Super Bowl notes

[Zeno]

I won't watch this game for a few reasons, I don't like Dungy, don't like Peyton and don't like the Bears. This was the worst possible match-up among playoff teams in my personal terms of watchability.

Looks like dinner and a movie for my wife and I on Sunday.

 

[Pariah]

I am just pointing out that to say the Bears outclass the Colts in every aspect of the game, except passing, is not really accurate when looking at the previous playoff games this season.

I'm looking at a larger sample. Look at the entire year. The Bears have a better defense (run and pass) and have a better running game.

I'm not sure exactly what the psychologist is measuring, but it's not football statistics.

 

[40yearfan]

Why are you spoiling for a fight about something this stupid? I suppose that a lack of intellectual curiousity about this for the first 22 years of your life and allowing your mom and dad to do everything for you might mitigate in some ways the value of a person as a role model, yeah. But if you think that it's okay for a kid to pattern his life after someone who knows how to diagnose a Cover-3 over--say--Jonas Saulk, then that's totally your perogative.

Children that were born millionaires make tremendous role models.

That's what you call spoiling for a fight? I guess anyone who questions the great K9 can't be too smart because there is nothing that the great K9 does not know. I didn't realize that your answer was predicated on class warfare. Jealousy is a nasty monster.

 

[CardLogic]

I'm looking at a larger sample. Look at the entire year. The Bears have a better defense (run and pass) and have a better running game.

I'm not sure exactly what the psychologist is measuring, but it's not football statistics.

Agreed. There wasn't adequate explanation of the methodology given in the little "blurb" in the paper.

But the Ravens also had a better defense, in fact better than Chicago's in both Total D and Scoring D, New England also had a better Scoring D and nearly the same in Total D as Chicago. New England also had a better rushing offense than Chicago.

But yet, it's the Colts in the Super Bowl. Largely due to the team being able to correct their deficiencies, i.e. - run defense, for the playoffs.

 

[Pariah]

But yet, it's the Colts in the Super Bowl. Largely due to the team being able to correct their deficiencies, i.e. - run defense, for the playoffs.

Hey, I'm not saying the colts have no chance, or that my prediction is rock solid. I just like the matchup based on what I saw from both teams this year.

I could certainly be that Grossman implodes and/or Manning goes off against the Bears' D, but I think that's the only way the colts can beat the bears. On the flip side, I think the bears could beat the colts with a few big plays in the passing game, they could play ball control offense and grind out a low-scoring victory, they could kill the colts with defensive and ST scores/plays. I don't see the colts winning in any fashion that doesn't involve Manning having a big day (and, in the micro-view of the playoffs, Manning has been pretty average by manning-standards).

 

[Mulli]

Seem to recall more than a few Superbowls where the team with the best QB lost to the team with a power running game.

 

[AZCB34]

I'm looking at a larger sample. Look at the entire year. The Bears have a better defense (run and pass) and have a better running game.

I'm not sure exactly what the psychologist is measuring, but it's not football statistics.

I get the feeling the experts were putting so much stock in what NO did in it's playoff game, that they overlooked the entire body of work for the season. The same is happening now although IND is better than NO.

Indy lost to teams QB'd by Garrard, Young, Carr and Romo so it isn't as though they have only lost games to elite NFL QB's.

Bears match up better than most want to believe (or most want to hope since I think ever expert is willing the win to Manning).

 

[Brighteyes]

I'm just so happy the Patriots are out. I am rooting for the Colts, but after intensive self-analysis, I realized this is because the Bears beat us this year, therefore they must suffer.

And every time someone talks about the Chicago great moves, I always visualize the 'Super Bowl' Shuffle video, and shudder.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

other than the giants against the ravens, the bears are the worst superbowl participant i can remember in recent years.

 

[cardsfanmd]

The Bears will somehow find a way to win because my football prayers are never answered.

i know the feeling

 

[Duckjake]

But if you think that it's okay for a kid to pattern his life after someone who knows how to diagnose a Cover-3 over--say--Jonas Saulk, then that's totally your perogative.

Yeah there were a bunch of 10 year old kids in our backyard yesterday playing scientist and wearing their Jonas Saulk and Neils Bohr autographed lab coats.

 

[Pariah]

Yeah there were a bunch of 10 year old kids in our backyard yesterday playing scientist and wearing their Jonas Saulk and Neils Bohr autographed lab coats.

I can't tell you how many chicks I got with my unkemp hair and uber-cool chalk on my tweed sport coat. I would regale them with fascinating stories about how I almost caught my bushy eyebrows on fire with the bunson burner and most times when they'd ask the dreaded question: "what are you thinking about?" I'd respond "The periodic table." They'd swoon.

 

[Duckjake]

Jason in background locking door to keep the chicks from the Saulk fan club from mobbing him.

 

[abomb]

I can't tell you how many chicks I got with my unkemp hair and uber-cool chalk on my tweed sport coat. I would regale them with fascinating stories about how I almost caught my bushy eyebrows on fire with the bunson burner and most times when they'd ask the dreaded question: "what are you thinking about?" I'd respond "The periodic table." They'd swoon.