Shaq Mason, Super Bowl Champion

Grady beat him also for a sack. He didn't play perfect, but wasn't a horrendous game either.
 
Well, CBS Sportsline has a story today about a few (big) calls the refs missed late in the game that benefited the Pats. 2 players should have been called for offensive pass interference on the 2nd two-point conversion.

And Shaq; well, fittingly, he apparently got away with a............................Chop block.
 
Fredge said:
Well, CBS Sportsline has a story today about a few (big) calls the refs missed late in the game that benefited the Pats. 2 players should have been called for offensive pass interference on the 2nd two-point conversion.

And Shaq; well, fittingly, he apparently got away with a............................Chop block.
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Even better was that the other player involved in the chop block was the former grass-eating cow-like dwag himself, Ben Andrews
 
Fredge said:
Well, CBS Sportsline has a story today about a few (big) calls the refs missed late in the game that benefited the Pats. 2 players should have been called for offensive pass interference on the 2nd two-point conversion.

And Shaq; well, fittingly, he apparently got away with a............................Chop block.
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The refs were ööööing awful the entire game. Falcons had twice the penalties the Patriots did. It probably cost them the game.
 
wesleyd21 said:
The refs were ööööing awful the entire game. Falcons had twice the penalties the Patriots did. It probably cost them the game.
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It definitely gave them at least 1 TD. That one NE drive where every 3rd down incompletion was negated by a holding penalty basically put them into scoring position gave NE a TD. One was probably legit, but not all 3.
 
05GTCorndog said:
Grady beat him also for a sack. He didn't play perfect, but wasn't a horrendous game either.
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I think Shaq actually knocked Brady down after being shoved backwards by Grady. Should have given the sack to Shaq. After all, it was a game of many firsts.
 
The Falcon's were actually penalized almost 3 times the penalty yards as New England. What really pisses me off is that we know holding is almost committed every play on he LOS but the refs chose to only call this against the Falcons at a time in the 4th quarter that we could have salted away the game. Sometimes it makes you think "are the refs doing this just to keep the team being romped in the game", keeping the unbiased viewers still locked into the game due to advertising $$$$'s?
 
stingmeyall said:
The Falcon's were actually penalized almost 3 times the penalty yards as New England. What really pisses me off is that we know holding is almost committed every play on he LOS but the refs chose to only call this against the Falcons at a time in the 4th quarter that we could have salted away the game. Sometimes it makes you think "are the refs doing this just to keep the team being romped in the game", keeping the unbiased viewers still locked into the game due to advertising $$$$'s?
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LongforDodd said:
I think Shaq actually knocked Brady down after being shoved backwards by Grady. Should have given the sack to Shaq. After all, it was a game of many firsts.
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If Shaq would have dove at Grady's ankles and flopped around on the ground; he could have probably avoided the sack. The mistake was trying to block standing up.
 
georgiatech22 said:
It definitely gave them at least 1 TD. That one NE drive where every 3rd down incompletion was negated by a holding penalty basically put them into scoring position gave NE a TD. One was probably legit, but not all 3.
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That drive actually ended in the pick 6, so it didn't cost the Falcons anything. The most obvious missed call to me was the facemask on Sanu that would have offset the holding penalty and kept the Falcons in some semblance of field goal range, with a chance to basically seal the game. There was nothing subtle about it.

Regardless, there's no excuse for losing that game. The Patriots are who we thought they were, and we let 'em off the hook.
 
The Sanu facemask (non-call) in a moment like that was almost as unforgivable as Shanahan's play-calls there at the end.

Matt Bryant is a Pro-Bowler and probably would have made a 40-53 yard field goal in a Dome.
 
Well the offensive P.I. on the second 2-pt conversion was blatant. And the P.I. call against Campbell in OT I thought was questionable - gave the Pats the ball at the 2 and essentially guaranteed a game-ending TD. Then, on the TD, a Pats WR was clearly holding Jalen Collins for the entire play.

However, the game was still un-losable - and they somehow lost.
 
The pick six meant that the Pats did not score on the drive that was extended three times in a row with late flags thrown for def.ensive holding that otherwise would have forced punts. However, this kept the defense on the field and the ball out of the offense's hands for a long period of time. It was precisely at this point in the game that time of possession became an issue.
 
Fredge said:
Well the offensive P.I. on the second 2-pt conversion was blatant. And the P.I. call against Campbell in OT I thought was questionable - gave the Pats the ball at the 2 and essentially guaranteed a game-ending TD. Then, on the TD, a Pats WR was clearly holding Jalen Collins for the entire play.

However, the game was still un-losable - and they somehow lost.
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Yeah pretty amazing the holding was caught by the officials but 2 referees assigned in front and behind the receiver and DB on the sideline would miss this call. Wow is all I've got.
 
I agree that the pick 6 impacted our Defensive energy late in the game, because it meant they were out there even longer. However, you would take the pick 6 every time. That drive did not cost us the game.

There were probably a dozen or more plays after the Falcons' went up 28-3 that had the outcome been moderately different then the Falcons would have won the game. They just failed to close it out. It happens...but not often on the biggest stage at the highest level of the sport.
 
eg1 said:
Oh, and #protip for Blank -- stay in the damned owner's box until the game is over ...
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Ain't that the truth! Every game he goes down to the sideline, now with his new wife and holds her hand. Sunday night he looked like street corner bag man.
 
Eugene Robinson was arrested the night before the Super Bowl for soliciting a prostitute - on his way back from receiving the NFL Man of the Year award for, among other things, upstanding moral character. And that is now the 2nd most incredible Falcons Super Bowl story. And it's a distant 2nd.
 
I thought it was Ben Jones (center for the Titans) that was the infamous grass eater.
 
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