2. Tom Brady
It was simply Tom Brady’s night. Despite committing two INTs, the Patriots QB could not be kept down and could not be stopped as the Seahawks gave up four TDs to the future Hall of Fame QB en route to his 3rd Super Bowl MVP award.
The Legion of Boom couldn’t do anything against his dink-and-dunk offense, setting a Super Bowl record for completions with 37 – including 20 in the first half alone. Even though they were one of the greatest defenses Brady had ever faced in a playoff game, he simply shredded them.
1. The Worst Play Ever
You have the best RB in the NFL, Marshawn Lynch aka Beast Mode, your All-Pro RB, on the ONE-yard line. But instead of giving him the ball and letting him pound the ball in for what would have had an extremely high chance of being a TD (and if not having one or two more chances of getting it in again) the Seahawks go empty set and do an inside slant to receivers in tight coverage – where Russell Wilson is promptly picked off in the endzone for a game-losing INT by Patriots CB Malcolm Butler.
Few plays in NFL history were called as poorly as that one, and that play, more than perhaps any play or any player’s performance in this game, is why the Seahawks are not the Super Bowl Champions this year.
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