The Team That Broke The NFL: The Rise And Fall Of The New England Patriots Dynasty

Okay, from 2001 to 2019, the New England Patriots cast a dark cloud over the entire NFL like we've never seen before and that's great, but how did they do it and not only that, but how did they sustain themselves? the

dynasty

has maintained its excellence for so long all the time and well, it turns out the answer is a little more complicated than just uh, you know, than just Tom, this era of Patot football accomplishes something that no other

team

is likely to accomplish. in NFL history. and well, you see how long the video is, don't let me waste your time and let's get right into the

rise

and

fall

of the evil NFL empire, the New England Patriots.

Once upon a time, a long, long, long time ago. The New England Patriots were one of, if not the most laughed at, pathetic sports organizations, can you believe that in 1992 the

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coached by Dick Mcferson and nobody won two games and were at their lowest point of all time, for What change had to be made? and in 1993, Bill Parcels was hired to be the head coach and after the '93 season, a guy who was better known for doing various things with paper named Robert Craft bought the New England Patriots for a measly $172 million right away. through Robert's skills. as owner were put to the test when he appeared.

Parcels was clearly building something special. 22-year-old quarterback Drew Bledo was a rising star and appeared to be an invaluable asset and there was also undiscovered gold at linebacker Willie McGinest and wide receiver. However, DB Troy Brown's time had not yet come and in 1994 the Patriots fell in the divisional rounds to the Cleveland Browns coached by a man named Bill Bich and believe it or not, you will hear that name several times in the future. this video and 2 years later bill package's previous connection with Bill bich in New York helped the Patriots bring him in and in 1996 Bill belich became the assistant head coach in New England and who can say if it was a coincidence or no, but with these two fierce yells at sweaty grown men all day the Patriots had arguably their best season in franchise history with piglet emerging the Patriots cruise through the divisional and AFC Championship rounds outscoring their opponents 48 to 9 on the way to the Super Bowl where, to be honest, It still baffles me to this day why it happened at such an important time, but Robert Craft and Bill Parcels decided to have a little lover's quarrel.

Parcels wanted to pack his bags and find a new home after the season, but there were some words in Parcel's contract with the Patriots that said he couldn't train anywhere else, so after getting upset about that, the Patriots had their second Super Bowl to play and what everyone assumed would happen, happened, the revealer and the Packers won the games 35 to 21 showed that they were the better team and now, with the pack gone immediately after, as if it were gone immediately , Robert Craft would need to find a new head coach and luckily for him, there was a certain grumpy assistant coach who seemed to be the better team. perfect candidate for the job, but he ignored it, yes, for some reason, Robert Craft just wasn't feeling the vibe with Bill and let Belich walk to the Jets and instead hired former Jets head coach Pete Carol.

Now this is where things get pretty. Interesting in hindsight, we now know that Pete Caroll is a great coach, he was fantastic in the UFC and we'll get to his Seattle teams in about an hour, but at the time of this video recording, he's still coaching the Seahawks to great success. moderate and, in fact, in his For three seasons coaching the Patriots from 1997 to 1999, he never recorded a single losing season, however, he progressively lost more and more locker room and, for a little more fun, let's add some basic elements of the NFL on charges of sexual assault and battery while technically in charge. of this whole operation on the field and that's how the owner fires you without even having done a bad job and meanwhile, with the Patriots having an open seat, Bill Bich was preparing to be sworn in as head coach of the New York Jets and unfortunately for New England it was official on January 4, 2000.

Bill Bich was officially the head coach of New York. I mean, you know how this ended, although, right, Jets fans, you have to stay in your endless agony chamber for a while. longer and the next day Bill Bich struggled a bit with Parcels, who was the assumed general manager of the Jets and cited the death of former Jets owner Leon Hes as a valid reason for resigning and after supposedly handing in his letter resignation in a On a napkin he went to a press conference where he said in his own words that he was stepping down and that the Jets now didn't have a head coach and Bill Bich was back on the market and this time Robert Craft swooped on him and did not leave him.

Bill left, but there was a fight on the part of the Jets. Belich was still technically under contract with the Jets, but deep down Parcel knew there was no way to salvage the situation and at least he got some draft picks out of the whole thing and within weeks Bill. Bich went from coach of the Jets to coach of the Patriots and, like art before him, was also immediately put to work, since in front of him was the 2000 NFL Draft, where the main character of this incredible trip so the draft was underway, but the Patriots didn't have their first round pick from the Bellich trade, so they had to dig through the trash and from rounds two through four their picks didn't really pan out, not a single one. of these three types would become consistent.

For the starters and after the fifth round, the Patriots' game plan was to start taking random throws in the dark against Boomer's boys and that's when Patriots quarterback coach Dick Raybin, an investigation previous report on Michigan quarterback Thomas Edward Patrick Brady began to intrigue Bill Bich for some reason. I was determined that Tom Brady would be better than any quarterback in the 2000 draft class and I mean watching Tom go through the combine here. I'll grant you I can see a future guy here and Heist Ed, he had a ton of overwhelming positive skills, said he was prepared, composed, smart, can read coverages and has all the intangibles you could ask for with the ability to even appear in games important, but in the sixth round, the Patriots still decided to pass on Tom and go for a DB. and I mean of course they did, why would they ever take a chance on a walking noodle when they already had three quarterbacks on the roster and a proven Super Bowl level quarterback and Drew Bledo but only 12 picks Then Belich relented and selected the better Thomas?

Edward Patrick Brady Jr, so with our two leads introduced, it's time to meet all the other supporting characters who will be very important in the story. Now the 2000 season for the Patriots didn't go very well, they only won five games and all. What you need to know is that somehow their six-round pick, Thomas, made the roster and to lock up Drew Bledo for life, the Patriots basically signed Drew Bledo to a 10-year, 10-year, $13 contract million that

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almost every record in existence, ahead of the 2001 season, here's what the roster looked like, they were still led by Drew Bledo, the Patriots' three-time Pro Bowl quarterback, but the pieces around him were There, unfortunately, I can't go into depth on all of these guys, but I can go into some of the main contributors to this.

The future and present of the team includes Kevin Faulk, David Patton, Troy Brown, Matt Light, Lawyer Malloy and Antoine Smith, so these guys were very important, but then we move up to the top level, the Legion of Men is a little more crucial for the Patriots to sustain in the long term. hit that includes names you may have heard before like Mike Rael Richard Seymour, the aforementioned Willie McGinest Ty Law Adam Veter and Teddy Brusi and of course Tom Brady, but we'll get there when we get there, did it move? So with Talent on the list. and the year the bich che culture began to corrupt the minds of his loyal soldiers, it was time to see if he could do something successful as head coach of the Patriots or at least exceed their expectations of being the last ranked team in the league and in the week. one, the Patriots lost to a six-and-10 Bengals team, making one of the best Cincinnati teams of that era and in week two they lost a game to the New York Jets 3-10 where the ordinary events of the hero's journey were completely destroyed and R needs 10 years oh hit in this average Jets Patriots game.

Drew Bledo received a spinal rearrangement from Jets linebacker Mo Lewis and literally almost died. Bledo lay in his hospital bed with

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n ribs, a lacerated artery, blood pooling in his chest and a punctured lung, so just like that with bich craft and others visiting their franchise quarterback Clinging to life itself, they look ahead Back to the two 20 pounders of raw sex appeal behind them and in Belich's eyes this was actually a good thing, believe it or not, and is often forgotten. The detail is that during the 2001 Patriots training camp, Bill Pelich made it clear to Robert Craft that if he didn't sign Bledo to that Titanic contract, he would be the best starting quarterback the team had and that guy It was Tom Brady.

Now Craft thought Belich was snorting paint fumes, but like it or not, Brady was now the man and his first regular season challenge in his entire NFL career. I can't believe this is happening, but I guess the NFL gods have a way of making this kind of thing happen and in his first NFL start, Tom Brady would play against Pton Manning on the Indianapolis Colts, the clear antagonist of this story. The character dynamic between these two will turn out to be simply fascinating and even at the time it seemed pretty interesting, one guy was heralded as the best quarterback prospect since John Elway and the other was simply a part-time backup quarterback for Michigan, but their paths had now crossed and the game itself was a demolition.

Payton was sacked three times and the Patriots defense came on strong winning the game 44-13 setting the tone for this rivalry going forward and with his first start out of the way and the butterflies gone from weeks 3 to 10, Tom Brady, a second-year draft pick, he was playing really solid, you know, I guess it wasn't anything crazy, but he was still relatively impressive for the sample size, except that as the season progressed, Drew Bledo was finally cleared to play again and now Bill Bich was facing the most important decision of his coaching career. Does he stick with unknown second-year Tom Brady, who has been playing? with momentum or will he return to his Pro Bowl Super Bowl worthy franchise quarterback in Drew Bledo, there is reason to argue that this decision would change Belich Che's entire future as of week 10 of 2001, Bill actually had a losing record with the Patriots and if he pulls this off, he could lose both the locker room and his job, but the decision he made would honor the core philosophy Belich would use to build the Patriots going forward.

Your name doesn't matter if you give the team the best chance of winning football games you're in and if you don't you're out and it was announced that Tom Brady would keep the starting job unless his body got wet in the future and believe it or No, hey, maybe this Tom Brady guy is a little better than we thought and the Patriots, led by a very, very strong defense, bounced back and won every game after their Week 10 loss to the biggest show on Turf Rams, finishing their first season with mostly Tom and Bill and with a record of 11 and five, the Patriots host the Raiders in the divisional round and it's time for me to be a little sad now that I wasn't alive for this game , but as a Raiders fan I don't know, it's just that it's in my blood or something.

I can't help it. but feel the pain of this game, although the Patriots came into this blizzard environment barely favored, the first half was a disaster, Tom Brady's halftime stats were some of the worst of his career, he seemed overwhelmed by the moment and they even booed him. their home crowd and down 13 to 3 in the last quarter in these conditions, achieving a comeback. Victory seemed unlikely now if they were playing any team other than perhaps the Jets or Raiders rounds, there was no chance the Patriots could have had. in such a short time, but after scoring a touchdown and

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ing head first, both teams kept going until there were 2 minutes left on the clock and the Patriots were driving and on this fateful play, his former Michigan teammate, Charles Woodson, It came flying in after a bombing. and the ball went out blit he lost the ball is on the groundcovered by after reviewing the play the quarterback's arm was going forward is an incomplete.

I won't comment further on the Tuck rule but the FY bull didn't stop there Patriots Kicker Adam Veter still had to kick a 45-yard field goal in a snowstorm, but if any kicker in NFL history made this kick would be him and the ican went straight through the posts and here came extra time at this point the Raiders. I just got caught up with fate, fate had caught up with the Patriots and the Raiders were just on the way the Patriots won the toss and after an 8 minute drive that included a brave fourth down conversion, a field goal 23 yards was the Patriots' advance.

I want to Sorry to cry, that got a little personal, but moving on to the AFC Championship game, everyone except the offense stepped up for the Patriots in the big game, the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers were their opponent and were dismantled by the Patriots defense and special teams. and after almost benching Tom Brady in the game against Oakland, now Tom Brady was injured in the second quarter, forcing Bill Pich's hand and forcing him to bring in Drew Bledo, who closed out the game and secured a third appearance in the Super Bowl for the New England Patriots franchise.

Okay story, I mean it was a fun year, but let's be honest with ourselves, this team had so many lucky breaks that the Tuck Rule had multiple non-offensive touchdowns in the AFC Championship. I mean, this can't keep happening constantly right now. In front of them was the Turf Rams' greatest show, led by current and past MVP CT Warner, previous MVP Marshall Faulk and others, they had already won a Super Bowl and were looking become a

dynasty

and they fully believed that they were about to become one too. with wide receiver and victim of ongoing abuse from Thomas Ricky PE saying to the camera in the super arc introductions tonight A dynasty is born, a bold move, definitely a bold move and obviously the Rams were the overwhelming favorites because of course Of course, they would be the owners of this team.

