The Falcons are a fresh, young, new team
that has come out of almost nowhere to light the league on fire this season.
They have a 2nd year head coach. They have a young offensive
coordinator who has worked wonders with the great talent he has had all season.
These guys are just plain exciting.
Everyone knows New England. People are
tired of New England. Who wants to see these cheaters win another Super Bowl? When
people see the same team or player over and over again you begin to take them
for granted. And when a new, young upstart crashes onto the scene and dazzles
people throughout the year, everyone begins to jump on the bandwagon. They want
a change. Change is good after all, right?
This Super Bowl reminds me of Steph Curry vs LeBron James last season. Despite the Warriors winning the title the year before, Steph lit the league on fire last year. 73 wins. Unanimous MVP. Steph was now the best player in the league. The torch had been passed they said. LeBron James wasn’t as new or exciting. People overlooked his greatness and criminally underappreciated how good he still was. Change was fun…for a while. Few thoughts on SB 51:
Tom Brady’s kryptonite. I have watched almost every Patriots game since Tom Brady came into the league. If you want to beat New England you absolutely, positively have to make Tom Brady have a subpar game. That’s it. If Brady plays a good game they are not going to lose. A strong pass rush and great cover corners are what is required to beat him. He’s too smart, and the Pats coaching staff is too good, to be beaten by scheme. You need great pass rushers and corners because you can’t diagnose defensive talent just straight up beating people.
If you’ve got a great rush, it hurries Brady and throws him off. If your corners are great and can cover, he gets happy feet and ducks at pressure that may not even be there because his internal alarm bells are saying he needs to get rid of the ball.
Since the year he came back from ACL surgery, and throwing out meaningless Week 17 games, Brady has lost 31 games over 8 seasons. 22 of those 31 games were against pass defenses ranked in the top 1/3 of the league in opp QB rating…some combination of a great rush, great cover corners, or both. Of the other 9 games, 5 were either against great fronts or required a lot to go against NE. Two of them were against the great fronts the Giants had, one against the Jets great front, one a fluky loss to Philly last year where the Eagles had 3 return TDs, and another late to the Bills where NE still had 500 yards and 31 points but lost by 3 with a Bills return TD the deciding factor. So, he has lost 4 games in 9 years against a pass D that is not in the top 1/3 and didn’t have a great rush…and none of them are as bad as Atlanta.
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