I'm no longer excited about matching up with the pats in the superbowl.

[VietCowboy]

What calls did you have a problem with on Baltimore? Personally, I felt they got away with ALOT of contact on Pats receivers. (Landry on Moss in the end zone, hit him too early, CB on Welker on the Reed INT, hooked his left arm.) I felt the Pats got away with some late hits on Boller, and that they should've been called for trying to decapitate him on that early play where he evaded the pressure, rolled out and hit a 50 yarder after Thomas tried to take his helmet off, but other than that, I don't see what the complaint can be.

Disparity in penalties is not of itself proof that the Pats were getting away with things. They may have just been playing cleaner than the Ravens.

You really think NE could play SUCH A CLEAN GAME that THEIR ONLY FLAGS occured in the 4th! quarter. I just checked.

Penality
Quarter 1
Baltimore
1 facemask (15 yds)
1 12 D-men on field (5yds, pats tried to do it again later but a TO was called)
1 defensive offside
1 false start (5 yds)
1 unnecessary roughness (15 yds)
Quarter 2
Baltimore
1 defensive holding (5 yds)
1 defensive pass interference (3 yds)

Quarter 4
NE
1 Ineligible downfield (5 yd)
1 offensive pass interterference (10 yds)
1 offensive holding (10 yds)
1 ineligible downfield (declined)
1 false start (5 yds)

Balt
1 false start (5 yds)
1 illegal contact (5 yds)
1 defensive holding (5 yds)
2 unsportsmanlike conduct (30 yds)
1 defensive offside (5 yds)

i never said any penalties against the ravens weren't justified. but I doubt that the pats could have played 3 quarters perfectly flag-free. so brady was right, it wasn't until the 4th quarter that the ref's starting calling it on both sides. too bad, he got the first 3 quarters wrong about who was getting favored.

 

[Rampage]

Totally fixed. No doubt about it. The league loves the Stealers as much as they love the Pats.

but they loved the colts more that year. in the divisional round the refs tried to give the colts that game overturning an obvious pick by troy palumalu. but since the steelers still beat them they changed there tune from " we want manning to get a ring" to the story book ending of "we want bettis to get a ring in his final season."

 

[superpunk]

You really think NE could play SUCH A CLEAN GAME that THEIR ONLY FLAGS occured in the 4th! quarter. I just checked.

/clipped to save length/

i never said any penalties against the ravens weren't justified. but I doubt that the pats could have played 3 quarters perfectly flag-free. so brady was right, it wasn't until the 4th quarter that the ref's starting calling it on both sides. too bad, he got the first 3 quarters wrong about who was getting favored.

I doubt it too. But, that would just be speculation. If you had specific instances where a flag should have been thrown, that's one thing. This is just spinning our wheels. Is it probable that the Pats should have had penalties called on them the first three quarters? Yes. Is it possible that the Pats committed no penalties in the first three quarters, and that's why they weren't flagged? Absolutely.

Personally, I didn't see anything that should have been called aside from those hits on Boller. I don't think we can ask the refs to throw a flag on NE just because the Ravens are playing like idiots and committing penalties left and right.

 

[dogunwo]

I do agree, and I'm getting tired of all the Pats talk....but this is a long week - 10 days between games. Aside from Kitna, we've got little to talk about. We're 11-1, so there's very little whining and back and forth, and the Pats are a big story that almost went down last night. I think for today Pats-talk can be excused.

The OP's point was not that he cares who it is we play, just that he gets the sense something extra is on the Pats' side.

Nothing to talk about? Are you kidding? We could always talk about how Roy almost lost us the game vs. the Pack, how Marion should be starting, or how much better Merriman is than Ware.

If none of that is interesting, we could talk about ways to get Dmac.

 

[WarC]

After the last two weeks NE is looking entirely beatable. I think whoever makes it to the SB against them has a chance. They might even lose in the playoffs as they have the last couple years.

 

[Mavs Man]

Nothing to talk about? Are you kidding? We could always talk about how Roy almost lost us the game vs. the Pack, how Marion should be starting, or how much better Merriman is than Ware.

If none of that is interesting, we could talk about ways to get Dmac.

You forgot Skip Bayless, The Ticket stinks, ESPN gives us no respect, and how we need to lock up Jason Garrett NOW so he doesn't become a head coach in the offseason.

 

[dogunwo]

You forgot Skip Bayless, The Ticket stinks, ESPN gives us no respect, and how we need to lock up Jason Garrett NOW so he doesn't become a head coach in the offseason.

Yeah, my post did seem a little incomplete. Thanks!