Pats shut up Steelers</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <span class="articleBegin">F</span>OXBORO - In the words of Tom Brady, the best way to get a handle on the pulse of the team is to observe what happens on the field, not what’s spoken off it. That’s the Patriots motto.</p> “Well done is always better than well said,” is how Brady put it in the wake of safety Anthony Smith’s guarantee of a Pittsburgh victory during the week.</p> And the Patriots are doing quite well.</p> Yesterday’s 34-13 victory over the Steelers, which assured the 13-0 Pats of a first-round playoff bye, should calm down all the worrywarts who were getting nervous after the Pats scraped out wins to protect their perfect record three times in the last four games.</p> As for Smith, the guarantee man, his face is a healthy shade of red this morning.</p> Did the Patriots pick on him? You bet.</p> They also placed a heavy helping of scarlet on the Steelers, considered the last major hurdle on the road to an unbeaten season.</p> Next up on the chopping block: The New York Jets. The team coached by Eric Mangini, triggerman of Camera-gate, is 24-point underdogs.</p> Need any more be said on that score?</p> Yesterday’s game essentially boiled down to the Steelers’ top-ranked defense, first in the NFL against the pass, having no answer for the Pats’ air show, which was back in all its might and glory.</p> After a few so-so weeks, Brady and Randy Moss were once again the best quarterback/receiver duo on the planet. On this afternoon, there was no need to run the ball. The Pats only did that nine times because the Steelers couldn’t stop Brady and his receivers, particularly Moss (seven catches, 135 yards, two touchdowns), Wes Welker (nine catches, 78 yards, TD) and Jabar Gaffney (seven catches, 122 yards, TD).</p> It was the return of the big-play offense, as Brady (32-for-46, 399 yards) threw for four touchdowns. One was a 63-yard bomb to Moss, who breezed past a defense caught biting on a play action. The other was a trick play, with Brady and Moss trading laterals before Brady unleashed a 56-yard strike to a wide-open Gaffney.</p> Any guesses who was beaten on both plays?</p> Yes . . . Smith.</p> Sure, the Steelers were playing without safety Troy Polamalu, the heart and soul of their defense. But it’s hard to imagine him changing the course of the game.</p> While the Patriots were “bullied” by the Baltimore Ravens last week, beaten up and pushed off the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, that was certainly not the case yesterday.</p> Brady, sacked three times in each of the last two games, was kept clean by his offensive line.</p> “I think tonight we won a majority of the battles,” left guard Logan Mankins<font color="#888888"> </font>said. “I think we played a lot better.”</p> As for the defense, Willie Parker may have rushed for 124 yards on 21 carries, but those yards didn’t quite have the same impact as Willis McGahee’s 138 the week before in Baltimore.</p> Ben Roethlisberger (19-for-32, 187 yards, TD), while the superior quarterback to A.J. Feeley and Kyle Boller, didn’t have as much bang for the buck against a stingier and more energetic Pats defense, which sacked him three times.</p> The Pats also came up with a terrific goal-line stand in the fourth quarter, with safety Rodney Harrison<font color="#888888"> </font>making two huge plays, along with linebackers Junior Seau and Mike Vrabel. The Steelers did not score in the second half.</p> “We knew they could play football. We knew they could back up what they said, so we had to match it, and tonight I think we matched it,” said nose tackle Vince Wilfork. “I think we played with more emotion (than Monday night). I could see guys running to the football. I could see guys having fun on the field. I think last week, we lacked that. . . . Everyone wanted to see what we were going to do against this great Pittsburgh Steeler team, and we showed up.”</p> Think anyone would dare make another guarantee? The Jets? The Dolphins? The Giants?cw0</p> “Something was bound to slip out,” Moss said. “I think the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers, as far as their toughness and their mouths, got a lot in common. So there’s no telling what’s coming out next. So they’ve done their talking throughout the week. We’ve done our talking on the field today.”</p> Well done is always better than well said.</p> </div></p>
I've read what this broad has written before. She's so bias toward the Pats that it's clear she just wants to sleep with Tom Brady. My favorite part is where she talks trash about the Jets. Did she miss the Eagles and Ravens games? I'm sure that no one thought that those two teams would give the Patriots the problems that they did. That's the NFL and that's why they play the games.</p>
A Boston based reporter has a slant towards a Boston-area team...therefore she want to sleep with Tom Brady?</p> That's just inappropriate and sexist. Do the ESPN grovelers want to sleep with him too?</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (agoo101284)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> A Boston based reporter has a slant towards a Boston-area team...therefore she want to sleep with Tom Brady?</p> That's just inappropriate and sexist. Do the ESPN grovelers want to sleep with him too?</p> </div></p> Chris Berman already has...</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (agoo101284)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> A Boston based reporter has a slant towards a Boston-area team...therefore she want to sleep with Tom Brady?</p> That's just inappropriate and sexist. Do the ESPN grovelers want to sleep with him too?</p> </div></p> Chris Berman already has...</p> </p> </div></p> </p> Oh the disturbing visual & the wasted 20 seconds of my life imaginging it & the yrs of therapy I'll need to recover.</p> Getting back to the subheading on this thread, if Talk is cheap then this site is worthless. I mean priceless?</p>
