Kevin Harlan
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We could go on and on and get deeper into the weeds here.
with every sentence, but there's a lot here to grasp.
I do think it's going to be a defensive game, and I think we're not going to see long, extended drives.
It feels to me like the defense for both teams have some answers, and that could make it kind of a disjointed feel in terms of rhythm, but I do think defense, at the end of the day, will have a pretty good
size fingerprint on the outcome.
But it also seems to me that we could have, you know, maybe a special teams play.
We've never had a punt return touchdown in the Super Bowl.
We've had 59 of them with a lot of plays and never a punt return touchdown.
And we've got two pretty good returners in this game.
One that joined one team halfway through the year in a mid-season trade and the other one has been in New England for a while and
has done damage both as a starting defensive back and as a return guy.
So there could be a lot of different twists and turns here that we're not really expecting that could definitely take hold of a game with maybe not a lot of great name recognition and two unexpected teams.
The odds for each, I think, were 60-1 coming into the season, and here they are in the biggest game.
So there's a lot here to kind of wrap your arms around and embrace because I think there's going to be
captivating stories, but we could have one of those players jump into the limelight, into the spotlight that we're not expecting that can make a real difference in the game.
Could be the coaches, and Vrabel's a good one, Leila.
You bring up him.
He's played in it.
He's won in it.
He's played for what will be as soon a Hall of Fame coach in Belichick, and he has had a previous stop as a head coach and was successful in