>> GOOD EVENING, LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN, AND WELCOME TO
SUPER BOWL XXXVI.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
THE RAMS WON THE TOSS.
SO THEY WILL RECEIVE.
ADAM VINATIERI WILL KICK OFF FOR
THE PATRIOTS, AND YO MURPHY IS
BACK DEEP FOR THE RAMS.
YOU READY, JOHN?
>> HECK, YES.
I THINK WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR
ABOUT EIGHT HOURS, HAVEN'T WE?
>> AT LEAST.
>> WE'VE HAD BREAKFAST, LUNCH,
AND WE'VE STARTED DINNER HERE.
BUT I THINK IT'S GONNA ALL BE
WORTH IT SHORTLY.
>> NEXT COMES THE SHAVE AND THEN
DINNER.
VINATIERI'S KICK IS SHORT, BUT
IT WILL BE HANDLED BY YO MURPHY.
AND MURPHY BREAKS RIGHT OUT OF
THE PACK.
CAUGHT FROM BEHIND AND WRESTLED
TO THE GROUND AT JUST SHORT OF
THE 40.
HERE'S THE RAM OFFENSE, LED BY
THE MAN WHO RON PITTS JUST
TALKED TO, KURT WARNER, 2-TIME
NFL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER.
IN FRONT OF HIM, A GOOD
OFFENSIVE LINE -- PACE, NUTTEN,
McCOLLUM, TIMMERMAN, AND
ROD JONES AT RIGHT TACKLE.
THOSE WILL TOUCH THE BALL --
HOLT, FAULK, HODGINS,
ERNIE CONWELL, THE TIGHT END,
AND ISAAC BRUCE.
AND LET'S WATCH THEM GO TO WORK.
THE RAMS, FIRST AND 10 AT THEIR
OWN 39-YARD LINE.
>> AND THEY START OFF EMPTY
BACKFIELD.
I THINK THEY'RE GONNA GO BIG
EARLY.
>> WARNER.
BALL, I BELIEVE, MIGHT HAVE
BOUNCED LOOSE.
I'M NOT SURE.
THE NEW ENGLAND DEFENSE.
FRONT FOUR.
PLEASANT, SEYMOUR, MITCHELL, AND
HAMILTON.
THE THREE LINEBACKERS -- BRUSCHI
IN THE MIDDLE, PHIFER AND VRABEL
OUTSIDE.
AND THE SECONDARY -- AND IT'S A
GOOD ONE -- OTIS SMITH AND
TY LAW, THE CORNERS.
TEBUCKY JONES AND LAWYER MILLOY,
THE TWO SAFETIES.
MIKE MARTZ STUDYING.
THAT PASS WAS INCOMPLETE.
>> HE'S THINKING ABOUT WHAT HE'S
GONNA DO ON THE NEXT PLAY.
ALWAYS THINKING A PLAY AHEAD.
>> WARNER.
TORRY HOLT, LEAPING CATCH.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
BILL BELICHICK WAS TELLING US
YESTERDAY -- HE SAID, "THE THING
I WORRY ABOUT THE MOST IS THE
FIRST FIVE MINUTES."
AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE RAMS DO
IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES.
ON OFFENSE, SIX TOUCHDOWNS, TWO
FIELD GOALS.
LOOK AT THIS -- DEFENSE -- SEVEN
TAKEAWAYS AND AN INTERCEPTION
FOR A RETURN.
SO THEY COME OUT, AND NOW THEY
START THIS GAME -- YO MURPHY
GETS THEM A GOOD KICKOFF RETURN.
AND THEN ON SECOND DOWN, WE JUST
SEE KURT WARNER MAKES THAT
COMPLETION, AND THE RAMS ALWAYS
START OFF VERY QUICKLY.
>> QUICK COUNT.
IT'S MARSHALL FAULK, AND HE IS
WRAPPED UP AFTER A YARD BY
TEDY BRUSCHI, THE MIDDLE
LINEBACKER.
