Tempting fate here, but Cracklin' Oat Bran is the king of breakfast cereals.

(Please don't ban me.)

Saw an interesting post on Reddit about Belichick "baiting" the throw that got INT'ed. If he had called time out right away, the Seahawks would have run, run, run all the downs to kill clock. By letting the clock run and probably surprising the Seahawks, they had to have at least one throwing play, probably two since they themselves only had on time out. They saw the goal line stand package and decided to run on 2nd down and the rest is history.

Not sure I totally buy it that Belichick had all that planned, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.

the Burnett clusterfuck occurred because Burnett's HS coach jumped to the conclusion that Deontay had committed and told the media that's what happened.

After that blew up (while Burnett was en route back to CA) Burnett, the Serra coaches, and UM talked, and that "everything is fine" now.

They might be "fine" for Burnett, but Webb confirmed that Michigan is not part of the picture any more. Sam was being cryptic, and obviously knows much more than he's saying. Whether UM extended a "non-commitable offer" that was contingent on other recruit decisions, or if it's entirely a screwup by Burnett's HS coach and there was no actual offer, Sam didn't say.

The Burnett saga starts about 9:00 on the podcast:

http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=901&c=4701&f=3939703

Also, one of the measures of our culture's regression and perverted degradation is the failure to recognize that Wheaties are infinitely superior to all these Commie pinko cereals you all are eating today.

As I've aged and my metabolism isn't what it used to be (and I'm not playing sports multiple hours out of every day), I've had to cut down on cereal intake. But I'm a bit of a cereal connoisseur. Along with Beef, Milk, and potatos, it's an essential "food group" if you will for me (don't get me wrong, I really like chicken, and fruits and veggies, but we're talking go-to foods now). As a growing lad, I'd eat three bowls of cereal for breakfast on weekdays, and sometimes finish of a box on the weekends, meaning I'm very happy I participated in a lot of sports or those carbs would have turned me into an overweight child very quickly.

Regardless, cereal is very important to me. I do really enjoy Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Top 5 cereal. As I've grown up though, as an every day cereal, I go Frosted Mini-Wheats. It really just serves as a great combination of taste with the fiber needed to be filling and helping in other areas of every day life. So while it may not be my favorite, I think it scores highly in other categories.

Regardless, my top 5 has to include Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Frosted Flakes, Frosted Mini-Wheats, and Lucky Charms. Wheaties, Honey Nut Cheerios, Apple Jacks, Fruit Loops, Count Chocula, Crispix, Chex (Wheat, Corn, and Rice) all deserve recognition as well. Lots of other good cereals, but those are the tops in my opinon. I could eat Cereal for every meal really.

Belichick flubbed the end of the first half too. Isn't the best decision to have all your defenders purposely tackle/hold the receivers on the play with 6 seconds left? If that happens, SEA gets one more play with 1 second left and will undoubtedly take the field goal.

Not that hard!

The Josh Gordon price is great. It will teach some a simple life lesson that they probably won't follow. Do not judge and ridicule people that you don't know. We're all a certain way for a reason and assuming you understand someone when you don't is foolish. They've all had their share of controversy and should understand this but I guess it's their job to say controversial things.

oh, get fucked. waffle crisp is better than ctc.

Sherman = douche. I don't really care if he's right or wrong but I don't care about the opinions of douchebags like him.

he is an offensive coach who has never been a coach on defense.

Count me in the Crispix Nation. Corn on one side, Rice on the other side, and the gaps in the cereal matrix are scientifically optimized to trap just the right amount of milk so that the cereal doesn't get soggy right away. Add in some plain Cheerios to act as a base layer and prevent oversaturation and BINGO! You have your perfect bowl of cereal.

 

Please don't send me to Bolivia. They don't have Crispix there. 

Belichick's mind but he tried to let the NYG score to give the offense time to score but it didn't work. Mixing up his calls may have been the better strategy especially because everyone thought the TO was coming.

I was listening to a Bill Simmons podcast a few weeks ago where he and his guest (a Cowboys fan) were talking about how you know a coach is blowing a decision when he does exactly what the opposing team's fanbase would want him to do. 

