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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
The Houston Texans are the first team since the merger in 1970 to win their first two games on the last play of the game.
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The Falcons have similar kinds of stats, Matt Ryan has over 22 career fourth quarter winning drives since 2008 BUT this is a double-edged sword, it means the team has poise, confidence, and execution enough to pull off so many improbable wins and YET, this also means the defense was doing bad to be behind so many games. As to Texans, they like Falcons have had a lot of come from behind wins, BUT that means they have as many problems as they have solutions. Its better to just be up than to get up. Buzzer beaters are great for basketball, because there are 82 games to average out any epically close loses, in the NFL? Not so much flexibility. The Bengals would have been the NFC North division leaders (tied-10-6) if one of their wins had been an AFC instead of NFC opponent (Ravens took the tie-breaker based on Conference play), and the year before that the Broncos went to the playoffs in a three-way tie in the AFC West for 8-8 division leader. Had Raiders one a single game in their damned Division, they would have ended their endless play-off drought. One game makes or breaks a season in the NFL. In that regard, its great for the Texans to get the win and lead 2-0, but that they've twice this season been in a position to lose to inferior teams suggests there could be underlying problems to resolve sooner than later.
Ravens? We know our problems. We ain't got any healthy receivers who can actually CATCH the ball. Flacco has had receivers drop THREE TD passes in the end-zone now. THREE!! That doesn't include all the other dropped passes that just killed great drives. Got to catch the ball fuckers. Now folks might be saying, "Boldin Boldin Boldin Boldin.." Yeah, how did that work out for San Francisco last night
By the way, Mike Nolan has totally converted Atlanta's defense from "let's just try and hang in there guys" to "lets fuck these dudez up" and its working. Now? Just keep up it up for 4 quarters and Falcons will win the Super Bowl, period.