THE SUPER BOWL LAST NIGHT BETWEEN THE EAGLES AND THE
PATRIOTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED.
THERE, I SAID IT.
NOW IT'S OUT THERE.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
JUST SUPER ROLES, AND IN ORDER TO BE THE GREATEST SUPER BOWL
THAT'S A HELLUVA THING RIGHT THERE -- YOU HAD THE
STEELERS/CARDINALS GAME FROM A BUNCH OF YEARS BACK, WHICH WAS
AMAZING, THE JAMES HARRISON RUNBACK, BACK-AND-FORTH, THAT
GAME WENT.
YOU HAD OF COURSE THE PATRIOTS WITH THE AMAZING
COMEBACK LAST YEAR, WHICH NO ONE THOUGHT COULD BE TOPPED.
THE
PATRIOTS/SEAHAWKS GAME FROM A COUPLE YEARS AGO. 35-31,
PITTSBURGH VERSUS DALLAS IN 1979, AND IN TERMS OF NFL GAMES
THE CHARGERS/DOLPHINS GAME IN THE SUPER BOWL IN THE 1980S.
I
HEAR YOU ON ALL OF THAT BUT MY GOD, LAST NIGHT WAS A HELLUVA
GAME AND I WOULD ARGUE, YES, THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED.
HERE
IS MY REASONING.
THE FALCONS HAD A HUGE LEAD AT THE END OF -- IN
THE MIDDLE AND TOWARDS THE END OF LAST YEAR'S SUPER BOWL AND
THE PATRIOTS DID ONE OF THE GREATEST COMEBACKS YOU'VE EVER
SEEN, THE PATRIOTS HAVE DONE SOME OF THE MOST STUNNING UPSETS
AND HAVE SUFFERED SOME OF THE MOST STUNNING UPSETS IN SUPER
BOWL HISTORY.
BUT THOSE WERE ONE-SIDED AFFAIRS.
THE FALCONS
DID EVERYTHING RIGHT IN THE FIRST HALF, THE PATRIOTS DID
EVERYTHING RIGHT IN THE SECOND HALF.
IN THIS GAME, BOTH TEAMS,
CERTAINLY OFTEN CIVILLY, BUT I COULD MAKE AN ARGUMENT THAT THE
OFFENSE IS JUST OVERWHELMED OTHERWISE GOOD DEFENSES, PLAYED
SPECTACULARLY THROUGHOUT.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE POINT IN THE GAME,
THAT'S AN BELIEVABLE.
THE EAGLES PUNTED ONCE AND THAT'S IT, THE
PATRIOTS NEVER PUNTED.
AND THAT IS RELEVANT TO THE STORY BECAUSE
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS, IT WAS A TITLE FIGHT FROM ROUND ONE
PUBLIC TO THE END.
PUNCH AFTER PUNCH, IT WAS ALI/FRAZIER, AND
NEITHER SIDE RELENTED, THEY BOTH PLAYED LIKE CHAMPIONS, OVER 1100
YARDS OVERALL IN THE GAME, NICK FOLES WITH ONE OF THE BEST QB
PERFORMANCES EVER IN A SUPER BOWL, HE'S IN THE TOP SIX IN
TERMS OF QB RATING, BUT I THINK IT WENT BEYOND THAT.
IT WAS
SPECTACULARLY CLUTCH.
NOT ONLY THROWING FOR TOUCHDOWNS BUT
OBVIOUSLY FAMOUSLY NOW CATCHING A TOUCHDOWN PASS AS WELL.
AND DO
I HAVE TO BOTHER SAYING THAT WAS THE BEST PERFORMANCE BY A BACKUP
QUARTERBACK IN SUPER BOWL HISTORY?
OF COURSE!
IT WAS ONE
OF THE BEST PERFORMANCES PERIOD.
HE BEAT THE LEGENDARY TOM BRADY
AT HIS OWN GAME, INCLUDING OF COURSE THE MOST FAMOUS PLAY THAT
NOW HOPEFULLY A LOT OF YOU HAVE SEEN ALREADY, WHERE THERE WAS A
TRICK PLAY ON FOURTH AND GOAL.
FIRST OF ALL GOING FOR IT ON
FOURTH AND GOAL, AMAZING.
COURAGEOUS.
EXACTLY THE RIGHT
MOVE, THE MOVE THAT I SCREAM INTO MY TV THAT SHOULD MAKE ALL
THE TIME BUT NEVER DO, BUT THEY DID, AND UNDER THE MOST INTENSE
PRESSURE, IN A SUPER BOWL AT THE END OF A HALF, AND ALMOST ANY
OTHER COACH WOULD'VE KICKED A FIELD GOAL INSTEAD, BUT PEDERSON
WENT FOR IT.
