Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Sheldon Sez: Pats Are Beatable.


You know, if you injure Brady or Moss. A direct quote from Sheldon Brown, starting cornerback for the Eagles, who face the Patriots this Sunday night:

"I think everybody's beatable. This is what's funny to me, and this is why I don't gamble. Say Tom Brady takes a blow to the head in the first quarter and gets a concussion. Are they beatable? Say Randy Moss runs a go route and pulls a hamstring. Are they beatable? It takes a total team effort. Everybody seems to forget that. the game we play, it's such a violent sport, you never known when I guy is going to go down."

Word. That's what I want to hear from my defensive players. Brown isn't stupid. He knows he can't cover Moss. No one can. But if Moss were to pull a hammy, or catch a shiv in the back, shit, you never know who might win.

On a related note, the Eagles are 22 point underdogs. Damn. That's the second highest spread ever. In the history of the NFL. Now, if McNabb and Quentin Mikell announce they're playing, that will probably drop to a more reasonable 17 or so. Yikes. Remember when these two teams played in the Super Bowl? Yeah, they've gone in different directions since then.

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