The only time I said smash-mouth I was talking about the Steelers,
Cimmerian Nights said:
Yeah, I don't really hate Pittsburg, I respect them ... they are a solid organization, draft really well, and play smash-mouth ball, love Pats/Steelers games.
there's no way I'd call the 2010 Pats smash-mouth. Opportunistic, ball control, dink-and-dunk, young, inconsistent, porous secondary. Frankly I don't think the Patriots are all that good, they just hold it together and convert a few key 1st downs here and there where other teams cough it up or can't convert. And I don't even really credit the Patriots for that, as it's usually the other team screwing up.
They are playing with house money, they are still in rebuilding mode what with their stockpile of picks again next year. It's all gravy this year.
I don't get the Colt's comparison. The Pats are stout up front, they play the run well on both sides, always have. The Colts have always been notoriously soft up the middle and one dimensional on Offense post-Edgerrin James. The Pats passing attack post-Moss is all underneath, take what you're given shit. They're back to the smoke and mirrors offense of yesteryear. Like I said, maybe during the Moss-era you could make that case, but they even exceeded the Colts in the area of whorish regular season stats in '07.
The Colts I remind you, wussed out on their chance at history, opting to rest up (as they do every year) for their inevitable depantsing of Seyton. The Pats, while falling short on the last drive of the SB went balls to the wall. Totally different philosophies and the last 10 years bare it out pretty starkly.
If there's any Colts/Patriots paralell to be made it's their ability to make starters out of late rounders and undrafted types.
The only whining from yesterday is from the Lions
Shaun Hill says a Patriots player tried to break his arm.
And your reply is pointing out what a great passer your QB is and how oh no Detroit is dirty! - AKA exactly the behavior you hate the Colts for? You must be going schizophrenic like all hell by now.
Back up a little. Hiting the QB is the means, not the end. I think you're confusing FF with actual football, you don't score points for hitting, hurrying or sacking. You hit the QB to throw him off his game, disrupt his timing, intimidate him and otherwise create chaos for which he must cope.
If the QB then goes on to pass for 400 accurate yards and 4TDs and no turnovers, well, I'd question the effectiveness of that hitting, legal or otherwise. Not the hitting itself. Who stands in the pocket and takes hits better than Brady? - and how do the Colts come in. Peyton Manning rarely if ever gets hit or sacked, he's too damn good and fast.
I never heard anyone from the Patriots say Detriot is dirty, Bart Scott did. But 3 consecutive, unanswered unsportsmanlikes as time is expiring when you're down 20+ in front of hometown crowd when you blew 2 leads? That's not dirty, that's counterproductive, bitch-ass pouting. I didn't see any dirty hits, maybe they happened during a Pecan Pie run.
mmmm Pecan Pie.
