No, it really isn't. Its about the Broncos coming out and kicking our asses and then when they got done kicking them they reached down, picked them, up and handed them back to us with an "excuse me, I think this belongs to you"

I've come to expect it from you that you can't give the other team credit but I figured after last night you'd have to at least acknowledge it. I guess I was wrong. After last night I'm wondering what an opponent would have to do for you to simply say "they beat us"

I'm thinking that if the Packers were Ray Rice's girlfriend you'd be saying Ray didn't beat her she shit herself in that elevator.

Originally Posted by: sschind 

Your post got me thinking.
Would you fire a coach that won a SB, made it to the playoffs almost every season, got to the championship game last year and has a 6-1 record? Of course not. But what if I told you many other coaches would actually do better with the talent he has?
My point is: a good coach can get fired at Jacksonville or Cleveland and a bad coach can stay for many years in Denver, Green Bay or Indianapolis.

I like Mike McCarthy and I wouldn't fire him but I think he is in the middle of the pack about coaching. I think there's a list of teams we can defeat and a list of teams we can't defeat. It just it is what it is and we are fixed.

In the SB we got the right combination of opponents to win all the games, Philadelphia with Andy Reid, Atlanta with Mike Smith , Chicago with Lovie Smith and then Pittsburgh with Tomlin.

Granted, we are going to he playoffs, we can beat any NFC team at home, some teams might be dangerous if they make it: New York with Coughlin, New Orleans with S.Payton, Seattle with Carroll.

If we make it let's better hope the Patriots got knocked out because if we have to play the Pats in the SB it's not going to be pretty.

Originally Posted by: luigis 

Our coaching staff has actually done well preparation wise against the Patriots in recent meetings. We gave them all they could handle with Matt Flynn starting one game and beat them convincingly last year.

Originally Posted by: steveishere 

In both games the Patriots didn't really care about the result.

Originally Posted by: luigis 

lol sorry but that's one of the lamest excuses I've ever read

Originally Posted by: steveishere 

It's an excuse but still, even if they didn't consciously have the "We don't need to win this game" mentality, you don't think it had SOME effect on their level of play, playcalling, etc?

Originally Posted by: Porforis