An Age Old Saying...

With :35 left on the clock, there was only one thing I could think about...

"When Vince Young scored the last touchdown against USC...I was still scared..."

Thirty-five seconds seemed like an eternity for the Patriots. Then Brady got thrown to the floor for the fifth time and you knew that it just didn't matter. Yesterday the Patriots were out classed. The two best teams met, and at this stage of the season, the best team won, regardless of what Wade Phillips thinks.

As most of you know, there aren't many folks who are as anti-Tom Brady as me. I hope you all saw how normal the Giants made him yesterday. For now, I want you to think about how Tom Brady did nothing spectacular yesterday. He led the Pats down to take the lead on a typical, boring Patriots drive. Just so you know, he did nothing but throw dink passes all down the field and let Wes Welker run around like the little white guy he is. He hit Moss when the receiver fell down. Best ever? Thanks.

Here's what I want to talk about quickly about Brady because I have a lot to get to. I can recall two times when Brady missed a wide open receiver and he just yelled at that guy. Once it was Moss and the other Welker I believe, going to our left on the far sideline. I mean, Brady missed him badly, and we all saw him yelling. Hey Tom, you made a bad pass, own it. Point is, Brady doesn't have ice water running through his veins. The Giants d-line owned him...not only physically but mentally. I will give Brady props for coming out and giving a classy interview...but from that interview, I don't know about any of you, but I saw a guy who's won three titles and was content leaving the field with them. I didn't see any emotion out of him. Yeah, he was politically correct as usual, but sometimes when you are a leader of a team you need to be a little more publicly disappointed than he was. He put his suit on, got in his limo, and went and hung out with Gisele before someone told him that his Stetson commercial never aired which he probably was more visibly upset about. America may love Tom Brady, but I'm going to continue to give you, whoever you are, the angles I see and maybe someone will start to feel the same way I do.

I can sit here and talk about Bellicheck all day, but I won't. He's not worth it. He's a great football coach with no class. You should be used to it by now. But I've been saying all year that he and his team were going to get theirs for running the score up on all of those average teams they played in the middle of the season. People who do bad things get what's coming to them eventually. Fortunately it happened at the best time, for me at least.

What was the deal with Bellicheck calling the challenge with the twelve men on the field deal? I've never seen that one before and what does this mean? Here's what I want to know about that...they reviewed a play that was over, to go back and get a penalty called. Does this mean that a coach can say..."Hey 65 was holding 76...I'm throwing a challenge flag go back and look at it and give me my ten yards!" I don't know what that was but it was classic.

We saw all of the people in their boxes yesterday from the owners to celebs. All of these folks had massive and completely trashed bars behind them. Hey, cool. But Peyton Manning sat there in a corner watching the game with a bottle of water, focused on his brother. Many of you give me grief about not giving Peyton his dues as a college quarterback. Deal with it. But yesterday, Peyton was a brother, a big brother who cared about nothing but seeing his little brother win the biggest game of his life. The emotion of Peyton had to make everyone feel good watching on TV. I am truly happy that Peyton was so grateful for Eli.

The Giants were the better team yesterday. Fact. When that pass when off Steve Smith's hands and was intercepted, I couldn't help but think "God, the Patriots are still just going to get all the breaks today..." But the defense bounced back, and Eli bounced back. We all knew the Giants wanted to run the ball, and they did a lot without any success really. But they put their season and title hopes on the shoulders of a guy who has gotten more negative publicity than anyone else at the quarterback position throughout the course of his career. Eli managed the game so well, and made the right throws all day. He forced a couple of throws that he got away with...most noticeably the ball down the middle to David Tyree on the game winning drive. I said it and I don't think I've ever said anything like this about anyone...but that was Favresque. For someone has taken the heat that Eli has, seeing a guy play that well when it counted was unreal and really great for football.

Eli's going to get so much of the credit, and rightfully so. But this was about the defense. This was about the Strahan, Tuck, Osi and the secondary. The Patriots offensive line was out matched and they paid for it. They got to Brady and they flustered the timing of that offense. There's a reason that Wes Welker had so many catches running over the middle...it's because the secondary took the outside threats of the Patriots out of the game. Randy Moss was a non-factor for the most part. Dante Stallworth was a non-factor. Where was Ben Watson?

The Giants proved the age old saying...Offense Wins games, Defense Wins Championships. Congratulations to Tom Coughlin's team, they did it the right way and they deserved it.