Dont’a Hightower hit Matt Ryan for a sack/fumble to give the Patriots a short-field touchdown (Brady: four for four, 28 yards). And each drive, and each conversion had to be perfect. We knew we’d get the ball at least a couple more times.” “If it was shorter on fourth down,” McDaniels said. “Did you think of going for the TD there?” McDaniels was asked later. Pushed back to the 15-yard line, the Patriots settled for an eyebrow-raising 33-yard field goal with 9:44 left in the game. Next drive: Grady Jarrett (4.5 career sacks entering the game, 3.0 in this game) sacked Brady twice after it was first-and-goal from the Atlanta seven. “Think about it: last two Super Bowls we’re in, down multiple scores late, and he gets the job done.”īrady capped the first drive with a short flip to James White, but Stephen Gostkowski shtoinked the PAT off the right upright. “When you have the Michael Jordan of football, that is what you think,” Harmon said. Safety Duron Harmon told his defensive mates the Patriots were about to go on the greatest comeback in NFL history. “That’s the thing-nothing different was really said at halftime,” said defensive end Chris Long. We’re fine.’ I think when you’ve got Tommy, you feel like there’s never going to be any kind of panic in him, so there’s never going to be any kind of panic in us.” “When we came out after halftime, “Bill said to me, ‘We’ll be okay. “Funny thing,” said offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels after the game. (Or any football era, probably.) “That was awesome,” commissioner Roger Goodell said to Tom Brady, according to one bystander, grabbing Brady’s right hand and shaking for several seconds.
Now would be the most anticipated NFL handshake of the Super Bowl Era. But first, there was a hard tap on Brady’s left arm from the commissioner who wanted to end the Cold War that will never end. “THE GREATEST!”īrady wanted to see his family, his supermodel wife and the dad who made him tear up in the days before the game and the ill mom who almost didn’t make the trip to the game and his kids and his sisters … everybody. “You’re the greatest, bro!” Blount screamed at Brady. “I love you!” Brady said into his coach’s ear. Finally, they stood, and Bill Belichick appeared, and Brady and Belichick hugged so hard it must have hurt. He stayed down so long that someone leaned down to see if he was okay, and then New England running back LeGarrette Blount came over to shield and comfort Brady. Red, white and blue confetti flew everywhere after New England’s 34-28 overtime win over Atlanta, and as Brady stayed down, photographers and a FOX crew were held off by security. HOUSTON - For 35 seconds after the game that defies adjectives, Tom Brady crouched on the field, overcome, just trying to gather himself.
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