***Official Super Bowl LIII Game Thread***

[MLD Woody]

@texasag1969 said:

Now who thinks this could have been different if the right call had been made in NO and Brees was up against Brady?

Would have been different. Brady still wins

[TexasAg1969]

I agree Edelman should be MVP.

[Browns149]

The Master wins again 

[gumby73]

Congrats B.Hoyer & Jason McCourty & Big Danny Shelton....Belicheck the Browns are coming..later peeps..

[MLD Woody]

[mjp28]

Most boring Super Bowl and commercials ever?  

[tiamat63]

@mld-woody said:

Would have been different. Brady still wins

Eh...  Covering Michael Thomas is a different beast than Cooks. 

At minimum I know Payton wouldn't have come out so flat and uninspired. 

[bjh2130]

Who is this tom bradi fellow?

[Dutch Oven]

But I thought the NFL was giving this game to the Rams? Wasn't this game already bought and paid for? 

[Kvoethe]

@dutch-oven said:

But I thought the NFL was giving this game to the Rams? Wasn't this game already bought and paid for? 

Goff decided to miss his reads and he bet heavy on the pats

[nickers]

@kvoethe said:

Goff decided to miss his reads and he bet heavy on the pats

they can make tee shirts that read ~GOFF was OFF~

[D Bone]

Good game. I was rooting for the Rams, but man, Bill and Tom always find a way to make the other team look "off"......... Amazing run. 

[hoorta]

@axe said:

Goff is fucking terrible tonight

Really?  Just MHO- put Baker in a Rams uni and the Lalas win that game...   

@clevfan4life said:

Goff strikes me as a QB that needs like every piece to be perfect. He doesn't think right. It's hard to explain but my eye test says he's not seeing a lot of things and making the wrong last second snap decisions. 

Slow in his reads and missed a bunch of guys that were wide open....  

LOL, now when will Bill dump Brady for "diminishing skills". Only 1\2 serious.   Turned into Mr. Dink and Dunk.   How many passes did he throw that were longer than 20 yards?   He's damn lucky Edelman is incredible getting out of his breaks, and Tommy can hit him on timing routes- knowing exactly where he's going to be....  Helps mightily he has bullet proof protection from his O-line. Got sacked what was it once? the entire post season?  

[MLD Woody]

@hoorta said:

Really?  Just MHO- put Baker in a Rams uni and the Lalas win that game...   

No man... just no.

We all like Baker, but let's not elevate him too high just yet.

Two weeks to prepare and Belichick  is going to be making rookie Baker look just as bad or worse.

[hoorta]

@mld-woody said:

No man... just no.

We all like Baker, but let's not elevate him too high just yet.

Two weeks to prepare and Belichick  is going to be making rookie Baker look just as bad or worse.

OK   but as I said before the game- my prediction was if the Rams couldn't pressure Brady consistently, the Patriots were going to win.  I can't believe how well  the Patsies o-line was able to protect him. He got touched what was it? Around three times, with one sack?  

So much for Ghoulies they're all a bunch of untalented fatasses...  

[gumby73]

@hoorta said:

 I can't believe how well  the Patsies o-line was able to protect him. He got touched what was it? Around three times, with one sack?  

So much for Ghoulies they're all a bunch of untalented fatasses...  

OL coach Dante Scarnecchia.. Pats draft OL every year than grab off the scrap pile every season.Dante to the Pats, is what Mickey was to Rocky. He never sees the front pages. Belicheck can't stand the surface tablets. *here comes the Dutch conspiracy theory alert* Donte has a son Steve, that is the Asst to HC to Dan Quinn in Atl.. Dante's son Steve has a degree from Syracuse 'managing video operations".Steve worked under McDaniels at Denver, when the Broncos got fined 50k filming opposing teams walk-throughs..<<<I went there to get to here..Am not sure what Scarnecchia see's from that surface tablet..it still takes tremendous talent to slow down Rams D front, but the guy can make in game OL adjustments in 3 drives like none other. Brady barely gets touched start of 2nd quarter, just as the rest of Pats. playoff games... Dante Scarnecchia even has the looks & voices of the late Burgess Meredith      the guy is old school coaching amazingly, the new game          

[The Gipper]

@mld-woody said:

ton bradi?

[The Gipper]

@mld-woody said:

No man... just no.

We all like Baker, but let's not elevate him too high just yet.

Two weeks to prepare and Belichick  is going to be making rookie Baker look just as bad or worse.

Rumor has it that the Browns may play the Pats on the Thursday night season opener.....because they see that perhaps as a passing of the torch.

[tiamat63]

That game was, to me at least,  the middle finger to America and the casual watcher that I loved seeing. 

It was refreshing seeing an actual war in the trenches again.     And for all the ranting and raving about offense during the regular season,  the teams left late and the one now standing did so on the strength of their defense. 

[hoorta]

@the-gipper said:

ton bradi?

When a guy's signature looks like this, are you surprised?  

@the-gipper said:

Rumor has it that the Browns may play the Pats on the Thursday night season opener.....because they see that perhaps as a passing of the torch.

Checked the Schedule.. Considering the Patriots play the NFC East and the AFC North this year, possible. SB Champs always kick off the season at home...  More likely is a rematch with the Chiefs...