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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
Yea cause they didn't do anything else all game to win. I know it's hard but why can't people just admit that the patriots went to Arrowhead and won that game. they held the highest scoring offense to 0 first half points and if not for a bone head decision should have been up 21-0
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Thing is it does go both ways.
If the Pats lose the coin toss, and then Mahomes goes out and win's in OT the narrative is much different. It becomes how the Patriots choked a 14 pt lead, Brady threw 2 picks that cost them the game, and the defense gave up 30 points in the 4th quarter and OT combined.
The comparison to the Falcons-Patriots Super Bowl LI is actually pretty good.
14-0 at halftime vs 21-3.
Chiefs outscored Patriots 31- 17 in the 2nd half of this game vs. 25-7 for the Patriots in LI.
Difference is Brady got the chance to go out and redeem his teams "Choke" in Overtime this year, where as Matt Ryan just had to watch as Brady got to continue his team's momentum in LI.
Patriots hadn't stopped KC all 4th quarter, no doubt in my mind that KC scores a TD against an exhausted Pats defense if they win that coin toss. Hell they likely win that game in regulation if they are allowed to finish that drive instead of running out of time.
Patriots deserve a lot of credit for putting themselves in this situation every year. The fact that they are in the AFC championship game pretty much every year is a huge feat in itself and you need to be in these games in order to have to breaks go your way but you can't overlook that they've had more than there fair share of luck and good calls in some of those AFC Championship / Super Bowl games as well.