We apologize for not posting the last couple days, but we've been doing some traveling across the Pee Dee and Low Country since Friday. We're in Summerville at Bobby's, and as usual, I am babysitting a three year old! Luckily, it's naptime, so I finally have a minute to analyze the big game..
Yes, with all the talent on the field for Super Bowl XLVI, you would think the key to winning and losing rests on the shoulders of QB's Eli Manning and Tom Brady - but we disagree. How much / well Patriots' TE Rob Gronkowski can play will determine whether the Giants or Pats win. Real simple: Gronkowski at 100% can tear up the relatively weak Giants LB's, and both teams know it. When Gronko was listed as questionable, it says that basically he will play, but he is limited to what he can do. That, or Bill Belichick is playing head games. You never know...
The Giants will single team him early, and leave the extra guy to either double Wes Welker or Aaron Hernandez on the line. Welker could be trouble, so the G-Men need to beat the crap out of the little guy on the line, all game. He will kill them on slants if they don't, and it keeps the pass rush at bay...
Now, for the Giants, they are in decent position in this game. I have two things for why I'm going with the Giants: first there is reality. The Pats' secondary sucks with a capital S... Don't give me the junk about how much better the D is playing.. Thye played Tim Tebow and Joe Flacco. Everyone was nice to Flacco, because they showed three cases where Torrey Smith was open deep (like we said), and Flacco missed him. Eli doesn't miss deep, and the Pats can't double team both Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz. Eli WILL find the open man...
Now, a little history doesn't hurt either. The Giants have that as well, and not just that they beat the Pats earlier this year, and they won four years ago. Yeah, they are in the Pats' heads, but here is our history lesson for today. In 1986, the Giants won. Four years later, they won again. In 2000, they lost the Super Bowl to the Ravens. Then, they won SB XLVI... It's four years later, and like hurricanes flooding New Orleans, the cycle has come full circle. If this is true, I will be 53 when the G-Men make the Super Bowl again, and 60 when the win it...
Like all Super Bowls involving these 2 teams, it will be a good one. The Pats haven't lost since the Giants beat them, but the slight edge on defense will be the small difference between winning and losing. Eli gets his second, and Tom Brady thinks about how he'd be the only 5-time winner, if it weren't for Eli... Giants 28-24.
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