>> EVERYONE'S SURPRISED BY THE
RAMS' SPEED ALL THE TIME.
IN FACT, BILL BELICHICK, WHAT HE
DID WITH HIS DEFENSE IS HE HAD
HIS SCOUT TEAM START 3 YARDS
OFFSIDE.
SO THEY STARTED 3 YARDS UP THE
FIELD BEFORE THE BALL WAS
SNAPPED, JUST TO GET THE FEELING
OF HOW QUICKLY THESE RECEIVERS
GET UP THE FIELD ON YOU.
>> HE HAD THE WIDE RECEIVERS DO
THAT -- EVERYBODY ELSE WAS
NORMAL -- TO SHOW THOSE CORNERS
HOW QUICKLY THEY GOT ON THEM.
SECOND AND 8.
FAULK ONLY GOT 2.
THAT'S AZ HAKIM THAT GOES IN
MOTION, AND WARNER LOOKS IN THAT
DIRECTION.
NOTHING THERE.
PULLS IT DOWN.
IS CHASED.
IS CHASED.
FINALLY LOFTS IT TO HOLT.
INCOMPLETE.
GOOD EFFORT BY WARNER.
HOLT COULDN'T HANG ON.
>> AND THAT GUY WHO WAS CHASING
HIM WAS WILLIE McGINEST, WHO IS
THE BEST OF THE PATRIOT PASS
RUSHERS.
HE'LL LINE UP ALL OVER THE
PLACE.
HE'LL LINE UP AT EITHER END.
THAT TIME HE CAME FROM THE
OUTSIDE.
HE WAS THE FIRST GUY THAT GOT
THROUGH THERE.
MADE KURT WARNER BRING THE BALL
DOWN.
AND HE WAS THE GUY CHASING HIM
ALL THE WAY.
>> THERE IS A FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> USUALLY WHEN THE QUARTERBACK
HAS THAT MUCH TIME, HE'S RUNNING
AROUND LIKE THAT, SOMEONE, AN
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN, USUALLY GETS
DOWNFIELD.
>> BERNIE KUKAR.
>> PASS INTERFERENCE.
NUMBER 84, OFFENSE.
10-YARD PENALTY.
STILL SECOND DOWN.
>> ERNIE CONWELL.
>> ERNIE CONWELL'S THE TIGHT
END, RIGHT HERE.
YOU'LL SEE WHEN KURT WARNER
STARTS TO RUN AROUND.
NOW ERNIE CONWELL GOES TO BLOCK
FOR A SECOND, AND HE GOES BACK
TO BE A RECEIVER.
>> HE THINKS HE'S RUNNING.
>> THAT'S ALWAYS A TOUGH THING.
NOW WATCH THE HIT RIGHT THERE AT
THE END OF THE PLAY.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
THE PATRIOTS FEEL -- ON DEFENSE
THEY HAVE TO BE VERY AGGRESSIVE
AND REALLY HIT THESE RAM
RECEIVERS.
>> SECOND AND LONG, GOING DEEP.
INCOMPLETE.
TORRY HOLT THE TARGET.
GOOD COVERAGE BY TY LAW.
>> AND THAT'S THE THING THAT
TORRY HOLT RUNS SO WELL.
THEY CALL THAT A HIGH 7.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S A CORNER
PATTERN, BUT YOU DON'T TAKE IT
TO THE CORNER.
YOU DON'T TAKE IT FLAT.
WATCH TORRY HOLT.
AS YOU START HERE, THEN YOU
START GETTING IT DEEPER AND
DEEPER AND DEEPER.
SO YOU START TO THE CORNER, AND
THEN YOU FADE UP THE FIELD.
SO PART OF IT IS A CORNER ROUTE,
AND THEN WHEN YOU GET TO THE END
OF THE CORNER, INSTEAD OF
STAYING ON THAT ANGLE, YOU START
THE ANGLE UP THE FIELD.
>> AND IT USUALLY LEADS TO 7.
THIRD AND 18.
