When people talk about the Pats super bowl loses I feel like they forget it literally took two of the most amazing/difficult/unlikely catches in SB history to beat them. Same with the kearse catch. He had no business catching that. Butler broke it up perfectly and the ball just HAPPENED to be there. That’s just luck. Pats won that game more than the Seahawks lost it.

As I’ve long said, it took a MIRACLE to beat the 2007 Patriots, and the 2011 Manningham catch wasn’t too far behind it.

There have been a couple questions like this today, because as another question pointed out, if you flip Brady’s interceptions this game probably wasn’t close.

In my mind this Super Bowl was won by the Patriots with great coaching and a player making a fantastic play. Everyone acts like Marshawn just walks into the end zone on the next play if they hand it to him.

But everyone seems to forget the Pats stopped Lynch on 3rd-and-1 and 3rd-and-2 already in this game. So it was no gimme. 

It’s just amazing how thin the margin of victory was in ALL SIX Super Bowls. That’s why I’ve always said that ultimately the two Giants losses will be considered a positive. 

Sometimes you get that last play, sometimes you don’t. But to make it to that point so many times, and come right down within a minute of winning the Super Bowl, that’s what is most impressive.