The last three MVP awards awarded and one of the best offenses of all time too, yet Bill Bich, the man the Rams were plotting against, had been here before. If you've seen my video of Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl misery, you'd know that Bill Bellich was there once. The defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, who was able to contain the best offense in football at the time and pull off a huge upset in the Super Bowl, and after hours and hours of stewing in his own filth, Belich had the plan to perfect game to beat the Rams and the main ingredient was beating the ever loving of all Rams players and so they did by stretching the fine line established in Mel's blunt rule where you can't hit a receiver after five yards and combined with a strong pass rush, the Patriots held a 17-3 lead in the fourth quarter, but this wasn't all on defense: they put full faith in Tom to be able to carry his own weight and perform under pressure , a quality that was speculated to be one of his strengths in college.

If you can remember, but with 10 minutes left in the game, Tom looked like he didn't even have to do anything else, the Patriots had a chance to finish the game right now in fourth place and a goal on the three yard line, all What they needed was a stop. and in one of the most iconic plays in NFL history, Ducky Jones returns a fumble 97 yards for a game-sealing touchdown, but it didn't pan out while he was running a route. Marshall's miss was getting hugged by Willie McGinness and according to Marshall and partly Bich's scheme, this had been happening throughout the game, he was practically being tackled countless times without flags before, but no matter, the momentum had changed by complete and the Rams offense tied the game at 17 a piece after a few touchdowns with the Patriots offense led by Tom Brady in his second year.

The quarterback was given the opportunity to freeze the game if they choose, even trying because the League's famous commentator, John Madden, advised against trying anything with the ball and just playing through overtime, but due to the way the game had developed in the last 20 minutes. To Belich Che's mastermind, it seemed unlikely that New England would be able to contain the Rams' offense if they lost the toss in overtime, so instead of putting the game at a simple 50/50, it was time to trust Tom Brady, one mistake could potentially end the game and for such a young and inexperienced QB, no one would really blame him if that happened, so when Bellich told Brady, "Just be careful with the ball and please don't fumble the ball," he drew Bledo, the man who was once the future of the Patriots and who lost his job due to factors beyond his control did not completely become Antonio Brown, which deserves a lot of credit and at this particular moment he told Tom Brady seven simple words, go out and throw it, there was no waiting, now was the time if belich and others have faith.

In this quarterback who once told Robert Craft that he was the best decision this organization has ever made, whether justified or not, he truly had all the intangibles to step up in the biggest moments and well, Slowly but surely, the Patriots began their Drive with control and calm. Brady confidently found open checks again and again, but in an interesting play that isn't really talked about much with 29 seconds left, Tom Brady appears to commit an intentional grounding call, but no flag was called even though It seemed like he did. I don't get out of the box on time back then, intentional ground calls were a lot more forgiving and I don't know, I guess entertainment value takes priority and then Tom Brady would throw the biggest pass of his career up to that point, a laser for Troy Brown for 23 yards and moments later, Tom Brady calmly finished the ball and ran off the field making one of the most iconic drives in NFL history and, to finish, Adam Veter ran onto the field and scored a goal 48-yard field goal to win his first Super Bowl Tom Brady did it, he had shown Bill Belich that he was a worthy apprentice, he performed when called upon on the game's biggest stage and for his efforts he was named Super Bowl MVP , but tragically he was the man who believed in Tom Brady the most on the Patriot staff.

Quarterback coach Dick. The rabbi never got to see him

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so quickly since he passed away even before the 2001 season. It was a shame he never realized it, but he was right, he was right about Tom Brady. level that no one could have believed and now you feel you feel that chill that the darkness upon you the Empire has come and for the next 20 years before the promised king came to free us all, we would know nothing more in the NFL and all that . What it took was a Cinderella led by the Patriots for everything in the NFL environment to change.

Tom Brady became an international superstar a year earlier, he was a nobody and now he was receiving and all of that practically fell on his doorstep dating supermodels. and ladies and gentlemen. I don't mean to stop the whole story I'm trying to tell here, but let's have a moment of prayer or something because a truly historic event in the history of humanity took place when on April 15, 2002 this session was released to the world. of Sports Illustrated photos. giving us some of the nicest pictures you'll ever see, so let's take a moment to thank the man for this photo shoot, now for how grateful I am that the Patriots' 2002 offseason happened.

Patriots probably weren't big fans. but there were still some positives once construction on the Patriots' second Death Star was complete and Drew Bledo left and was traded to the Bills and with Tom Brady signing a 4-year, $28 million extension , just as Tom was in Drew was out and the The Patriots' future changed forever Tom Brady also began to build chemistry with his new wide receiver Dion Branch in 2002, but the Patriots only finished the year 9 and 7 and largely due to an extremely weak run defense that allowed the second most rushing yards in all of history. NFL, the Patriots missed the playoffs and everyone wrote off the 2001 Patriots team as a one-off, fluke team that will never return to another Super Bowl, but behind the scenes the people inside the building weren't even close to panicking, but then Bill Belich made one. of his emotionless decisions on Marquee that would change the Patriots organization forever, like I said, a major problem with the Patriots in 2002 was their defense and they helped that problem in the draft by taking Tai Warren and defensive end and a cornerback in Assante Samuel, who both eventually turned out to be very important pieces, but Bill wanted a replacement for Attorney Malloy.

He had been playing well and was even a Pro Bowler in 2002, but his best years were clearly behind him in Bill's mind, so the Patriots surprisingly decided to cut one of his most important players. loyal players since before the 2003 season, this completely broke up the locker room, but Bill wasn't going to cut a former All Pro safety without a plan and there was a plan and the reason the lawyer was cut was honestly because another player was outplaying him in practice. security, another man who would enter the Patriots dynasty and become a crucial jewel in their Infinity Gauntlet by becoming unstoppable.

Chargers and before this he had the reputation of being the toughest and possibly the dirtiest player in the league at his position, exactly what Bill Bich wanted, but the rest of the team in the fan base was still a little divided because Bill Bich preferred 31. 30-year-old Harrison to 30-year-old Lawyer, but fortunately Malloy immediately signed with the rival Drew Bledo Leed Bills, who played New England in the first week, so from the beginning we would see how things would go without a lawyer , huh? It was just embarrassing and even Bill, I'm sure, thought for at least a second if he was wrong and that and that possible doubt wasn't exactly helped when during week four the Patriots found themselves with a record of just 2 and 2, including a one-and-done. tough loss for the five win aspects, but then something special happened: the offense took a backseat and the Patriots defense was actually one of the best defensive units of all time in 2003, when you think about the ridiculous units defenses of the early 2000s, the Ravens of 2000 and 2002.

Dollars come to mind, but the 2003 Patriots were arguably on that same level, leading New England to 12 straight wins after Week 4 and finishing season as the number one overall unit with Rodney Harrison, Richard Seymour and Ty Law making every pro team have the defense. but that didn't mean Brady was bad, he just didn't have any weapons. I mean, you can only do so much when your starting running back doesn't record a single rushing touchdown and you don't have a single receiver to break a th000. yards, but who cares, the Patriots just posted a 14-win season, their best record in franchise history by far, and in the playoffs they passed both tests given to them, immediately strangling both MVPs this year and Steve McNair and Pton Manning slowly to win the award. his second Super Bowl, except there was a bit of controversy that we have to get over first.

You see, in 2003, the Indianapolis Colts, one of the teams the Patriots defeated, were in the Elite offense and in New England's victory, the Patriots eliminated pton. Manning four times with t law getting three of them and Bill telling his guys to be a little more physical as usual, so after the game certain higher ups in the Colts front office went to the NFL and complained about problems similar physiques that the Rams were having. with New England in their last Super Bowl and eventually things like illegal contact and adjustments to Mel's blunt rule now became known informally as the law rule, so that happened, but I mean, it's not like if the Patriots did something else, something questionable in That game and I went on to the Super Bowl to face the Carolina Panthers and I know I kind of went through their playoff journey to get here, but by defeating the two NFL MVPs until Now, the Patriots showed they were no fluke.

In 2001 they were here to stay and in just two years the Patriots went from overwhelming underdogs to overwhelming favorites, expected to take over the Panthers by at least one touchdown. Now the Panthers were a very good team, don't get me wrong, but a lot of people believe. who took advantage of a relatively untested NFC in 2003, leading many people to be surprised by what happened at firstof this game. The Empire, already known for being a well-oiled machine that never makes mistakes, was making a mistake with the The biggest examples are a missed field goal and a blocked field goal by the usually safe veteran, but fortunately the Patriots defense still held the Panthers to zero points and a sack by Mike Vel would set up Tom Brady and the offense for an easy touchdown.

I don't know what happened next, but somehow Panther quarterback Jake Delom took Vel's attack on him personally and woke up to lead the Panthers to a score, but he didn't know what he was up against and Tom Brady started to go to Super Saiyan two mode. throwing everything they had at Carolina to regain the lead in the fourth quarter, but Carolina just didn't care to ignore the fact that they were playing against the number one defense in football, ignoring the fact that they were playing against the best rising NFL star, ignoring the fact. that this was the Empire standing in front of them and with a red zone interception on Brady and an 85-yard touchdown, Thomas and the Patriots were going to be tested again, even with the worst weapons he had ever had around him, Could Tom Brady really lead the team to another come-from-behind victory in the Super Bowl, but if there was any doubt, these were the games where the Patriots' culture thrived, these were the moments that would decide whether the Patriots They had what it took to become a potential dynasty and although some newer guys like Rodney Harrison started to show some doubts, I mean, he was a shipper so who could blame him, but the guys who have been here a little longer already They've seen what Tom Brady can do and Ty Law leaned in to tell Rodney.

Harrison while losing the game, keep in mind Rodney, we are not going to lose this game, you know why, because we have Tom Brady, which immediately turned out to be one of the best last minutes of any Super Bowl. Tom Brady punched Jake Delom in the face and then. Jake Delom hit back harder, which would have been cool, except the guy who caught Carolina's touchdown was Ricky Pwl and if that name sounds familiar, he was the guy who caught the last touchdown against the Rams in the Super 2001 Bowl just before. Tom did what he did and with Ricky PE on the sideline he watched in horror as the kickoff went straight out of bounds and the Patriots began their drive with no time off the clock at the 40 yard line and then Tom did Tom's thing that he took them all. him on the field and he found Dion Branch for a 17-yard score and went through the same process with Adam Viter that he did just two years earlier.

They both looked at each other, one running on the field, the other running off, one who did his job and the Other who was about to arrive and from 41 yards Adam Viter did it again Tom Brady and Bill Bich had won their second Super Bowl together and the empire was really starting to gain some strength. The scariest part about the 2003 Patriots was that they were actually vulnerable. As mentioned, the running game was terrible and in times of desperation, Carolina destroyed the offense, so Bill went to fix these problems and began to restructure the selection of the great Vince Will at 21st overall to improve the defense , but the running game still needed to be addressed.

Brady had been playing very well, but I mean, how sustainable was this? Dion Branch was good, but Tom Brady had really only played with one Pro Bowler on offense up to this point, so Bill changed that by taking advantage of a disgruntled run by certain Bengals. and Cory Dylan, who was only himself in 2003, but before that had posted six consecutive 1,000-yard seasons and had thrown a second-round pick to Cincinnati in exchange for at least one productive season from the aging running back, hopefully, though there were a few small tweaks, mostly things stay the same, but Brady was still the top two and with two Super Bowls now under their belt, what they needed this year was another Super Bowl to cement themselves as an unquestionable dynasty and what happened this year was nothing short of magical, unlike how the Patriots usually came out firing, but in Week 8 it looked like their season might be on its way to completely unraveling when, in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ty Law broke down foot in that game and would never play.

Another game again as a New England Patriot, so with wide receiver Troy Brown plugged in to play defensive back when needed, the Patriots moved on with another massive winning streak before hitting a snag near the end of the season, losing against the Junk Dolphins in a game in which Tom Brady threw an unusual four interceptions, but on paper the Patriots were as dominant as ever posting another 14-win season, the defense was still Elite despite injuries, including another huge one. Richard Seymour and Tom were braying, but in the divisional round. They couldn't have faced a tougher opponent like Pton Manning and the Colts, but how can I put it?

This was not a normal human being we are talking about. Payton Manning had risen far beyond the mortal form of him in 2004, the man was just about average. 300 yards, four touchdowns and a 124 passer rating in his last nine games with the team averaging 36 points per game, so add that to the fact that the Patriots secondary was weaker than ever and maybe this would finally be the year the CT would prevail victorious yet, we're talking about Tom Brady and Bill Bich here and since Tom took over in 2001 they still haven't lost a single playoff game, but beating the Colts was never going to be easy , so although his strategy tried last year would no longer be valid given the new rule changes.

