireworks. The shots they were showing on the news of Bourbon St was insane! Wish I could have been there. That party is not going to stop until after Mardi Gras.
Random thoughts from a Colts fan
- First, the Saints outplayed and (probably more importantly) out coached the Colts and deserved to win the game. They acted like they wanted it more. Congratulations to them and to the city of New Orleans. If they hadn't beaten the Colts I'd be really happy for them (I might be still, eventually).
- I thought the Colts clearly looked like the better team early on and would have won the game, but it turned on two things:
1. Colts get a goal line stand with two minutes left in the first half, and then sit on the ball??!!!?? Do you have Peyton effing Manning or not? Since when do the Colts not try to score at the end of the first half - I don't care if they're on their own one inch line - you trust Peyton to make the right decisions and at least get you into field goal range.
2. The onside kick. That was the moment where I really felt like the Saints were playing to win and the Colts weren't. Or, maybe the better way to say it is that the Saints were completely sold out to winning - they were going to do anything and everything they could. The Colts just seemed to treat it like another game. Normally, that's why the Colts win, but it's bitten them a lot in the playoffs over the years.
- Joseph Addai and Pierre Garcon really looked like they wanted that game, but everyone else just seemed like they were there... I think all of this talk leading up of "it's no big deal, just another week, we've been here before" went a little too far.
- I really felt, going into that game, that Manning was on his way to cementing his legacy as one of the greatest to ever play the game (and not just in the regular season), and he still had a chance to do that in that penultimate drive, but instead he had a classic Peyton "shrinkage" moment when it mattered most. Very depressing.... He still played pretty well overall, but that throw was terrible (although Wayne certainly could have done more to help his QB out - my wife said he seemed to be half-a**ing it all night, and I'm not sure I can disagree with her).
- I thought the Colts defense played really well. It should have been 10-3 (or 13-3 or 17-3) at halftime, and they never should have been on the field for that first possession of the second half - Freeney didn't even have his socks on, for goodness' sake. Take away those 10 points and the 7 from the interception, and they only gave up 14 points to the best offense in football - not too shabby. Even if you say they should have stepped up on that first possession after the onside kick (which they should have), it was still only 21, which should be more than good enough for the Colts to win. Once again, in the big game, the defense plays well enough but the offense fails to come through.
- The one thing I have to complain about is this sequence: Colts are driving, down 7, Saints are helpless to stop them. "Injured Saint on the field, it's Hargrove." Shot of Hargrove writhing in pain on the ground. Next play, Saints have had time to set up the perfect blitz and Peyton makes a terrible throw, resulting in a pick six. Nantz comments on how that injury gave the Saints time to regroup and reset their defense. Couple of plays later, Hargrove looks just fine as he plows into Joseph Addai for a late hit. How many times do we have to see this before the league does something about it????? It happens in every freaking Colts game!!! Thank you, Willie McGinest, for starting that trend...
- First, the Saints outplayed and (probably more importantly) out coached the Colts and deserved to win the game. They acted like they wanted it more. Congratulations to them and to the city of New Orleans. If they hadn't beaten the Colts I'd be really happy for them (I might be still, eventually).
- I thought the Colts clearly looked like the better team early on and would have won the game, but it turned on two things:
1. Colts get a goal line stand with two minutes left in the first half, and then sit on the ball??!!!?? Do you have Peyton effing Manning or not? Since when do the Colts not try to score at the end of the first half - I don't care if they're on their own one inch line - you trust Peyton to make the right decisions and at least get you into field goal range.
2. The onside kick. That was the moment where I really felt like the Saints were playing to win and the Colts weren't. Or, maybe the better way to say it is that the Saints were completely sold out to winning - they were going to do anything and everything they could. The Colts just seemed to treat it like another game. Normally, that's why the Colts win, but it's bitten them a lot in the playoffs over the years.
- Joseph Addai and Pierre Garcon really looked like they wanted that game, but everyone else just seemed like they were there... I think all of this talk leading up of "it's no big deal, just another week, we've been here before" went a little too far.
- I really felt, going into that game, that Manning was on his way to cementing his legacy as one of the greatest to ever play the game (and not just in the regular season), and he still had a chance to do that in that penultimate drive, but instead he had a classic Peyton "shrinkage" moment when it mattered most. Very depressing.... He still played pretty well overall, but that throw was terrible (although Wayne certainly could have done more to help his QB out - my wife said he seemed to be half-a**ing it all night, and I'm not sure I can disagree with her).
- I thought the Colts defense played really well. It should have been 10-3 (or 13-3 or 17-3) at halftime, and they never should have been on the field for that first possession of the second half - Freeney didn't even have his socks on, for goodness' sake. Take away those 10 points and the 7 from the interception, and they only gave up 14 points to the best offense in football - not too shabby. Even if you say they should have stepped up on that first possession after the onside kick (which they should have), it was still only 21, which should be more than good enough for the Colts to win. Once again, in the big game, the defense plays well enough but the offense fails to come through.
