The game came down to pretty much one big play. It could've gone either way. I don't think you can really say much about the Pats organization or character from this game. They were 1 play from being champs AGAIN. Don't read too much into it.
I didn't see it that way. I thought the Giants outplayed them from start to finish. Sure they had a chance to win it at the end, but it's not like the Giants got lucky. They played well and they ended up on top.
Now I'm not saying that it's the beginning of the end of the Patriots, not at all. I'm just saying they are starting to show a few cracks that didn't seem to be there a couple years ago. Belicheck has a lot of work to do on that defense as they can't always rely on their offense to bail them out. In my opinion New England leaned on Brady a bit too much this year and he nearly pulled it off, but they don't want to have to do that again next year.
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