A tremendous article by Barnwell about how good defensively the Pats were on Sunday. He breaks down how it all happened.
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What we saw from the Patriots on Sunday night was the best defensive performance we have ever seen in a Super Bowl.
I don't say that as hyperbole. To start, the only other time a team has allowed just three points in the Super Bowl was when the Cowboys defeated the Dolphins 24-3 in 1971. Those Dolphins scored 22.5 points per game during the regular season, while Sean McVay's Rams were up at 32.9 points per contest. The Pats allowed the Rams just 9.1 percent of their scoring average, the best mark in Super Bowl history:
They had to come up with stops drive after drive to win against the Rams, who were the second-best offense in the second-highest scoring season in NFL history. Scoring 13 points against the Rams, as the Patriots did Sunday, would have earned a team a 1-17 record against the Rams in the 2018 season.
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Long read but well worth it.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...riots-did-rams