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I think it’s because Nantz jinxed the kick.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/03/tony-romo-predicts-jim-nantz-jinx-patriots-missed-field-goal-video
I prefer to take that superstition as fact. 
The only good play I saw was the one where the Patriot player (I don’t know who he was) stopped what would have been the Rams’ touchdown. For the rest of it, though, it looked a lot more like bad offense than good defense. Good defense doesn’t account, for instance, for quarterbacks throwing the ball to nowhere when the nearest defender is still ten feet away.
That was Stephon Gilmore, if you’re referring to his interception with 4 minutes left. Goff was pressured by the pass rush and floated the ball right to him, not to Cooks.
It does when the defense is up in the QB’s face forcing him to throw before he’s ready or making him unable to set his feet. The defenses on both sides were playing excellent today, and not giving the offense the time or open receivers to even attempt many throws. Neither QB was particularly sharp, Brady less sharp than normal for sure, but it was mainly because the defenses were playing so well.
McCourtey’s breakup in the endzone was a great play, but most of the time the Pat’s defense was playing so well that Goff didn’t have anyone open enough or didn’t have enough time to even attempt that pass.
its being considered the worst ever…MSN
By people who equate high scoring with high quality. :rolleyes:
That other play was by Jason McCourty, who had a great game all around, not his twin brother Devin. Before Jason signed with the Pats in the offseason, he had never before been to the playoffs, while Devin had never *missed *them.
But the ones I’m thinking of, there weren’t any defenders “up in the quarterback’s face”.
EDIT: Oh, and the good defensive play I was referring to was the one where a Ram was near the back of the endzone when a perfect pass came in to him, and then a Patriot defender came out of nowhere and knocked him out the back of the zone before he could get control. It sounds like that was the McCourty one.
I agree that the defense wasn’t great. I know offense/defense is kind of a glass half full/empty scenario (a bad offense can make a mediocre defense look good and vice versa) but I saw some pretty sloppy play from both offenses (most especially the Rams), yet not that many turnovers and sacks overall. So I’m definitely inclined to say it was awful offense vs an okay defensive effort on both sides.
That was a very good play by McCourty, but wasn’t it also a big mistake by Goff? It seems to me that a player that wide open shouldn’t have to wait so long for the ball to arrive. Was Goff slow to recognize this and get the throw off?
Those bleating that this was “The Worst Super Bowl Ever” are either out of their minds or are simply blinded by some combination of hate and envy of the New England Patriots. (Or more charitably, maybe they just don’t recognize good defensive play when they see it.)
Have people forgotten the years of Super Blow blowouts, when the game was essentially over by the end of the first half? How about the NFC winning streak in which the NFC won 16 out of 20 Super Bowls in the '80s and '90s, including 13 straight from Super Bowl XIX to Super Bowl XXXI?
At least Super Bowl LIII was competitive, like all of the Super Bowls that the Pats have won – tied until halfway through the fourth quarter, and still a one-score game until the Pats field goal with 1:12 to play.
Granted, it certainly wasn’t an offensive shootout, but both defenses played amazingly well…until the Patriots finally figured out a way to fool the Rams defense, and ran the same play three times in a row to move the ball down the field for the game’s only TD.
Here’s a good take on the game: You just witnessed the greatest defensive performance in Super Bowl history: Here’s how the Patriots did it.
As the article states, the Rams scored an average of 32.9 points per game through the regular season, and Patriots allowed just 3 points last night! An offense that made it to the red zone a league-high 80 times during the regular season failed to make it inside the Patriots’ 20-yard line even once Sunday. It was truly an amazing performance by the Pats defense, and an argument could certainly be made that a defensive player was actually more deserving of the MVP award.
Yes, that often happens when a team wins their sixth Super Bowl in 18 years. :rolleyes:
The thing to keep in mind is that the Patriot’s goal is always the same: win the game. They’re not interested in impressive stats or any other secondary considerations.
For example, I was struck by what Stephon Gilmore did when he intercepted Goff’s pass late in the game at the goal line. A more inexperienced or more poorly coached player might have risked trying to run the ball back after the pick (possibly risking a subsequent fumble). Instead, Gilmore secured the ball and fell on it…essentially sealing the game for the Patriots. Like all of the Patriots players, he did his job.
The one thing I can fault the Ram’s defense for is taking so long to double team Edelman. In the first quarter, he was the only spark firing on the Pats’ offense. Shut that bearded fool down, guys!
(Okay, I’m not knowledgeable enough to really judge; maybe LA was using good schemes on him, and he’s just so good he can bust coverages. But it seemed the Rams were too often allowing him a 5-8 yard cushion, and he was running in open space.)
ISTM that the 1975 Super Bowl was the boringest ever. Steelers 16, Vikings 6. It probably didn’t help that I didn’t have a TV and had to listen on the radio.
BTW, a blowout doesn’t necessarily equal boring. Doug Williams throwing 4 touchdown passes in one quarter wasn’t boring.
Blowouts aren’t boring so long as you are rooting for the team conducting the blowout.
For example, my favorite Patriots game of all time was probably their 59-0 win over the Tennessee Titans back in 2009. It wasn’t exactly a competitive game though, and with the score at 45-0 at halftime, there was little doubt who was going to win. A Titan fan would likely have turned off the game by then (unless they are a masochist), and anyone interested in watching a competitive game would likely have switched the channel as well.
The audience for the Super Bowl necessarily includes the fans of 30 teams who are NOT playing in the big game. Unless they really like (or dislike) one of the remaining teams, what makes the game interesting is not knowing who’s going to win. Watching one team blow the other one out negates that.
My favorite SB was XLVIII when the Seahawks as underdogs beat the Broncos 43-8, but I’m a Hawks fan. If I wasn’t I’d probably hate the game. Seattle got a lead 12 seconds into the game (a safety on the first offensive snap of the game) and maintained that lead for the other 59 minutes and 48 seconds (they only gave up points when the game was a foregone conclusion). That would definitely be undesirable for anyone who wasn’t a Hawks fan or Denver hater.
I disagree. If I watch a baseball game between two teams I don’t care about, and one of them hits three grand slams, steals 5 bases, and their pitcher throws a one-hitter, I would call that exciting. That’s just being a fan of the game. Maybe football is different?
I don’t think it’s a matter of the sports being different, I think it’s a philosophical difference, or even just a matter of different tastes.
And Timmy Smith running for a fifth touchdown! That was the best quarter of Super Bowl football ever.
No, he’s talking about the play where Jason McCourty broke up the late post-pattern pass by Goff to Cooks.
I actually think that the Dolphins’ “perfect” Super Bowl win was as boring as it got. No real indication that anyone other than the Dolphins would win, Garo Ypremian’s attempt at athleticism aside. 
I can’t see how anyone would say the game itself was the ‘worst’ SB ever, but I can see how people regard this SB as one of the least interesting SB’s ever in terms of the entire event, as we’ve come to know it.
The match-up itself didn’t really generate interest because a) the Patriots are there almost every year, and after nearly a decade of being in the NFL final four, even great teams get ‘old’ in the eyes of viewers; and b) it didn’t generate interest because the Rams don’t have a real fan base. That’s what happens when you move a city away from a very large city that doesn’t care about sports to one that does but is too small, and then back to the same very large city that doesn’t care about sports.
In addition that, the Super Bowl halftime is crap - like every year. And the “try hard” commercials aren’t that funny and they’re not even memorable anymore. The Super Bowl is becoming too cliche.
But the game itself was actually quite interesting if you can appreciate football.