Tom Brady, Bill Belichick look to burnish already stellar resumes

Heading into Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons, Brady is one victory away from surpassing Montana and Pittsburgh Steelers great Terry Bradshaw to become the winningest quarterback in Super Bowl history. “They don’t put their defense in many tough situations”.

The Matthews family, beginning with Jake’s grandfather, Clay Jr., have played a combined 59 seasons and 1,273 regular-season games, combining for 24 Pro Bowls.

Dimitroff and I sat down in Houston, where his team had recently arrived for a week of Super Bowl practice. Taylor Kyles of PatsPulpit gives a thorough position-by-position breakdown of the Falcons, including a possible game-plan. In that Super Bowl, Madden NFL 15 predicted the final score, the Patriots coming back from a 10-point deficit in the 3rd quarter, and was within 3 yards of Julian Edelman’s receiving yardage. The salary cap prevents teams from keeping all core-group players. The coaches challenged us every step of the way and the team’s met the challenge.

It’s not just the fact that they’ve dominated the National Football League for the better part of the past two decades. And when you do that for five months, it gets tiring for them, and you owe so much to your family, and your wife, and your spouse, and the people who support you because they’re pulling the burden at home for us to live our dreams. I noticed another similarity between these two games not mentioned there, though.

While it might be easy to shrug off a video game simulation, it’s worth noting that the long-running franchise has proven especially prescient in the 13 years it has been rolling out a prediction, correctly picking the victor nine times – and in 2015 it perfectly predicted both the final score and the final play.

That’s certainly not an ideal situation for anyone to deal with, but Brady had an especially trying previous year and a half already as he was embroiled in the Deflategate saga.

It’s not really hard to see why that’s the case, either. Luckily, I had a partner in Dan who was very into that.

That will likely matter little to the Patriots and Brady, who no doubt has a somewhat adversarial relationship with football science in the wake of his Deflategate incident.

Quinn was the right leader.