{"id":2206,"date":"2008-01-21T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/21\/miscellaneous-football-thought\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T12:17:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T12:17:27","slug":"miscellaneous-football-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/21\/miscellaneous-football-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Football Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more detailed comments on the games leading up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/the_steelypips_bowl.php\">Chateau Steelypips Showdown<\/a> in two weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Patriots looked a little shaky, but again, I was never that worried that they would actually lose. Their defense isn&#8217;t as intimidating as it was a few years ago, but they did enough to get the job done, holding the Chargers to nothing but field goals.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Brady looked distinctly mortal, which probably had something to do with the lousy weather. He had a number of passes wobble in the air, and got picked off an astonishing three times, but still held it together well enough to score when they needed to.<\/p>\n<li>That said, he&#8217;s 100-26 as a starter, which is just preposterous.<\/li>\n<li>Astonishingly, given the miserable weather, the Packers-Giants game was a well-played and entertaining game. Most of the famous bad-weather games (the Ice Bowl, the fog game between Philly and Chicago back in the 80&#8217;s, last year&#8217;s Super Bowl) are kind of plodding and uninteresting. Last night, both teams were passing the ball, and moving it pretty well.<\/li>\n<li>Even more astonishingly, Eli Manning had the best game of any of the four quarterbacks in the conference championships&#8211; 21-40, 254 yard, no interceptions. If you had said at the beginning of the year that Manning would outplay Brady, Favre, and Phillip Rivers on a random Sunday in October, let alone in the game before the Super Bowl, I would&#8217;ve laughed at you. But Eli gets Manning family bragging rights for the next little while.<\/li>\n<li>I feel bad for Favre, and hope he comes back. I would&#8217;ve been perfectly happy to see the Giants lose to the Packers, if it allowed Favre another Super Bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Not exactly the match-up the NFL was hoping for, I suspect, but it&#8217;ll be big in the Northeast&#8230; Probably the lowest ratings ever in the South, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more detailed comments on the games leading up to the Chateau Steelypips Showdown in two weeks: The Patriots looked a little shaky, but again, I was never that worried that they would actually lose. Their defense isn&#8217;t as intimidating as it was a few years ago, but they did enough to get the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/21\/miscellaneous-football-thought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miscellaneous Football Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}