So to be clear, you feel like the HFA in the NFL does not exist and you also feel Ariz's 7-2 Home Record vs 4-5 road record is a coincidence?
No one said they were betting ARIZ solely because of the HFA and Warner but certainly it is two important components bro.. You pick one or two things up and beat them to death bro.. It is a fact that Ariz is one of 3 or 4 teams in the NFL that has enormous differences in performance based on whether they play at home or on the road.. To ignore that as a capper is puzzling to me..
Maybe I misinterpreted your remark but have seen it a half dozen times on these pages..
no disrespect meant:shake:
Tee home field advantage is a very interesting topic, and a very physcologically based one at that.
People seem to think that the regular season home record of a team matters. Giants and Tennessee and Carolina had good records at home during the regular season. I think Carolina was 8-0 at home.
Not only did these teams lose, they got beaten soundly in their games.
Allow me to give my thoughts on home field advantage.
In the NFL the game is played on the field in reality. The crowd can have positive affects to the home team and also negative affects for the home team. In playoffs enough road teams win games on the road, look at Giants last year.
If a team is a dominant ie very good team and plays at home do they win because they were at home or they were a good team?
Pitts vs sandiego is a perfect example? Did Pitts benefit from playing at home? Probably? Did they win because they were at home?
They won because they were the better team, and rested and overall are better than San Diego. Its just that simple.
So on the field is where the games are won. No matter how hard the crowd tries and yells it does not make the home QB play better, it does not mean much.
Of course when the home team wins, everyone will say oh they won because they were at home and the crowd made them win.
Good teams win on the field, doesent matter if they play on the road, in mars, in jupiter, they win the games. Boston Celtics were the best NBA team last year even if they played teams in IRAQ they would still win.
I agree that ZONA is one of the teams that has a big differential from home play to road play, because of their location and climate, but this year they coincidentally lost to giants and vikings, 2 teams that eagles have beaten.
It is known in the playoffs that road receivers often outperform home db's. When they see the crowd, it motivates them more than the home team.
DO you think its coincidence that teams like ravens, giants last year go and take it personally and win on the road?
Eagles playing in ZONA is no advantage to ZONA, in fact its a negative to me.
Consider these things--
-Whole city talking about superbowl- pressure on the game-
-Young players looking ahead to superbowl-
-Hangover from beating Carolina
-Expectations to NOT FAIL IN FRONT OF HOME CROWD-
-The world on Warners shoulders to perform here-
The better team wins on the field bro, if ZONA wins I can assure you that home field had nothing to do with the win. The players on ZONA may have wanted it more and played better and just outplayed the Eagles.
Eagles will be on a business trip to ZONA, they are there to win this game-
ZONA is carrying on with regular life, going out, dinners, family life, they have way more distractions, Leinart binge drinking and partying with underage college students. Zona has all the distractions here.
So I think I have shown that Home field is no advantage at all, in fact a focussed eagles team is coming to town, their goal is to win and they have no distractions outside of football.
The proof lies in this fact, almost any championship team has always won big games on the road. I have rarely seen a champion that did not win any games on the road. When the teams are good teams the home field advantage is negated bigtime.
For the record I have no bet on this game yet-- I am neutral on it, its 2 very good teams both peeking. As always hopeyou nail the big ones.:smiley_acbe:
