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Originally Posted by BlackOp
If you watch the AFCCG against the Jaguars...and are honest...you'll see why Brady is "great."..it's his entire legacy summed up it one game.
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Yup great game by Brady considering he was facing a legitimately elite defense/secondary with Jalen Ramsey and doing so without Gronk for half the game.
He overcome a key fumble by Dion Lewis. Gronk just played 26 snaps since Gronk got an illegal shot to the head taking him out of the game in the first half....
I have watched the game before, there really was 3 penalties by the Jags that made the huge difference in penalty yards. Two very obvious DPIs for around 65+ yards and a 15 yarder for a headshot to Gronk. The Patriots understandable would rather have Gronk not take a tough shot to the head than 15 yards.
All 3 calls comprising the bulk of the yards were obvious with announcers not questioning them at all but stating they were clear calls. It would have been egregious and ridiculous not to call them. On one play, Patriots top deep threat was pushed out of bounds. Literally pushed 2 yards so he ended up out of bounds while ball is in flight. I don't know why the Jags defender did that but it may have just been genuine fear of Brady's accuracy throwing the ball.
On another Patriots receiver slowed down since the ball was underthrown by Brady. But instead of playing it right, Jags defender starts a mini horse collar of Patriots receiver and turns him around when ball is still in the air. Another rather obvious flag that any ref even in a game of letting stuff go needs to call every time.
Jags secondary simply messed up on at least 2 of those 3 plays. I won't say the illegal hit on Gronk was a mess up if you are trying to knock him out of the game with a concussion.
Tell me which one of those 3 plays you disagree with and any calls not called against the Patriots that game that were as egregious as those 3?
The fact of the matter is the Jags had multiple opportunities to win in the 4th quarter but the Patriots made the plays and won the game. That was the game in which Gilmore from what I can remember made a great play on a pretty good throw to seal the game.
By the way, watch all of the Patriots games against Denver in the playoffs and you will see a game in which the Patriots kind of got *****. Denver was committing a bunch of penalties without it being called. These weren't minor ones like 2015 AFC championship game where Gronk in the end zone of two different plays were interfered with slyly by defenders such as Talib.