what the hell was bret favre doing. I love the guy but he always gets himself in trouble with those lobs.
Law of averages... with all those awesome jump balls Favre threw for TD's the last month, one of them was bound to be a busted play which resulted in an INT. Good game though... good season for the Pack... now the Eagles try to make it, "third time's a charm..." for the Superbowl in Houston.
had the packers not played that piss poor defense on 4th and 26 then this game would have been over a long time ago. When does that coverage work?
couldn't agree more. favre got way too much credit for those touchdown passes over the past few weeks (especially against the raiders) he constantly threw into double teams and the receivers made spectacular plays. favre's penchant came back to bite him in the ass. but great run for brett. i still love him as a qb and a man.
Kind of funny that a 4th-and-25 completion got them into the playoffs, and basically got them out of the playoffs as well.
I hate Philly fans, but....4th and 26? One defensive stop away from an NFC championship game at home? What kind of defense was that? Prevent is one thing, but it looked like Green Bay only had 8 guys on the field or something. How does a WR get that open that deep? (HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING...MUST REMOVE HAND FROM AROUND ESOPHAGUS....) Sorry, I guess only us Titan fans can have a choking team...that must have just been a "great play" by Philly. It was a bad spot, by the way, on the Freddie Mitchell catch. However, I still think he had the first down. They gave him a couple extra yards, but I think it was pretty clear that he caught the ball past the marker. Props to Favre and his team for advancing so far, but I guess all that good karma finally caught up to them. That throw in OT was just plain horrible, even though it seems the past few weeks, all those balls were caught by the Packer TE's and WR's. Hell, Walker made another one of those "jump ball" catches in the 2nd half near the 10 yd line. What a hell of an NFL playoffs so far. 3 OT games? Only 2 of the 8 games so far decided by more than a TD? WOW.
I felt really bad for Favre.... I really wanted him to win. I think reading that b*stard's column in the Philadelphia News on Thursday plus knowing how the Philly fans are low-class in general really had me wishing the Eagles would fall by Favre's hand. Unfortunately he really lost the game for them. I guess he just instinctively thought a WR would be open out there since he was getting heavy heat on that side, but damn .... NO ONE was near where he threw the ball. I think Sherman will be regretting not going for it in regulation for a long, long, long, long time.
McNabb is just a clutch player. May be the best QB in the NFL right now (Manning's not too shabby) but McNabb has nowhere near the recievers Manning has. Look for Philly to be in Houston on Feb. 1st.
About an hour after the game, there are still drunks walking down the street outside my Philly apartment yelling at the top of their lungs. (And, no, I don't live near the stadium.) Sure, Richmond was a madhouse after the Rockets won the championship, but all the Eagles did was get to the same game they've lost two years in a row. Is that cause for drunken celebration? I'm seriously worried these people will burn down my apartment building if the Eagles win the Super Bowl ...
ahhhhhhh Favre should have thrown the ball to his all-world ex-Aggie Receiver Robert Ferguson everytime
Mike Sherman is the real reason the Packers lost this game. He talks all week about being aggressive, and in the 1st half practiced what he preached, even though it backfired. To go for it on 4th and goal from the one was the right decision though, in my opinion. Then he chickens out when he had the perfect chance to stick a dagger in the Eagles season. If this was at home, I might understand as you have the crowd helping your defense, but this game is on the road. Play for the tie at home, the win on the road. No doubt about it, you go for it on 4th and half a yard with 2:30 left on the Philly 40. If you don't have faith in your offense to get half a yard, then guess what, you don't deserve to be in the NFC title game anyway. Just because the FOX announcers are idiots doesn't excuse Sherman either. Oh I'm Cris Collinsworth, an ultra conservative wuss of a playcaller. Philadelphia had the momentum and the crowd, you don't give them a shot to tie the game. Even if you fail, you show you have confidence in your defense because if you didn't you don't give them a short field to work with. I knew when they elected to not go for it, Philadelphia was going to win the game. Winning teams play to win, not to lose. Green Bay played not to lose and it bit them, like it should have. There never would have been a 4th and 26 miracle if they stick the dagger in the Eagles at the 2:30 mark. But even then they played not to lose. Dropping every one way back on the last play of the game is about the only time that should ever be used. In this situation, you take the aggressiveness out of your defense and if they catch the ball in space, they have a solid shot at running for the 1st down. Then, Green Bay made matters worse by leaving Mitchell free over the middle, and it burned them. The throw by Favre in OT was horrendous, no doubt. But the game was not lost there. The game was lost when Mike Sherman went against what he said all week and told his football team they weren't good enough to beat Philadelphia by electing to punt on 4th and 1 from the Philly 40, when a 1st down wins the game.
