Still don’t believe that defense wins championships??

[WarPanthers89]

Crazy stat in the article just posted, 46 of 53 super bowl winners have finished top ten in scoring defense. The Patriots played great TEAM defense last night which is why they have another ring. We must fix our issues across the line and at safety.  Hopefully Rivera can turn things around quick....if not we all know he’s gone. 

[PhillyB]

pats defense wasn't that great. rams offense was objectively atrocious. 

[Moo Daeng]

Another interesting item from that

 

"The Rams’ loss now means none of the 11 highest-scoring teams in NFL history won a championship, per Gosselin."

 

[WarPanthers89]

1 minute ago, PhillyB said:

pats defense wasn't that great. rams offense was objectively atrocious. 

I disagree,  last night they played great. Anytime you hold a team who is one of the best in the game at scoring to three points you are doing something right. Same thing happened to us in super bowl 50, no one could stop us and we blew it in the big game.

[DeAngelo Beason]

To be fair, the Rams were sloppy.  They didn't make it very difficult for the Pats.  Happy feet, inaccurate throws, and poor play calling all contributed.  Granted the Pats forced some of that, but no one can sit here and argue the Rams gave this their best effort.

[Anybodyhome]

The Rams were averaging 35 points per game until Kupp and Gurley were injured. Came back from their bye week and scoring dropped almost 9 points per game and they lost 2 of their final 5 games of the season.

Don't equate a lack of scoring to good defense- they're not the same.

[Untouchable]

Not a great defensive effort from either team, just atrocious football.

[JARROD]

20 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

pats defense wasn't that great. rams offense was objectively atrocious. 

Atrocious because Sean McVae thought he was Vince Lombardi and went into a Super Bowl with a small playbook to run a few plays effectively.

probably not stupid if you pick some clutch plays to rotate to see what the Patriots weaknesses were and then exploit the ones that work.

was stupid to pick the plays the Patriots obviously gameplanned for— 

Sean brought a knife to a gunfight,..

[GeorgeHanson]

43 minutes ago, PhillyB said:

pats defense wasn't that great. rams offense was objectively atrocious. 

33, 34, 35, 38, 33, 23, 39, 29, 35, 36, 54, 30, 6, 23, 31, 48, 30, 26, 3

 

[mc52beast]

Goff looked like he was lost the entire game, showed that he’s not as good as people make him out to be. A healthy Cam would’ve shredded that defense

[thefuzz]

Been saying this for a long time now....offense gets you to the playoffs, defense wins you the big one.

[Mr. Scot]

18 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Goff looked like he was lost the entire game, showed that he’s not as good as people make him out to be. 

To be fair, the Patriot defense was at least partially responsible for how bad he looked.

[Lumps]

Goff is a glorified game manger. But, he is a very good game manager but he has a lot of talent around him and for him to be successful I think it will need to stay that way.

Not a lot of teams could score the way the Patriots defense was playing last night.

Then  you have Bellicheck vs McVay. One who's been there done that over and over and one who never has let alone one of the youngest coaches ever. Just really not a fair matchup.

The stadium was basically 90% patriots fans.

Saints vs. Patriots would have been better. And before that I really think Chargers vs. Patriots would have been better.

With everything considered, the Rams did not do that poorly and played quite well.

[Davidson Deac II]

The Patriots were constantly in Goff's face.  And Rams couldn't run the ball with Gurley or Anderson.  The Pats defensive line dominated the Ram's offense, and the MVP should have been split amongst the dline.  Not sure if that is bad oline play or good dline play, but regardless, defense dominated.