>> ANTWAN HARRIS IS IN NOW.
THIS IS SEVEN DEFENSIVE BACKS
FOR THE PATRIOTS.
>> SCREEN PASS, FAULK.
AND THEY PURSUE, AND PURSUE VERY
WELL, THE PATRIOTS DO.
ANTHONY PLEASANT WAS THE FIRST
ONE THERE.
>> AND THE GUY THAT MAKES THE
TACKLE, TOO, IS ANTWAN HARRIS.
YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT'S HIS JOB.
WHEN THEY BRING HIM IN, HE'S
GONNA HAVE MARSHALL FAULK.
ROMAN PHIFER'S THERE.
NUMBER 23, RIGHT THERE, IS
ANTWAN HARRIS.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
THEY WANT TO DO WITH
MARSHALL FAULK.
IF HE COMES OUT OF THE
BACKFIELD, THEY WANT SOME SPEED
ON HIM.
AND ANTWAN HARRIS IS A CORNER,
AND HE CAN GIVE THEM CORNER
SPEED.
I THINK WE'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF
SIX AND SEVEN DEFENSIVE BACKS BY
THE PATRIOTS.
>> BAKER BACK TO PUNT, AND
TROY BROWN, EVER DANGEROUS, BACK
FOR THE PATRIOTS.
HE WON'T DO MUCH WITH THIS ONE,
AS IT BOUNCES OUT OF BOUNDS
INSIDE THE 5.
PAT SUMMERALL, JOHN MADDEN BACK
AT SUPER BOWL XXXVI IN
NEW ORLEANS.
>> THIS IS WHERE YOUR OFFENSIVE
LINE HAS TO ESTABLISH SOMETHING
RIGHT HERE, THAT YOU CAN CONTROL
THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE, BECAUSE
YOU HAVE TO RUN IT OUT OF HERE.
>> FIRST AND 10 AT ABOUT THE 3,
AND BRADY DROPS IN THE END ZONE
AND THROWS COMPLETE.
THIS IS TROY BROWN.
AND BROWN GETS SOME BREATHING
ROOM IN A HURRY.
LET'S LOOK AT TOM BRADY AND THE
REST OF THAT OFFENSIVE UNIT FOR
NEW ENGLAND.
BRADY IS 13-3 AS A STARTER, 2-0
IN POSTSEASON.
AND THAT'S THE OFFENSIVE LINE.
LIGHT, COMPTON, WOODY, ANDRUZZI,
AND ROBINSON-RANDALL.
AND THOSE WILL HANDLE THE BALL.
TROY BROWN JUST DID.
DAVID PATTEN THE OTHER WIDE
RECEIVER.
>> THE FIRST PLAY WAS EMPTY
BACKFIELD.
>> THAT'S ANTOWAIN SMITH OUTSIDE
THE 30.
HERE'S THE RAM DEFENSE.
THE FRONT FOUR -- GRANT WISTROM,
ZGONINA, BRIAN YOUNG, AND
CHIDI AHANOTU.
THE LINEBACKERS --
LONDON FLETCHER IN THE MIDDLE.
POLLEY AND DAVIS FLANK HIM.
AND THE SECONDARY -- McCLEON,
HERRING, ARCHULETA, AND
AENEAS WILLIAMS, WHO'S HAD A
TREMENDOUS PLAYOFF SERIES.
>> AND ALL THOSE GUYS CAN RUN.
THAT'S ONE THING ABOUT THE RAMS.
THEY'RE NOT BIG.
THEY'RE NOT REAL STRONG ON
DEFENSE.
BUT THEY'RE VERY, VERY FAST.
>> BRADY WOULD SEEM TO BE
CHANGING THE PLAY, WOULDN'T HE?
>> HE IS.
>> HE DROPS TO THROW AND THROWS.
AND THE PASS IS COMPLETE OUTSIDE
THE 40 TO TROY BROWN.
BOY, THERE'S AN AMAZING STORY,
ISN'T IT?
