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Peyton's breakdown of Chiefs game is worth watching.

It's probably buried in BB's Terms&Conditions.

Dont know how much longer you can hope the defense pitches a shutout. Really hurts that they couldnt take advantage. Bad half from Brady.

Losing chung is gonna hurt. We really need to put some damn points on the board. So many okay drives that just fizzled to no points ugh.

The Chung injury worried me.

But, it seems the Patriots had the Rams' receiver routes perfectly scouted.


We'll need some new thread title suggestions.

Such a weird season and a weird super bowl......amazing to get #6 when the saints/chiefs looked so dangerous.....hope Gronk doesn't retire but either way I think we should be looking pretty good going into next year with so much draft capital. Michel's need holding up was huge this year

They must have filmed their practices lol.

Def a different win from the others but so satisfying...

The Patriots have:

(1) #32
(2) #56 (from Chicago)
(2) #64
(3) #73 (from Detroit)
(3) #95

Browns have 95 from the Shelton trade.

-2.5

Whatever it takes

To be fair the season and the path to the super bowl was tough and not many thought we'd win it. This season is for sure the least confident I've felt in awhile with how shaky we'd been in spots and how tough the chiefs/saints looked this season. Was very happy to be up vs the rams in the end.

We should have 97 (Solder) & 101 (Butler) for compensatory picks, though.

Ugly game, but good enough

Cowherd talk about the Rams WR's. Cooks was with NE so they know his strengths and weaknesses, the Pats DB's practiced vs him for a year. Woods was in Buffalo where the Pats played against him for about 8 games and was teammates with Gilmore for 4 years.

I was wrong. I thought this team wasn't good enough.

1 CPatt opens the game with a big return

2 Michel 13yd rush

3 Clayborn gets pressure on Goff to end the first Rams drive

4 Brady to Edelman convert on 3rd and 9

5 Brady to Gronk 17yd

6 Great breakup by Chung to end the Rams’ drive

7 Brady to Edelman for about 15yd

8 Immediately after getting sacked, Brady hits Gronk for 14yd

9 For a second I thought they were flagging Wise for this tackle

10 Brady to a wide open Edelman on 3rd and 1

11 Gost gets the Pats on the board

12 Do we think this Goff to Woods catch was actually a catch?

13 Beautiful tackle by Gilmore on 1st down

14 Danny Shelton and John Simon stand up CJA

15 JMac breaks up this deep shot to Reynolds

16 Van Noy sprints to show Goff some love

17 Edelman was a first down machine

18 Edelman at this point had 6 first downs on 7 catches

19 Hightower takes down Goff

20 Gilmore ends the first Rams’ drive after the half

21 Brady to Edelman 27yd on 3rd and 4

22 Stellar punt work by Allen and Slater

23 So why wasn’t this intentional grounding?

24 With this punt, the Rams set two records! Longest punt and most consecutive punts!

Free Prez!

25 Nice coverage by Slater and Crossen on this punt

26 Unreal PBU in the end zone by JMac

26b JMac PBU replay angle

27 Hightower and Van Noy sack Goff

28 Michel picks up 19yd

29 Another great punt by Ryan Allen

30 Gilmore punch out gets a lucky Rams bounce

31 Flowers flattens Gurley on 3rd and 22

32 Brady to Gronk 15yd

33 Edelman 10 catches 8 first downs for 141yds

34 Brady to Gronk redzone catch

34b Brady to Gronk redzone catch replay angle

35 Sony Michel nets his 6th postseason TD

36 Van Noy gets to Goff again

37 Harmon and Gilmore get to Cooks in the redzone

37b Harmon and Gilmore PBU replay angle

38 Gilmore intercepts Goff

38b Gilmore interception replay angles

39 Huge block from Thuney sets up this 26yd Michel run

40 Now Burkhead picks up 26yd

41 Gostkowski extends the Patriots lead

42 Zurlein misses any chance the Rams have to net points

Really impressed with the player Van Noy has turned into. Went from having little faith in him to him turning into a real playmaker. Hightower also seems to always show up in the big games.

Matt Patricia's fingerprints all over this trophy, believe it or not:

Post-game, Steve Young asked BB if he studied how the Bears shut down the Rams this season (a Bears fan I know suggested this week that BB would do this; I scoffed, "BB doesn't have the Bears' defense! He doesn't have Khalil Mack!"). BB replied, "Yeah, the Bears...but moreso, the Lions, what they did."

SI has a piece today about BB using the Cover-4 that worked for DET. Quoted a Rams player saying, "We knew they'd try something we hadn't scouted...Cover-4 was unscouted."

Thanks, Matt, you old rocket scientist.

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Coming in here and taking BB's "Everyone counted us out early in the season, mid-season..." out of context does not ridicule us--it ridicules you. You look ridiculous.

In that Steve Young convo, BB added that "everyone counted us out after we lost two games in December," and he's 100% correct. Losing a close game at PIT, on the heels of losing to that Miracle play at MIA, I had folks LINING UP to tell me that it was all downhill for these guys now...

...but those folks were no different than you. Just trying to pull us down, to feel better about themselves.

QFT. If Dont'A's not hurt last year, this year is ring #7. Hightower's easily the most underrated player on the team.

When folks ask me about Brady and Gronk slowing down/declining/retiring, I tell them I'm more worried about Hightower...but man, you guys are right about him in big spots.

We've run pretty poorly when it comes to injuries to important players. Lost chung this year. Lost Cooks really early in super bowl last year. Not having Gronk or Edelman many postseason runs. What's amazing to me about the patriots is how it's a group of such strong minded guys who are so unselfish and always willing to adapt. Also like that they never gloat or talk themselves up, they just put in the work, speak respectfully of their opponents, and get the job done.

I have no good suggestions for new thread title..but I'm eager to replace the old one...

Kind of like my nephew, every time Gost misses a FG.