Super Bowl XLVI Recap

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Well I learned one thing on Sunday, always go with your gut. In my last post I pointed out all the reason why the Giants were going to win and simply turned the other cheek. In reality, the aspects of the game that people thought would be influential took a back seat to other aspects of the game. People looked at the Giants receiving core and thought they would smoke the Patriots secondary. However, while the Giants averaged 13.7 yards per reception in the regular season, they only averaged 9 yards in the Super Bowl and, if you take away Manningham's ridiculous reception in the games final drive (also the longest play of the game at 38 yards) they averaged only 8.2 yards a reception.

Another presumption people were claiming was that the Giants defensive line would put pressure on Brady and cause him to make bad decisions. In truth, Brady was only sacked twice and hit three times where the Patriots defensive line sacked Manning three times and hit him six times, doubling the amount of the "speed rushing" Giants. No this game wasn't decided by how hard the other team hit the quarterback or the one on one match ups outside the box. Instead it was decided by the Giants complete domination of the clock and field position. New York held the ball for 14 more minutes than the Patriots did and had an average starting field position on their own 25 yard line. New England however had a hard enough time simply starting outside of the opposing red zone with an average field position on their own 16 yard line. It is pretty hard to score many points when you continually have to drive over 80 yards to get a touchdown.

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Along with an exciting finish to the game, many more questions of the future were raised from this game maybe more than any other Super Bowl I can think of. Did Eli solidify his Hall of Fame ticket with the victory? Is Brady still considered one of the greatest of all time? Do be short, yes and yes. Eli has many more years to play and still must play at a high caliber but he's got pretty good chances. And to Brady, show me another quarterback who has played 10 seasons (Brady didn't play his rookie season in 00' and was out of the 08' season with a knee injury) been to the Super Bowls in 5 of those years and won 3 of them. If you can, it's a very short list. Brady top 5 all-time in my book.

Please let me know your thoughts on the game, Eli Manning, Tom Brady, the lack of good commercials and your suggestions for what the Super Bowl committee should do to get the performers of the half time show to stop doing inappropriate gestures on television. Don't know what I'm talking about?
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