Tom vs. Patrick -- Super Bowl LV thread

Recent Super Bowls have been pretty competitive, though - I'm assuming because there's more player movement now, vs. X years ago and especially pre-free agency.

 

Missing their two starting tackles, and running the offense as if they weren’t, was easily the biggest reason they played like dogshit.

 

That was some ye olde tyme Andy Reid clock management.

 

Sure, but it's not like they were blowing the barn doors off people for the last half of the season. Sometimes play like that catches up with you.

 

In Brady’s 1st Super Bowl win he was teammates with Lee Johnson who was drafted in 1985. Brady played with a guy who is now 59 years old.

 

Sometimes it does, but I don’t believe that’s the case here. Mahomes was missing his two starting tackles and running for his life. There wasn’t any systemic issue that caught up to them. Two starters were injured and the two tackles who played weren’t good enough to handle JPP and Barrett. That was the difference.

 

It seems obvious now. But the Chiefs were 3 point favorites. Everyone knew who their starting tackles were before the game.

Brady was the underdog in his first and last Super Bowl win. Any in between?

 

To follow up on this, I give the Bucs DL huge credit because they were so disciplined in their rush lanes, early on Mahomes broke containment but as the game wore on, there was huge pressure on the edge but the DL was collapsing the entire pocket so that he had no where to go except running around backwards 20-30 yds (damn but he was pretty close to making some huge plays on those).

 

And he was pretty close to getting into situations like 3rd-and-70 on some of 'em too.

 

It's weird to say, but yeah, I was also oddly impressed by Mahomes' incompletions, as Daniel Simpson Day said. A conventional QB would have had his brain turned to mush by the Bucs line that game.

 

Mahomes really did everything he could have. No one else on the roster stepped up and made a play. They didn’t win the ball on any close plays. That throw late in the game as he was falling to the ground was incredible.