Belich devised another plan to defeat Payton and his final verdict turned the game into possibly the most unwatchable football product possible. Not only was the weather set to be perfect for this type of battle, but the Patriots now had the perfect weapon for this scenario in running back Cory Dylan and Belich's plan worked perfectly. The Patriots only scored two touchdowns that day, but both touchdown drives took more than seven minutes and in the second. On the other side of the ball, Pton Manning notably couldn't do it and the Patriots once again defeated the Colts 20 to 3. New England went on to glory and Payton Manning was labeled practically throughout the League as a true choke artist, whether that label was justified or not.

It's up to you, but Belich and Brady kept coming forward mercilessly, it was all they knew how to do and now the Steelers, who led Benjamin 15-1, would be waiting with HomeField advantage and much more than that, this game was a nice and warm 11°. and that weather didn't exactly have great chemistry with the fact that Tom Brady was suffering from the flu so bad that he didn't even know if he'd be able to get dressed before the game, but I mean, come on. A flu, you think a flu is going to stop this flamboyant man, no chance and Tom dragged his ass in there on Sunday and the game wasn't even close, although he was certainly a great guy off the field, on the field, Rothberger was crushed early.

In this game and after an 87-yard pick by Rodney Harrison, the Patriots held a 24-3 lead at halftime and from there achieved a 41-27 victory to advance to the Super Bowl. This game was methodical and ruthless. Brady made perfect passes despite his illness and the Steelers, a team that won 15 games, simply couldn't compete and now they were back four years, three Super Bowl appearances and with the Empire at its highest point, it seemed that no one would present a worthy challenge except the 2004 Eagles. Their opponent was definitely an interesting team, they were led by Donovan McNab Andy Reid and Terell Owens and, as it is The Philly Way, this team talks a little and possibly unintentionally before the Super Bowl , an email from an Eagles employee to Bill Bich and the entire email had allegedly been leaked.

It was about where and when the Eagles' Super Bowl parade would take place, so in front of the entire team, Bill Bich began reading: It will go from Broad Street to Washington Avenue, past City Hall, then down Benjamin Franklin Parkway and will end at the The Museum of Art and the Eagles will be on double-decker buses, he continued reading the rest of the email knowing that he had to do everything he could to motivate his men because after three Super Bowls it is practically the threshold to be considered a dynasty and they were there, so he looked at the team and uttered possibly the closest thing to the New England Patriots I have ever heard in my life do your job, just mind your task, know what it is, execute it and deal with it now if the Patriots were no longer motivated enough certified scrub Freddy Mitchell, a Philadelphia cutout, named all the Patriots DBs and said he had something for Rodney Harrison and while he might not have been wrong because remember Troy Brown, a wide receiver still played DB for the Patriots. but maybe this wasn't the way to go Philadelphia was already a big underdog with New England once again being favored by a complete touchdown but most importantly all-pro receiver Terell Owens had a broken leg and torn ligaments in his ankle right and somehow Terrell Owens played because he's a monster, yet it was clear which team had the lead coming into the game, so it was time for the final hurdle for the Patriots in their quest for a Brady brusi Harrison dynasty Branch Seymour vener mcin Vel and of course they both got this. team here and now the only thing left to do was get the job done and to start the game the Patriots offense was stagnant and flat and for Philadelphia their offense also did nothing at all and at the end of the first half the game was strangely tied 7 to 7 and whoever attacked first in the third quarter would get a huge boost over the other and wait, just place a BET right now, who do you think would be the guy to do that?

It was Tom Tom Brady, did he believe it? or not and just after the halftime break, Brady and Dion Branch connected on four passes and then Mike Rael found himself in the end zone, but the Eagles inconsistently pulled away, but eventually found themselves in the end zone again , but they simply couldn't. They didn't keep pace over time, they didn't have enough firepower, and Donovan McNab simply made too many mistakes to win a Super Bowl by throwing three interceptions, including two of them to Rodney Harrison, who I guess was still waiting for something Freddy Mitchell had. It's a shame for him, but the Patriots had the perfect model if you wanted to challenge Lord Vader.

The mistakes were fatal and after a three-and-out in the fourth quarter, Adam Viter kicked a field goal to take a two-possession lead and a Teddy. Brusi's interception then iced the game and with that it was done, although the Eagles would later accuse the Patriots of cheating, the dynasty was here and there was no chance the Patriots were not going to celebrate this moment, so after a little bit of celebration and Bill Bich let Freddy Mitchell know. He absolutely sucks, all eyes directed at Bill Bellich and Tom Brady, they were already a dynasty. Three Super Bowls had proven it, but can they do more?

All three have arguably been the pinnacle achievement any sports team can achieve and such as has never been done before. In the Super Bowl era of NFL history, being named the first modern team to have three doesn't sound so bad, so the Patriots went back to work, but change had already begun to happen, the Patriots were going to begin the 2005 campaign with a different campaign. offensive and defensive coordinator than last year, with Charlie going to the College World Cup while Romeo Kenell took the head coaching job in Cleveland, which was tough, but believe me, it's about to get a lot worse just days after his win in Super Bowl, one of the main voices of the Patriots dynasty Teddy brusi suffered a stroke and although he was doing what he could to recover he did not have football on his mind at all and before the 2005 season Teddy brusi announced to Bill bich that wouldn't play stopped playing football and retired on the spot, so one leader fell and then another was officially lost when Bill eliminated Ty Law as one of the greatest Patriots of all time and when the season started in just the week three, possibly its most important tone.

Rodney Harrison injured his knee and would be out for the remainder of the Patriots' 2003 season. It was a catastrophe at least by Patriots standards and in week nine the team finally lost to the Pton Manning Colts and had a record of 5004 and 4, but eventually they began to pick things up led by the miraculous recovery of Teddy Brusi, but even that feel-good story wasn't enough, as whatever fate they had in the Rally, their season wasgutted when Bill Bich Che's father tragically passed away mid-year. and the Patriots played like shit in the divisional round losing to Denver finishing the year 10th and 6th, but at least they beat the Raiders in the regular season and that's all it takes to derail a three-pointer, so what's the point?

I mean? how dynasties fall apart all it takes is a locker room dispute and some chemistry problems and the entire regime is toppled and the Patriots were constantly checking every box for a collapse and not even counting all of their 2005 shenanigans to start the 2006 offseason Willie mcginness left for Cleveland Adam V carry fled to the enemy and Brady's favorite target, Super Bowl MVP vs. Philly Dion Branch was traded to Seattle uhoh, could it be it was finally time for Pton Manning break through and establish itself as the best? player than Thomas and I mean, I don't want to be rude to my man, but at this point Tom Brady had only made three Pro Bowls in his career, while Pton Manning had two MVPs, so maybe we are about to see the downfall of one dynasty and the rise of another in Indianapolis, whatever, I guess let's see how this goes.

Palpatine brought in Junior Sea and Steven Gusowski to fill some crusty holes and after an entire season of pain, things went cautiously well, aside from the fact that some players. was caught doing steroids, went well, the Patriots finished the year 12th and 4th, but they were never able to take out the big dogs this season, three of their four losses came to playoff-bound teams, including one in the forehead of The Chosen and when you add in The fact that this Patriots team only had two Pro Bowlers, Richard Seymour and offensive tackle Matt Light, and it really looked like the Patriots were going to be in trouble, I'm not exactly sure how to say it , but once again, Tom Brady didn't.

He didn't have the weapons he needed around him to thrive, but it didn't really matter because in both the wild card round and the divisional round they played two of the most unfortunate organizations in sports and incinerated Eric's LED Jets 37 to 16 and then and then. The Patriots traveled to San Diego to play against the best team in the NFL with a record led by the NFL MVP in leanian Tomlinson now if you want a more in-depth explanation of this game I recommend you watch the Chargers video that simply made you feel all their misery, it's um, I guess depending on which team you pick, a fun watch or not, but otherwise, actually the Chargers in 2006 were coached by Marty Shimer and he's not allowed to be happy, so after a few failed goals.

Historical oopsies and lucky moments and lucky moments, the Patriots actually managed to win this game, poor Marty, and he even went to the press afterwards and told the media that it was all his fault, which again, if you've seen my Chargers video, this man. He didn't deserve this pain, sorry, I'm going off topic again, but the Patriots advanced to another AFC championship and Bill and Tom still wanted another ring, except it turns out the NFL MVP they had just defeated in the Chargers and Leian Tomlinson was nothing more than a minion in the path of the final boss they would face once again it is inevitable, it is time for Pats versus Colts once again but this time the Colts would play at home against New England and now the Colts They were the favorites to eliminate the Patriots and so on.

The game started and yes, it was already up 21-3, the Patriots maintained a 21-3 lead and dominated the game with physicality and also had a little luck along the way, but hey, although neither team had come back from a deficit. This big in NFL history in a conference championship game at that time maybe there was still hope and I say because the Patriots started to look a little undisciplined towards the end of the first half, they took two bad penalties and they received a catch to knock out. The Colts got the running game going and with two short touchdowns, the game was tied before the fourth quarter even began.

At this point, it was clear that this was the Super. Bowl, these were the two best teams in football and whoever won would make a toy of whoever advanced in the NFC South and both teams were going to risk everything for the next 18 minutes of play, so did Tom make some dirty plays to regain the lead? with great field position, but Manning returned fire and the Colts capitalized with a lucky touchdown and we were back to a 28-28 stalemate that ran out of ammo first, the battle tested Thomas Le Patriots or Manning, hungry Cults, the high football continued and you know, until it didn't, it just made the Colts make the mistake after putting the Patriots in perfect field position again on First and 15, check this out. he simply didn't protect Patriots receiver Rash Caldwell, so Brady immediately threw the ball to him and he dropped it, which was a dagger to the Patriots' chances of winning, and although that play initially appeared to be a wound superficial, it turns out that the game would come back to haunt them when the Colts defense stopped the Patriots defense, the Patriots defense allowed this to happen and Pton Manning and the Colts took a 38-34 lead with one minute left, one minute , one football, one, Tom Brady and one last chance, it's over.

This before and I could do it again. Tom immediately started down the field and with the Colts sideline breaking down in desperate prayer, Marlin Jackson took him out and that was it and Pton Manning would win his first of seemingly many Super Bowls in Indianapolis, after finally defeating his sworn enemy. 38 to 34, that's how dynasties die, they just defeated Baris 21 to 3 in front of the entire world, to this day tied for the largest lead ever blown in an AFC Championship game and yes, that's it How dynasties die. but the Patriots are different and instead built this game as motivation and entered 2007 adapting and overcoming their past on their way to becoming the most unstoppable team in a single season, but for that to happen in the first place, it was Of course his quarterback was going to need at least some weapons, I mean from 2001 to 2006 Tom Brady only had one SL wide receiver break the 1,000 career yard mark and that was in 2001 and what What Bill Bich did in the 2007 offseason was easily, easily, the best thing he could have done for Tom Brady and he made two moves in particular that would change the way football is played to this day.

First, the free agency market was looking for targets for Grim, but Bill Bich did the best he could. signed DTE Stalworth to a deal and then Bill went on the hunt calling countless teams about the availability of certain players and after doing all his efforts, he had secured two of the best receivers of the 2000s as the New England Patriots when the Patriots traded for future All Pro receivers Wes Welker and Randy Moss and yes, that's a lot of firepower and instead of a whole death ceremony, we're going to the second act of the first dynasty and this season the Patriots would continue to have for me money most dominant season in NFL history funny me for a split second okay let me break down all the talent on this list so you can really evaluate all the assets they had Randy Moss Wes Welker Steven gusowski Teddy brusi Mike Rael Junior be Rodney Harrison Assante Samuel Ty Warren Vince Wilfork Richard Seymour adalis Thomas and more, that's 12 Pro Bowl caliber players at least and oh this guy, 13 pro or better players and when you add in some game revenge Indianapolis last year, who was it? stopping these guys from doing whatever they wanted now, the New York Jets, who they played in the first week, sure weren't going to stop them because they just bottomed out, but something interesting came out of this game.

