Elsewhere: Pats are perfect

The Giants made it interesting, but the Patriots capitalized on a mistake.  That’s sort of how they’ve played all year…they somehow manage to play good football, on all sides of the ball, for 60 minutes, and take advantage of the other team’s mistake(s).

The Giants looked good…very good at times…but I wonder if the same intensity will show up next Sunday against the Buccaneers.

As for the broadcast…I watched it on NBC because they had 5.1 sound while CBS had stereo.  Also, my CBS has a little worse picture quality with some weird “bar” down the middle that can be distracting once in a while.  It was weird hearing Bryant Gumbel call a game, but I think he did okay.  I could have done without all the “your cable company is at fault if you don’t get the NFL Network” commercials.  Rich Eisen’s lost a lot of hair since we last saw him on ESPN.