Kevin Cadle - Sky Sports Expert

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Posted: 07th February 2008 15:54

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David Tyree Super Bowl

David Tyree: KC's MVP

It just goes to remind you that in sport everyone and anyone can be beaten.

Kevin Cadle
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Kevin Cadle reflects on each week's action in the NFL here on skysports.com and just because there were only two teams, it doesn't mean he didn't want to finish the job off properly.

KC will not be sending out any prizes from the Sky Sports NFL cupboard for anyone who guesses who his team of the week is because, as you would imagine, he was pretty impressed with New York Giants.

Here though, for the record, are Kev's Super Bowl XLII picks...

TEAM OF THE WEEK
NY GIANTS

This is the easiest week of the year, only two choices and I can only give it to one of them.

I know I picked them last week and a few people might have been surprised but I have said here and on air that I thought someone was going to stop the Patriots at some point.

The more I think about the Super Bowl now, the more I realise that they had exhaled a little bit and believed their own press.

When Plaxico Burress said they were going to win 23-17 and Tom Brady's response was along the lines of, 'we're only going to score 17?'.

I think maybe they had started listening to the people that said their offense couldn't be stopped and how this team couldn't be beaten.

It just goes to remind you that in sport everyone and anyone can be beaten.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
David Tyree, wide receiver, NY Giants

I have to go with David Tyree because without what he did in the second-half of the game, they don't win a thing.

He came up with the touchdown and he came up with the pass on the big drive - I'll come on to that in a minute - so he basically came up with two huge plays.

It's hard though to just pick out one player because it was such a big effort all round.

Plaxico Burress caught the big ball, all he had to do was catch a simple one, but he did it when it mattered. Eli Manning overcame a tough first-half, second quarter but was great in the second-half.

On the defense you could have named anybody - they all did a tremendous job.

Everyone said the key was going to be the front seven, and they did their stuff, but the defensive back field did an excellent job against all the receiving talent on the Patriots offense.

PLAY OF THE WEEK
Tyree's dream catch

It's the Super Bowl, it's the fourth quarter and it is effectively the final drive of the game if the Giants don't score.

New York are third and five... Eli did his thing to get out of the hole and get a pass in the air.

Tyree though comes up with an incredible catch. There's a lot of coverage but he still picks it out of the air and holds on when he has to.

It was the catch that made everything else possible.

Eli said to his brother Peyton that Tyree is a "gamer". Some guys just don't practice well but when it's game time, they go up and get it done.

It was the big stage and the big show and he got it done.

VILLAIN OF THE WEEK
New England Patriots

There's no one player to blame, I think the whole team takes responsibility.

It was the energy that was missing. Randy Moss said it best when he said their energy didn't match the energy of the New York Giants.

They should have been able to match the levels set by New York, all of them, but they didn't and there's the game.

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