So for example: Cowboys fans were relieved when Detroit chose to punt on 4th and 1 around midfield rather than go for it in the wildcard round. Seahawks fans were relieved when Mike McCarthy decided to kick field goals rather than go for it at the goal line during the NFC championship. 

I was thinking back to certain decisions by Michigan over the years and went back to 2011 vs. MSU. When Michigan went for it on 4th and 1 deep in MSU territory, I'm guessing that most Spartan fans would have told you that they would have wanted to see anything other than Denard run the ball from the shotgun (actually its not really a guess, I watched the game with a 80-20 Sparty crowd and they were in disbelief at the playcall). And Borges obliged. 

Last night, from everything I saw on twitter to the people talking at the party I was at, seemed to indicate that the game was over so long as Marshawn Lynch got the ball. And in hindsight, its probably true: Seattle was the second best short yardage team in the league on offense, New England was the worst and he had been a sledgehammer all night. So of course Crazy Pete decided to do exactly what New England fans hoped he would do and got the absolute worst result from it. 

 

The only way Butler makes that INT is if he saw what was about to happen, baited the QB for a fraction of an instant, and then broke on the ball earlier than usual.  For an undrafted rookie to make that play is incredible.  It really is one of the best plays ever.

Sorry Brian, I'm a third generation Kellogg's man (though I've since moved on to a different company, Kellogg's isn't what it used to be), thus I cannot ever endorse a General Mills cereal even if it is delicious.

with Cap'n Crunch and Fruity Pebbles close seconds. Brian, your cereal goes soggy in 4.4 seconds (zero fakes out of five).

I was screaming at the TV last night for them to take the TO, but I just thought of something. If you take the TO, you essentially give them 3 more running plays, which everyone agrees is Seattle's strength. By letting the clock run, Seattle could get at most 2 more running plays and doing so might cause them to accidentally run the clock out. Then, they come out in Cover 0 and dared them to pass. I think running into a box with 8 guys in it with 24 seconds left is about as likely to get you criticized when it doesn't work as calling a high-percentage pass against man coverage that ends up getting picked because of the perfect play by the safety.

Again, I'd have called the TO, but I just don't think it's as black and white as everyone else is making it out to be and maybe forcing Seattle to do something stupid was Belichick's plan the whole time.

That throw was already too far out in front of the receiver.  He should have put it low and insidde, that way you either get a completion or a PI call.  

If that throw is another yard out in front its even more likely to be picked off cleanly

You forget that the Seahawks had 1 TO left with just under a minute to play. If they run and get stuffed, they have to call TO and then are forced to pass the last two downs. That was why Pete Carrol called the pass play. If Belichick calls TO, he gives the Seahawks a free TO and an option to stuff the run twice.

Not taking a TO only is a bad move if you assume the odds of the Seahawks scoring are greater than the odds of you getting the ball back and getting enough yards to get into FG range. This only works if you let them score. The Giants showed that teams aren't always so dumb as to grant you a quick score.

Like everyone else watching, I thought, there's no way the Seahawks don't score, so in the moment agreed with my neighbor screaming for a TO. After the fact, it is clear the Pats weren't getting the ball with more than 10 seconds no matter what, and odds of a goalie stand may have been better than a hail marry, and Belicheck made the right call.

Ice cream cones cereal was the best of all time, and not just because their spokesman was 'ice cream cones jones,' I was sad when it got discontinued.

But there are good things to be said about Crackling Oat Bran and various almond-cluster cereals as well. As far as the Super Bowl, as others have noted the Seahawks had time for one run and two passes, or an incomplete pass, a run and timeout, and one last play. This play pretty much has to be a pass, but calling the inside play rather than the fade (maybe to the guy covered by Arrington giving up a foot?) seems like overthinking it. The Pats DB made possibly the play of his career to burn them, but not calling a Lynch run doesn't seem like a hideous mistake. Calling a play that means you never get to the Lynch run seems like the mistake.

Sherman NCAA comments

As a student athlete, who majored in engineering, I can't agree more with Sherman's comments. There I said it, I actually agree with him on something.

Attending class, AND Labs, which he didn't even touch on, while playing soccer, was difficult. Wish I would have majored in business, like most of the rest of the team.