It is always the last guy to get burned that gets the blame. How about the three guys that let Manning get away and throw the hail Mary to get the Giants in position to score?
It is always the last guy to get burned that gets the blame. How about the three guys that let Manning get away and throw the hail Mary to get the Giants in position to score?
exactly, and I wonder what the people who call in now and call him "toast" hobbs or whatever, had to say about him after he made that pick or what they had to say about him when he took that kickoff 108 yards or w/e it was earlier in the season.
fact of the matter is Ellis Hobbs can be a game changer for good and for bad and we saw both of them in the super bowl. We know he is a little undersized and has a tendency to give up the big play, but he also is prone to making huge ones on defense and the return game. That's the gamble you have with a player like him. Belichik decided to FINALLY blitz on the last Giants drive way too late and he left Hobbs on an island with no help over the top on Plaxico, NY's biggest and best WR and the rush didn't get there in time to Eli and Belichik's playcall backfired.
I don't think anyone in their right mind can honestly point at Ellis Hobbs as the goat or say he is the reason the Pats didn't go 19-0. He did exactly what he did all season for NE. It was a team loss for the patriots.
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I might be a homer, but I'd put more of the blame on Samuel than Hobbs. Samuel got badly burrned on the first NYG TD and had a pretty easy pick that went right through his hands on the NYG last drive. Hobbs had played decent until the TD he gave up.
Big surprise, the dopey Squawk fans have already started e-mailing SoundOff about it.
I heard about it from a few. When I asked them if the Patriots were going to cut Hobbs and draft Adam Shada as his replacement they shut up pretty quick.
not a big keyshon johnson fan, but he didn't have anything good to say about our boy. said that they (the cast of nfl primetime) had watched the tapes and saw the duck, and finally eli realized who the duck was at the end of the game and then picked on him. i guess in this sense a duck means a not so good player, and that player is hobbs. why couldn't that pass gone against someone else?
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You mean the guy, had he caught the ball, would've landed out of bounds?
Asante wasn't going to and didn't get both feet in. At least from what I could see.
For a guy expecting to get "Clement's Money" this off season ($80 mil for 8 years) he should've caught the ball regardless of whether he'd have landed in bounds or not.
Plax burnned guys all season on that route and I don't feel that Hobbs caused the Giants to win. If Green holds on to Eli and sacks him the game is likely over, if Harrison breaks up the miracle pass the game is likely over, if the Pat's stop Jacobs on fourth and one the game is over. There were ample opportunities for the Pat's to put them away on the last drive and they didn't. To put the onus on one player for the collapse on the Giants final drive is ridiculous. Besides, Brady and Company had 30 seconds and all three time outs-not out of the question to get in FG range, but again the Pat's O looked horrible and got schooled by the Giants. That game was won by the Giant's d-line and lost by the Pat's o-line more than any one player for either side.
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