🚨 Luis Enrique: “I've never seen such an intensity and physical level. We have to congratulate everyone”.
“We deserved to win, we deserved to draw and we deserved to lose today. It was a fantastic game”.
Whenever Super Bowl 49 is talked about, everyone mentions Malcolm Butler's game-ending INT (for good reason, it's one of the greatest plays in NFL history) but I feel like his 2nd half as a whole isn't talked about as much as it should be.
Butler played 18 snaps in the 2nd half (13 coverage snaps vs Jermaine Kearse & Ricardo Lockette):
• Allowed 2 catches on 6 targets (33.3%)
• Allowed 39 yards (33 of those yards came from one of the unluckiest plays ever when what should've been a Butler PBU turned into a Kearse catch)
• 0 TD-1 INT
• 2 Pass Breakups
• 17.4 rating
Just an unbelievable 2nd half & INT from an undrafted rookie!! 🫡 @Mac_BZ #NEPats
The Patriots are the first team in NFL history to beat three top-5 total defenses in the playoffs.
• Los Angeles Chargers (#5)
• Houston Texans (#1)
• Denver Broncos (#2)
Tough day for the “schedule” narrative…
A psycho tried stabbing a bunch of people in Boston and was stopped by a cop who shot him dead. Boston officials went on TV offering condolences… to the attacker.