In past years, the Patriots have been the best team and lost to The Hot Team.
This season was fun as hell because it was a rare occurrence in which it was flipped.
The Patriots won their sixth Super Bowl by beating the Rams, 13-3 in a surprisingly uneventful Super Bowl LIII that had a hell of a fourth quarter.
Julian torched everybody. Aqib Talib, Marcus Peters, didn't matter. Ten receptions for 141 yards and a well-deserved Super Bowl MVP.
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A lot of retirement talk. Will Rob Gronkowski? Will the McCourtys?
Also: Whether this is the new Patriots. After a rocky season by their standards, the Pats established themselves as a more throwback type of team that relied heavily on the run. If the Pats can win Super Bowls that way, Tom Brady can play for the rest of his life.
No Super Bowl MVP for the rookie, but he was probably second in line. Michel was awesome, finishing with 94 yards on 18 carries with the game's only touchdown. He averaged over 100 rushing yards and two touchdowns per game this postseason.
Stephen Gostkowski made up for a missed first-quarter field goal by kicking a 41-yarder on 4th and inches with 1:12 remaining to seal the game.
He didn't do much in the first half other than taking an extremely avoidable sack from Kyle Van Noy, but the second half saw constant teases of scoring drives. He had a third-quarter drive that came one great Jason McCourty pass breakup away from resulting in a touchdown, but instead ended in a field goal after he was sacked by Dont'a Hightower on 3rd and 7. Early in the fourth quarter, he both committed a false start and ran out of bounds for a loss of two yards when he could have thrown the ball away.
It was later in the fourth that it seemed Goff had risen to the occasion. After converting on 3rd and 9 with 5:29 to play on a pass to Josh Reynolds over the middle, he hit Robert Woods to bring the Rams inside the 30. He then looked for Brandin Cooks on two straight passes, neither of which were completed and the second of which was picked by Stephon Gilmore.
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Well, maybe for people who bet the under, because only three points were scored. It seemed based on the Patriots' first drive that maybe they'd slowly bleed out the Rams with lengthy drives the way they did with the Chargers, but a Brady pick to cap that drive, stupid decisions by Jared Goff and a missed Gostkowski field goal kept either team from making much noise.
The Rams barely used Todd Gurley III early on; he finished with 10 carries for 35 yards.
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