Nfl Gameday Week 20
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NFL GAMEDAY WEEK 20 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS -1ST HALF STARS LIKE ANDREW LUCK CARRY TEAMS TO CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES – ONCE THERE, DEPTH MAKES THE DIFFERENCE. ALL THE COLTS GOT OUT OF ROLE PLAYERS LIKE BOOM HERRON AND JOSH CRIBBS WERE MISTAKES. WHILE THE COLTS LACKED DEPTH, THE PATRIOTS WERE DRIVEN BY IT. IN NOVEMBER, RUNNING BACK LEGARRETTE BLOUNT WAS WAIVED BY THE STEELERS. ON SUNDAY, HE LOOKED LIKE A STAR. THE REST OF THE PATRIOTS LOOKED PRETTY GOOD THEMSELVES, JUMPING OUT TO A 14 POINT LEAD. IN THE SECOND QUARTER THE COLTS BENT LIKE A HORSESHOE – BUT THE ONLY THING BROKEN WAS THE PATRIOTS’ MOMENTUM. LEAVE IT TO T.Y. HILTON TO TAKE CARE OF THE COLTS’ BALLS. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS-2ND HALF FOR THIRTY MINUTES, THE COLTS HAD WEATHERED THE STORM. BUT IN FOXBORO MASSACHUSETTS, A SMALL SHOWER CAN TURN INTO A MONSOON. THE RAIN GREW HEAVIER. AS DID THE PATRIOTS RECEIVERS. (EDELMAN: “I LOVE THE SMELL OF FIREWORKS”) THIS SEASON, ANDREW LUCK HAS BEEN A MASTER OF LATE GAME PYROTECHNICS. LATE IN THE THIRD QUARTER, A SPARK WAS NEEDED. EITHER LUCK LIT THE FUSE OR THE COLTS SEASON WOULD BE SNUFFED OUT. IT’S THE NATURE OF CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY. SOME LEAVE FEELING THEIR AGE / SOME FEELING LIKE KIDS AGAIN. Page 1 of 3 GREEN BAY PACKERS @ SEATTLE SEAHAWKS- PRE GAME IF YOU WITHSTAND THE STORM, A MIRACLE CAN WASH AWAY ALL THAT CAME BEFORE IT. GREEN BAY PACKERS @ SEATTLE SEAHAWKS – 1ST HALF THE PACKERS DIDN’T APPEAR TO STAND A CHANCE./ AARON RODGERS HAD A TORN CALF AND THE SEAHAWKS HAD THE LEGION OF BOOM. TWICE THE PACKERS HAD 1st AND GOAL. TWICE THEY SETTLED FOR FIELD GOALS. THE PACKERS WERE NO PUSHOVER. IN THE FIRST HALF, RUSSELL WILSON TARGETED JERMAINE KEARSE THREE TIMES. // HE FELL VICTIM TO THREE INTERCEPTIONS, AND AN ILLEGAL HIT. GREEN BAY’S DOWNPOUR CONTINUED. THE PLAY WAS CALLED CHARLIE BROWN. JOHN RYAN PLAYED THE ROLE OF LUCY. GREEN BAY PACKERS @ SEATTLE SEAHAWKS – 2ND HALF AS THE 2ND HALF ROLLED ON, SEATTLE FINALLY BEGAN FEEDING ITS BEAST AND HE CHEWED OFF A COUPLE OF BEAUTIES. YET WHEN RUSSELL WILSON TARGETED JERMAINE KEARSE IT WAS STILL UGLY. FOR 56 MINUTES THE SEATTLE SEAHAWKS HAD SEEMED HEXED. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NEXT 2 MINUTES AND 19 SECONDS WAS EITHER MAGIC OR WITCHCRAFT. MARSHAWN LYNCH DOES NOT RUN. HE RUMBLES. AND HE SHOOK THE GROUND WITH A PERFECT 10 ON THE BEASTQUAKE SCALE. Page 2 of 3 IT TOOK THE LEADER OF THE PACK JUST ONE MINUTE TO TIE THINGS UP. RUSSELL WILSON HAD THROWN 5 PASSES TO JERMAINE KEARSE. FOUR HAD BEEN INTERCEPTED. WITH THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE, THE SEAHAWKS QUARTERBACK AUDIBLED TO HIM ONCE AGAIN. THIS WAS A DAY THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER. THESE SEAHAWKS HAVE WON WITH BEASTQUAKES AND FAIL MARY’S AND IN THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP THIS CHARMED FRANCHISE AND THEIR CHARMED QUARTERBACK WON WITH A “KEARSE”. Page 3 of 3 .