Why the Patriots will win Superbowl XLVI.

Hello friends, its been a while, and by a while I mean a month or so, but fear not! I'm back!

You guys may not be to pleased about this but I'll take my chances and do it, thats right, I'm writing about the reality of the Superbowl featuring Tom Brady and the Patriots. (I'm deeply sorry if you're a Giants fan, I promise I'll make it up to you sometime in the future).

So, this year, Superbowl XLVI is featuring the Patriots and Giants, the epic rematch that everyone wants to see because everyone except for Patriot fans wants to see Tom Brady crash and burn. I've heard (and made) almost every Tom Brady insult or joke there is. Sorry to tell you, if you think Tom Brady sucks/is shit/is spoiled, it may be a case of either three things, you've met him somewhere and he didn't sign something for you/take a picture with you when you went up to him to ask (which would never happen), 2. you are a Jets fan. or 3, you really know nothing about sports but talk about them whenever a huge sporting event is near and you're on a bandwagon.


Now, I bet none of you knew this, but I'm about to share something with you that may shock you. I, before I was able to understand the sport of football because of a combination of young age (age 9, in the year 2006), my love for hockey and not being American, I, Matty-O was a Patriots fan *GASP*, thats right. I loved them for one reason, and one reason only: it was the only team I could watch on standard cable. Why is this relevant? Well from the age of 10 until 13, I've ripped on Tom non stop whenever they were playing, I was one of those annoying people who smack talked when they are losing, but since then I've come to terms with Tom, and RESPECT him. Why should there be a reason not to respect him? I don't care if you're a Jets fan, Colts fan, Dolphins fan or any other team in the league, if you don't respect the man, you probably are one of those stubborn imbeciles that just started to follow the sport and pretend you know everything about it, but in reality if you did know everything about it you'd know that Tom Brady is one of, if not, the best Quarter Back in the league today and possibly of all time. I don't understand, whats so shit about him? He won 3 Superbowls and can possibly win his 4th come next sunday. Him and his coach, Bill Belichick are the winningest duo of Coach and QB of all time. Tom holds the record for most TD passes in a season (2007) with an astonishing 50 TDs thrown. He hold the highest completion percentage in a playoff game (92.9%). Not to mention 2 Superbowl MVPs and most TD passes in a playoff game half (6 against Denver, January 14th 2012)

Patriots Vs Ravens

Let's talk about last week's conference championship games. Some may say that the Pats only won because of Billy Cundiff's missed field goal, but Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens said it best "Not one play didn't lose the game, not one man loses it for a team, its not Billy's fault, you win as a team and you lose as a team". I honestly couldn't agree more with Mr Lewis. Go deeper into the game, into the numbers, Points off of turnovers during the game: 6. Were those 6 points Billy's fault? Was he the one marching the team down the field? NO! Now granted, the Patriots offence and Brady specifically, didn't exactly play their best game of the season but their Defence played great making stops and forcing Flacco to throw an INT. Yes the Ravens played great, but did they deserve to win? No, 6 points off of 3 turnovers is unacceptable, they had golden opportunities and didn't cash in. Brady, as always did what it took to win, does he care about throwing 3 TD passes? No, he cared to get the win anyway possible, and thats how playoff football is supposed to be played.

Giants Vs 49ers

The Giants were coming into Candlestick Park off of a win against the #1 seed Green Bay. Other than the score board and rushing yards, the Giants completely obliterated the 49ers. Now, I'm all for Tebow, but Alex Smith was probably watching to much of him before game day. You can win a game in REGULAR season when you complete 12 passes, but that doesn't fly in a Conference Championship game. As its been said before, and it shows, even in Tebows case, this is a passing league: 64% of the New York Giants offensive plays were passing plays. Granted the 49ers were in it the whole game, one has to wonder how when they had a mere 56 offensive plays to the Giants 90 plays, atrocious 1-13 on  3rd downs and 0-1 in the Red Zone, which ultimately led to the ending of cinderella story for the 49ers due to poor offensive play. Pats D was ranked 31st regular season, and the Giants weren't much better; ranked 27th. Now what was that old saying? Oh ya "Offence sells tickets, defence wins championships" maaaaaybe not.

Why the Patriots will win Superbowl XLVI.

Unless you're a Giants fan who's rooting for their team, people need to realize that on only 3 different occasions did the Patriots score 20 points or less this season INCLUDING the playoffs. Yes the Giants beat the Patriots during the regular season, but lately Tom Brady has been getting much better pass protection in the pocket, and lets face it. You can double cover 1 person at most when you're on Defence, if you double cover 2 people, theres one guy running free and with a QB like Brady, you can't let that happen. Aaron Hernandez, Rob Gronkowski, Wes Welker, Deion Branch and who knows, maybe Chad Ochocinco will make a play or two. I'd rather that as my weapons than: Hakeem Nicks, Victor Cruz and Mario Manningham. Another point we must face, other than the Patriots and Giants pass rush, defence will be a non factor, that is really a stupid argument when there are 2 dismal defences and 2 ELITE QBs facing off. The game will end 38-31 for the Patriots. The Giants obviously have a great chance to win, this is the NFL, crazier things have happened EX: Superbowl 42

Final thoughts: I'm cheering for the Patriots in this game because of Tom Brady, he's quite good looking, he has the hottest wife and I want people to stop calling him a "Pretty Boy" because guess what, he has 3 and maybe 4 more Superbowl Rings than you will ever have. I still wouldn't mind seeing the Giants beat them again because I want everyone to shut up and call Eli Manning an lite QB already. Face it people, Eli is an Eli-te QB.

Until after the Superbowl, may the force be with you, and have a happy Superbowl weekend.

Matty-O