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Kevin Hench Sucks; Just saw this now.... HAHAHAHA
Topic Started: Jan 21 2008, 07:46 PM (77 Views)
KCGirl
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Link to whole article.

No stopping Packers, Pats now
by Kevin Hench

January 18, 2008

Like those pesky mid-major hoop teams that crash the NCAA party every March, the Chargers and Giants have ruined what was shaping up as an NFL Final Four for the ages.

The conventional wisdom is that the storybook runs of the upstarts — eight straight wins for the Bolts, nine straight road wins for the G-Men — will come to their bone-chilling ends in Foxboro and Green Bay.

But if there's one trend that bears going against it's when everybody claims to know exactly what's going to happen.

Except this week. When everybody will be right.

It should be a good weekend for fans wearing tri-cornered hats, be they Minutemen or Cheeseheads (picks in caps).

Patriots 34, Chargers 10

PACKERS -7.5 v. Giants
When the Giants made those two heroic defensive stands last Sunday after the Cowboys twice took over with great field position late in the fourth quarter, they sort of had that Beowulf-killing-the-dragon-but-dying-in-the-process look to them.

What, you weren't thinking the exact same thing?

Everything broke right for the Giants last Sunday. They hooked up with a team that looked like it had been prepared by coaches considering job offers elsewhere. They faced a quarterback who looked less than locked-in. They caught a defense napping for the last 47 seconds of the first half. And they were the recipient of a couple of horrible calls, including a 15-yard penalty on Leonard Davis for having the audacity to continue blocking Michael Strahan when the all-time NFL single-season sack leader tried to get up and pursue the quarterback.

And still they needed an end zone pick at the end to preserve a 21-17 victory.

They won't get those same breaks this week. Nobody is trying to poach the Packers coaches. No need to worry about Green Bay's quarterback being locked in. The Green Bay defense will not allow any 47-second TD drives. And New York won't get bailed out by a dubious (since apologized for) intentional grounding call.

Ryan Grant doesn't figure to go as nuts this week — how could he? — but Brett Favre will take advantage of the Giants' injury-ravaged secondary, hitting Donald Driver and Greg Jennings in space and letting them get their YAC on.

Packers 24, Giants 10

Last week: 2-2
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BlueHeart
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He should find another line of work.
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Halfmoon
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Crazy, but in a good way. Honest!
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Saw that before the game but forgot about it. Makes me laugh evilly now. :D
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Hadron
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Ole Henchy is a moron.
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