I have new respect for Rivers

[Admin]

He may be an a**hole, I don't know, but having surgery the week before the game to remove his ACL so that he could play? Holy cow, that's just crazy.

[NJHAWK]

Yeah talk about heart. He actually didnt play that bad either. They just missed LT in the red zone.

[Admin]

I definitely think they missed LT in the red zone. While the other backs had a nice yards per carry average LT is the best in the league at getting into the end zone.

I think that not having Gates at full strength hurt them more than that though because even on the play where Bruschi cheated and had 2 hands clasped on Gates bicep in the end zone I do believe that a healthy Gates would have been able to avoid that and they would have scored a huge TD there instead of a FG.

I definitely give the Chargers a lot of credit though for playing much better than I thought they could while being so banged up.

Next up, the Giants will give the Patriots one more record to add to their list of records this year ... the biggest chokers in the entire history of the league. This is going to be like when the Patriots beat the Rams when nobody thought they had a chance.