Bill Simmons

They end up scoring.

Five minutes in the game, it's 7-0.

And I'm just like, I can't believe this is yet another decade where we're going to get our ass kicked in Denver.

And then Denver never scored again.

And the Patriots won 10-7.

I'll start with Rabel.

You didn't like this game.

I'm going to go there.

No.

From an entertainment standpoint, you didn't like it.

A lot of people didn't like it.

They talked about how bad it was.

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.