In sports, as in life, when a team fails it becomes everyone's job to assign blame. There has to be a reason why they lost. It has to be someone's fault.
The sports media assigns blame one by one so that they have enough stories to fill 24 hours of programming and writing. The players blame so it doesn't fall on them. The player's wives blame so it doesn't fall on their spouse. On and on it goes down the list until eventually everyone is to blame. And in truth, everyone is to blame. Teams win and lose as teams, not individuals.
The Patriots lost the Super Bowl themselves. By their actions, inactions, and mistakes, they lost the game. They lost the game as a team, not as individuals. Believe me, there is plenty of blame to go around for the entire team, coaches included.
Tom Brady did not play like the Tom Brady we are all used to watching. He made poor choices. He threw balls behind receivers. He was out of rhythm because he couldn't move p...
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