>> WELL, WATCH TROY BROWN HERE.
HE'S SO GOOD AT FEELING THESE
ZONES.
HE JUST RUNS UP THE FIELD --
IT'S ON AENEAS WILLIAMS THERE --
AND JUST TURNS AROUND.
HE'S SO QUICK AT GETTING UP AND
MAKING THOSE QUICK TURNS.
AND TOM BRADY JUST HIT HIM
PERFECTLY.
I WAS TALKING TO TOM BRADY
YESTERDAY, AND HE SAID HE
WATCHED BRETT FAVRE.
HE SAID, "EVERY TIME THAT HE
WENT ONE, TWO, THREE, AND THROW
RIGHT AWAY, HE WAS SUCCESSFUL.
WHENEVER HE HELD THE BALL TOO
LONG IS WHEN HE GOT IN TROUBLE."
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT TOM BRADY
DID ON THAT LAST ONE.
ONE, TWO, THREE -- THROW IT.
>> FIRST AND 10, PATRIOTS.
THAT'S ANTOWAIN SMITH.
LET'S GO DOWN TO RON PITTS.
>> WELL, PAT, AS YOU KNOW, ALL
WEEK LONG THE TALK HAS BEEN
ABOUT TOM BRADY AND THAT INJURED
ANKLE.
I TALKED TO HIM IN PREGAME
WARMUP.
HE SAID, "I DID TWO THINGS.
I ICED IT, AND I GOT IT MASSAGED
ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE I CAME ON."
HE SAID HE GOT IT MASSAGED FOR
ALMOST 45 MINUTES.
AND ONE MORE IMPORTANT THING --
HE SAID, "I'M GONNA TAKE THE
PAIN INJECTION JUST FOR PEACE OF
MIND."
SO FAR IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S OKAY.
PAT?
>> ALL RIGHT, RON, THANK YOU.
IT CERTAINLY DOES LOOK OKAY,
DOESN'T IT?
>> THEY'RE DOING A HECK OF A
JOB.
THIS DRIVE STARTED ON THE 3-YARD
LINE, AND THEY DID GET IT OUT OF
TROUBLE.
>> BRADY OUT OF THE SHOTGUN.
DROPS IT TO KEVIN FAULK ON THE
ATTEMPTED SCREEN.
HE ONLY GOT BACK TO THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE.
GOOD PLAY BY THE RAM DEFENSE.
>> THAT WAS DRE' BLY.
HE'S THE CORNER ON THAT SIDE.
AND ONE THING ABOUT A
LOVIE SMITH DEFENSE -- IF YOU'RE
GONNA BE A CORNER, YOU HAVE TO
TACKLE.
DRE' BLY IS THE OUTSIDE GUY
HERE.
HERE COMES THE SCREEN.
AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE DRE' BLY,
NUMBER 32, COME UP AND MAKE THAT
PLAY.
>> THIRD AND 8 COMING.
THERE'S LOVIE SMITH, WHO'S DONE
A WHALE OF A JOB WITH THIS RAM
DEFENSE.
>> ANYTIME YOU PLAY A LOT OF
COVER 2, YOUR COVER 2 CORNERS
ARE THE OUTSIDE GUYS THAT ARE
UP.
THEN IF THE BALL COMES TOWARDS
THEM, THEY BECOME THE FORCE MEN.
>> BRADY OUT OF THE SHOTGUN.
WISELY TUCKED IT AWAY WHEN
NOBODY WAS THERE AND WENT OUT OF
BOUNDS, BUT THE PATRIOTS WILL
HAVE TO PUNT.
>> I'LL TELL YOU.
THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PUNT,
BUT TOM BRADY AND THAT PATRIOT
OFFENSE DID A HECK OF A JOB
BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
FIELD POSITION.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TIME OF
POSSESSION.
THEY STARTED THAT BALL ON THE 3
AND GOT IT ALL THE WAY OUT TO
MIDFIELD.
