Posted: 2/5/2017 11:27:07 PM EDT
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They did. Bigly
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This was the 94th time a team has been 21-0 in the postseason, this was the first time the losing team came back and won.
Say what you want about Brady and Belicheck, but they won this fair and square and no-one should ever put an asterisk by their name again. Best coach, best quarterback ever. |
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This was the 94th time a team has been 21-0 in the postseason, this was the first time the losing team came back and won. Say what you want about Brady and Belicheck, but they won this fair and square and no-one should ever put an asterisk by their name again. Best coach, best quarterback ever. I would say that Brady had little to do with ATL being inside the NE 30, well within field goal range (to go up 11), and end up punting the ball by the end of the series. That was a big league choke! |
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I would say that Brady had little to do with ATL being inside the NE 30, well within field goal range (to go up 11), and end up punting the ball by the end of the series. That was a big league choke! Quoted:
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This was the 94th time a team has been 21-0 in the postseason, this was the first time the losing team came back and won. Say what you want about Brady and Belicheck, but they won this fair and square and no-one should ever put an asterisk by their name again. Best coach, best quarterback ever. I would say that Brady had little to do with ATL being inside the NE 30, well within field goal range (to go up 11), and end up punting the ball by the end of the series. That was a big league choke! Bigger choke than the last time the Patriots won when the Seahawks ran that stupid pass play on the goal line. |
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Kyle Shanahan blew that game with his decision to pass the ball on their final drive of the 4th quarter.
Had they run the ball, and forced NE to use their time outs, then settle for the FG they would have potentially been up by 11. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.... That's the way the NFL goes. |
| Make no misconceptions, this was 90% a choke by Atlanta, with 10% being luck favoring the Pats. Largest lead lost in superbowl history? Come on! All Atlanta had to do was play reasonably good football and maybe get another fieldgoal to seal the deal. It's like they got a 25 point lead and called it a day thinking the Pats would just let them win or something. |
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How did they choke? They should never have been up. Atlanta offense was bad all game. Plus who the fuck catches the ball on the 1 yard line. Let the fucking thing go into the end zone Atlanta was out coached and outplayed |
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That's for damn sure. The Falcons come in 2nd. Quoted:
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Nope. That would be the 2004 Yankees...but I'll give the Falcons a solid choke synonym in the thesaurus. Apparently none of ya'll are Georgia Tech fans... this is just par for the course for us 
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No, they did not choke. The greatest woke up, and decided to show up to the game in the 3rd quarter. No team could have stopped what happened. Not a single one. GOAT!!! That's a silly statement. It doesn't take away from Brady's performance to say that the Falcons offense shit the bed. Literally all they had to do is run the ball and they would have won. Instead, they tried to pass. It's worse than the Seahawks blunder from two years ago. |
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That's a silly statement. It doesn't take away from Brady's performance to say that the Falcons offense shit the bed. Literally all they had to do is run the ball and they would have won. Instead, they tried to pass. It's worse than the Seahawks blunder from two years ago. Quoted:
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No, they did not choke. The greatest woke up, and decided to show up to the game in the 3rd quarter. No team could have stopped what happened. Not a single one. GOAT!!! That's a silly statement. It doesn't take away from Brady's performance to say that the Falcons offense shit the bed. Literally all they had to do is run the ball and they would have won. Instead, they tried to pass. It's worse than the Seahawks blunder from two years ago. They threw the ball instead of running for the same reason they punted instead of going for it on 4th and short. They were TERRIFIED to give Brady the ball with good field position. Even with a commanding lead, they were playing not to lose because the GOAT was standing on the sidelines, just waiting for his chance. Randy Moss said he knew it was over when the Pats got the ball back down 8. He said he knew there was no chance the Falcons could stop Brady once he'd smelled blood. |
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They threw the ball instead of running for the same reason they punted instead of going for it on 4th and short. They were TERRIFIED to give Brady the ball with good field position. Even with a commanding lead, they were playing not to lose because the GOAT was standing on the sidelines, just waiting for his chance. Randy Moss said he knew it was over when the Pats got the ball back down 8. He said he knew there was no chance the Falcons could stop Brady once he'd smelled blood. I thought the same thing. That sack killed them. You needed a field goal there. Run the stupid ball a couple times and kick the field goal. You could see Atlanta's defense looked terrified when Brady got the ball back down one score. They then looked like a deer in headlights in the OT session. |
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They threw the ball instead of running for the same reason they punted instead of going for it on 4th and short. They were TERRIFIED to give Brady the ball with good field position. Even with a commanding lead, they were playing not to lose because the GOAT was standing on the sidelines, just waiting for his chance. Randy Moss said he knew it was over when the Pats got the ball back down 8. He said he knew there was no chance the Falcons could stop Brady once he'd smelled blood. Quoted:
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No, they did not choke. The greatest woke up, and decided to show up to the game in the 3rd quarter. No team could have stopped what happened. Not a single one. GOAT!!! That's a silly statement. It doesn't take away from Brady's performance to say that the Falcons offense shit the bed. Literally all they had to do is run the ball and they would have won. Instead, they tried to pass. It's worse than the Seahawks blunder from two years ago. They threw the ball instead of running for the same reason they punted instead of going for it on 4th and short. They were TERRIFIED to give Brady the ball with good field position. Even with a commanding lead, they were playing not to lose because the GOAT was standing on the sidelines, just waiting for his chance. Randy Moss said he knew it was over when the Pats got the ball back down 8. He said he knew there was no chance the Falcons could stop Brady once he'd smelled blood. It really doesn't make sense. With 9 minutes left and up by 25 points, it was impossible for the Patriots to win if the Falcons just ran the ball 3 and out and punted. The Pats needed 4 possessions to tie/win, and the Falcons could take at least 2:30-3 minutes off the clock each possession. That doesn't even take in to account the badly called plays when the Falcons were in field goal range and they could have sealed it again. |
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Kyle Shanahan blew that game with his decision to pass the ball on their final drive of the 4th quarter. Had they run the ball, and forced NE to use their time outs, then settle for the FG they would have potentially been up by 11. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.... That's the way the NFL goes. For all the slobbering on Shanahan for the last few weeks, there wasn't a single Texans fan who thought, "Well that's unusual" when the play calls got backwards at the end of the game. We saw literally hundreds of "wtf" play calls during his time in Houston and most of them were at the end of close games or near our own endzone. Enjoy your mediocrity, San Francisco! |
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That's for damn sure. The Falcons come in 2nd. Quoted:
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Nope. That would be the 2004 Yankees...but I'll give the Falcons a solid choke synonym in the thesaurus. Golden State had a 3-1 advantage in the NBA championship. They took the apple right in da troat. |