But at least the two games gave us the best Super Bowl match-up of the possible combinations left.
Another average performance by the CBS crew last night. This quote from Football Outsiders pretty much summed up my thoughts:
'Amazing that CBS guys are lionizing Roethlisberger for coming through on third downs and having intangibles and making plays. He was 10-of-19. He threw for 133 yards and two picks. He scrambled for a touchdown ... and averaged fewer than two yards a carry on 11 attempts. The only reason the Jets had a chance was because Roethlisberger, in fact, was awful until the last series.'
Earlier in the game, Phil Simms had stated that the statistics of a game sometimes don't tell the truth. He meant to say, they don't tell the story as we'd like to write it, and we'll ignore them if we feel like it.
- The other big story of today is the criticism Jay Cutler is receiving for apparently being unwilling to return to the game after suffering an unknown injury.
For all I will criticise Cutler's play on the field when I feel he is underperforming, to speculate wildly on an injury we know nothing about based on a few fellow professionals tweeting their thoughts seems particularly mindless.
In the modern age of instant communication, speculation and access-all-areas, the fans sometimes seem to believe that they not only have the right to know everything, but that what they have pieced together is unquestionable fact.
'Knee-gate', as some moron has already termed it (and I'm helpfully repeating), is symptomatic of a Sunday of average entertainment and crushed Chicago fans looking for a scapegoat.
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