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All right, let's get back to it.

We started the show.

We spent a lot of time on this show.

And today is that Super Bowl recap show.

Now, the game was not great.

You saw great defense.

You saw a terrific team in Seattle really had their way with New England.

The Better Team won.

There's no two ways about it. 800919-3-7-6. Former Jets first round pick, Sam Donald. He wins the whole thing. He was not great by any stretch, but he was good enough. And I think the key for him is with that defense and that running game, he didn't make any mistakes. and that was more than enough to lead them to a victory yesterday.

Yeah, I mean, it just felt like it was going to take a mistake. It was going to take a Seattle Seahawks mistake for the Patriots to actually find a way to score points. Right? I mean, first possession, they move the ball well. He takes a bad sack, and then that was it. They end up punting, and then it felt like Arjah was eight of the first, eight of the first nine possessions that ended in punts.

Oh, so that of then taking the knee at the end of the first half. Yeah. I mean, it was a dominant performance by Seattle. It was. And then the other side of it, I mean, I thought New England's defense played really well also. They did play well. I mean, it gets overshadowed because Seattle's defense was so great, but they played really well. but it was only a matter of time it felt like it felt like it just I mean, it gets overshadow because Seattle's defense was so great, but they played really well.

But it was only a matter of time, it felt like. It felt like it just, I mean, New England was going to have a really hard time scoring. And eventually, and it wasn't going to take touchdowns. It was just going to take, just keep scoring points, don't turn the ball over, and Seattle was going to win the game. It was so bad that when they had the ball late stages of the first half,

Chris Collinsworth said something to the effective. Scoring would be great now. But if they could just move the football a little bit and not give it back to Seattle, that would be a win in its own right. That's how bad their offense was yesterday. That's how bad the offense was. And it's how good Seattle's defense is. And let's be fair. Seattle's, and I take nothing away from Seattle. Their defense is

wonderful. New England's offense was trashed the entire postseason. Right, which was, I mean,

I think a mix, a mix between playing really good defenses and Drake May potentially

battling through a shoulder injury.

Agreed.

Offensive line not being very good, especially the left side with the two rookies that got

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