Tom Brady’s fifth Super Bowl championship in concert with coach Bill Belichick added another chapter to the greatest dynasty of the modern NFL. That doesn’t mean they were brilliant enough to pull off this miraculous comeback without a little help from the team wearing red and black. She said she often travels to games and even watched the Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks at Super Bowl XLIX, in Phoenix, Ariz.
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“This is a feeling I won’t forget”, said Falcons middle linebacker Deion Jones.
“We knew what they had, we drew up what they were doing”, Hightower said. That’s right. When legend becomes fact, as they said in an old-time movie, print the legend.
Greatest comeback in championship history.
And then they did. Tom Brady is in rarefied Michael Jordan air now.
I see Ryan and that Falcons offense being able to establish themselves early and then let their defense – led by National Football League sack leader Vic Beasley – to give New England some issues. If Atlanta can dictate the tempo early and not allow the Pats to move up and down the field at will, this is going to be a game that will be tight throughout. Ryan has not won the MVP as of this writing, but he will very soon. But Ryan went back to pass and got sacked, losing 12 yards and ultimately their shot at attempting what might have been a game-saving field goal. Even the two they lost were by three and four points.
“I think you just go and do your normal routine”, Ryan said. The worst part? They were wasting no time snapping the ball, leaving more than 20 seconds on the play clock multiple times with a chance to grind out the clock.
“You know, it’s like studying Talmud or Torah – it’s not just simplistic, it’s deep”. Brady will attack the defense with quick throws to his running backs Lewis and White, and while Jones could clean up, Campbell could get eaten.
This game was so unusual to comprehend that it literally felt like two Super Bowls were played on Sunday. Brady marched the Patriots on a 10-play, 91-yard aerial attack torching a clearly demoralized Falcons defense for the game-tying touchdown drive, following by a two-point conversion.
Well, offense can apparently get you to the threshold of one, because the 2016 Atlanta Falcons have been all about that side of the ball. Twice in the final 16 minutes of regulation the Falcons had three-and-outs that featured a failed play one yard shy of a fresh set of downs. What they realized rather quickly was that New England was far more beatable than anybody expected.
The most anticipated handoff of the Super Bowl didn’t come until after the game had ended. “But games are tough; you never can relax”.
On the ensuing play, the Falcons were called for offensive holding. The Patriots looked stupid the first half.
And looking back on the loss, the Falcons will likely point to one key drive late in the fourth quarter that should have finished the Patriots off for good. Suspect play-calling by Josh McDaniels cost them some scoring opportunities. No one knows that the rule is. “Great atmosphere, incredible people -mostly Patriots fans”. “That’s a hard one in the locker room”.
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“There was a lot of (stuff) that happened tonight”, he said. “There’s nothing really you can say”.
