Connelly’s Top Ten - I Can’t Wait! Super Bowl Week Begins
1. Patriots - We Are Spoiled!
* Love Patriot fans not taking this amazing gift for granted - 35,000 for a rally wow!
* Can’t believe collectively how confident Patriot nation is about next Sunday
* I’m more scared of their defense than offense - Talib, Peters, Donald, Fowler, Suh, Brokers
* Second best Patriot game versus Rams - Tony Eason (sacked five times) 25 yard Hail Mary pass to Irving Fryar - 1986
* Cooks and Woods for Rams both over 1,000 yards receiving - just like Issac Bruce and Torry Holt (how did that work out)
* Donalds is “unblockable” - the three players next to him - their draft position 2nd (Suh), 3rd (Fowler), 14th (Brockers)
2. Celtics versus Golden State
* Twice this year the Celtics haven’t boxed out the shooter on a free throw - Jayson Tatum just doesn’t want to dig in
* Bob Kraft sighting - halftime
* Brad Stevens is a robot and is showing an inability to adjust from structure (like in Game 7 last year) Marcus Morris was struggling all game but left him at crunch time Saturday night
* It was sad to watch Gordon Hayward - he can’t create his own shot anymore - he is a below average NBA player
* If my CYO coach saw the other team beat us down the court for layups - it would be suicides at the next practice
* Typifies NBA - At the end of the first quarter Keven Durant had the ball just before midcourt - he refused to shoot the ball because it would hurt his shooting % but after the buzzer he shot it and hit it - the crowd ooh-ed so he got what he wanted
* Celtics were outshot at free throw line 34-15 (Golden State hit 29 of them)
* 73 three pointers in the game or one every 39 seconds of the game
* Wouldn’t Danny Ainge get a failing grade for not figuring out the roster this year (credit for collecting talent)
3. Lets do this exercise again - why not - our teams have been in 17 championships in 17 years:
2002 - Patriots
2004 - Patriots / Red Sox
2005 - Patriots
2007 - Red Sox
2008 - Patriots / Celtics
2010 - Celtics
2011 - Bruins
2012 - Patriots
2013 - Red Sox / Bruins
2015 - Patriots
2017 - Patriots
2018 - Red Sox / Patriots
2019 - Patriots
This compared to New York’s nine teams - 8
4. Patriots draft picks over the last four years that will be playing in the Super Bowl - Joe Thuney, Elandron Roberts, Sony Michel, Keion Crossen
5. Bruins first round picks
* Out of 53 draft picks since 2010 - 34 picks have yet to play a game for the Bruins (64.2%) / 39 haven’t scored goals (73.6%)
* First round picks since 2000 with the fewest goals: Lars Johnson, Zach Hamill, Jakub Zboril, Zach Senyshyn, Trent Frederic, Urho Vaakanainen - ZERO / Matt Lashoff - 1 / Jordan Caron 12
* Most goals for first picks since 2000 - Phil Kessel 330 / Tyler Seguin 229 / Pastrnak 94
6. Sony Michel versus LeGarrette Blount:
* Blount versus Colts 2014 playoffs - 30 carries / 148 yards / 3 TD
* Michel versus San Diego……………24 carries / 129 yards / 3 TD
7. Amazing Stats - Sony Michel and Todd Gurley at Georgia - last three years
* Michel….3,718 yards / 583 touches (6.37) / 33 TD
* Gurley….3,900 yards / 575 touches (6.78) / 42 TD
8. Old School - On August 24, 1918 - Babe Ruth pitched a complete game shutout pushing the team toward an eventual World Series championship - on the same day his father died in a fight with his brother in law
9. Just a Little Bit Outside - I think its obvious that Belichick is the greatest coach in sports history (remember Auerbach and Lombardi had the same players for a decade) - Its also obvious that Brady is the greatest football player of all time - where does he rank in greatest player to play sports:
1. Babe Ruth
2. Tom Brady / Michael Jordan
4. Secretariat
5. Ali
6. Jim Brown
7. Bobby Orr
8. Willie Mays
9. Tiger Woods
10. Lebron
11. Wayne Gretzky
12. Michael Phelps
13. Ronaldo
14. Serena
15. Kobe
10. Randomocity
* I got grief for saying that Bill should be Coach of the Year - this team in the Super Bowl - wow!
* Ford’s offsides is much bigger than Buckner’s error- Sox still had game 7
* Brady is a big F bomber
* Give Dombrowski credit waiting out Kimbrel like he did last year with Martinez
