Goes to show how often and to how much of an extent sheer luck is involved in the playoffs, and why W/L record is such a useless stat for evaluating individual players.

Where’s the “The Patriots Somehow Lost To Nick Foles” article, Dennis?

As I said earlier, that’s why you need an Eli Manning or Nick Foles to beat them—someone who’s too dumb to outsmart himself.

Only Eli Manning and Nick Foles have been able to beat them because they’re too dumb to outsmart themselves.

Imagine if Plaxico Burress hadn’t bobbled what would’ve been an easy first-down redzone catch into the air for an interception, and if Billy Cundiff hadn’t flubbed an easy field goal in the AFC Championship. Still don’t win those two Super Bowl losses.

He’d be 3-5 in Super Bowls, including 0-5 in his last five. Damn it.

I think there’s actually an even more plausible alternate-universe-event to consider. The week after the Tuck Rule game, Brady got hurt after a low hit to the legs in the first half of the AFC Championship against the Steelers and had to leave the game. Drew Bledsoe replaced him and finished out the game. Here’s the…

If the refs had ruled that Brady had fumbled after the hit by Charles Woodson, which...well, he definitely wasn’t trying to throw a pass as the ball came out. Forget winning the Super Bowl; they would’ve been one-and-done. The narrative would’ve been that Tom Brady came out cold in his first playoff game, that he was…

Boston fans don’t have to apologize for experiencing the sheer luck of being born in a region that happens to have four good sports teams. But it’d be cool if they didn’t act like they somehow deserve credit for the success of the teams in the region in which they were born. They’re basically the donald trump of…

Only policy he’s got pertaining to black people is...cutting billions of dollars in funding for black people in those inner cities he talked about on the campaign trail.

This was certainly an understandable take at the time, but nevertheless, it’s a take that didn’t age well.

I don’t think it would shock me either, but I do think it’s more reasonable to believe that his rejuvenation is due to a combination of three things:

You can stream it off that stolen laptop now, Cam

Basically got blown out in the second half to lose in a heartbreaker.

Well, it’s also that:

We don’t even have any questionable calls we can blame. Just Alford flubbing what should’ve been the game-clinching interception into a catch for Edelman, Grady Jarrett just barely missing what would’ve been a record-setting fourth Super Bowl sack of Brady in the endzone for a safety, Vic Beasley just barely missing a…

As a fan of the team that, uh, had an even worse loss than the Vikings last February, it’s fucking shitty and borderline sociopathic. It’s like you’d longed to have a dog all your life, and then you finally got a puppy and you were so happy for a second, and then your puppy died in a tragic accident at the hands of…

A tennis player from Tennessee being called Tennys screams fiction.

Where are the “The Vikings Somehow Lost To Nick Foles” articles?

I also don’t understand how they could get themselves into a situation where they’d be going for and scoring a touchdown on 4th down as time expired to close the deficit to three points. Once there’s, say, ten seconds left and you’re still down by ten points, there’s really no point in going for a touchdown because…