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Originally Posted by laram0

The point is we had the #1 offense in the NFL to go along with the #3 Defense. The Pats were ranked 24 and 19 respectively. This should not have been a FG game. We should have beat the Pats something like 34-17. We had allready beat them on their field in their weather 24-17.

Unfortuantely, you actually have to play the game. You don't win it based on offensive and defensive rankings of the regular season. There have been upsets before that haven't involved cheating and if every game was decided on what a team SHOULD do, then the odd's makers would never win any money. I'm not really sure what you're point is here. Yes, we should have won that game, but Mike Martz took too long to make an adjustment to the fact that the refs were not calling the Pats dbs for anything and lovie smith went into a prevent during the most important time of the most important game of anyone's career. We came all the way back to tie the damn thing up and he sits back and allows the Pats to march right down into FG range. That had nothing to do with being filmed in a walkthrough. You don't need to cheat to beat the prevent when all you need is a FG to win. Smith must have been the only person in the stadium that thought the Pats were going to sit on the ball and wait for OT. The Pats knew momentum had completely shifted away from them and if the game went into OT and they lost the coin flip, they were going to lose. Unfortunately, lovie smith showed his true, boring, unimaginative defensive mind when it really counted. When Proehl scored that TD and left that much time on the clock, I turned to my friend and said, "There's too much time on the clock, smith is going to go back into that damed cover 2 and allow them to kick the winning FG." Low and behold, I was right. The reason our D was so good that year was because our offensive was usually up big in the first couple of series and we forced teams to pass early and often. It's a lot easier to call a defense when you take the element of surprise out of it. Now, unless someone can prove that the Pats had the Rams playbook before hand or paid off the refs, the truth of the matter is that we got outplayed and beaten. This all just sounds like sour grapes to me.