NOT ONLY THAT, THEY DID A TRICK PLAY, AMAZING
COURAGE NUMBER TWO, NUMBER THREE THEY DO PLAY WHERE THE
CORNERBACK CAUGHT THE BALL, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE
PATRIOTS TRIED EARLIER IN THE GAME, BUT TOM BRADY HAD
ALLIGATOR ARMED IT.
BRADY DOESN'T LIKE GETTING HIT AND
EAGLES HIT HIM AND HIT HIM A LOT IN THE FIRST HALF, GREAT CREDIT
TO THE PATRIOTS' OFFENSE OF LINE IN THE SECOND HALF, THAT
INCREDIBLE EAGLES DEFENSE COULDN'T GET TO THEM ALL SECOND
HALF, WITH THE OBVIOUS EXCEPTION OF THE GIGANTIC PLAY AT THE END
WHERE THEY GOT TO BRADY AND MADE HIM FUMBLE.
THE EAGLES DEFENSE,
I KNOW THEY GAVE UP 33 POINTS, BUT THEY PLAYED STRONG, THEY
PLAYED HARD.
I KNOW THE PATRIOTS DEFENSE GAVE UP 41 POINTS, AND
THEY DON'T HAVE THE BEST OF DEFENSES, BUT THEY ALSO PLAYED
HARD.
AND I NEVER SENSED CHOKING FROM EITHER SIDE, I NEVER SENSED
LET UP FROM EITHER SIDE, AND THEY WENT AROUND FOR AROUND.
AND
FINALLY, ON DOUG PEDERSON, ARGUABLY, AND LOOK, I'M
DECLARING IT, SECOND DECLARATION -- THAT'S NOT IT -- BUT I'M INTO
THIS [GAVEL SOUND] BEST COACHING PERFORMANCE IN THE SUPER BOWL
EVER.
HE NOT ONLY WENT FOR IT ON FOURTH AND GOAL AND DELIVERED IT
AT THE END OF THE HALF ON THE TRICK PLAY, HE WENT FOR IT ON
FOURTH DOWN LATE IN THE GAME IN HIS OWN TERRITORY.
I KNOW
THOUSANDS OF COWARDLY COACHES WHO WOULD HAVE PUNTED, IT IS NOT
THE RIGHT MOVE, THE RIGHT MOVE IS TO BE COURAGEOUS.
THE EAGLES
PLAYED WITHOUT FEAR, THAT IS HOW YOU PLAY THE PATRIOTS, YOU WANT
TO BE A CHAMPION YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT LIKE A CHAMPION AND YOU'VE
GOT TO PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION, AND THEY DID.
THEY ASSUMED THEY WERE
BETTER THAN THE PATRIOTS AND ALL ALONG THE WAY, AS JAYAR SAID ON
TYT SPORTS AFTERWARDS, THEY PUNCHED THEM IN THE MOUTH.
SO
JAYAR, MICHAEL SHORE, RICKY STROM AND I TO THE POST GAME
AFTER THE GAME WHERE WE WENT NUTS, AS EVERYONE WAS GOING
NUTS, THAT IS ON TYT SPORTS, WE WILL HAVE THE LINK DOWN BELOW ON
YOUTUBE FOR YOU GUYS AND IN THE COMMENTS SECTION ON FACEBOOK.
BY
THE WAY, THERE IS AN EYE IN THE CORNER IF YOU ARE WATCHING ON
YOUTUBE, AND IF YOU GO OVER THAT EYE THAT WILL ALSO GIVE YOU THE
LINKS, JUST CLICK ON IT, SO CHECK OUT ALL OF TYT SPORTS
COVERAGE OF THE SUPER BOWL, BUT THAT WAS AMAZING.
AND BY THE
WAY, CREDIT TO THE PATRIOTS, JUST BECAUSE THEY LOST DOESN'T
MEAN THEY PLAYED POORLY.
THEY ALSO PLAYED LIKE CHAMPIONS, BUT
NOW, WITHOUT FURTHER DO, I MUST SAY -- [LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE
GOT HIM].
DOWN GOES THE PATRIOTS, DOWN GOES THE
PATRIOTS.
AND THEY WEREN'T GOING DOWN WILLINGLY, IT WAS A HEROIC
EFFORT BY THE EAGLES TO BRING THEM DOWN.
BEST GAME EVER IN A
SUPER BOWL, ARGUABLY THE BEST GAME EVER, PERIOD, IN THE NFL,
BEST COACHING PERFORMANCE IN A SUPER BOWL, ARGUABLY THE BEST
COACHING PERFORMANCE OVERALL IN A SEASON, PLAYOFFS AND SUPER
BOWL, BY PEDERSON, AND ARGUABLY THE BEST QUARTERBACKING
PERFORMANCE EVER, BY OF ALL PEOPLE NICK FOLES.
WHICH GOES TO
SHOW YOU, DOUG PEDERSON IS A HELLUVA COACH.