![]() ![]() ![]() And I can’t remember a duller Super Bowl than this one, a movie that featured the same plot as a bunch we’ve seen before, but significantly less action. I can tolerate bad things, but not dull things. Sometimes, even the great ones get wins they don’t fully deserve.Įxit Interview: New England Patriots The Historically Boring Super Bowl LIII Sent Football Back to the Stone Age What We’ll Remember About Belichick and Brady’s Super Bowl Win Loser: Basically Any Human Who Watched This Game (Denver: Where Hall of Fame QBs ride off into the sunset with weird, washed championships.) Brady deserves his unparalleled legacy. Nobody drags 37-year-old John Elway for putting up 123 yards with no touchdowns and a pick in Denver’s Super Bowl XXXII win, or 39-year-old Peyton Manning for putting up 141 yards with no touchdowns and a pick in Denver’s Super Bowl 50 win. Of course, nobody will care that Brady’s win tonight was a stunning dud at the tail end of an exceptional season and career. It was only the third time in 19 games this year Brady failed to throw a touchdown, and the only time in which he also threw an interception. He certainly was more deserving of a ring last year-when he threw for a Super Bowl–record 505 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions but lost because his team’s defense couldn’t stop Nick Foles. It was the first of Brady’s nine Super Bowl appearances in which he failed to throw for a touchdown. Here’s that interception, a pass which came out of his hand wobbling like a punt kicked to make it tough for a returner to catch. Brady was worse, going 21-of-35 for just 262 yards with no touchdowns and an interception. Actually wait, my bad-that was Matt Hasselbeck’s line in Seattle’s 2006 Super Bowl loss to the Steelers. But the Rams defense eventually broke, allowing 10 points in the final 10 minutes, and thus Brady emerged victorious.īrady actually had a pretty mediocre game, going 26-for-49 for 273 yards, a touchdown, and an interception. Both defenses turned the game into a waking hellscape, the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever. Brady got this win because the Patriots defense absolutely dominated a Rams offense that spent most of the season demolishing opponents with a revolutionary scheme that convinced the rest of the league to hire Sean McVay’s assistants, acquaintances, and ex-roommates to head-coaching jobs. ![]() In fact, Sunday’s game was one of his worst performances of the season and arguably his worst-ever Super Bowl appearance. But the Patriots’ championship, stunningly, wasn’t won by Brady’s greatness. ![]()
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