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Since the Giants have now upset the Pats. Has the balance of power in the conferences shifted?

Which is the better conference? Why or why not....

I think the NFC has made up a lot of ground and right now has more young talent than the AFC. If anything the Giants win demonstrates that the league has more parity then in the past few years. I wouldn't be too suprised if the next couple of Superbowl champs come from the NFC.

I don't think the Giants are decisively better than the Pats because of the Super Bowl...they were just better than the Pats on that particular day. They can play that game over and over and either team can win. To use one game as a sample size isn't exactly a fair comparison. You do have to like the coaching staff on the Giants being able to scheme against three strong offenses and neutralize them on the road or on a neutral field. Keeping Spagnoulo definitely makes the Giants a favorite in the NFC going into next season.

To me, the AFC is still the superior conference given their depth of quality teams. How many contenders were in the NFC? Maybe three at the most...the Cowboys and Packers were favorites going into the playoffs and the Giants were the hot team entering the playoffs and carried it through to the end. In the AFC, you had the Pats, Colts, Chargers, Jaguars and you can throw the Steelers in there, who lost their #1 back before the playoffs. You can't go 5 deep in the NFC like you can in the AFC.

I thought you didn't follow the NFL?

He was asking if the NFC was better than the AFC just because of the Super Bowl and I was saying that using that single game shouldn't tell anyone the NFC is the better conference. I wasn't inferring if the Pats and Giants played a rubber match, it could've gone either way. It probably could go either way if they played again tonight considering both meetings were decided by three points each.

To the Giants credit, all they needed to do was be the better team for 60 minutes and they were able to pull it off. Were they that much better than the Pats? No way...it was a game that came down to the final possession of the game. If we learned anything, we saw the Giants defense was the perfect counter to the Pats offense. We've seen teams like Chargers and even the Ravens to a lesser extent give the Pats some problems but not enough to beat them. The Giants played a near perfect game against a better team and pulled out the win.

That being said, it doesn't make the NFC a better conference...I think the right team from that conference played in the Super Bowl and took down the Pats. Had the Cowboys or Packers made it to Glendale, I don't think we'd be having the same conversation. The Pats would've won and finished with the perfect record. The Giants had the right defense to beat the Pats.

Here, is this more to the point?

NFC < AFC

Shoalzie wrote:Here, is this more to the point?

NFC < AFC

Because only the Giants could have beaten the Pats.... whatever...

The AFC has for a while had the better conference, but I think that is over now. They were even if not even a slight edge to the NFC this year in head to heads. The talent in the NFC has gotten much better and the AFC is getting older.

by the way the Giants were the 5th seed in the NFC... Kind of looks like you can go five deep in the NFC.