On Friday night at 9:30pm is the replay of us beating the Patriots last year on the NFL Channel. (I'm not sure that replay that will help us much, the Patriots will be watching it also and they will be pissed)
Are you sure it's last years game? Someone else on here has mentioned this but it says on the program guide that it's the 2004 game... which would be the upset game when Bates was coaching. I hope it's the 2004 game.
That was a pretty sweet game. No doubt the NFL are trying to angle it like that could happen again. But, it could. I honestly would not put it past Belichick to intentionally throw a game, in order to get the message across to his players to stop being over-confident and start working hard again. Belichick had to be thinking perfection before the season began. They all did. But the reality is the Pats are in an unfamiliar and highly uncomfortable situation of playing their absolute WORST ball in December. At this point, everything takes a back seat to the championship, even perfection. Belichick tries to dish them their humble pie, and they don't listen. Honestly if Miami upsets them I'm 99% positive they win the Super Bowl. If they beat Miami, I put that percentage at only 70% because the Colts have the confidence that they *can* and *will* beat the Patriots. They've done it plenty before. They did it like three or four times in a row, and then they had it a fourth or fifth time earlier this year, playing this "unbeatable" juggernaut of a team to the bone and only losing the game at the very end because Marlin Jackson and Bob Sanders got hurt. Bob Sanders and Kelvin Hayden had the unstoppable Randy Moss stopped, and Marlin Jackson showed us what happens to Wes Welker when you put a real corner on him. Jackson and Sanders go down, all the sudden Welker and Moss make plays. The Colts know. They know what really went down. They have the talent, they have the confidence, and when they get ahead of the Colts they're not about to blow it like coked up robbers that just stole $100 out of the till. That's what happened to the Ravens and Eagles. They gave their respective games away because just when they had the Pats up against the ropes, they took it too far, got too aggressive, were too convinced that they had to be "perfect" for all 60 minutes in order to win the game. That's why A.J. Feeley guns that stoopid deep ball that gets easily picked off. That's why Kyle Boller does the same. The Colts have been there with the Patriots, they don't need to play perfect to win, they just need to play. They won't feel the need to keep being aggressive even when they have the game in the bag, they'll keep pounding it down Seau and Bruschi's throats.
