Why do our SB opponents always fall from grace??

[GOD]

Why do our SB opponents always fall from grace?? While we still manage to truck along??

2002 Rams (7-9 : 3rd place in division) Pats (9-7 : 3 way tie for fist in division)
2004 Panthers (7-9 : 3rd place in division) Pats (14-2 : AFC Champs)
2005 Eagles (6-10 : last place in division) Pats (10-6 : AFC East Champs)

If the Pats are back in the SB yet again this year, how does the NFC representative prepare for such failure in 2006?

 

[dashoe]

Why do our SB opponents always fall from grace?? While we still manage to truck along??

2002 Rams (7-9 : 3rd place in division) Pats (9-7 : 3 way tie for fist in division)
2004 Panthers (7-9 : 3rd place in division) Pats (14-2 : AFC Champs)
2005 Eagles (6-10 : last place in division) Pats (10-6 : AFC East Champs)

If the Pats are back in the SB yet again this year, how does the NFC representative prepare for such failure in 2006?

Because the NFC is a waste land.

The AFC team that goes to the Super Bowl will demolish the NFC opponent, and as you said the opponent will probably not make the playoffs the second year.

 

[Major A$$hole*]

Re: Re: Why do our SB opponents always fall from grace??

Because the NFC is a waste land.

The AFC team that goes to the Super Bowl will demolish the NFC opponent, and as you said the opponent will probably not make the playoffs the second year.

With the NFC being such a wasteland, shouldn't that be an advantege. I mean if you are the best of a mediocre bunch you shouldn't fall off the face of the earth.

 

[Wandering Athol]

It's clobbering time!

:Lecture: I've been hypothesizing lately that the NFC this year isn't really all that much better than the NFC was last year, with one BIG difference: Philly was actually a real SB contender last year.

That's why Philly was heads and shoulders above the rest of the NFC last year. This year, Philly returns (with a thud) to the pack,..., but now, there is now alpha dog in the NFC to show us by comparison how bad that conference really is. Point of interest: Vega$ has the AFC favored over the NFC by NINE in the SB already.

 

[bideau]

It's not just the NFC. After Denver's 2nd SB win, they missed the playoffs. Then it was Tennessee, Baltimore, the Pats and Oakland who couldn't make it back to the Super Bowl.

 

[RoadGrader]

It's not just the NFC. After Denver's 2nd SB win, they missed the playoffs. Then it was Tennessee, Baltimore, the Pats and Oakland who couldn't make it back to the Super Bowl.

taking a different perspective, should the Patriots this year again meet and again dispatch the Colts from their SuperBowl plans, could it not be said that Indy could then be seen in the same light as say the Arizona Cardinals, N.O Saints or Detroit Lions at the very least. Just another team not reaching the ultimate prise?

Arrogance is such a burden

 

[mikiemo83]

taking a different perspective, should the Patriots this year again meet and again dispatch the Colts from their SuperBowl plans, could it not be said that Indy could then be seen in the same light as say the Arizona Cardinals, N.O Saints or Detroit Lions at the very least. Just another team not reaching the ultimate prise?

Arrogance is such a burden

well at least a poormans Buffalo Bills