Bill Simmons

Let me defend it.

If you go back and you look at pro football reference in the playoffs in the 60s and 70s, there were a lot of football games like this where it was bad weather, field position,

making some defensive stops, fourth and one plays.

Don't fuck up on special teams, like really hard field goals.

A 45 yard field goal is not like an easy one anymore.

And everything is about positioning and not turning the ball over.

And it was a chess match and Vrabel won it.

And Peyton not kicking a field goal to go up 10, nothing was the biggest mistake of the day by in either game.

Take the points.

We couldn't do anything.

Belichick's first Super Bowl in 01, I think, was a Belichick title.

I could just tell you what my texts were.

Yeah.

Um, because I think that was a little bit of a break because they had to measure first.

Right.

And I'm watching it going.

I pray to everything that they go for this.

And I have multiple texts to back it up because I thought if they went up to nothing, I didn't know if we were going to be able to come back because their defense, both sides, both tackles were already getting annihilated.

Right.

May look skittish.