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5 plays that changed Super Bowl XLII


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Posted by: min0 lee

5 plays that changed Super Bowl XLII

BY HANK GOLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Tuesday, February 5th 2008, 4:00 AM
Second quarter
Giants ball, second-and-13 from their 33 (9:22 left)

Eli Manning and Ahmad Bradshaw make a bad exchange on the handoff and the ball comes out. Patriots LB Pierre Woods falls on it and has it under his chest but in the time it takes for the officials to sort things out, he somehow gets turned around and Bradshaw, a rookie who's a lot stronger than he looks, manages to steal it back. It should be Patriots ball with great field position and a chance to go up by two scores. Instead, the Giants retain possession and punt.


Third quarter
Patriots ball, third-and-7 from the Giants 25 (7:23 left)

The Patriots are moving and using the clock on their first possession of the second half when Michael Strahan gets the edge and brings Brady down for a six-yard sack. It's critical because Bill Belichick, mulling a 48-yard field goal, decides to leave Stephen Gostkowski on the bench and to go for it on fourth and 13. Brady's pass is incomplete to a well-covered Jabar Gaffney deep down the left sideline.
Belichick's explanation is strange to say the least.
"It was a 50-yard field goal. There was a lot of field position there," he said.


Fourth quarter
Giants ball, first-and-10 from their 20 (14:52 left)

This is the play that finally gets the Giants offense going. With the Patriots playing "half-quarter" coverage, offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride sets up a play that will influence FS Eugene Wilson to go to one side of the field while Rodney Harrison drops down on the outside receiver, leaving the seam open for TE Kevin Boss. Gilbride puts Boss in motion, left to right in order to avoid a jam from LB Mike Vrabel and when Harrison gets caught peeking, Manning finds Boss wide open up the seam, Harrison trailing in vain, for a 45-yard completion that sets up the Giants' first TD. It's Boss' only catch of the day.

Giants ball, third-and-5 from their 44 (1:15 left)

The play is called Phantom. David Tyree, working out of a "trips left bunch" formation, is supposed to run an in-cut at about 20-22 yards. He's wide open but Manning is under pressure and can't make the throw. Tyree drifts back, where Harrison notices him as Eli escapes the rush. Tyree makes what Gilbride calls a "phenomenal catch" and Coughlin one of the "best catches in Super Bowl history" - with the ball against his helmet, his back arching as Harrison takes him down for a 32-yard game-saving gain.
Harrison later calls the catch a "fluke" before leaving the interview podium later without taking a follow-up question. "That play alone took a few years off my life," Strahan said.
It is one of three critical plays the Pats defense fails to make on the drive.

Giants ball, first-and-10 from the Patriot 13 (:39 left)

The Patriots come with a "zero blitz," meaning they send everyone. Manning knows he has Burress isolated on Hobbs, the matchup that killed the Patriots in the regular season game. Hobbs, playing five yards off the line of scrimmage, bites on Burress' first move and Burress cuts to the corner, open on the fade. Gilbride had flipped the formation a few plays earlier to allow for the back to better pick up what was becoming a troublesome pass rush. Said Burress: "They gave us single coverage and it was an all-out blitz. I gave the guy a move and that was it. It came down to one play and we made it."




Posted by: IainDaniel

They forgot one play.

Post game. Eli got his ass pounded by his brother.

Homo.


Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by IainDaniel View Post
They forgot one play.

Post game. Eli got his ass pounded by his brother.

Homo.



Posted by: Dale Mabry

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Originally Posted by IainDaniel View Post
They forgot one play.

Post game. Eli got his ass pounded by his brother.

Homo.
That's a standard NY sports team play, so it was assumed a constant.


Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by Dale Mabry View Post
That's a standard NY sports team play, so it was assumed a constant.
Haters!


Posted by: min0 lee

2008 looks to be a promising year, looks like it will be a Yankee vs. Mets series!

Jeter Rocks!!


Posted by: IainDaniel

Mets = Chokers

Yanks = HAHAHA


Posted by: david

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Originally Posted by IainDaniel View Post
Mets = Chokers

Yanks = HAHAHA
You forgot another

Knick... Nack? No other thing could be associated to a once great team. How sad.. their sad... Isiah is pathetically sad.



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