You see, the Jets were coached by former Patriots. defensive coordinator and former belich che, I guess I'm quoting his friend Eric manini, but I don't think Bill can have friends by law, but whatever, let's move on and after Eric manini left New England there was supposedly some bad blood between The loss to New England in the playoffs last year didn't help ease the pain, so after the first week's loss, Eric Mangini claimed the Patriots were illegally videotaping them from the banking and thus the infamous Spygate was set in motion. Taking down this team was dramatic because after the game it was confirmed that the Patriots had actually illegally taped the Jets during the Week 1 38-4 win and the media took that narrative and had a field day with it, the main headline was Basically , the Patriots are cheating and all along they had been using underhanded methods to get an advantage and now you had guys like Hines Ward and Lean Tomlinson.

I guess they coincidentally now decided to show up saying oh no yeah, they sure cheated, that's why we lost to them in the playoffs, they knew all of our decisions and it was clearly rigged from the start. Now the NFL world overreacted, yes, but to be fair, Bill Bich wasn't exactly helping matters by ignoring the press as usual, but he eventually issued an apology and the Patriots found themselves a few hundred and lost their draft pick. first round in 2008, but the biggest damage done was to the reputation of the Patriots and if anything was going to be done to repair the image of the Patriots name, 2007 was going to have to be not only magical, but a record-breaking season beyond that. than the NFL had ever seen before after the spy gate in the NFL destroyed the tapes of Bill Belich, Tom Brady and the rest of the loyal servants of the Sith Lord and his apprentice went to war and the result was the most dominant single-season campaign in NFL history.

Yes, this team was just. I can't even put into words how unfair this team was, but from week 1 to 11, specifically the New England Patriots looked like they could be hands down the best team in sports history, as at the end of the year in 2007 , NFL teams scored an average of 21.6 points per game and over the first 10 sample games, the Patriots won their games by an average of 25.4 points per game. game the Patriots won their games by more points than most teams scored in 2007 it was stupid no one could stop them Tom Brady to Randy Moss became the most dominant hit in football and the Patriots broke almost every record that could break.

Random great player on this team and they likely contributed to some historic feat. Tom Brady won the MVP and threw the most touchdowns through the air at the time. Randy Moss still holds the record for most receiving touchdowns in a season led by a game. versus Buffalo, where he had four touchdowns in the first half, yeah, that really happened. Thomas was in the best shape of him with an elite and weapons around him that all defenses mortally feared. The Patriots defense was still Elite and Bill was calling the shots as usual. and all of that led to the NFL's first and still only 16-win season in NFL history and the Patriots looking to cruise through the playoffs for NAB coincidentally another Super Bowl title with Little Resistance, except when the season ended, The Patriots began to look better. and more like a normal great NFL team that shows a lot of red flags instead of being the usual untouchable juggernaut they were for most of the year, even though the team went undefeated, there was a reason I chose those stats from Weeks 1-11 before starting in Weeks 12-17, people don't really remember it, but the Patriots started to slow down a bit, notably battling the Ravens and Eagles, both teams that didn't even make the playoffs. and then even more red flags popped up in Week 15 against all three Jets won at that time Tom Brady had his worst game of the season and failed to throw for a single touchdown in Week 17.

They may have gotten things back on track a bit against the New York Giants, but that didn't change the situation. fact that this wild card team in New York had come close to beating the almighty Patriots, but it seemed as if fate was on New England's side because they really didn't have to do much in the AFC on their way to the Super Bowl as their The opponents were much weaker than in previous years, the Jaguars did not put up much of a fight and although on paper it seemed that the Chargers were the opponents, being the team that defeated Pton Manning's Colts, the football gods punished them for stealing from us . of another Payton vs.

Tom matchup with Leian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates both suffering serious injuries and Philip Rivers playing the game with a torn ACL, so even though Tom Brady, once again, very alarmingly, I must Add, he had a bad game and a terrible one by this standards of the year with three interceptions it didn't matter andthe New England Patriots found themselves in Super Bowl 42 where somehow the New York Giants were here. The Giants, like I said, were a wild card team led by the significantly worse Manning brother, so I mean what. What are we talking about here? This game will end after two series.

That was pretty much the consensus at the time. Everyone was already declaring that this game was ignoring the red flags the Patriots had been blatantly waving for the last month and the fact. That the Giants played the Patriots very, very close in the final game of the regular season is also a little disturbing, but if the Giants somehow needed a little boost, they got it as they approached the Super Bowl, a certain group posted . a story claiming that the Patriots fresh out of Spygate had recorded the Los Angeles Rams before their 2001 Super Bowl victory, which was later proven to be false, but you know it was a little late for that, for which once again the media went into a frenzy seeing the The Patriots cheated again and they are going to cheat against the Giants like they have every year they won and without a doubt the unnecessary coverage definitely affected the Patriots starting the game, so maybe this was a cool 12d chess move by Tom Coughlin, the Giants coach, or bad luck, but whatever it was, it led to the final dominoes falling in the narrative around the Patriots, who completely turned around in 2001.

They were the feel-good story of the NFL, a team that conquered Goliath and was led by a sixth-round quarterback. They won a Super Bowl, but now they were the enemy that everyone wanted to see the Evil Empire fall and unless you were a Patriots fan, no one wanted to see New England achieve the perfect season, however, there was no telling what approach they were going to take. to adopt the Giants. find a way to win this game led by defensive coordinator Steve Spagnola, who remembers accusing the Patriots of cheating against the Eagles when he coached his linebackers and choosing to rely on the defense to make plays - a bold move considering how relatively unstable they had been. been all. all season, but if this Giants team had a strength, if they had one, they might have had zero, but their line was pretty good.

Michael Strahan Justin Tuck OC yora and Maas Kiwanuka led one of the fiercest attacks in football at times and when this is enhanced. unity by giving them a well-deserved underdog mentality and some choice words from Thomas that that's a scary recipe, right there we're only going to score 17 points, okay, we don't tolerate any change, it's about time for the final test for New England became the best NFL team of all time and, sure enough, while things seem to be pending, the Patriots had problems. New England's generally elite offensive line was warming up, which wasn't ideal because in the AFC Championship the Chargers gave the injury bug to our dear Thomas, who suffered a sprained ankle that affected him. all day and, combined with being sacked five times, pressed most of the dropbacks and while Randy Moss was in the clamps, Tom Brady was clearly not comfortable at all and the Patriots were struggling mightily.

As a result, the Giants' defensive game plan was as good as it could have been. Welker and Moss were double-teamed often, but they were still the 2007 Patriots and at some point they were going to break through and with 2 minutes and 42 seconds left Randy. Moss was in the end zone and it looked like the Patriots were going to win another Super Bowl with Tom Brady pulling a fourth quarter drive out of his butt, but here came Eli Manning Payton was finally able to win over Tom last year and now it was his turn from Eli, but Eli chose to play football a little differently than Pton because he came out on the field for the biggest Drive of his career and was just joking after nearly throwing a spike and fumbling the ball, you know what?

What happens next is one of the most iconic plays in American football. Eli Manning escapes the clutches of Richard Seymour, avoids a self-admitted holding call and finds David Tyrie, who makes a solid grab against Rodney Harrison, marking his last catch in the NFL, completing one of the most iconic plays. sacks in NFL history look at it, the helmet sack much of New England's past success had been attributed to good fortune, what if the Tuck rule hadn't happened? Would the Patriots have won in 2001? What would have happened if Terrell Owens had not been injured and now it seemed like everything had turned against them, to this day, in Eli Manning's own words, it was probably the luckiest play in NFL history and even Today it has not yet been conquered, but we will talk more about that later.

Then, you know, Eli proceeded to almost throw another interception, but then the Patriots went on an all-out blitz and Manning countered with a game-winning touchdown off an elite bullet prior to his leg. Plaxico burus and the ritual was completed, they lost Eli Manning. The Chosen One had stopped the reign of the Empire at least for the moment and perhaps will be called upon again in the future, but for now the New York Giants were Super Bowl champions and the 2007 New England Patriots were the first team to win 16 games . in the regular season they weren't and this loss set up a chain reaction that would change this organization forever after the game, the Patriots locker room was filled with crying and despair, everyone was legitimately depressed after drowning on the biggest stage in the most important moment and its wounds.

It didn't seem to heal over time either, as a few days after the Super Bowl, Robert Craft asked Bill how he was feeling and he said: Let's just say I haven't been up any tall buildings since Sunday, so you know. I take it back, Bill Bich was much happier than usual, so although his main motivation entering 2008 was a revenge tour to get back what was his, those hopes were shattered into microscopic pieces in the first week of the season when an apparently Unsuspecting Chiefs defender Bernard Pard, a man nicknamed The Bone Crusher, punched Tom Brady, causing him to tear his ACL and MCL.

Pard, okay, he's not just your average NFL player, but for now, without Brady, the Patriots' luck ran out and the team finished the season with a record of 11 and 5 and beat the Raiders, but they became one of only two teams to miss the playoffs. that high win total since the merger and now going into the 2009 season everything changed, this is the point where if you wanted to call the first Patriots team different than the second in terms of different dynasties, I wouldn't blame you, but in my opinion they are equal and starting in 2009 they brought in some new child soldiers while the old ones were rotated and eventually with time and growth they became more powerful than anyone could have imagined so So with that we enter the second part of the evil empire, but before we continue, this video is sponsored by manscape.com, who I'm sure needs no further introduction, but in case you need to fill it out, manscaped is a lifestyle brand for men trusted by over 9 million people around the world and if you're a guy, you probably have balls unless you know something has gone horribly wrong, so if you do, then Performance Pack 4.0 is exactly what you are looking for.

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He would need a new crop of life and luckily B had already been doing this for years so everything changed. Mike Vel and Richard Seymour were traded and Rodney Harrison and Teddy Brusi officially retired and Junior SE would finally follow them a year later and in Some new guys came along to lead the next era and Patrick Chung Rob Ninkovic Julian Edelman Matthew Slater the Special Teams God Gerard Mayo and others to continue the culture into the next decade and also recruited a man in 2009 named George Busty I just thought I would point out that I guess Belich saw something he liked in that man anyway and with that out of the way, he began The Patriots' quest to prove everyone wrong and cheat death was underway, but instead of a continuation of dominance to begin this second half. of the dynasty would be heavily questioned in the first week, it took a dramatic comeback in the final minutes to beat the bills of Trent Edwards and that oddity continued throughout the season, the team finished with 10 solid wins, but they came and went, They came and went.

They had incredible accomplishments all year like their famous 59-0 win against the Titans, but they also struggled against bad teams and even lost a game to the former Patriots offensive coordinator and possibly my least favorite man of the last two years , Josh McDaniels and the Broncos. but no matter how inconsistent they were, the talent remained constant with the combination of Brady and Welker proving to be unstoppable as they both finished in the top five in respective yards for their position, so although they were the definition of a team of Tier 2 clearly worse than the Saints and the Colts.

At least if they were going to surprise people, which was possible, it would be thanks to Wes Welker and Tom Brady, with Randy Moss taking advantage of that gravity and the ruthless defense he would have to do the usual, but then the whole season fell apart. and he was cremated on a play in the final week of the season. Wes Welker tore his ACL and ACL, putting him out of action for the rest of the season and the man who took down West on his final play was Bernard Pard, the Bonecrusher, now a Houston Texan had remained the most devastating one-man army in weakening the Patriots dynasty and in some ways we're not done with him yet, so be sure to keep remembering Bernard Pard for later and without Wes Welker, the Patriots who ultimately looked very shaky throughout the year. fell apart on the biggest stage, falling behind 24 to Z against their eventual rivals and, of course, Joe Flacko, who finished the game with four completions and ultimately lost their first playoff game at home to Bill and Tom 14- 33 and Definitely had some self-reflection to do going forward, the Patriots found themselves in a confusing time of transition, but they had no choice but to fully trust that Bill Bich still had a good eye for talent and that Tom Brady, who remember in 2010, he was already reaching that age he could still play elite football when he was around 30 years old and fortunately, before the 2010 NFL draft, Bill Bich had a vision of football.