AND NOW THEY CAN PUT THE RAMS
BACK IF THEY DON'T GET A GOOD
PUNT RETURN.
>> DRE' BLY BACK DEEP FOR
KEN WALTER'S PUNT.
BLY LETS IT SAIL OVER HIS HEAD,
AND IT BOUNDS INTO THE END ZONE.
SO THEY'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE
20.
8:15 LEFT IN THE FIRST QUARTER,
NO SCORE, THE RAMS
AND THE PATRIOTS.
SUPER BOWL XXXVI.
WARNER.
HOLT.
NOT MUCH YOU CAN DO ABOUT THAT.
>> THAT'S THE THING.
TORRY HOLT IS SUCH A GREAT DEEP
THREAT THAT EVEN WHEN YOU'RE
PLAYING HIM TIGHT -- YOU SEE, HE
CAN RUN HIM OFF LIKE HE'S GONNA
GO DEEP AND THEN MAKE THAT QUICK
TURNOUT.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID TO
OTIS SMITH.
OTIS SMITH WAS UP THERE TO BUMP
HIM, BUT BY TURNING HIM UP,
MAKING HIM THINK HE WAS GOING
DEEP, HE COULD PUSH SMITH OFF
AND THEN COME TO HIS OUT.
>> SECOND AND 2.
>> UNBALANCED!
>> I HEARD SOMEBODY YELL
"UNBALANCED."
FAULK.
>> AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE
"UNBALANCED" MEANS IS -- LOOK.
HERE'S THE TIGHT END.
HERE'S THE LEFT GUARD.
NOW YOU GOT A CENTER, A RIGHT
GUARD, A RIGHT TACKLE, AND A
LEFT TACKLE OVER ON THIS SIDE.
SO YOUR POWER OF THE RUNNING
FORMATION IS THIS SIDE.
THE POWER OF THE PASSING IS TO
THIS SIDE.
ORLANDO PACE, WHO'S NORMALLY THE
LEFT TACKLE, GOES UP AND LINES
UP ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
>> AND THEY GOT THE FIRST DOWN.
IT'S FIRST AND 10.
>> RAMS WILL DO THAT ABOUT FOUR
OR FIVE TIMES A GAME, EITHER
TAKE PACE AND PUT HIM ON THE
RIGHT SIDE OR TAKE ROD JONES,
THE RIGHT TACKLE, AND PUT HIM ON
THE LEFT SIDE ALONG WITH PACE.
>> WARNER.
THE CROSSING PATTERN.
HIT HARD IS ISAAC BRUCE.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT THE PATRIOTS SOLD THEIR
PLAYERS.
LET THEM CATCH IT, OR IF THEY DO
CATCH IT, MAKE THEM PAY.
>> WELL, AND THE OTHER THING IS,
THEY FELT IN THE FIRST GAME THAT
THEY WERE TOO SOFT ON THAT
SHORT, UNDERNEATH STUFF.
THEY SAID THEY WANT TO PLAY IT A
LITTLE TIGHTER AND A LITTLE
TOUGHER.
AND ON THAT PLAY, TY LAW PLAYED
IT TIGHTER AND TOUGHER.
[ CROWD CHANTING "DEFENSE" ]
>> REVERSE COMING.
FAULK -- HE WAS LINED UP WIDE
RIGHT, CAME BACK.
>> AND WATCH WHO MAKES THE PLAY
HERE.
WE TALK ABOUT CORNERS AND PLAYS
THAT THEY HAVE TO MAKE.
ON THIS SIDE HERE, IT'S
NUMBER 45, OTIS SMITH.
WATCH HIM RIGHT THERE.
HE COMES UP, AND HE FAKES LIKE
HE'S GONNA TAKE ON THE BLOCK.
THEN BOOM, HE GETS RIGHT
UNDERNEATH EVERYTHING.
HECK OF A PLAY BY OTIS SMITH.
WATCH HIM COME IN THERE AND THEN
GET UNDERNEATH MARSHALL FAULK.
