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Albert Breer Explains The Lack of A Hangover


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14 minutes ago, Falconsfan567 said:

Finally!!! About time someone spoke the truth.

I hate Hate HATE lazy journalism. I understand one reporter suggesting that the hangover for teams losing the Super Bowl is real. But for the next 200 to pick up on it and talk about it as if it is an inevitable fact of life is what a snarky lazy writer does. It's been said before, ad nauseum. If you pick it up and say it again, you're not contributing to anything and wasting everybody's time and your employer's money. It's like being paid to recite message board-quality opinions when you should have a professional opinion.

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1 hour ago, JayOzOne said:

I love this. I'm tired of people yammering about cliches and glad to hear someone finally put thought into his analysis. Peter King and Pete Prisco both wrote similar things about how we're moving past LI, but this is the first time I've seen someone detail it on film.

 

 

Who is that guy? He sounds too smart to be a journalist 

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The funniest thing is they only speak about the "SB Hangover" because they think the Panthers had one. It wasn't a hangover, it was their team coming back to earth. Everybody had career years. If you look at the list he shows, every one of the last SB losers before Carolina went back. Why? Because they had good teams, not fluky one off seasons like Carolina. NE and SF went back to the Championship games their years. Nobody wants to talk about that. Both were within one play of going back to the SB. I doubt losing the SB the previous year was why they didn't go back. Lazy journalism is harping on 28-3 over and over again. Get over it. The players said they did all offseason but most didn't want to believe it because they had stories in their drafts ready to submit. 

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5 minutes ago, gazoo said:

I never gave all this Super Bowl hangover nonsense a bit of merit when it comes to my Falcons. I did start to get irritated having to hear about it all the time.

It was just somebody repeating a narrative. I'll give props to the first guy to say it because he explained what it is, not the 300th who was just a parrot. 

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I never for one second believed there would be a hangover. Not the next day and not at kick off week one. Dan Quinn is too good for that. Matt Ryan is too good for that. Julio Jones is too good for that. This team is built to hold each other accountable and I know the leaders on this team are going to do just that. That as much as anything was why Carolina fell off. Cam Newton can't handle adversity. Matt Ryan thrives in it

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57 minutes ago, gazoo said:

I never gave all this Super Bowl hangover nonsense a bit of merit when it comes to my Falcons. I did start to get irritated having to hear about it all the time.

My response was always "So you're going to use history to predict what a team will do after that team just made history blowing the biggest lead ever? History didn't predict that one too well..."

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5 hours ago, JayOzOne said:

I hate Hate HATE lazy journalism. I understand one reporter suggesting that the hangover for teams losing the Super Bowl is real. But for the next 200 to pick up on it and talk about it as if it is an inevitable fact of life is what a snarky lazy writer does. It's been said before, ad nauseum. If you pick it up and say it again, you're not contributing to anything and wasting everybody's time and your employer's money. It's like being paid to recite message board-quality opinions when you should have a professional opinion.

As a fortune cookie inscriber, I disagree with this. Oldies are Goodies.

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5 hours ago, JayOzOne said:

I hate Hate HATE lazy journalism. I understand one reporter suggesting that the hangover for teams losing the Super Bowl is real. But for the next 200 to pick up on it and talk about it as if it is an inevitable fact of life is what a snarky lazy writer does. It's been said before, ad nauseum. If you pick it up and say it again, you're not contributing to anything and wasting everybody's time and your employer's money. It's like being paid to recite message board-quality opinions when you should have a professional opinion.

The theory of Super Bowl hangover is garbage. Most of the teams on the list won 10 or more games following their Super Bowl loss.  Several won 12 games and lost in the Conference Championship Game.  It's extremely difficult to make back-to-back Super Bowls.  A rare feat indeed...so the fact that most Super Bowl losers don't return to the SB the following year is not indicative of a mythical hangover.  It simply shows how hard reaching a SB is.

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10 hours ago, vel said:

The funniest thing is they only speak about the "SB Hangover" because they think the Panthers had one. It wasn't a hangover, it was their team coming back to earth. Everybody had career years. If you look at the list he shows, every one of the last SB losers before Carolina went back. Why? Because they had good teams, not fluky one off seasons like Carolina. NE and SF went back to the Championship games their years. Nobody wants to talk about that. Both were within one play of going back to the SB. I doubt losing the SB the previous year was why they didn't go back. Lazy journalism is harping on 28-3 over and over again. Get over it. The players said they did all offseason but most didn't want to believe it because they had stories in their drafts ready to submit. 

Good post. What's been left out the whole dam time, was last year's team overachieved. Making the SB was simply unbelievable. 

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Most of the Superb Owl hangovers are due to players leaving in free agency. In our case, we have our core under contract, and the same team as last year. To be honest- we were ahead of schedule getting there last year, with all the rookies we had. Those guys are now a year more experienced. There's no rational reason for a hangover, unless you believe in luck and voodoo.

This guy said nice things to hear, but I don't think taking anything 'head on' has anything to do with it. Our team stayed in tact. That's it.

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Just now, MSalmon said:

Plus, I don't care that we lost because I know that our over achieving team fought a superior opponent to the end. I am still proud as helll the way we put NE on the ropes

I actually disagree with that. By that time, I think we were the better team. Our clock management in the 4th was absurd.

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