God spoke directly to him during one of his nightly Endeavors and whispered to him to use two tight ends. formations and, therefore, in the next draft, Belich picked up two very important pieces from the beginning with Devon McCordi and Brandon Spikes, but to complete his double tight end dream he took two of the most complicated characters in NFL history , both for very different reasons and very unpatriotic. There was something to be done, but he regardless liked the talent he saw in Arizona's Raw Gronowski and Florida's Aaron Hernandez and drafted both tight ends. There was a lot of crime in that draft, we'll get to one more thing before the 2010 season began.

Tom Brady had consistently not been paid the best money throughout his career, never taking pay cuts per se, but contractual restrictions They consistently allowed the Patriots more money to go out and land key free agents, but for now Brady signed a record $72 million deal. worth $18 million a year, which, as I said at the time, was revolutionary, but in modern terms, he earned exactly the same aswins today Darren Waller, who is a tight end now to start the 2010 season, the Patriots are back to what they were before. Welker had made a remarkable recovery from his very serious injuries and the Patriots jumped to a quick 3-for-1 record and then, before the trade deadline, Belich made one last move proving that still no one's job was safe by banishing to Randy Moss of Walla, which made Tom so sad.

Being the good father figure that he was, I guess Bill went out and got his old friend Deon Branch back and now Tom was happy again, but for the rest of 2010 the Patriots defense struggled because they were still so young, but the rare Tom Brady Thomas' 2007 form. was revealed once again and flanked by his two rookie tight ends who combined for 16 touchdowns, as well as Welker and Branch Brady, and the Patriots marched to another 14-2 record, even beating Manning's Colt for the last time before that the greatest enemy of New England fled to another land. and the Patriots finished the season with an informal eight-game winning streak, where in those eight games the Patriots averaged 37.3 points per game more than their season-long average in 2007, which of course was enough to secure second place.

Tom's MVP trophy, becoming the first unanimous one. MVP in league history and hosted a playoff game against arguably the most radioactive team in the NFL, the New York Jets suspend disbelief for just a second. Well, the New York Jets were the last thing Tom Brady wanted to see because even though the Patriots statistically had one. of the best offenses of all time, the Jets defense was one of the creepiest units in the NFL, if not the creepiest, they had the best cornerback duo in the league and Derell Rivas and Antonio Kardi and they just robbed us Payton's final chapter to everyone.

The Colts beat Brady's Patriots on a starting field goal 17 to 6. Now yes, the Jets were scary, but don't take it the wrong way. I'm not at all implying that this was supposed to be a game of the few. Weeks ago, the Patriots destroyed the Jets 45-3 by putting an age restriction on the highlights of that game and at home against Mark Sanchez, the sand chisel, I mean, the Patriots were only favored by n points and average seemed low and at the start of the game. What resulted was one of the biggest upsets in NFL history. Mark Sanchez, this guy completely outplayed Thomas Brady, and crucially, not only were his stats much better, but Tom consistently made exhausting mistakes to shift the momentum toward New York and midway through the third quarter, the Jets. they had a commanding 14-3 lead and it didn't look like they were going to let up at all, this was pathetic.

Rex Ryan was kicking Bill Belich's ass in terms of coaching a beautiful catch by Antonio Holmes and a touchdown by Sha Green iced the game. From there, the 14-win season and unanimous MVP campaign turned into a cloud of ash and poison and the Jets won the game 28-21, extending Tom and Bill's Super Bowl drought to 6 years. Let me say it again because this loss didn't talk about enough 10-point favorites at home and Mark Sanchez pinned Tom Brady, so from the outside looking in people were starting to corral the Patriots, it's been years since they made it to a Super Bowl, much less won it, and while I've been pretty solid during the regular season, I guess who cares, you've got to win when it matters most and add in some unusual eventual problems with the Patriots with Julian Edelman and Albert Haynesworth , a new acquisition, both arrested for the same thing in the NFL. classic I'm sure you're familiar with the old sexual assault and this is what the 2011 Patriots season was so wild that you could honestly argue both ways that this was the year the Patriots pushed themselves back into the conversation Dynasty or not.

For one thing, the Patriots finished 13th and 3rd on the season. Tom Brady had a great year and Rob Gronowski set the record for most receiving yards and touchdowns in a season by a tight end, so there were a lot of good things, but on the other hand, the team was still having some chemistry issues. inside the walls and the Patriots somehow never beat a single team during the regular season that had a winning record, not one of their 13 wins was against a team that had a winning record that shouldn't even be possible and they beat the Raiders, but whatever it was, the Patriots made the playoffs with cautious optimism because with Brady and all that any chance is a chance, except the team they were playing was quarterback for a guy, the team and more specifically the player they were facing had a chance. factor for him as Mark Sanchez and apparently not only that, but the man also had Christ himself on his side.

Ah, it's Tim TBO and this man has the fist of God on his side. He just posted one of the strangest stat lines ever surpassed. the Steelers on a walk-off touchdown, so TBO was powerful in theory because in practice the groon is stronger and the Patriots dropped a 45-piece statement on Denver with the tight end duo of Hernandez and Groon inserting synonym for kill something here combining for a ridiculous 261 total yards and four touchdowns, including three in the first half for Gro, it seemed like the Patriots were destined to return to the Super Bowl, but there was still one obstacle in their way and this one wasn't just an obstacle, It was a lot. loads of voluptuousness oh my god look at that look, that mustache, sorry I got distracted again, but the Baltimore Ravens came back and if you can remember, they beat the Patriots in 2009, so this game was supposed to be good and what we got was maybe my favorite game I've ever seen live it was a lot of fun and this game was not only a great moment but it was evident proof that the New England Patriots dynasty was still alive and well the game began in an agitated manner. and ugly as all great playoff games do, but there were glimpses of what was to come.

Flo barely missed Hy Smith on a bomb because the man started jogging halfway and at halftime the game was practically completely up in the air, but then wait. El Cuervo began to take control of the game as the third quarter progressed. Tory Smith redeemed himself and then Danny Wood coughed up the stone on the kick-off and if that wasn't bad enough, this is where it gets really good. It's weird to say the 2008 Patriots season, I know, and I pretty much glossed over the entire season, but the main takeaway from that year was the week one injury that sidelined Tom Brady for the entire season. , do you remember that and do you remember who?

He also knocked out Wes Welker during the year, remember who did that too? Do you know what man I'm talking about? That man was Bernard Pard, also known as The Bone Crusher, which brings us to the reintroduction of this villain returning from a previous arc. because as fate would have it, he was a Baltimore Raven in 2011 and on a routine tackle on Rob Gronowski groon came out limping and was diagnosed with a sprained ankle that would greatly hamper him for the rest of the playoffs, even with a weapon though Tom. Brady still jumped into the end zone and eventually both teams traded interceptions and now the Ravens were in a not so good position, Ed Reed, and they did their job the best they could, but on offense they were quarterbacking Joe Flo, who doesn't get I'm wrong, he's my guy, but he's not supposed to lead the team down the field against Bill. bich che um defense it doesn't really matter what I'm saying Joe Skinny is a deity beyond human understanding and the Ravens methodically went down the field and the game was almost guaranteed to go to overtime, but then two simple sequences done by pretty much just two guys ruined this game for the Ravens and all their hard work was for nothing first on second and a receiver wideout, Lee Evans, has a touchdown on his hands, but was thrown out due to a very good defensive play.

Slash is not a good offensive game and that's fine, whatever it is. We're not going to win the game, but here comes Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff, who's not Justin Tucker and historically was a guy who had some kicking problems, but he made two kicks earlier in this game, so with the game in game. Billy Cundiff missed the field goal 32 yard field goal no good The Ravens go home and the Patriots go to the Super Bowl it was a wild game Julian Edelman was playing fourth the Bone Crusher did his best but it wasn't enough Tom Brady and Bill We both came back and were coming off a testosterone-boosting victory like that, there was maybe only one man in the entire history of the National League who could stop this team in the Super Bowl and unfortunately for the Patriots, the man in the The one I'm talking about is Eli Manning and the team waiting for them was the New York Giants led by Eli Manning, so they're going to do it again.

It's the same as in 2007, the Patriots are big favorites again and although the Giants once again have a great pass rush with Justin Tuck. and a social advocate for safe Christmas festivities, this New York team was much worse than the 2007 team and the Super Bowl proved it too, although the Giants took a quick 9-0 lead because well, because Eli Manning was using dark magic, but if the Patriots could have recovered any of the many fumbles that New York allowed or didn't have 12 men on the field here, then this game could have been a blowout for the Patriots.

I don't have an explanation for how the Giants keep doing this, but it seemed like not even Bill Bellich could convince the Patriots that this mental cloud over them created by Eli Manning and the Giants wasn't real. Maybe it has something to do with Bill once coaching the Giants and not wanting to hurt his old team, but I don't know, slowly but surely, although the Giants really started to slow down because they weren't very good, Eli, and the offense couldn't muster anything more than the occasional field goal and here we are again with 3 minutes on the clock.

Bill Bich has the Giants in prime position to be cannibalized at their own 12-yard line, bad Manning has to go 60 or 70 yards to win the game and even if he did, there would likely still be time left in the game. watch for even at that moment, the most lethal weapon that could appear in the final minutes of a Super Bowl in Tom Brady, but then the screenwriters who sometimes tend to get lazy and reuse scripts use the exact same script from 2007 and in the first play of Eli Manning's last Drive, once again one of the greatest Super Bowl plays ever occurred against New England for the r-man entering traffic on the R side.

PS: Manning did it again. Eli Manning almost ruined everything once. more going straight down the field and accidentally scoring a touchdown because they moved down the field too fast and now, just like in 2007, all the Giants defense had to do was not allow a miracle and the man who sealed the victory was, of course, one of the heroes of 2007 in Justin Tuck, who sacked Thomas, performed his signature move with his IC I face mask and now it came down to a play with 5 seconds left and a Hail Mary was the only option left. New England had it, so Tom backed away from the pressure and the whole world watched as Grank sprained his ankle and everyone almost grabbed him during the halftime break and the New York Giants did it again, winning Super Bowl 46. 21-17, logically there is no logic that the Patriots would lose again and even smaller chips like the The Ravens have continually taken pieces away from the Patriots during this post-2009 era and although they have shown that they can at least return to the Super Bowl until they have actually won one, until they actually have a lead when the clock strikes zero. will be certain and the Patriots can't really be considered a dynasty until that happens, so it's time to regroup and this time Bill Bich had made sure that his tight end duo, who had been creating mismatches between linebackers each and every of the weeks, he was going nowhere signing both of them.

Groon and Aaron Hernandez to incredible deals and then the Patriots drafted Chandler Jones and Dante High Tower to make sure the endless influx of young talent kept flowing, on top of that, although the same guys were still running the show, Tom had been on Peak Performance for a while. Decade big hit Wes Welker was still good and new acquisition Brandon Lloyd helped too. Vince Wilfork anchored the defense and Dev McCordi and Patrick Chung hung up the secondary and the Patriots did Patriots things during the regular season and went to a relatively uneventful 12-4 Rel casual. campaign in which they once again had the best offense in the NFL and this year in which they won 12 games was in some ways their worst regular season since 2009, the most important takeaways from this regular season were the acquisition in the middle ofaib Pro Bowl quarterback's season to go, and of course, New England had some commanding wins, including a Week 14 dismantling of the NFL's top-ranked team at the time, the Houston Texans, and against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 11, where Tom Brady was aware of the whispers that Andrew Luck had been crowned the new guy.

Payton Manning, so that of course pissed him off and the man took his opportunity and unleashed his entire arsenal of weapons on poor Andrew, almost dropping a fiery 60 on the youngster, however, that game against the Colts in It would actually prove very costly down the road because Grank went down in that game against Indie with a broken arm and then after they put metal plates in his arm to keep him alive, basically when the Pats survived Houston in the divisional round, the metal plate broke and now groon was officially done for the season. but they couldn't take care of business without groon and now it was time for a rematch, same team, same place, Ed Reed and Ray Lewis against Tom Brady and Bill Bellich, both teams that once tasted Super Bowl glory and question I needed.

