Category: Super Bowl XLVI
Re-Focused: Giants @ Patriots, Super Bowl XLVI
There was a sense of déjà vu in the lead up to the 46th Super Bowl on Sunday and the game didn’t disappoint, delivering a game full of intrigue and drama, that resulted in the New York Giants taking their second Super Bowl in the last five, the franchise’s fourth, and making the New England Patriots [...]
Focus Points: SBXLVI, the Blind Side
Come the Super Bowl everything gets magnified, and so it is with the PFF Focus Points. Rather than simply giving you one matchup to look at, we’re dividing our efforts and taking a look at both blind-side protectors to check the impact of two of this game’s more intriguing spots. PFF Founder and fearless leader, [...]
Why They Won’t Win: Two Analysts, Two Guarantees
Given the incredible success of Sam Monson’s piece telling everybody why the San Francisco 49ers couldn’t beat the New Orleans Saints in the Divisional Playoffs, we’ve decided to draft in some help, hedge our bets, and take both sides of the Super Bowl. While Sam may prove yet again to be wide of the mark, [...]
PFF Picks the Super Bowl
This is it, the end of the road, the final countdown, one last game to decide the title and along with the 2011 season’s crescendo comes one last opportunity for the PFF staff to offer their air-tight, take ‘em-to-the-bank predictions. For this last edition of PFF Picks, the floor has been opened to the entire PFF staff. [...]
Three to Focus on: Super Bowl XLVI
Swerving from our usual path of providing a quick detail about the upcoming game’s key matchups, during Super Bowl Week we’ve gone into further depth and broken out each of the pivotal battles in their own articles. With that being the case, this Three to Focus on is going to serve as a clearinghouse for [...]
Scramble: Super Bowl Fringe
This being Friday of Super Bowl Week, you’ve surely encountered a healthy dose of matchups, breakdowns, and backstories for the two teams and their players by now. The necessary paces of proper previewing dictate certain topics get covered, and the customary angles get addressed, but that’s all a bit too rigid for the Scramble. Instead [...]
Super Bowl Focus: Eli vs Brady
As much as we like to pull the Super Bowl matchup apart piece-by-piece and haul each one under the microscope, this is a quarterback-driven league, and the bottom line is that these two men are likely to determine the outcome of the game between them. The man with the better game, or the one who [...]
Analysis Notebook: The Routes of Cruz
One of my favorite things to watch this season has been the route running skills of Victor Cruz. Most wide receivers make the majority of their yards from their athleticism and natural physical ability (think Calvin Johnson here), but Cruz has bucked that trend, especially for such an inexperienced player, by taking defensive backs to [...]
Super Bowl Focus: Déjà Vu in the Trenches?
Dominance. It was the theme and most memorable attribute of Super Bowl XLII. Even more so than the game-winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning to Plaxico Burress, and the New York Giants victory over the New England Patriots. The unstoppable juggernaut grounded by a defensive front having its way with the opposing offensive line. It [...]
Analysis Notebook: Using Hernandez
Continuing our Super Bowl Preview Week at PFF, we’re turning our attention now away from the team perspective in order to focus more closely on an individual player from each squad. We’ll find out the Giants player that is coming under the microscope tomorrow, but today we’re taking a look at one of the game’s [...]
