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Following Tom Brady’s sensational announcement that he’s popping out of retirement, we glance again on his seven Tremendous Bowl triumphs…
New England Patriots 20-17 St Louis Rams
Tremendous Bowl XXXVI, New Orleans, 2002
Brady’s first and final Tremendous Bowls had been the one events he was the underdog with the bookmakers.
In simply his second season within the NFL, after being drafted within the sixth spherical of the 2000 NFL Draft, Brady took over from long-time starter Drew Bledsoe, who was saved out of the line-up with a sheared blood vessel following a heavy hit in a sport towards the New York Jets.
Brady led New England to a 11-5 file on the season and to the Tremendous Bowl, in the end conserving the job over Bledsoe, however there they got here up towards the Rams’ juggernaut of an offense dubbed the ‘Best Present on Turf’.
Brady, understandably, was primarily restricted to a ‘game-manager’ function, finishing 16 of 27 passes for under 145 yards, although he did throw an eight-yard landing move to David Patten because the Pats took a 14-3 lead into half-time.
Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri celebrates as he fires by way of the game-winning subject purpose in Tremendous Bowl XXXVI
The Rams lastly discovered some kind within the fourth quarter, scoring two touchdowns to tie issues up at 17-17. However, with one minute and 30 seconds left on the clock and John Madden on commentary suggesting they need to kneel to run the clock out and take the sport to additional time, Brady drove the crew down the sector to arrange a game-winning, 48-yard subject purpose from Adam Vinatieri as time expired.
New England Patriots 32-29 Carolina Panthers
Tremendous Bowl XXXVIII, Houston, 2004
One other clutch kick from Vinatieri, this one from 41 yards out with 4 seconds on the clock, secured Brady his second Tremendous Bowl ring.
Tom Brady and Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick rejoice their Tremendous Bowl XXXVIII win over Carolina
In reality, Brady did the majority of the work, finishing 32 of 48 passes for 354 yards, three touchdowns and one choose, however he got here up towards an impressed Jake Delhomme – sure, that Jake Delhomme! – for Carolina, who ensured the sport went right down to the wire.
Delhomme, who would make just one additional playoff look in his profession, put in a wonderful efficiency – 323 yards, three TDs – in rallying his crew from a 21-10 deficit early within the fourth quarter.
The Panthers put up 18 factors within the remaining interval, contributing to a Tremendous Bowl file of 37 scored in a single quarter; Delhomme’s 12-yard scoring strike to Ricky Proehl tied issues up at 29, however once more Brady was granted an excessive amount of time drive his crew down the sector and ship the ultimate blow courtesy of one other Vinatieri kick.
New England Patriots 24-21 Philadelphia Eagles
Tremendous Bowl XXXIX, Jacksonville, 2005
Again to again. And a 3rd Tremendous Bowl win in 4 years; a dynasty properly and really born.
Andy Reid was once more on the receiving finish, this time as the top coach of the Eagles, although, not like his Chiefs on Sunday, his crew managed to maintain issues shut all through this contest earlier than in the end developing simply quick.
Donovan McNabb threw three interceptions within the Eagles’ defeat to the Patriots in Tremendous Bowl XXXIX
All tied up at 14 on the finish of the third quarter – certainly one of Brady’s two landing passes thrown to linebacker, and now Tennessee Titans head coach, Mike Vrabel – the Patriots then streaked clear by 10 factors within the fourth courtesy of a Corey Dillon rating and a Vinatieri subject purpose.
The Eagles then reduce their deficit to 24, with Donovan McNabb throwing a 30-yard landing move to Greg Lewis, however they had been criticised for taking an excessive amount of break day the clock because the TD got here inside the ultimate two minutes and New England in the end held on, clinching victory with a 3rd interception of McNabb within the remaining seconds.
Congratulations to the best of all time.
