Posted: Monday January 21, 2002 3:06 PM
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Ron Borges of The Boston Globe says to get to return to the scene of the crimes (New Orleans, where the Pats have lost two Super Bowls by a combined 81-31), the New England Cinderellas must take their glass slippers and beat them over the heads of the Steelers.
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On paper this does not bode well for New England. The Patriots have the 19th-rated offense in the league going up against the statistically stingiest defense in football, and they have the 24th-rated defense trying to stop the third-rated offense.
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Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says poor Edwin Mulitalo. He's the Ravens' left guard. A nice man, by all accounts. Kept his mouth shut last week as the Lee Flowers and Jamie Sharpers talked their trash.
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"I told Kimo [von Oelhoffen] I saw on Mulitalo's Web site that he called him a decent run-stopper but not much of a pass-rusher," Steelers defensive coordinator Tim Lewis said. ... Mulitalo doesn't have a Web site.
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Phil Sheridan of The Philadelphia Inquirer says the Eagles, who relied on defense throughout the regular season, have gotten excellent performances from Donovan McNabb and the offense in the three most important games of the season.
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The biggest difference, though, between Game 1 and Game 19 is the state of the offense. That starts with McNabb, who dissected the Giants, Bucs and Bears. He all three teams by moving around, evading pressure and finding receivers for big plays.
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Bernie Miklasz of theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch says the Rams' defense was so dynamic that it stopped both offenses in Sunday's NFC playoff game. That's pretty hard to do, shut down Brett Favre and Kurt Warner on the same day, but the quarterbacks weren't going to steal this show.
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The Rams had 292 yards against the Packers and looked like the other 30 offenses in the NFL. But with the Rams defense going berserk, and Favre all but handing out interceptions from a Pez dispenser, Warner and Rams head coach Mike Martz pulled back and went conservative.
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