The Super Bowl Defenses: Part 1
Published February 4, 2010 | 
A lot has been made about these two high powered offenses led by spectacular QBs butting heads in the Super Bowl. There hasn’t been too much detail on the defenses.
So there is a lot stirring up about the New Orleans Defense. Some saying their passing defense is terrible, some saying it is very good. No one really cares or mentions the run defense since Indy is so bad between the tackles. Lets take a look at just the basic stats of the New Orleans defense.
Total Defense: 25th/32 (357 yds/gm)
Pass Defense: 26th/32 (235.6 yds/gm)
Rush Defense: 21st/32 (122.2 yds/gm)
Now 25th in the league overall might sound bad, the glass half fullers might say, “Well, there’s still 7 teams worse than them”. Well, yeah, sure. Continue reading
Super Bowl Props & Odds
Published February 3, 2010 | Where is the fun in the Super Bowl with out some office pools or prop bets with friends or your bookies. Well here are some of the props and odds for various things in the Super Bowl.
First TD Pass:
- Manning: -150
- Brees: +120
More TD Passes:
- Manning: -170
- Brees: +140
More TD Passes:
- Manning: -170
- Brees: +140
More INT’s:
- Manning: -125
- Brees: -105
Dallas Clark TD in the game:
- Yes: -135
- No: +105 Continue reading
The Tampa Bay Curse
Published February 3, 2010 | 
On Sunday December 27, 2009, in the 15th game for the New Orleans Saints they faced of against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The game was at the Superdome in New Orleans.
After driving down the field with ease against the New Orleans Saints, Kicker Connor Barth of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrates after kicking the winning field goal to defeat the New Orleans Saints 20-17 in overtime.
Well, who cares right? Wrong. Destiny cares. The Saints still locked up the #1 seed in the NFC and the bye in the playoffs but the TB at NO game might have been destiny giving us a look into the future. NEVER has a team that lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the regular season gone on to win the Super bowl. This is known as the Tampa Bay curse. Sound far fetched and stupid? Well the Buccaneers are the only team in NFL history this is true for. And it’s not like the Buccaneers were anything special this year, and by our rankings system they were one of the worst.
So New Orleans not only has to overcome their own curse of no Super bowls, they also have to destroy the Tampa Bay curse along the way. Oh yeah, they also have to beat one of the best QBs of all time in Peyton Manning.