- The one thing I have to complain about is this sequence: Colts are driving, down 7, Saints are helpless to stop them. "Injured Saint on the field, it's Hargrove." Shot of Hargrove writhing in pain on the ground. Next play, Saints have had time to set up the perfect blitz and Peyton makes a terrible throw, resulting in a pick six. Nantz comments on how that injury gave the Saints time to regroup and reset their defense. Couple of plays later, Hargrove looks just fine as he plows into Joseph Addai for a late hit. How many times do we have to see this before the league does something about it????? It happens in every freaking Colts game!!! Thank you, Willie McGinest, for starting that trend...
There aren't any local radio shows on in the morning, so I haven't had a chance to "get the pulse" that way... I think if you read the post I just made, most of those things have been echoed by those I've talked to here at work this morning.
Overall, it's more a feeling of disappointment than anything else. It's hard to feel bad that the Saints won, and most people feel they deserved it, but for me it's just kind of a flat feeling...
Now, that may change to something more "passionate" when the hotheads get going on the radio shows later on, but people here aren't generally quite as "life and death" with their sports teams as folks in your neck of the woods...
I don't think you can underestimate the way our opponent is coloring our reactions, either, though - if we had lost to the old crapslinger and the Vikings, or god forbid to the Patriots (not that that's possible, obviously), I think the feeling would be much different this morning.
Wasn't Wayne recovering from a knee injury that caused him to leave practice early just a few days ago??
I'm not sure what you could do rules-wise in this scenario where the injured player is on the team that's leading. The injured player has to come out for a play and the clock is stopped, which helps the team that's trailing. If the injury occurs to the team trailing in the last two minutes of a half, there is a clock runoff of 10 seconds if all of their timeouts have been used.
True...
I know, I'm not sure what the answer is either, but there has to be something. It's become standard technique against the Colts now - they find something they can exploit and run the no huddle to keep you in that setup, so you fake an injury to slow them down and get a chance to sub. The "injured" player in question always comes back to make a play within a minute or two a la Willie McGinest and the goal line stand against Edgerrin James several years back.
I thought it was a great game.....I was there working as a contractor for my buddy who works freelance for Fox Sports Chicago. The noise from the Manning pic-6 was incredible.
My take was that 2 two biggest plays were not so much a coaching issues, but one that took the Colts completely by surprise(the on-side kick) and one where you clearly see Manning starring down his reciever....something he NEVER does. ALSO, after that sack in the 1st quarter by Freeney....the Colts never got close enough to sack him again...he went almost untouched....showing they made chnages/adjustments to the COlts defense. I had heard a great comment by Phil Simms that stated the Saints had pratices hard...hard than most teams in the Super Bowl...for this game. Like mid-seaon, hard hitting practices. You celarly saw how aggressive they were offensive all game.
My take was that 2 two biggest plays were not so much a coaching issues, but one that took the Colts completely by surprise(the on-side kick) and one where you clearly see Manning starring down his reciever....something he NEVER does. ALSO, after that sack in the 1st quarter by Freeney....the Colts never got close enough to sack him again...he went almost untouched....showing they made chnages/adjustments to the COlts defense. I had heard a great comment by Phil Simms that stated the Saints had pratices hard...hard than most teams in the Super Bowl...for this game. Like mid-seaon, hard hitting practices. You celarly saw how aggressive they were offensive all game.
Wayne stopped his route making it easy to jump, that's why Manning was picked. Between that and the drop at the end zone some probably wonder who was wearing Reggie Wayne's number.
Fang's Bites' Review of CBS' Coverage
http://www.fangsbites.com/2010/02/cbs-aces-its-17th-super-bowl.html
http://www.fangsbites.com/2010/02/cbs-aces-its-17th-super-bowl.html
Not really a surprise since ratings records were falling throughout the playoffs:
Super Bowl draws biggest viewership of all-time - Super Bowl XLIV - SI.com
Super Bowl draws biggest viewership of all-time - Super Bowl XLIV - SI.com
Lets not get into who has made bogus statements
Nice call, Sandy.
. we all have our share of these but you sir might be the john madden of bogus statements .
I thought at the time that maybe we'd see a fine come from that forearm to the face when he was on the ground after taking a decent hit earlier in the game. Thought maybe that spearing late in the game that drew one of the few penalties by New Orleans could have been retaliation.
Did Peyton Manning pull a "LeBron"??
Manning beats an unhappy, hasty retreat - NFL News - FOX Sports on MSN
Manning beats an unhappy, hasty retreat - NFL News - FOX Sports on MSN
The was represented pretty yesterday because Vilma was all over the place on defense and "big mouth" Shockey caught the winning TD.
This year's NFL champion put a twist on an old saying:
The 2009 New Orleans Saints- Proof that offense can sell tickets and win championships
The 2009 New Orleans Saints- Proof that offense can sell tickets and win championships