The answer now was who wanted it more, so sometimes you have to ask yourself how big your pain is. It's very important to know how hurt the Ravens were last year. This team was motivated by pure rage and they didn't want to watch. any team other than the Patriots in the AFC Championship and almost every intangible and tangible factor was working in the Ravens' favor, not only did they have revenge on their side, but the Patriots expected to play Pton Manning, now a Denver Broncos. but due to some developing circumstances, that didn't happen and at this point in the season the Patriots' injuries continued to pile up.

Julian Edelman and groon finished the season while Aaron Hernandez was still playing with a serious shoulder injury that required surgery. And yet, with all that, the Patriots were favored by more than one touchdown and the buildup against New England was still a TB and Patrick Chung was also injured early in the game and with the Ravens playing with too much heart, New England. He needed a finishing play, but he didn't go that far. Welker was dropping everything and Flacko started moving the ball with ease and suddenly the Ravens had a 21-13 lead in the fourth quarter, but Tom Brady got the ball back. and all it took to get them back in this game was one drive, one touchdown and a Super Bowl appearance would be a reality, so when they needed a big play, mostly on first down and 10, Brady gave him He handed the ball over to his run. back up Steven Ridley who was ejected and fumbled back to the Ravens and do you know who made this hit?

Do you know who sent Ridley straight to the locker room once he regained consciousness? Come on, you know who I'm going to say, right? Bernard. Pard, also known as The Bone Crusher, the man did it again and this time the Ravens got the job done scoring a touchdown taking advantage of the opportunity he gave them to close the game 28-13. Now you can't blame the Patriots for that. lost too much Bernard Pard had one more job to do and the man did it, but the Patriots proved once again that talent was not the problem and all they had to do was not completely implode before 2013 and that's almost what which happened in part because For Brady to restructure his monster deal, the Patriots brought in Larrett Blunt and Danny Amandola, but that didn't mean much because Brady lost his best man, Wes Welker, to Payton Manning's Broncos, if that weren't what bad enough, and Danny Woodhead also left for the Chargers.

So you know that wasn't great, but you probably know what I'm going to talk about. It's that moment, it's that moment, on June 26, 2013, one of the key young assets the Patriots had, Aaron Hernandez, was arrested and then taken to prison. custody where it was revealed and ultimately confirmed that he had been involved in the disappearance of at least one person and was charged with first degree M. This shocked the NFL world as during this time horrible controversies arose left and right, but this was the biggest one, the fact that this man was lining up to play football games while he had taken a life just didn't sit well with people, obviously, and it didn't sit well with those inside the Patriots facilities, or they knew there was something strange about Hernández.

With him reportedly often walking around naked in front of others and before joining the team, Wes Welker warned Brandon Lloyd that he tends not to do great things with his teammates, so keep his distance at all times, although resilience was something about these Patriots. The team was built and to start 2013, the team started a little slower than usual now that was acceptable due to all the drama that Hernandez's team went through and the chemistry that needed to be built, but in week 12 the Patriots they faced. versus Payton Mannings Broncos and the best offense in NFL history, where they would really be tested to see if they could hang with the best of the best, so here we were Brady versus Manning once again and I'm going to lie, no It was a big At the beginning of the game in the second quarter, the Patriots fell behind 24 to none and I mean, even Tom Brady had never recovered from such a big lead in his entire life in the playoffs or in the regular season, but It's true that the Broncos W are actually getting pretty. luck with the turnovers and the law of averages finally started to take hold and Tom Brady's anger helped too and the Patriots came completely back into basically a corner.

Brady and Grank did things and in the end Manning was beaten again and the Broncos were drowned. the game they lost 34 to 31, completing the biggest comeback in the history of the Patriots Organization by now, so that victory was great and so was Tom, but his weapons were running out in the game. Not only was Hernandez dead for life, but so was his other tight end. was just a walking hospital, now Grank was the most dominant tight end in NFL history when he was on the field, but at this point it became a luxury to have him there instead of an expectation and par for the course in a win against Cleveland Groon. broke his knee and completely tore his ACL and ACL, which unfortunately has started to be a theme on this team and that resulted in the 24-year-old's 6th surgery in just 2 years and at this point It's hard to say, but his career was speculated to have just ended on that same field at Gillette and with the groon down, Belich, Tom and offensive coordinator Josh Josh McDaniels agreed that if they were going to be a good team, they wouldn't.

It would be through the receiving core of Julian Edelman and There are no names like Aaron Dobson and Kimbrell Thomkins that jump out at you if you remember who those guys were, but for the rest of the season they participated in the running game led by 6-year-old Legar Blunt. '250 pounds, rushing for 189 yards against Buffalo and then against Andrew. Luck and the Colts in the divisional round, Tom once again took a backseat and Larrett turned 24 drives into 166 yards and four touchdowns as New England made its third straight appearance in the AFC championship game, this being the year it the Patriots could win a Super Bowl and if they wanted to do that Unfortunately they had to go through him again Payton Manning and the Denver Broncos were on their way still armed with one of the best offenses in NFL history and a team that buried them 24 to Z early in the season, so the Patriots knew how important it was to not fall behind early and unfortunately that's exactly what happened.

Akib Talib was injured again midway through the game and without Grank there simply wasn't enough coal to fuel the dying engine that was the New England Patriots offense. The score was 23-3 for most of the game and in the end Manning had the last laugh by beating New England 26-6, earning the honors to be fed as live bait for the indomitable amalgam that was the 2013 Seattle Seahawks, so Now what I'm talking about, let's take a step back and look at this entire Patriots organization, there were only two guys on the roster as players that could say they had won a Super Bowl with this team and that would be Tom Brady and Vince.

Wilfork and this team was supposed to be considered a dynasty, all they've done is lose, lose, lose, lose for the last decade, they had their moment and it's been a long time coming so maybe we need to change the narrative on this Patriots team, they have been known as the bogeyman of the AFC. with Brady and ruling the Galaxy as master and apprentice, but they sure haven't taken on much of the world recently and if they didn't finally break free from this new mold in 2014, this could forever be Tom Brady's legacy. one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, but on Elite defense and some lucky breaks for a bunch of Super Bowls early in his career and could never make it when he was the team's undisputed best player, the Patriots team needed a wake-up call, something to tell them that they needed to join in now, you are all too good to be this. slightly above average and maybe Tom Brady needed a kick in the ass too, which finally came when in the 2014 NFL draft, Bill Belich selected Eastern Illinois quarterback Jimmy Garoo and the message was that it was clear that Tom was getting older and maybe in a year or two.

At most, a quarterback change would be final and Bill Bich would get a younger, more powerful new apprentice, but if he was going to prove Belich wrong, he wasn't really going to have much more help than in previous years, nor the defense received a few pieces, however, with Patrick Chung returning after spending 2013 in Philadelphia, as well as a one-year rental of the AFC's top quarterback in Derell Rivas, who while no longer the Rivas Island of yesteryear, still formed a totally professional team this season. which isn't a dig at him at all, it's just kind of a testament to how great he was on the Jets and remember what he did to the Patriots in 2010 too, so he really was that guy for a hot minute there, on January 24.

The Patriots were sure to be a good team and most people had them as a fringe top-five team before the season, but the idea that they were going to be Super Bowl champions seemed ridiculous from the beginning of the first four weeks. it's from the season. They found themselves with a 2 and 2 record in which they beat the Raiders, and while the slow starts were not very unorthodox for New England, this one was different: the Chiefs shut them out 17 to Zer at halftime and in the locker room at half time everyone was mad so bill b gave one of his trademark emotionless speeches and just said "hey this second half is going to define who we are as a team for the rest of the season" so the second half came and tom Brady and the Patriots fought their way back to UPS, no, no.

No, no, that didn't happen, I'm just kidding. The Patriots regrouped and Alex Smith and Company criticized them for another half, but the Patriots fought, they never gave up, the players fought. and after Monday night's embarrassing loss, everyone went home and returned to practice the next day more than a little angry, but when the first couple of staff members arrived at the Patriots facility the next morning after the game , they found Tom Brady already there. While everyone was angry Tom Brady was losing his mind and not sleeping after the loss he stayed in the stadium all night studying everything there was to know about the Cincinnati Bengals the Patriots next opponent where before the game the reporters asked whether Bill bich would consider a quarterback change and yes, this was the week we got Bill bich's famous press conference in Cincinnati.

Do you think we are 37 years old? We're in Cincinnati, we're getting ready for Cincinnati, we're getting ready for Cincinnati. and poor Cincinnati didn't stand a chance against the entire Wrath dynasty of the New England Patriots at full strength and from week five onward the New England Patriots were a completely new team that crushed everyone in their path including two of the strongest in the AFC in Payton. The Broncos and the Andrew Lux Colts both lost 40 pounds in a 3-we span and finished the regular season 12th and 4th losing just one more game that season where they didn't rest their starters in the playoffs once again and why not? there is parody With this team fresh out of the gate, we return to the rivalry between the Ravens and Patriots.

Two first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks threw heavyweight Whoppers at each other and after the dust settled for the first three quarters, the Ravens were kicking ass. Reed and Ray Lewis were gone, but they still had flacko, baby, yeah, and they had a 28-14 lead, pushing the Patriots to acorner and in this corner they had no choice but to use their trump card. come to this, but he decided to manipulate the old rules of football to engineer a comeback. It's a little complicated, but basically the Patriots put tight end Michael Jesus m Hua in the game at left tackle and on a technicality due. based on his jersey number, he could be an eligible receiver, while Shane Vine or some other Patriots pass catcher could be considered ineligible, so to put it more simply, the lineman could catch passes, but true Patriots receiver who was running routes couldn't, it was blatant, but it worked, Michael caught two passes on a drive that led to a Grank touchdown and John Harbaugh wasn't about to let Belich be making a fight that was technically legal, but the cheese that came out of Bill's playbook that day wasn't ready yet and just a few minutes later, Julian Edelman threw a 51-yard touchdown to Danny Amandola and it worked perfectly, but Flacko didn't go away and they could have had the lead. if Owen Daniels had scored this touchdown, but a field goal wasn't terrible and it was all they could muster and meanwhile Tom Brady went straight down the field like he has done time and time again connecting with receivers to give the Patriots the lead with just a few minutes left and in the end the Ravens came up short, an interception sealed things and Despite the Patriots' leading rusher, Brandon Balden, gaining seven yards, the Patriots gained another against Baltimore 35-31 and They moved on to the Indianapolis Colts, where things got a little complicated, it became very controversial and you know where I'm going with this. it's time for the AFC Championship Patriots versus Colts and the media story that took the world by storm deflate gate deflate gate deflate gate deflate gate defate gate is Tom Brady a cheater now let's lay out the facts here and I'll let you form your own opinion Because Honestly, it's still a hotly debated topic regarding the Patriots' legacy, which is where the story goes in the AFC Championship against the Colts.

Tom Brady threw an interception to weaken Jackson and when he took the ball to the sideline, people felt he was a little deflated, so during halftime the balls were tested and it was confirmed that 11 of the 12 balls the Patriots used They were significantly underinflated, but it was later revealed that the initial testing reports were simply wrong and it was later determined that five of the 11 balls were just under the Limit. They also tested the Colts' balls at halftime, but did not hit all of them. , but the ones they tested seemed to be regulation grade, so that's pretty much all you need to know for the madness that was deflating. door, the most important detail is that the Patriots just absolutely smeared the Colts on solid ground in the AFC championship, the game was never close at any point and out of the playoffs, Larett Blunt and his 150-yard performance and three touchdowns The Patriots took the 45-7 win, don't worry, there will be more at the deflated gate after the 2014 season, but now it was Super Bowl time, still remember it's been 10 years since this team won a Super Bowl 10 and Bill and Tom made it was clear that everyone needed to focus, which was pretty difficult given how much the media was asking about the deflated gate, but belich is the big deviation from the media and did the usual.

If you don't ask me about Seattle, I couldn't give less than what you're about to tell me, here we are in Super Bowl 49, the reigning Super Bowl champion, the Seattle Seahawks, a team that was primed to become the next NFL dynasty led by its legendary defense and superstar quarterback against the ghost of the past, New England. The Patriots who were once a dynasty but for a decade just hung around and were hungrier than ever now to prove that the dynasty never died just needed some time to recharge and thus began, in my opinion, the best game in the history of the NFL the Patriots plan to play. limiting Russell Wilson's great playmaking as much as possible while Seattle relied on its defense and pass rush to neutralize Brady and oh my goodness, this game was perfect.

