Danny Kanell: Broncos should take late hit shots on Tom Brady

I really wanted to read this article, but Danny Kanell apparently says "you know" and "like" throughout his message....so MSN put's each and everyone into their article....I couldn't take it anymore and quit reading.

In this day and age, especially in the realm of sports, do quoatables have to include all that crap???

If I was quoting something really stupid I would insist on including them.

I thought for sure it would be the crew that left all the kicking balls back at their hotel.

since there isnt a conference title thread...

Kind of surprised at how much pressure Denver is getting on Brady. Knew Denver's D was good, but this is better than I expected...

So far I am pleasantly surprised, I didn't think this was going to be that close. The Broncos game plan has been pretty much perfect on both sides of the ball so far.

Denver is making the plays on defense that KC missed out on. KC had two sure interceptions and dropped them both. Would have changed the game just like the two INT's from Denver have so far.

This Denver pass rush is incredible. They are clearly in Brady's head now, see if they can settle him down over half time

Denver should be up at least another 7 maybe another 10.
They may live to regret not putting Brady away.

The Patriots are very lucky to be within 8 right now. Brady isn't accurate and he isn't making good decisions. I've never seen both in one game before. You can never rule Belichick out, but if this were any other team, I'd say this one's over.

I'm not really sure why people are surprised at the Denver defense. This IS the Denver defense and has been all year. You want to be one dimensional against this defense? Good luck. Remember, this was the defense you said was living off of their first half. Due to the KC injuries, they had 0 sacks adn 1 QB hit the entire game. Denver has 2 sacks and 8 QB hits in the first half.

The surprise to me is how well Manning has played. His numbers don't look great, but he's throwing the ball down the field and has been crisp. The Denver running game gets better as the game goes along due to the altitude.

The Patriots are going to adjust at halftime. I expect more passes to the running backs and I think they'll roll the pocket out a little to protect Brady. To win the game, Denver needs to make sure the turnover battle is even and continue to pressure Brady. Brady is NOT going to be held down all game. The question is if the Denver offense can have some success and the defense can get another turnover or two to ice it.

If the Denver offense dies, the Patriots will win this football game.

Hah, love the surprise by his own teammates at Peyton running with the ball.

Pats o-line is getting embarrassed.

Stop running backwards to avoid sacks. You're not R. Wilson.

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Creating a new thread for it.

This is how their o line looks every week when they aren't getting it out in 1 second. They are just plain bad. Consistently.

I'd love this shit Simms and Nantz tandem to zero in on why they haven't been able to get it out quickly like they have in every single other one of Edelmans games. As opposed to constantly harping on an offensive line that is playing at the same level they always do.

It would be nice to see a couple of mobile quarterbacks in Newton and manning going head to head in the super owl

These are exactly my thoughts at the half as well. Promising the defense for the Pats have stepped up since. But Pats need to get back in the end zone.

And they just have a big rushing gain in Q4.

Hit them in the knees! WTF

Rooting for Denver so Peyton can get his second and retire.

Man, they can't cover White can they.

That was a pretty late flag on the defensive holding.

Terrible challenge. It would serve them right to see NE get the first down.

This is gonna be hilarious when they rule it a catch, down by contact, and first down.

total WTF challenge by Denver.

Not sure that's a good challenge. I think if he DID have it (which I don't think he did), his knee might have been down before the ball came out.

Best challenge ever!

Now if only the NFL can figure out if it was a catch.

Gronk: "He grabbed my arm.
My other shoulder.
My ribcage."

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that was a bad move.

I really wish teams would call a flea-flicker in that situation. Where everyone "knows" you're just going to run it an attempt to run out the clock.

Looking back at it. Pats probably should have kicked that FG on the first 4th down attempt. Their defense has held twice and given them shots at a TD.

This is where NE pulls it out of their ass.

How stacked they were on the line I agree that they might have tried *something* other than a run. I know that we get on coaches for not exhausting timeouts and not running the clock, but the clock and the timeouts are a non-issue now. And they couldn't have really run off much time with the 2:00 warning sitting there.

These last two drives/opportunities are really good demonstrations for why you don't go for it on fourth down with six and a half minutes left.

Because I'm pretty sure three field goals is nine points.

Denver really missing their starting safeties now. Game is over if they're not hurt.

Thank god for the super liberal intentional grounding rules these days, huh?

No shit. That one where he was spun around went near *nobody*.

No surprise. NE never looses

Great clutch TD catch.

agreed about the (lack of) intentional grounding calls being close, but I guess I am glad they let them play

This.

Thank God. I can watch the superbowl.

Don't they know it's going to get to Gronk ??

Miller has been getting held on every single play the whole drive. Game over anyway.

Get down Roby!

1- Should have been a holding call before Brady ever threw the ball
2- Why in the blue hell didnt he get on the ground ASAP

Would have been really something if a Pats player picked that fumble up and ran it in for the 2 point conversion.

Yay.

WTF is he thinking?

They just can't stop it. I'm not sure I wouldn't try to have Von Miller as one of the guys to cover him, he's the only player who is big and athletic enough to do it. It sounds absurd to say you can't cover a guy with a safety and a corner, but you saw the results