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New England Patriots 28-24 Seattle Seahawks
Tremendous Bowl XLIX, Phoenix, 2015
Brady endured a decade-long drought between profitable his third and fourth rings, being denied twice by the New York Giants within the intervening years, most notably after they prevented the Patriots from going the complete 2007 season unbeaten.
Very similar to with Kansas Metropolis, the Seahawks had been trying to turn out to be the primary Tremendous Bowl champions to repeat since Brady’s Pats had performed so in 2003-04. And Seattle, frankly, ought to have received.
Brady had a good sufficient sport, finishing 37 of fifty passes for 328 yards, throwing 4 touchdowns to 2 picks, however the sport was out of his palms late on because the Seahawks, down by 4, drove down the sector within the remaining two minutes for the game-winning rating.
Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler intercepts a move meant for Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette on the purpose line to finish Tremendous Bowl XLIX
They reached the purpose line with 26 seconds to go however, in one of many craziest play-calls in soccer historical past, Seattle opted to move quite than hand the ball off to their ‘Beast Mode’ working again Marshawn Lynch and Russell Wilson’s move was picked off by Malcolm Butler in one of the vital memorable performs in Tremendous Bowl historical past.
New England Patriots 38-28 Atlanta Falcons (OT)
Tremendous Bowl LI, Houston, 2017
Fairly presumably Brady’s crowning achievement. Not solely did he overcome his childhood hero, Joe Montana, and Terry Bradshaw’s file haul of 4 rings for a quarterback, however he did so by throwing for an enormous 466 yards and main his crew again from a 28-3 deficit with eight and a half minutes left within the third quarter.
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Behind by such a margin, Brady needed to air it out to try to catch his crew up, and that he did, making an attempt a file 62 passes, finishing 43 of them. He threw touchdowns to James White and Danny Amendola both facet of a Stephen Gostkowski subject purpose to convey his crew again to inside eight of Atlanta and White then took over.
The Patriots working again discovered the endzone an extra two occasions on run performs from the purpose line – the primary tying the sport up after a profitable two-point conversion completion from Brady to Amendola and the second the game-clincher in additional time.
New England Patriots 13-3 Los Angeles Rams
Tremendous Bowl LIII, Atlanta, 2019
This one was removed from a traditional. In reality, it was the lowest-scoring Tremendous Bowl in historical past!
In hindsight, it was maybe the start of the tip of the Patriots dynasty, with the dearth of offensive firepower that has plagued them for the following two seasons in New England on full show right here.
Tom Brady below strain from Aaron Donald within the Patriots’ low-scoring Tremendous Bowl win over the Rams
Brady did nearly sufficient, regardless of throwing an interception along with his first move of the sport, as he completed up 21-of-35 for 262 yards, however actually his fifth ring got here courtesy of a protection that performed lights out in proscribing the Rams to only 260 yards of whole offense.
With the rating nonetheless tied at 3-3 into the ultimate 10 minutes of the sport, although, Brady stepped up and located Gronkowski for a 29-yard move play to set New England up on the two-yard line, from the place Sony Michel ran in for the one landing of the sport.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-9 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs
Tremendous Bowl LV, Tampa Bay, 2021
This was meant to be one problem too nice even for Brady.
At 43 years previous, in his first 12 months with a brand new crew, studying a brand new offense, with the added problem of dwelling by way of a worldwide pandemic, Brady and the Buccaneers overcame a sluggish begin to the season by which they dropped to 7-5 with a Week 12 defeat to these very Chiefs. They might not lose one other sport.
The chemistry the crew struggled for by way of these first three months was there in abundance within the Tremendous Bowl Sunday rematch towards a heavily-favoured Kansas Metropolis facet. The protection was rampant in disrupting Patrick Mahomes and the league’s No 1 offense, limiting them to only 9 factors.
As for Brady, properly he threw landing passes to Gronkowski, two of them, similar to previous occasions, because the pair overtook Joe Montana and Jerry Rice for probably the most scores by a duo in playoff historical past (14) and Tremendous Bowl historical past (5).
