the Matt Patricia 2018-19 playoff nfl thread

I enjoyed it! Unbelievably tight game. Rams defense just couldn't hold out to the end as they started to tire

i knew the pats would prob win i just wanted there to be no touchdowns

oh wel

all hail satan’s team

that's real football for all the family to enjoy

This was a shitty game

it was a defensive masterpiece they just said so

All are punishèd

probably just as well -- would anyone have showed up for a rams parade?

holy shit guys they did it

That was fuckin awful

happy for jules

BASEBALL

Brady/Edelman embrace at the end was kinda hot

Brady/Trump embrace at the White House will be hotter

nah gisele's going to ban him from going to the WH again

what a shitty game.

tbh i thought it was a pretty interesting game? kind of amazed that the pats defense played that well. was waiting for goff to throw one up for grabs and he finally did at the worst possible time

Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth on the Super Bowl: "At the end of the day we're all gonna die"

— Nate Scott (@aNateScott) February 4, 2019

Lol Gronk said he only had 1.5 rings before this — which rounds down — because he was injured last time they won and now he has 2.5 — which rounds up pic.twitter.com/jcOmmNZdnv

— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) February 4, 2019

Except for, presumably, Tom Brady

xp

its true that tom brady will never die

*tom brady drinking a smoothie as the sun envelops the earth*

Is Tom Brady a flat earther

tom brady prob doesnt even believe in the earth at all

America's got to ask itself, does Boston bring us joy?

— Kyle Helmick (@HelmickeyMouse) February 4, 2019

Video: Thousands of Saints fans second-line through downtown in a massive display of festive anger. pic.twitter.com/CK5Nedxnr7

— Michael DeMocker (@MichaelDeMocker) February 3, 2019

providence >>>> boston

eh same shit really

Second straight playoff game where the o-line got steamrolled by the Pats

yeah. surprising how much has changed in a year after they couldn't get pressure on foles.

also.. what happened to todd gurley??? not playing him much in this game seems as bizarre as benching malcolm butler? he has to be injured?

watching the pats w a pass rush this year was kinda weird

Gurley just seems like a headcase. Seemed to be sulking the last few weeks

*slaps roof of stadium*
you can fit so many punts in this baby

— Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) February 4, 2019

realizing boston sports radio will STILL be complaining that the game sucked

I thought Gurley's knee was iffy.

what happened with gurley was probably just that they ran him 1,000,000 times in the regular season. ppl speculated about an injury but then it was pointed out that he played a great game vs NO pass blocking, throwing himself in front of dudes in a way he wouldn't have if he was actually injured.

6 points given up to kansas city and the rams over 6 quarters of conf champ/super bowl has to be one of the most impressive accomplishments in the belichick era, especially since the line we were being fed was that these guys are the new wave taking over. bill is probably always insufferable but seems like this would be an especially good time to avoid him for a year or two. meanwhile chiefs' 2nd half performance really just shows how good they were, and how much more they actually had going on than the rams.

tbf the Rams offense looked pretty awful - Goff looked really overmatched. I've seen him like that before but it never lasted the whole game! Kinda neat though how the Pats defense has been this huge wildcard during this entire run; they'll go from like 3rd to 29th in the league during consecutive SB runs

Still, think the big takeaway from this game was "this would've been so much better if the Saints hadn't gotten screwed and/or the Chiefs won the OT coin toss"

the grim corporate competency, utter joylessness of this MAGA franchise is truly the dynasty America deserves

that was one of the least entertaining sporting events I've ever seen

ppl probably don't remember that 15 years ago the pats played defense like that on a regular basis. complete old-school gameplan annihilation by bill and co.

i guess the difference is the players he had to work with. pats will presumably not pay the huge money required to keep flowers this offseason and that alone will probably be enough to scuttle this defense.

geez pessimistic much?

that Brady-Kraft magakiss was...something.

still can't get over the Rams *finally* amassing a 9-yard run (backed up against their own end zone, where they needed it most), then immediately getting smacked with a delay of game and fumbling on the next play

can I also say the commercials were all pretty bad and seemed to all rely on the "can you believe how much fuckin' money we spent on this ad? make it go viral, please!!!" factor

though the NFL hall of fame commercial was pretty entertaining

yeah i liked that one

oh and I got mad at the Michelob ad

ive seen michelob advertised my whole life but i dont think ive ever witnessed someone drinking one

i haven't seen anybody drink a michelob since various family parties in the early 90s

The Bud Light/Game of Thrones crossover was pretty wtf, and not in a good way.

the main theme i sensed in the commercials was "look at all these robots who are sad they can't be human"