What does this Super Bowl teach us?

[b bulldog]

Maybe a carma lesson can be taught also

[The Shadow]

Well, it teaches us that we are not far away from having a team good enough to win one.
After all, we beat the Super Bowl champ during the regular season!

[b bulldog]

I hope your right.

[Bretsky]

I learned that if we wouldn't have played like horseshit against NY and NE didn't bring their A game maybe GB might have hada shot to win it all

[Harlan Huckleby]

if we wouldn't have played like horseshit against NY and NE didn't bring their A game

Man, you aren't gonna give the Giants any credit.

[Bretsky]

if we wouldn't have played like horseshit against NY and NE didn't bring their A game

Man, you aren't gonna give the Giants any credit.

OK, I learned it's great when a solid unit with an outstanding defensive coordinator gels at the right time and overachieves in bringing their fans a title

[GrnBay007]

I learned that if we wouldn't have played like horseshit against NY and NE didn't bring their A game maybe GB might have hada shot to win it all

That's all I could think about today ....at work. :P

[Harlan Huckleby]

gels at the right time and overachieves

their defense overachieved in 4 straight playoff games? They overachieved in winning 10 straight road games? Look at the talent on their D line.

They didn't overachieve, the analysists underachieved in evaluating the Giants.

[twoseven]

Did the Vikes ever make the SB?

Does a Bear shit in the woods?

Yeah, but that bear hasn't taken a shit for 31 years.

[FavreChild]

Lesson learned: Do NOT rest all your starters in game 16, even if you cannot possibly improve your playoff seeding!!

Case #1: Dallas Cowboys. Rolled over for the 'Skins, even though the 'Skins were still contending for the #6 seed in the NFC. 'Skins needed a win or a Viking loss (they got both).

Result: Dallas loses first playoff game. At home.

Case #2: Indianapolis Colts. Rolled over for the Titans, allowing them to steal the #6 seed in the AFC away from the Browns.

Result: Indy loses home playoff game to Chargers in divisional round.

Case #3: NYG and NE. Play each other in game 16. Play all their starters the entire game. Fantastically competitive game in which New England barely escapes with win #16.

Result: Both teams make it to the Super Bowl.

Coincidence???

You be the judge...

[MJZiggy]

Case #3: Packers play their starters in the final game winning convincingly and wind up losing to the stupid Giants.

[FavreChild]

Actually, it's more like this:

Case #4: Green Bay Packers. Green Bay plays SOME of its starters, and plays them long enough to take a convincing lead against Detroit.

Result: Green Bay WINS first playoff game, but loses to NYG at home.


Am I saying we should have played all of our starters or played them longer, NO - I am not. That is not the reason we lost.

I am saying that the Giants were rewarded. Their secondary was totally banged up in the playoffs and they still won. The lesson is - play every game competitively!! (The Packers did do this, in my opinion, although our 16th game against the Lions did not turn out to be competitive at all.)

[MJZiggy]

The lesson is - play every game competitively!! (The Packers did do this, in my opinion, although our 16th game against the Lions did not turn out to be competitive at all.)

That's because the Lions suck (just thought I'd get that in there).

[twoseven]

The Giants were picked by many to go to the SB at the beginning of the year, they did. They aren't the little engine that could that came from nowhere, they're a great team that only lost 6 games (2 to DAL, 1 to GB, 1 to the Pats). They weren't handed anything because they're nice guys, because they were valiant in week 16, because of karma or any other supernatural forces, or (and I'm sorry) because they played out some end of the year formula the right way. They won because they are a greeat team that outplayed their opponents for 11 weeks in a row on the road. They didn't hammer DAL, they didn't kick our ass either winning by 3 in OT, they played the game of their life against NE and still only won by 3 with 37 secs left in the game. But they did do just enough in each game to win, that's the ONLY thing that matters.

Anyone can say they made the right decision to play it out wk 16, it really didn't cost them anything but some bumps and bruises that were arguably already there. Good for them, they gave it hell to try and take down the Pats, and they weren't hurt by this decision. But, a severe injury to any of their key players (Manning, Buress, Strahan, Umenyiora) in week 16 that could have kept them from advancing in the playoffs and we are then debating how stupid their decision to play full strength was. If there was one best way to handle things at the end of the year my guess is every coach would follow suit. NY beat us because they were the better team that night. To me it's that simple, to search for some complicated explanation is disrespecting how good they really are. Just my opinion.