I wouldn't change a thing, well sorry I'm getting ahead of myself, the game was There wasn't even a duel during the first half when the Seahawks didn't score, the Patriots didn't score when Tom finally got things going, so did Russ and in the At halftime the score was tied at 14, but the Seahawks had a lead, they had a lead. spark plug and that came from famous Foot Locker employee Chris Matthews, who along with the rest of the Seahawks receiving CP after the first quarter were toasting New England so the decision was made to basically bench DB Kyle Arrington and in his place came cornerback Malcolm Butler. an undrafted rookie free agent who now protects Germaine Cur and Chris Matthews for virtually the rest of the Super Bowl.

Now this is crazy for any team other than the Patriots because Bill had complete faith in the mentality that it was the next thing and everyone should do it. always be ready for anything, so even an undrafted rookie player like Malcolm Butler was able to help, but he didn't help enough, I guess, because eventually Seattle took a big lead on a textbook screen next to the zebra , but Tom Brady wouldn't do it. He would be denied this year if he was going to lose this game, it wouldn't be because of him and two furious drives later, the Patriots held a four-point lead where Tom Brady would sit on the bench forced to watch. and pray that the defense could do its job once, but deep down, Tom probably knew what was going to happen, it's already happened time and time again, some Bullit was going to be taken out at the last possible moment and steal the game. and then it happened that Russell Wilson found Germaine Curs on the sideline and somehow pulled off one of the most improbable passes in NFL history.

The Patriots were completely out of breath. They were dead and everyone knew it, except the players on the field. field, they knew this was not the time to give up, they still had a job to do and on one of the most overlooked plays in NFL history, for my money, if you stop it right here, it looked like Marshon Lynch had free rein until the end. right zone, I mean, they are all completely blocked, but Dante hi Tower still did not lose hope even though he was being blocked by a 310 pound professional bow in Russell oun high tower.

He shrugged and tackled one of the toughest running backs in NFL history to stop a touchdown, which means it's time for the Patriots to decide not to call a timeout and the rest is history, the Seahawks passed the ball. I don't understand that you had beast mode in the back. I lost my cool. Sorry it wasn't professional, but this game. It really hurt me a lot at the time when I was a little Raiders fan and I was never a Seahawks fan, but if I ever had to stop being a Raiders fan, Seattle would probably be my number one choice and as someone who was raised.

Watching the Patriots be NFL dictators when they got the interception I was devastated, I cried in the bathroom for about 30 minutes, and then I was constantly googling why the Seahawks would ever get the ball to Marshon Lynch, but I didn't. I did. I get it and I still don't get it, but history is history and when the clock hit zero, the Patriots had more points than Seattle. Tom Brady and Bill Belich were now officially Super Bowl champions once again and the Empire wasn't dead, it was. just biting the clock waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike and the time had finally come so welcome to the second life of the Patriots Dynasty before the 2015 season started I promised I would touch more on the topic of Flake Gate so I will Basically, the NFL simply concluded that the Patriots were more likely to deliberately deflate the footballs against the Colts and, as punishment, Tom Brady was suspended for four games, which was later postponed after some legal battles and, what's more important, towards the team.

They took away their first-round pick in 2016, which was vital to maintaining an elite team, regardless of whether New England did everything it could to leverage the gate as a form of motivation for the 2015 season, maintaining its innocence in all the time and yes, in 2015 they were clearly angry. The Patriots started the season 4 and 0 and I know I haven't really been showing a ton of stats in this video because who already knows how crazy they bother Brady and the other guys? I'm talking about American football, but through four games. Tom Brady was putting up these numbers and was undefeated at the age of 38, absolutely obscene and the Patriots continued their Dom Min streak as Lord Vader and the team went into enemy territory against the Colts and in front of thousands of fans calling them cheaters .

They were victorious and eventually had their losing streak broken by the Brock Osweiler-led Denver Broncos, but they finished the 2015 season limping to 12 wins for the fourth year in a row, but unlike last year, the team was still mentally strong, but they were Damaged and perhaps damaged beyond repair, the defense was already weaker than in previous years with Rivas out and Vince Wilfork leaving a black hole in his place after he left for Houston, but the injuries were piling up to the point. that seemed like it could consume them completely. Gron and Edelman were dealing with the usual stuff during the regular season;

At playoff time, the Pats would be without key pieces on the offense, lineman Nate Soldier and their two best running backs, Larrett Blunt and Dion Lewis, and would face the Kansas City Chiefs. who came into this game winning their last 11 straight, seemed like a great opportunity to see a top predator go down or not, the Patriots are just a different breed, I don't know, they held Travis Kelce early and took a 14-3 and without a good running back they made Tom take home the game 27-2 where they would advance to another AFC Championship where the final showdown of the greatest rivalry in modern NFL history would take place for the last time.

Tom Bradyversus pton Manning, except this time the narrative around these two legends had changed very, very drastically at one point, although the Patriots have always been seen as the obstacle in the AFC, they still weren't this evil organization and, instead, the narrative became more focused. Can Pton Manning stop being a choke artist and overcome his personal demons and defeat the impassive object in front of him, but now the roles of the good guy and the bad guy have completely changed? Nobody was rooting for the Patriots, everyone wanted to see Pton. Manning, probably in his last season, retired on top with a Super Bowl and the Patriots, the Empire, had enough.

I mean, just keep pton Manning in this one for old time's sake please, now there were other factors in this game too, although New England didn't. They didn't know it and when game time came they quickly realized that the Broncos had one of the best defenses in NFL history and had just defeated New England. Tom Brady statistically had his worst AFC championship ever and even after attempting a fourth quarter comeback that came down to a failed two-point conversion. The final duel between Payton Manning and Tom Brady was over, it was a far cry from what was normally a pton versus Brady game because the forehead had more control over him than his arm at this point, but the defense prevailed and the Broncos they won the game 20-18 and would win the Super Bowl by sending Sheriff to the afterlife as a two-time champion, but this isn't Broncos video and the Patriots were in a strange position now that they showed they could still win Super Bowls in 2014 , but Tom Brady was now 39 going on 40 and the greatest quarterbacks of all time, like Brett Favre and coincidentally Payton Manning, couldn't make it a full season past 40, so the science was in Game. side of leaving Brady as soon as possible and Belich of course agreed to make it clear to Robert Craft that he wanted to go with Jimmy Garoppolo for the future, but he can't just bench Tom Brady, he would be killed along the way to home. job, but luckily I guess the deflated gate suspension was going to go into effect this season, so for the first four games of the year Tom Brady would be suspended and it was the Jimmy G Show.

Now he only played in two games because of an injury, but in those two games when Tom wasn't playing and Jimmy was the guy that looked really good, 250 yards and two touchdowns with no picks, he literally just died with Tom Brady and if he had more time to develop, anything is possible, like I guess, but eventually Tom. He returned and took Jimmy G and Jacobe Brassette's job without controversy and wished the Patriots another historic season. You already know howis that at this point the Patriots won 14 games and had one of the highest point differentials in NFL history.

He was injured and was out for the year and in mid-January, once again, the Patriots were ready to host another divisional round game and in the divisional round the Patriots faced the Unworthy Houston Texans, quarterbacks Brock Osweiler. I mean, the poor guy just wanted to steal some money from Houston and now he had to go against a team that was almost undefeated in the regular season and the game was really sloppy, but Thomas pulled through and then in the Championship Game the AFC, the Patriots faced the Pittsburgh Steelers as heavy favorites and were expected to get the job done now, it's been a hot minute since Thomas met our boy Weinstein in the playoffs, but just like last time, New England exterminated Pittsburgh and behind two dominant performances from their new West Welker and Chris Hogan and Julian.

Edelman helped propel them to a 36-17 victory and the Patriots were back in the Super Bowl where the Atlanta Falcons led by NFL MVP Matt Ryan would wait. I've been avoiding talking about this game for so long. There are a lot of videos where I just skip it, but it has to be done, it has to be done, so this is not going to be easy, bear with me, the Atlanta Falcons were a team that wasn't supposed to be here to be honest . Halfway In the 2016 season, in Week 13, they barely had a .500 record, but a late-season turnaround and two blowout playoff wins for their teams with Super Bowl DNA had taken them to the top. octagon to face the ultimate boss of the NFL and look, chances are if I've been following the NFL, you know what happened in this game, you know the Falcons took a 28-3 lead in the third quarter and then lost it, but the real question is how they found a way to waste everything it seemed like. like there was no way out of this hole, even for Tom Brady, he had come back from massive deficits before even against Hall of Famers, but never before had the Patriots looked so beaten that the Falcons almost simply looked younger and had more energy and watched the game.

The Patriots even tried to pull out some of their old cheese that works to spark comebacks before, only for it to fail, seem to end things completely, and as often happens in their Super Bowls, the Patriots didn't have luck on their side either. most of the time, even when they scored a touchdown, Steven Gsow eventually missed the extra point and a botched onside kick already put the Falcons in field goal range and the three points would be devastating to New England's chances of coming back. , so Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. He then reviewed his traditional choke sheet and marked both a holding call and a sack and after doing both, the Patriots got the ball back and responded with a field goal, giving Atlanta another chance to mathematically end the game, but everything What could go wrong did go wrong.

Devonte Freeman on third down failed his blocking task and one of the Super Bowl heroes, Dante, came in from the high tower to strip Matt Ryan and moments later combined with the Falcons before missing the opportunity on a field goal, he scored a touchdown and a two-point conversion. to bring the game within one possession, so the Falcons were choking and at that point they almost passed out on the field, but nature still had to take its course with the birds because remember they were a good football team and good football teams have good players and One of their good players was named Julio Jones, a first-ballot Hall of Fame wide receiver who made one of the best catches in history, but ices the game with a goal from inevitable field.

All they had to do was run the ball like three times for a yard or two, lower the clock to 3 minutes and 20 seconds and kick a 35-yard field goal or so to make the game 31 to 2. He did it. again. Jake Matthews got another hold and, just like last time, kicked the Falcons out of the field goal. range and so they were forced to clear and the Darkness began to establish itself. Tom Brady ran back onto the field and everyone knew what was going to happen if you don't go after New England, you're going to pay the price.

And then Tom Brady wielding his red lightsaber football was on the right side of one of the luckiest plays you'll ever see and then he got a touchdown and a two-point conversion and I was tied 28-28 with 57 seconds left. . With the Patriots one coin toss away in overtime, Matthew Slater ran onto the field and so did Atlanta's Matt Ryan, the coin went up into the air and that was it, the Falcons defense was already dead. , but NFL rules required that Thomas Guess return to the field and score points to officially end the game, so Brady marched down the field Dink and dunk Dink and dunk dunk until the former sixth-round pick became five-time Super Bowl champion and four-time Super Bowl MVP.

The New England Patriots pulled off the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history with nearly 15 points and won the game 34-28. One team continued on one path and the other followed well, the other continued on its own. The Falcons proceeded to go for 34 and 28. The next 62 games because the NFL wants them to suffer and on the other hand the New England Patriots were on top of the world but the Empire still had some gas left and they just wouldn't die , teams have tried to kill them, but they just kept coming back, Peyton got them a couple of times, but they came back, Bone Crusher did everything he could, but they came back, the Ravens, Broncos Giants, and whoever took huge chunks of them, but they always they came back, so, going into 2017, the only thing.

What mattered to the players was another Super Bowl title and for Bill Bich he obviously wanted to keep winning but come on, now Tom Brady was 40 40 years old they had fun but now it was time for Jimmy Garoppolo and the feud between Robert Craft and Tom Brady versus Bill bich increased even more Bill refused to trade Garoppolo and eventually switched to third substitute Jacobe Brassette, but Jimmy was going to be the future, not this 40 year old gezer, it had always been belich style to bring in the I knew when the old was coming around to its end, but Robert Craft disagreed that Tom Brady wasn't going to leave and made it clear that either you trade Jimmy Garoppolo or you're out, so he was forced to trade his most prized possession, but Belich can be a bit Petty at times and instead of taking the best deal on the table, he turned down offers for better picks because, having no chance, he was going to send Jimmy to Cleveland and traded Jimmy G to the 49ers for just one pick second rounder in my opinion, mainly because I kind of wanted Jimmy Garoppolo to succeed and prove Robert Craft right about him, so Jimmy was out.

