Pats let themselves get in the position of needing that drive to win.  Fumbles, bad passes, penalties, etc.  As stated here, ref drops the flag, there has to be an explanation at the play, not a day later 8P Eastern, on the NFL Network.  Why the refs never gave an explanation of throwing the flag is the problem.  Nothing to do with Pats, "spygate", tuck rule, 3 rings in 4 years, Brady gets plays other teams don't, Coach B being economical with words.  It's about doing the right thing-you throw a flag-you enforce the rule.  Call for holding, drop the ball at the 1 yd line, let the play decide the game.  Too many games this year decided by lousy ref calls.  One of the worst years in the NFL for officiating.  

Some Guy wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 6:20am:



Aw heck, SG, just pop open a few bottles of Dixie Thursday night and you'll feel just like a Saint.

Some Guy wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 6:20am:

Make sure that whatever the Falcons do Thursday night. Don't hit Drew Brees too hard. He doesn't like that and the refs will screw them out of a win if they do.

sirmoonie wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 8:51am:


quit being such a honky.

mojoman wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 6:36pm:

Some Guy, did our Saints arrive safely in ATL?

No eggs thrown or nuthin'? 

http://www.nfl.com/n...-2013-faceplant


ATLANTA -- Last January, at the end of a bipolar Sunday at the Georgia Dome, they were 10 yards away from the Super Bowl.



Ten months later, to borrow from the Rolling Stones' abbreviated psychedelic phase, the Atlanta Falcons are 2,000 light years from home.
As the reigning NFC South champions prepare to host this year's division leaders, the New Orleans Saints, on "Thursday Night Football", they are a shell-shocked shadow of their former selves. Coming off a 41-28 beatdown by the lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers four days ago, the Falcons are 2-8 and completely mystified as to how they fell so far, so fast.
With six games left in this lost season, embattled coach Mike Smith and his players are still coming to terms with the notion that they're in the thick of the race for the No. 1 overall pick in next spring's draft, rather than gunning for another shot at the franchise's first championship ring.
"It's disappointing to have our team playing the way we've been playing," Smith said Tuesday night, two days after being given a public vote of confidence by owner Arthur Blank. "I really believe each year in the NFL, the dynamics change, and there's always a different feel to it than the previous year. But yeah, this has been (surprising). We've got to keep fighting through, just like any other season."
According to several sources familiar with the situation, Smith, who won more games over the previous five years than any coach except the New England Patriots' Bill Belichick, has been told personally by Blank he'll return for the 2014 season, regardless of how miserable this one turns out. Not surprisingly, general manager Thomas Dimitroff -- a two-time NFL Executive of the Year who hired the previously unheralded Smith shortly after taking over in 2008 -- is also safe.


Asked after the defeat to the Bucs if he still had complete confidence in Dimitroff and Smith, Blank told reporters, "I do. I absolutely, do. They've earned it over the last five years. This is a tough business ... The guys are proven leaders and proven by success. Their records speak for themselves. They'll do the work that has to be done with my full support."
This is not to say that Blank isn't exceptionally frustrated with the current state of affairs. If the owner had ultra-high expectations coming into the 2013 season, he certainly wasn't alone. The Falcons -- who'd captured their first playoff victory of the Dimitroff/Smith era by winning a dramatic divisional-round game over the Seattle Seahawks at the Dome -- came tantalizingly close to repeating the feat in the NFC Championship Game, jumping out to a 17-0 lead over the San Francisco 49ers and finishing 30 feet from salvation in an eventual 28-24 defeat.
They've been searching for their mojo ever since. Not since 1999 has a team coming off a conference-title-game appearance put up such a poor record through its first 10 games, when the Dirty Bird Falcons followed up their lone Super Bowl appearance with a decidedly ungraceful crash landing.
Just as that '99 Atlanta team was waylaid by the crushing loss of an irreplaceable star (halfback Jamal Anderson's torn ACL early in its second game), this year's Falcons haven't recovered from Pro Bowl receiver Julio Jones' season-ending foot injury in Week 5.

I think I overdid the Steelers pre-game drinking.  I've already been warned that I may be cut off.  Wish me luck.

Ho Hum, just another game @ The Razor...

[quote author=746E756A6868696E62070 link=1373639875/419#419 date=1385386298]Peyton Manning proved again he has little clutch capabilities vis a vis Brady.  Manning is closer to Romo than he is to Brady in that regardicalness.

Manning blows loaf when balls are on line.[/quote
14 Brady-Manning matchups, last night was Brady's 10th win.  What a night!

Where are the 'Skins fans today? 

Patriots did a number on Manning.  I loved that play in the 4th when Manning called Bodega Bodega Fox Trot Fly, then "rolled" left, but forgot to look the MLB off, so the pulling guard panicked and thought it was a zone block call.  Manning spazzed and had to search for a receiver in the bubble flat, but tripped trying to lead with his left and got his ass buried by like three fat Pats.  Loved it!  I'm not a fan of Peyton Manning.

Steelers on Thanksgiving!  Bitchin'!  Great excuse for me to get staggering intoxicated and ignore the infantile political discussions usually inflicted upon me every year.  I swear, my in-laws make some of y'all dopey ass niggies look like William Buckley.