>> THE MARK OF THE VETERAN THAT
HE IS.
OTIS SMITH IS A 36-YEAR-OLD
CORNERBACK.
FAULK ON THE MOVE, AND WARNER
BACK TO THROW IT.
HIT FROM BEHIND.
LOFTS IT OUT TO ISAAC BRUCE, WHO
MAKES THE CATCH, BUT THERE'S A
FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> THIS IS THE THING.
ANYTIME THE RAMS GET IN A
LONG-YARDAGE SITUATION, THE
PATRIOTS GIVE THEM MULTIPLE
DEFENSIVE BACKS.
THAT TIME THEY HAD SIX DEFENSIVE
BACKS IN THERE.
AND, AGAIN, THAT'S HOW THEY WANT
TO MATCH UP THEIR SPEED.
YOU GET MORE DEFENSIVE BACKS,
FEWER LINEBACKERS IN THERE.
>> HOLDING.
27, DEFENSE.
THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED.
THE RESULT IS A FIRST DOWN.
>> WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SIX
AND SEVEN DEFENSIVE BACKS.
TERRELL BUCKLEY IS NUMBER 27,
AND YOU SEE IT HAPPENING RIGHT
HERE.
NOW HE CAN HIT HIM THE FIRST
5 YARDS.
AFTER 5 YARDS, YOU HAVE TO GET
YOUR HANDS OFF HIM, AND YOU
COULD SEE BUCKLEY HAD THAT RIGHT
HAND RIGHT ON AZ HAKIM'S
SHOULDER.
>> AZ JUST COULDN'T SHAKE HIM.
FIRST DOWN, HOWEVER.
>> AZ NOT THE BIGGEST OF WIDE
RECEIVERS.
>> HERE'S WARNER.
DROPS IT OUT TO FAULK.
ANOTHER RAM FIRST DOWN.
THE ONE THING THAT THE PATRIOTS
ALL TALKED ABOUT IS, "WE GOT TO
KNOW WHERE NUMBER 28 IS."
>> YEAH, AND WATCH WHO GETS OUT
THERE.
THE CLOSEST GUY TO HIM IS
NUMBER 93, RICHARD SEYMOUR.
HE CAN REALLY RUN.
HE WAS THE NUMBER-1 DRAFT CHOICE
OF THE PATRIOTS AND WATCH HIM.
HE'S THE GUY THAT RUNS
MARSHALL FAULK OUT OF BOUNDS.
STARTS HERE.
FAULK IS GONNA -- IT'S A FAKE
BOOTLEG.
THEY COME BACK TO THIS SIDE.
BUT WATCH SEYMOUR COME DOWN THE
LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND RUN.
AND MARSHALL FAULK WAS WATCHING
SEYMOUR COME DOWN THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE RUNNING.
>> 14-YARD GAIN, FIRST AND 10,
RAMS.
FAULK.
PUMPS LEFT, THROWS RIGHT.
THROWS TO CONWELL, AND THERE'S
NOTHING THERE.
ALL THOSE PUMPS AND ALL THOSE
FAKES WERE WASTED TIME.
>> LOOKS LIKE KURT WARNER HAS A
LITTLE BLOODY LIP THERE.
YOU SEE THAT FACE MASK.
REMEMBER A FEW WEEKS AGO, HE GOT
THOSE VOCAL CORDS INJURED, AND
THEY MADE THAT SPECIAL FACE MASK
FOR HIM WHERE THAT BOTTOM LOOP
IS THERE TO PROTECT
HIS VOCAL CORDS.
AND, OF COURSE, THE VOCAL CORDS
ARE FINE NOW, BUT THEY'RE
KEEPING THAT BOTTOM PART OF THAT
FACE MASK ON THERE SO IT DOESN'T
HAPPEN AGAIN.
HE COULDN'T TALK FOR WELL OVER A
WEEK.
>> BUT WHERE THAT MARK IS, IS
WELL ABOVE THE VOCAL CORDS.
