The final to Super Bowl LI was the greatest comeback in history for the New England Patriots, after they beat the Atlanta Falcons with a spectacular plunge by James White near the pylon.
The game began with an unexciting first quarter that ended with a score of 0 on both teams. It may have seemed that it would turn out to be a dull match but the Falcons scored with two touchdowns in the second quarter with 0-7 to the Patriots. The second touchdown was carried by the runback Devonta Freeman, which must have proven his value to the Falcons after signing his 40 million dollar contract to extend his career.
An incredible pass from Matt Ryan, the Falcons’ quarterback, was caught by the tight end Austin Hooper. Matt Ryan showed to be worthy in the position of the quarterback considering this was his first Super Bowl. The Patriots on the other hand weren't having a great run, especially when their star quarterback, Tom Brady, was intercepted by Robert Alford with less than 3 minutes left in the first half. This game was the highlight of Alford’s career as he managed to trot 82 yards unopposed. Things took a slight turn for the Patriots
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It was increasingly nail-biting for the Patriots fans, especially knowing their previous winning streaks in the past, they had certainly not been so sluggish in a while after turning the ball twice and failing to stop the Falcons run game. At this point, the Patriots averaged with only 2.5 yards per carry, and the daring Falcons reached 9.6 yards. Ryan continued to lead the Falcons in the third quarter, and they trotted 85 yards down the field, and the quarterback yet again made an amazing pass to Tevin Coleman resulting in a touchdown and turning the score to 3-28 to the Patriots. This put the game out of reach and at this point one would think the Patriots would make a
It was Michael Vicks first year as a starter,and the team with newly acquired running back Warrick Dunn,delivered the Green Bay Packers their first home playoff loss ever . A 20-6 loss to the Donovan Mcnabb led Philadelphia Eagles,ended the Falcons Season . On March 19,2003 the Atlanta Falcons presented their new logo. During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and miss the first 12 games of the season. After losing the 7 straight games,the decision was made to fire head Dan Reeves.
When coming to the Patriots, Belichick quickly set his ideals in stone. It has provided success, and the only way to beat it is “with talent and smarts. And a willingness to fight” (388). Thus, the only way to win against the Patriots is to play their own game, which helps describe their dominance and the effect they have had on the game. Furthermore, After the Patriot’s Super Bowl win in 2015, Julian Edelman told Belichick, “‘I’ll do anything for you coach’” (346), demonstrating the profound impact Belichick had on the league and his own players.
N.Y. Jets 4-1 @ New England Patriots 5-0 1:00 PM ET – TV: CBS Defensively, you need players in the secondary that can go toe-to-toe with QB Tom Brady’s bunch of precise route runners. The isolating and neutralizing concepts of OC Josh McDaniels’ unit varies from multiple spread sets when the Patriots attack you through the air, and although New England’s thrown the ball 78 more times than they’ve handed off the football, both backs, Dion Lewis and LeGarrette Blount are averaging 5 yards per carry with a mixture of Lewis’ speed and Blount’s power.
In this case, it was Patriot fans. My team of choice was the Jets who had the daunting task
The patriots trailing with less than 2 minutes ended up with the ball and great football and Tom drove them down the field to set up yet another game winning field goal as time expired to submit them in nfl history as a dynasty. The following season yet again the Patriots compiled a record of 14-2 in the regular season and once again were going to the super bowl. This time they were facing the Philadelphia Eagles this time the teams were even this was a very close game untl the Patriots scored 10 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to win 24-21 the teams 3rd championship in 4 years they were the 2nd team to do
The Falcons scored touchdowns through Devonta Freeman and Austin Hooper before Robert Alford picked off Brady for an 82-yard interception score. The Patriots could only muster a Stephen Gostkowski field goal to go into halftime 21-3 down.
This year’s super bowl, is considered by many the best super bowl ever. The two teams that played here are the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. The Atlanta Falcons have been to the Super Bowl only one other time. They have never won a Super Bowl as many times as they have been there. They are in the NFC South Division, and their official stadium is the Georgia Dome.
However there was a reason for this victory. The Patriots sent disguised media members to the Eagles practices to find out and videotape their plays. Then later they faced their division rivals the New York Jets and on spied on their coach’s signals from an unauthorized location. They also went on to win this game in a 38-14 blowout. Eventually other teams figured out their scheme and New England lost draft picks because of it.
The game was its final seconds and the Steelers were a good distance away. Vontaze Burfict the linebacker for the Bengals had a huge call for the same thing earlier in the game. He was mad at the refs so he decided to “get back” at the Steelers and tried to take out their best player. It back fired and gave the Steelers field goal range to kick the winning kick and later costed the linebacker the first 4 games of the next season. The NFL has also made it so that you cannot hit quarterbacks to hard.
After that Tom Brady went to 5 other Super Bowls, and won 3 of them. Tom Brady also holds many records like most wins in a season, most touchdowns, and etc. That’s why Tom Brady is the greatest player in NFL history. Tom Brady has led his to
The victor was the Superbowl champions and the considered the best in the
The last touchdown was made by Miami 4th down and goal along with the extra point kick leaving the final score at Miami 41-8. While watching this game I learned about how the downs and yards work. A team gets four downs and they try to make ten yards in those four downs if they do that the downs reset back to one down and the team tries to make another ten yards or into the endzone depending on where the ball is. A fun fact about college football is the first game took place on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers University and
As Tom going into the starting role shortly after brought his team to the 2002 xxxvi super bowl down in New Orleans. Tom and his team played very well against the St.louis Rams and securing the victory. Tom getting his first ever Super Bowl ring and his first ever Super Bowl MVP.Shortly after Tom and his team go undefeated all the way to another super bowl winning that super bowl Tom signs a 6 year contract but as the season starts they still a plowing through the teams until October 31. When the patriots are on the longest win streak in NFL history. The pittsburgh Steelers were the ones to end it but didn’t go to the super bowl that season.
Brady played tremendous all season long, but Ryan had a historic 2016-2017 season and that should not be overlooked. He led the Falcons to an 11-5 record in spite of their defense. Unlike the
but the ball was slippery for the quarterback and he keep on stumbling with the ball and he kept on fumbling but we tried to still get the ball back and they still got it back. They threw the ball right over us and there wide receiver caught the ball Still and we tried to play defense and we got beat every time.