Hey, we're doing something a little bit different on Quickslance, the podcast today.

We're actually doing an oral feature story, and it's about probability, and the Patriots being an extreme outlier in the arena

of probability.

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So hit that up. Meanwhile, back to the issue at hand. We've seen the Patriots over the course of time

throw probability on its

head. It's not just last year's Super Bowl where they trailed 28 to 3. It's the AFC championship

game this year where they were down to Jacksonville. And we all kind of figured, I know they're down,

but they're going to come back. At halftime of the Super Bowl

last year, people asked me, are they done? He said, they'll make it close. I don't know if they'll

win, but they will make it close. Why did I think that? Because I saw the 2014 playoffs when

the Patriots came back against the generationally great defense in Seattle. I saw it happen in the AFC divisional playoff game.

In 2013, I saw a Patriots team trail 24 to nothing to Denver and win that game at home.

I saw them do it against Cleveland that year with an on-sides kick and then a late game

pass interference setting up a touchdown and I saw him do it against the Saints with Kenbrel Tompkins after a Tom Brady late game pick actually had them completely

on the ropes. Think about it. 2007 in the Super Bowl, Tom Brady took them down the field and

scored a touchdown in the final two minutes against the New York Giants, even though it looked like

they hadn't done anything all day offensively. And in 2011, Amma Bradshaw couldn't hit

his ass at the one-yard line. And as a result, Giants fans had to sweat out a Hail Mary that

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