I wont be the first to state this obvious parallel and the sports media have over analyzed this to death already- But for Favre it was another interception thrown in the Overtime of an NFC championship game which effectively pulled his team off the field when they were so maddeningly close to a game winning field goal.
The interception helped the saints take over in a favorable spot and 4 plays later, Garett Hartley kicked in a 40 yard field goal dead center of the upright to stamp Saints first ticket to the Superbowl.
I think it'll go down as one of those "Fuck me" plays which any professional athlete would love to take back.
Going into the game and being an objective viewer I thought the Saints and Vikings were evenly matched and it was plain for everyone to see all though the offense of both teams were comparable, the Vikings defense were far superior constantly applying pressure on D.Brees and virtually stiff ling the Saints scoring in the second half.
Vikings controlled possession of the ball through the course of the game and had the better passing and rushing stats including 3 pounding touchdowns by Adrian Peterson and passing touchdowns by B.Favre and yet the Saints came up on top cos they simply didn’t make any mistakes – The Vikings had 5 turnovers in total, infuriating fumbles by Adrian Peterson and B.Berrian and shot themselves in the foot when Vikings could have easily scored on both occasions and of course the final interception which sealed the Vikings fate. And while Saints didn’t deserve to win, in the end the Vikings, although the better team, deserved to lose.
With the end of Vikings 2010 campaign, questions will invariably arise of Brett Favre's next move. Will he finally call it quits? Or will give another go in attempt to achieve superbowl glory? Will he stick around Minnesota or chase his dream with another franchise? I figure we shall hear more about this
sometime during pre-season..AFC
The Jets miracle run finally comes to an end. The first half highlighted the best of Jets football, great defense, tough running game and a safety-first passing game including the 80 yard bomb to B.Edwards designed perfectly which caught the Colts off guard.
But Peyton showed his class and why is the MVP of this league, with his surgical flawless passing game which in the end exposed the Jets secondary which had up to that point done a good job on containing R.Wayne and
D.Clark, but man-to-man couldn't cover both Austin Collie and Pierre Garcon who had monster games.On the Jets side of the ball, the injury to Shonne Green and the lackluster performance by T.Jones crippled their running game and thus forcing them to go with the passing game which is clearly not their forte.
Looking to next year, the Jets seem to have all the right pieces and personal to make another run to the playoffs. Sanchez for all his limitations (and we know he can be quite the turnover machine as seen mid season) has matured over the past 4-5 weeks and there are signs, he can under the direction of Rex Ryan, handle the offensive assignments.
Ryan’s #1 priority would be acquiring an extra pass rusher. It just seemed in the second half that they seemed to be lacking that one extra rusher who could get in the face of Manning and disrupt his rhythm.
The return of Leon Washington will no doubt provide them the all purpose physical game. Questions loom over the return of T.Jones and B.Edwards. Jones had a great year but seemed to be a little off thru the post-season. With the presence of Greene, Ryan could pick up another running back and possibly see T.Jones off via trade or free agency. Ditto for B.Edwards with talks surrounding the possibility of trade for B.Marshall.
In any case it appears, although unthinkable beginning of this season, that the Jets seem to appear in a much better shape that the NY Giants.
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