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Halftime. After the first two possessions, I figured Pats defense had their number, but what do I know. Ryan is like Roboquarterback. If Pats come back I will be so MAD.
 
Patriots are getting screwed because the stupid rules allow turnovers.


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Yeah, I'm mad. I'm mad for America. This could have been a great unifying moment for the nation in defeating a common enemy, it would have brought us all together in infinite joy. But NO, America doesn't win anymore. Evil's winning streak continues, America is fucked up the ass again. 😫
 
One thing I noted during the game was the score was asymmetrical to the stats. The Patriots weren't being blown out yardage and possession wise. So the comeback isn't entirely unfounded. However, still, holy cow, what a come back! At 28-9 I was saying they could do it, and then they didn't do it, but come the forth quarter, Brady threw for what 186 yards?! And Atlanta's defense was exhausted, having played so much in the fourth quarter. The commentators kept saying how Atlanta's defensive line was disrupting Brady, but while they played well, it wasn't like the Broncos last year or the Giants in the two Super Bowls. Brady was still passing for a lot of yard.

Ultimately, the Patriots stopped dropping the ball, and making mistakes and the defense shut Atlanta down in the 2nd half. And Edelmann's catch?! About time the Patriots get on the receiving end of that!

The Patriots have won some incredible Super Bowls. The one against St. Louis may beat this one out due to the one sided talent discrepancy between St. Louis and New England, but point wise, the Patriots pulled out one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. The defense's play on Atlanta's last drive, to drag the Falcons well out of field goal range was unbelievable!

My one question, why didn't the Patriots go for a fair catch kick at the end of the 4th qtr? Not that it matters.
 
I will rate this as the most devastating loss in NFL history.
I'm so happy I'm not a Falcons fan and would gladly put up with the 45 years of frustration of being a St Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals fan than have to live with this loss.
 
I remember being very depressed at halftime but thinking "Well, it's Brady ... it's doable". Then he did it.

I think the key play was when Belichek distracted everyone by having Brady shoot that old lady so that he could break into the referee's locker room and replace the official coin with a weighted one so his player knew it would come up heads when flipping it to determine who got the ball first in overtime. That man has turned evil into an art form.
 
I derived a lot of pleasure from this victory.

1) Patriots win Super Bowl
2) Patriots win Super Bowl via biggest comeback in Super Bowl history (running out of ways to win Super Bowl!)
3) Every single Patriots hater out there who was doing a dance when Falcons went up 28-3, then pretty happy at start of 4th quarter, then the creeping doubt (first the smugness with the missed extra point), maybe a little more smug with field goal, but turns into fear when Patriots get next TD, and then outright depression when Patriots scored TD with 50 seconds left... then bargaining that they still need 2 pt conversion... and the Patriots get the 2 pt conversion. Then hanging a noose up when Patriots carved through Atlanta in OT. Oh yeah, the haters all having the Richard Sherman look on their face in OT.

Pretty much get equal pleasure from each of these aspects, but especially the last part.
 
I don't support either team and there is something about Brady that makes him difficult to like but there is no doubt the man is the finest QB that has ever played the game. It was an exciting game to watch. I thought Gaga did a great show. Well worth watching.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I derived a lot of pleasure from this victory.

1) Patriots win Super Bowl
2) Patriots win Super Bowl via biggest comeback in Super Bowl history (running out of ways to win Super Bowl!)
3) Every single Patriots hater out there who was doing a dance when Falcons went up 28-3, then pretty happy at start of 4th quarter, then the creeping doubt (first the smugness with the missed extra point), maybe a little more smug with field goal, but turns into fear when Patriots get next TD, and then outright depression when Patriots scored TD with 50 seconds left... then bargaining that they still need 2 pt conversion... and the Patriots get the 2 pt conversion. Then hanging a noose up when Patriots carved through Atlanta in OT. Oh yeah, the haters all having the Richard Sherman look on their face in OT.

Pretty much get equal pleasure from each of these aspects, but especially the last part.
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Rigged. Putin says he didn't do it. Anyone believe him?
 
Even with Brady and Belichick, the only way that comeback from 28-3 near the end of the 3rd was possible was with Atlanta doing everything wrong from that point onward.

Probably the biggest fuck-up was the play call when they were on the Pats 23 with under 4 minutes left and already up 8.
Getting knocked out of field goal range or a turnover were the only things that would have lost it at that point, sp running plays would have put them up 11 with at most about 2:30 minutes left. Instead they call a pass play and get sacked and then another pass play and get a hold that puts them out of range.

The earlier fumble do to passing instead of running on 3rd and 1 was bad, but less of a mind-blowingly bad play call given the clock and the situation at the time.
 
ronburgundy said:
Even with Brady and Belichick, the only way that comeback from 28-3 near the end of the 3rd was possible was with Atlanta doing everything wrong from that point onward.

Probably the biggest fuck-up was the play call when they were on the Pats 23 with under 4 minutes left and already up 8.
Getting knocked out of field goal range or a turnover were the only things that would have lost it at that point, sp running plays would have put them up 11 with at most about 2:30 minutes left. Instead they call a pass play and get sacked and then another pass play and get a hold that puts them out of range.

The earlier fumble do to passing instead of running on 3rd and 1 was bad, but less of a mind-blowingly bad play call given the clock and the situation at the time.
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Yeah, the consensus is they should have run the ball and gone for the FG. Make the Pats use their timeouts, which would have made it more nearly impossible to come back. I don't know why they stopped running it. They were having success, but then their head coach got all Pete Carroll like and said "Throw, throw, throw!!!"
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
ronburgundy said:
Even with Brady and Belichick, the only way that comeback from 28-3 near the end of the 3rd was possible was with Atlanta doing everything wrong from that point onward.

Probably the biggest fuck-up was the play call when they were on the Pats 23 with under 4 minutes left and already up 8.
Getting knocked out of field goal range or a turnover were the only things that would have lost it at that point, sp running plays would have put them up 11 with at most about 2:30 minutes left. Instead they call a pass play and get sacked and then another pass play and get a hold that puts them out of range.

The earlier fumble do to passing instead of running on 3rd and 1 was bad, but less of a mind-blowingly bad play call given the clock and the situation at the time.
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Yeah, the consensus is they should have run the ball and gone for the FG. Make the Pats use their timeouts, which would have made it more nearly impossible to come back. I don't know why they stopped running it. They were having success, but then their head coach got all Pete Carroll like and said "Throw, throw, throw!!!"
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Yeah, as soon as they lined up for a pass, I was thinking that somewhere in the world Marshawn is eating skittles and mumbling "Fucking morons" in only the way he could.
 
To be fair, though, if they'd gotten that field goal, Brady would have just found a way to score yet another touchdown and the Pats would have just beaten them in regulation time. By screwing it up and moving them back to where they needed to punt, at least they got the game into OT.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
To be fair, though, if they'd gotten that field goal, Brady would have just found a way to score yet another touchdown and the Pats would have just beaten them in regulation time. By screwing it up and moving them back to where they needed to punt, at least they got the game into OT.
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Brady is like magic, but they don't drive the whole field and score a TD, then stop the Falcons, and then drive and score again all within 2:30 minutes. Not kicking that field goal changed Brady's odds of tying from less than 1:100 to about 70:30.
 
Can someone explain to me why the Patriots didn't go for the fair catch kick after the final punt by the Falcons? It would have been a doozy of a kick, but why not.
 
Read an article that indicated that Belichick thought the kick would be too long. Didn't want to risk a return.

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