Like I said watch that drive again. Samuel was WIDE OPEN. That would've been the game. I felt my heart drop was like oh shit that's gunna come back to bite us, and oh how it did. dropped INT wide open, phantom sack, circus catch, another dropped INT, in for a TD. Eli cracked miserably on that drive, he just got lucky as hell that the pats somehow cracked even more.
But it does hold. Brady their damn starter was hurt. Some other teams may have managed to squeek by, but they didn't lose their star, and they certainly didn't go all the way. Pats lost colvin, alright well no huge deal. Sammy morris, meh w/e. But when Brady was hurt that took away their true weapon wihch is the passing game. The deep ball wasn't cuttin it for brady, so moss wasn't a huge factor, which allows welker to be watched more carefully. Either way first play of the game randall gay goes down, not a huge deal, but it counts for something. Later on a drive I wanna say Koppen was taken out, reason for not knowing they never even updated us on the situation.
For reference other teams with injured players that blew it for them. The colts dwight freeny, marvin harrison. Freeny out the pressure comes off the opposing QBs a bit. Harrison comes back finally cold as ice fumbles his first reception. The chargers LT their star out, philip rivers bum leg, the pats beat them after playing arguably their worst game of the season. The ravens get beat by the lowly dolphins after losing even more players to injury.
