At the start of the fourth quarter, they finished a 12-play, 72-yard drive for a field goal. They got a 13-play, 75-yard drive for a touchdown, but missed the extra point. He came here to win a fifth.īut they were down 25. He won four Super Bowls, and lost two more. He said he would take Drew Bledsoe’s job, and he took Drew Bledsoe’s job. He was so disciplined he wouldn’t eat strawberries. He was a sixth-round pick once, a chubby kid. The Patriots are the Patriots because Bill Belichick is a peerless coach, and the staff executes to his direction, and the players follow and trust.īut it was Tom Brady who authored his greatest work. It was the adjustments on the offensive line that gave him more time, the adjustments on routes that opened up receivers, the defence, which suddenly got stops. And we had enough guys like that who were pulling guys like me along, that were down.” But (backup safety) Duron Harmon walked in and said, ‘This can be the best comeback of all time.’ And he completely believed it. “I mean, some of us had some doubts,” said defensive lineman Chris Long. The last time it happened New England did it, against Seattle two years ago. The biggest deficit ever overcome in a Super Bowl was 10. Their great linebacker Deion Jones explained, “It’s a matter of everyone zipping up the gaps correctly and arriving violently, and that’s pretty much it.” They were getting pressure on Brady, and arriving violently. He shuffled and dove but Atlanta cornerback Robert Alford was gone, and for a few brief seconds Brady looked all of his 39 years, on his knees on the turf, helpless, watching the game run away.Ītlanta was faster. HOUSTON-What did Tom Brady see? He knew the ball wasn’t going to get there, and he knew he couldn’t catch the man who was going to take it the other way, but he tried.
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