Pats chatter
Comments from Patriots players following Super Bowl XLII:
CB Ellis Hobbs
(on his coverage of Plaxico Burress on the game-winning touchdown)
"It was just one on one. It's not hard to read when when you have nothing out there. You have to protect the inside and I have to respect the slant and the inside route. If our blitz doesn't get there, all he has to do is shake off of me and it's a route."
(on the season)
"The season means nothing now. It means nothing to me. As far as these players and great coaches I am around, this organization, I love them to death. But we didn't accomplish what we wanted to. Like I said, time after time, when you continually win and put a win together and so many people not wanting you to win, to lose at the end just hurts. You know it's all for nothing."
LB Junior Seau
(on if he's going to retire)
"I haven't thought about the future. I am having too much fun."
(on lying on the ground, his face in the turf after the Giants TD)
"I was full of disappointment. We know we did a great job and to see that happen to us at a crucial time, it just wasn't something that I wanted to feel."
DL Richard Seymour
(on his thoughts)
"It's definitely tough. It's a heartbreaker. At the same time, we understand what it is. It's a game. Give the Giants all the credit in the world. They made the plays when they needed to and it's unfortunate, but you have to take the good with the bad. It's a tough way to lose, last game of the season like this, basically when all the marbles were on the table. It's just disappointing. I don't think there are any words to [describe] what we feel. We have to experience it and go through it, and understand what it is. We lost a football game. We didn't lose in life. We give the Giants a lot of credit. Make no excuses about what happened here today. They came out and they made the plays. Eli was spectacular. He didn't go down in the rush. We had him several times and he came up big for them. They're well coached. They did it."
WR Randy Moss
(on what made the difference in the game)
"I think their intensity, from the beginning snap to the end of the game, was really higher than ours. We just couldn't meet that intensity. It kind of surprised me, just in the fact that all of the work we put in for the last two weeks, our game preparation. They had the better team today. When things like that happen, the only thing you can do is lick your wounds and try to come back at it next year."
(on if he'll be back next year with the Patriots)
"It just makes me hungry to play football. If I am in a New England Patriot uniform next year, I would love to be in one. If I am not, you know, the show must go on."
Please come back Randy...
Please come back Randy.
As a Giants fan, I want to thank the New England Patriots for a helluva game, as well as their class before, during and after the game.
The Pats got what they deserved. I want to see them be arrogant and cocky just (1) time next year. Ha Ha. Won't happen. The Pats are done. No more dynasty, no more perfect season, no more Tom Terrific, no more Bellichick master mind (4th and 13 instead of makeable 49 yd field goal). Brady has now been exposed. Thank the Eagles and Ravens for that. Boston's run of greatness ended yesterday as the Celtics aren't gonna make it nowhere and nor will the Red Sox in the near future. Karma is a killer. Don't run up the score, don't cheat, and don't act so cocky and you won't become the most disappointing team in the history of the NFL.
"We're gonna score 17? OK!!! What is Plaxico playing defense now?"
-Tom Brady
LMAO. I guess if Plaxico was playing on the line they would have possibly been able to get those extra 3 points.
I've never had more pleasure seeing a team lose the superbowl. It was like it was scripted. The fall wouldn't have meant as much if the "so called" perfection wasn't on the line.
Sometimes the universe has a way of righting many past wrongs. Some call it karma or whatever but schoetenfreud it is.
Boston you arrogant punks get brought down to earth in a manner worse than any baseball bounding its way past Bill Buckner.
Maybe you can have Boston Legal to sue the publisher of 19-0
Greatest team ever? Oh sure that must be the NY Giants right.
Now it's the Red Sox turn to do a massive flop.
Have a nice day losers.
Out-coached again. No adjustments in 2nd half. Why wasn't Evans brought in for a few plays to block, run ? Time caught up with a one dimensional team , as usual at the worst time. Even if the bonehead 4th and 13 let's go for it call wasn't made - the Giants - give them credit, as Seymour says - were winning the battles in the trenches - and would've likely responded, Doubts about this coach - 0 and 2 in their last 2 biggest games . . . . Arrogantly throwing into double coverage instead of a kick inside a dome - not good decisions . . .
Rob: As a long time Pats season ticket holder, I want to thank you for your comments. It has been a very tough loss for all of us but I am glad to hear at least one Giants fan show some class (unlike Jay and Amanda who obviously need to learn something from you).
The Giants played an unbelievable game. I am a huge Pats fan and I would have to say that the Pats just plain got beat. It's hard to admit, but it's true. But that being said, if you truly like football it was a great game.
Rob: As a long time Pats season ticket holder, I want to thank you for your comments. It has been a very tough loss for all of us but I am glad to hear at least one Giants fan show some class (unlike Jay and Amanda who obviously need to learn something from you).
The Giants played an unbelievable game. I am a huge Pats fan and I would have to say that the Pats just plain got beat. It's hard to admit, but it's true. But that being said, if you truly like football it was a great game.
The biggest BUST in sports history - how satisfying to watch as an observer. New England's desperate misery is sweet champagne to the rest of the world. How glorious to see those overrated chumps turn their good season into shameful embarassment. The legacy of Belicheck and the 2007 Patriots: cheaters and chokers.
RIP "destiny"
Randy come back... (although I know it won't happen)
Junior come back...
Teddy come back....
please.. there s tons of football left inside you
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