Tom was still in and the 2017 season was definitely one to remember before the year they brought in more reinforcements with Brandon Cooks and Stefan. Gilmore and even with Julian Edelman injuring his ACL in the preseason, knocking him out for the entire year, the Patriots made it in the regular season, the defense was unusually weaker than usual, but Tom Brady found a new body and he had one of the best seasons of his career presenting these statistics and once again the man is over 40 years old and won the MVP for the third time and they also beat the Raiders.

This year was different because for the first time in a long time another team really threatened their chances of reaching the finals. The number one team was the Pittsburgh Steelers and in Week 15 the Patriots and Steelers would meet in a duel to effectively decide who would take home field advantage. The game was as close as a football game can be for the Steelers. Honestly, it seemed like at least the more talented team, but it didn't matter because in the end Jesse James' touchdown was ruled incomplete and the Patriots won the game and you know it didn't really matter too much in retrospect because the Steelers would lose in the playoffs even before face New England, but if the matchup was going to happen, then this game would have been absolutely crucial and even though the Steelers didn't, the Patriots took care of business in the playoffs, first playing Marcus Mariota, so it's not Nothing more needed to be said, but then the New England Patriots would host the Jacksonville Jaguars, a team eerily similar to the 2010 Jets.

They had a stupidly great defense that was number one in most advanced metrics, but a mediocre offense and, given the Patriots. Under circumstances it looked like the Jaguars with this stack defense could just be their Kryptonite and then things got even more interesting when before the game Tom Brady got injured, the Patriots will go down, they will be all over the place, the evil empire is no more will exist, is this a Big Deal, yes, it is a Big Deal right before the AFC Championship, the biggest game of the season, of course, which had almost become another game for this organization.

Tom Brady almost broke his thumb in half in practice and after rushing a doctor, Tom Brady. He required 25 stitches in the box and his chances of playing in the game seemed extremely low, but many thought it was no big deal and it was probably just a pinky or something and Tom would be fine. Tom wasn't right, this wasn't stuck. Tom's finger was in a lot of pain every time he tried to pick up a ball, but just 25 points weren't enough to take old Thomas out of this game and they were rolling from the start against Jacksonville, but things got a little tougher when Grank he was out of the annual playoffs and wasn't coming back with a concussion, so this game was going to be in extra hard mode for New England from now on and you know, to be honest with you, this really should have been the game where it was established the dinasty. was stopped and the Jaguars should have taken their place as the new Kings of the AFC, however, the fact that Jack was called down on Blake Bortles simply blowing asses professionally was enough to take down one of the best defenses in recent memory. 10 years and the Patriots led by One of the bravest forgotten performances of Tom Brady's career that ended with a Danny Amandola touchdown won the game 24-20 and it was Super Bowl time once again.

Super Bowl 52 was here and the Patriots died. It's been going on so long that they played the Eagles in the Super Bowl with Tom Brady at quarterback and Belich on the bench, except now they had a completely different team with the first starter revolving around the Eagles' improbable playoff run. behind backup quarterback Nick fos and his um girth, but the second starter occurred just before. game when it was revealed that former Patriots Pro Bowl cornerback and Super Bowl 49 savior Malcolm Butler would be benched and Eric Row would replace him in all roles and from the beginning it looked like that decision would come back to haunt to Row. being cooked and seared by Alshon Jeffrey and Tory Smith giving up an extremely important touchdown early that gave the Eagles all the confidence they needed to know that even with Nick Fos they could pick apart a defense that has been vulnerable all year to their credit, although Eric's line actually got better as the game progressed and Bill's plan started to work.

Brady was playing out of his mind not just because of his age but just because of a quarterback period and on defense they just bend but don't break and after Brady finds Gro will take the lead with nine minutes and 22 seconds left on Nick fos, which isBy the way, a backup quarterback just had to make it clear that he needed to go about 80 yards to score a touchdown, something less than exactly a touchdown and Brady and the boys still had a great chance to win, but here is where Belich took a fatal shot. mistake Nick Foles is immensely powerful and Doug Peters has some big balls and Philly's special early in this game proved both, but then the Eagles tried on fourth down at their own end of the 50 and it worked and the Eagles kept getting closer every to the goal line again and the Patriots defense bent and bent and bent and finally mich's unit broke down.

Zack ZZ extended the ball over the goal line and Philadelphia now had a lead still down five that you wouldn't want any player with. They had the ball in their hands more than Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, so when the Philadelphia offense Patriots returned to the field, the feeling of dread and darkness accompanied them, but this time it just didn't work for them. Brandon Graham was released and the Eagles. He froze the Super Bowl moments later with a hail break and the Patriots fell 41-33, the Patriots lost but Tom Brady played arguably the best Super Bowl he's ever been in once again let's appreciate how ridiculous it is that the man has a large enough size.sample size of Super Bowl games for that to mean anything more than his stats 500 yards and three touchdowns to this day, which is the most Y passes in a Super Bowl and the Patriots offense is still the only team in Super Bowl history to never punt once and they lost to Nick Fos.

That's why I love football. I mean, Tom can't do this forever. The man was 41 years old now and, interestingly, Tom Brady only had 2 years left on his contract. He would be with New England for the 18th and 19th seasons, but perhaps that was it, there has been little talk about an extension and with Bill and Tom's relationship becoming increasingly competitive on the field, it seemed that at some point within the next season or two the most dominant master and apprentice. The duo in NFL history would split, but for now the 2018 season started on a crazy note.

Bill Bich had officially traded Rob Gronowski to the Detroit Lions. The deal was literally done. Bill saw no more use for groon with all of his injuries. now, but Rob told Bill that if you trade me to the Lions, I'm just going to retire and I say this fairly, the Lions are going to take him to Detroit, no, not Detroit, so Groon stayed and Edelman was still here also. He tried to get a boost and got caught, so he missed a few games, but that wouldn't matter. For the first time in a long time, the Patriots began to show signs of decline in week six in which they were involved in a regular game. classic of the season with the Chiefs and they met a potential heir to the throne in Patrick Mahomes with some foreshadowing there, then from week 10 to 15 the Patriots lost three games to teams that would miss the playoffs, the Steelers played until the competition.

The Dolphins pulled off the Miami miracle and the Titans, well, we'll get to them in a few minutes, but the Patriots finished the season with a record of 11 and 5, their worst record since the 2009 season. Can you believe that from 2010 to 2017 did this team win? at least 12 games every year and meanwhile the Raiders haven't even won a playoff game in my entire life, it's not fair man, this isn't fair at all, so the Patriots came into the playoffs looking vulnerable. hit Josh Gordon, who had been their most productive receiver outside of Edelman, basically retired at the end of December and then was kicked out of the NFL again, but the team still surged forward.

Brady had another strong year and, as is tradition, they didn't even give the The Chargers the luxury of making their divisional round competitive and the moment of the Game of the Year that everyone was waiting for arrived to see the Chiefs against the Patriots, the old against what's new in the AFC Championship game, Tom Brady at 41 against Patrick Mahomes at 23 and in this game the crown would be transferred from Brady and bich to momes and Reed forever, but as we have learned so far in this video, do not and I repeat, do not feed the beast if you can give Tom Brady anything and I mean anything. similar to hate, he's going to use that to fuel his hate and the Sith Lord showed that he wasn't done yet, the Patriots had complete control of the game for the entire first half, Tom and the offense did enough and the defense was confusing the hell out of him.

A young Momes took a 14-nil lead, however, Momes can only hold down so long, so when the Chiefs, who averaged a league-best 35.3 points per game, started scoring, the question was: could this old Patriots team led by Tom Brady and I guess Rex Burkhead kept up and he and the offense really could and eventually Sony Michelle took the lead to give the game back to New England 24-21, but This is what the all-time greats responded and Brady was forced to take the field again. on the way and then it happened before, Edelman dropped the ball which resulted in a pick and now a grank drop almost ended the game but D Ford was offside never mind so the drive continues and with 40 seconds remaining, Rex Burkhead was in the end zone which miraculously led Momes to put the Chiefs in field goal range where the game would go to overtime and sudden death is a curious thing for New England and since 2001 they have been perhaps the last team you would like to face on a coin. toss winning 10 of their 16 total coin tosses in overtime games and in the playoffs they have never lost a coin toss under Bill and Tom and that fortune continued in this game the Patriots won the coin toss and with the momentum of his side who The others except Edelman Grank and Brady made key plays and Rexb cashed in the final score and the Patriots shocked the Chiefs 37-31 and were in their ninth Super Bowl appearance with Brady and this is not right, it's the 18th year of the Dynasty. and they are still in the Super Bowl and the team they are playing was the Los Angeles Rams led by Todd Gurley and Aaron Donald and although Todd Gurley would be hampered by an injury during this game and basically be useless, that helped too. to result in one of the most boring Super Bowls in NFL history, in other words, exactly what Bill Bich wanted, the Patriots offense did very little, but so did the Rams and deep in the fourth quarter The game was locked at 3 to 3, the Patriots were old defeated. and broken, but they could still make plays from time to time, a massive catch by Gro showed that those old bones could still work and that led to a Sony Michelle touchdown, so the offense had done its job and now the defense had his chance to do it, but Jared Golf was actually making his best drive now almost connecting with Brand and Cooks for a massive touchdown, but the man who was testing and who may have held him back a little bit was Stefan Gilmore, the Patriots' all-pro cornerback which had quickly become possibly the best. player at his position in the league and after the cook game almost worked he basically tried the exact same thing again and this time Gilmore was ready and took him out returning him to New England and now the offense and defense did their part and so It was the turn of the special teams and that's what happened against the Rams 17 years earlier, a Patriots kicker, this time Steven Gusowski came onto the field and barely scored a 41-yard field goal and that was it, keep going, Tom Brady and Bill Bich.

They won another Super Bowl, they are sixth together and the Patriots won the game 13-3, but unfortunately for New England, if this Super Bowl proved anything besides the fact that this team had built the greatest dynasty in NFL history, the Pats simply using all their gas at the end of the year as the 2019 season would bring the death of the Patriots dynasty, the writing was on the wall all year. Robert Craft got a little emotional because Antonio Brown didn't work out, Grank retired and even though they started season 8. -0 their schedule was really weak and the final nail in the coffin that was made a decade earlier seemed to come when Ryan Fitzpatrick of all people the people and the Dolphins knocked the Patriots out of the single seed, forcing them to play in the wild card and in the wild card, one man came to free us all, the prophesied king Derek Henry would be the last thing this great dynasty saw before an imminent death and, of course, the only way the Patriots would be defeated would have to be from the inside and out.

The Titans bench would be a very familiar face with former Super Bowl winning linebacker Mike Vel being the head coach doing everything, maybe too much, but he was committed to bringing down the same dynasty he helped build and throughout the game I just felt bad if the Patriots really finished this, there's no way they can't lose like that and it didn't really hit me until Tom Brady's last pass in his Patriot career was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by a former NFL champion. Patriot and Super Bowl, Logan Ryan, when it really hit me, this was it, the New England Patriots dynasty was finally over and after the wild card loss, Belich and Brady broke up and as of the recording of this video, both would go on to have very different success Brady won another Super Bowl with Tampa and then walked off into the sunset, while Bill Bich at the time of this video simply mutually parted ways with the Patriots, wasn't fired at all and now all that's left of this Juggernaut in New England is Robert Craft and I could go deeper into the actual beef between Belich and Tom Brady, but I mean, Jesus, this video is already over two hours long, so I'm going to save you from that, so while the debate continues over who deserves more credit between Bill and Tom.

One thing's for sure: For about 20 years, a head coach no one could get along with and a sixth-round quarterback came together to form the most dominant dynasty in NFL history and with other key contributors. The New England Patriots from 2001 to 2019 formed the greatest dynasty the NFL has ever seen anyway. If you like this video please subscribe because I have many videos on the channel like this and if you liked this video then watch this video. that I did about the tragic fall of Robert Griffin, it's pretty good, trust me and also thanks to my sponsors for pledging a dollar, it really means a lot, but anyway, until next time, Tom.