HERE'S WARNER BACK TO THROW.
AND THROWS IT OUTSIDE TO
JAMES HODGINS.
>> JAMES HODGINS A BIG FULLBACK,
AND BY BIG I MEAN A GUY THAT
WEIGHS 270 POUNDS.
HERE HE IS, RIGHT HERE.
HIS NICKNAME'S "MEAT."
AND MOST FULLBACKS SHOULD BE
NICKNAMED "MEAT," I THINK.
IF YOU'RE A FULLBACK, AND YOU'RE
GONNA BE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE FIELD, AND YOU'RE GONNA RUN
PATTERNS LIKE THAT, YOU HAVE TO
BE MEAT.
NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK TY LAW'S
THINKING WHEN HE SEES 270
POUNDS OF MEAT COMING AT HIM?
TACKLE HIM LOW!
>> HIS NICKNAME OUGHT TO BE "LOT
OF MEAT."
>> HERE'S YOUR EMPTY BACKFIELD.
>> THAT'S RICKY PROEHL IN
MOTION.
LOOK OUT.
INTENDED FOR PROEHL.
NO FLAGS, INCOMPLETE.
>> I THINK THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE
IS DOING A GOOD JOB OF MIXING
THINGS UP AND NOT LETTING
KURT WARNER GET IN A RHYTHM.
IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT THEY'RE
HITTING HIM OR KNOCKING HIM
AROUND, BUT THEY'RE CHANGING
HIM.
THEY GIVE HIM THREE LINEMEN,
FOUR DOWN LINEMEN, THREE
LINEBACKERS, FIVE DEFENSIVE
BACKS, SIX DEFENSIVE BACKS,
SEVEN DEFENSIVE BACKS.
KEEP CHANGING IT UP ON EVERY
PLAY.
>> JEFF WILKINS ON TO ATTEMPT
THE FIELD GOAL.
THIS IS GONNA BE FROM 50 YARDS,
AND HE WAS TRYING THOSE IN
PRACTICE, AND THEY WERE JUST
BARELY GETTING OVER THE BAR.
THAT ONE GOT OVER WITH SOME
EXTRA ROOM.
SO THE RAMS GET THE LEAD, 3-0,
WITH 3:10 LEFT IN THE FIRST.
A 53-YARD -- 50-YARD FIELD GOAL,
RATHER, BY WILKINS, THE
THIRD-LONGEST IN SUPER BOWL
HISTORY.
>> IT WAS THE THIRD 50-PLUS-YARD
FIELD GOAL IN SUPER BOWL
HISTORY.
>> PATRICK PASS IS BACK, A YARD
DEEP IN THE END ZONE TO RETURN
THE KICK.
AND THE RAM COVERAGE IS, AS IT
HAS BEEN RECENTLY, EXCELLENT.
MARK FIELDS.
THE PATRIOTS WILL START FROM
THEIR OWN 19-YARD LINE WITH
TOM BRADY AT THE HELM.
HE'S 3 FOR 3 FOR 30 YARDS.
HE DROPS AGAIN.
DUMPS IT OVER THE MIDDLE.
IT'S DEFLECTED BY THE RAM
DEFENSE.
>> WE TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENT
THINGS THAT THE PATRIOTS ARE
DOING ON DEFENSE.
THEY ALSO ARE ON OFFENSE.
THEY STARTED OUT THAT FIRST
SERIES, THEY WERE USING A LOT OF
EMPTY BACKFIELD, AND SUCCESSFUL.
NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TWO BACKS
AND TRYING TO POUND IT IN THERE.
>> THAT'S ANTOWAIN SMITH, WHO
POUNDS IT OVER TO THE LEFT AND
PICKS UP A COUPLE, MAYBE 3.
>> THAT FIRST DRIVE WAS REALLY A
GOOD DRIVE.
AS I SAID, THEY STARTED ON THE
3-YARD LINE.
THEY DIDN'T GET ANY POINTS OUT
OF IT, BUT THEY DID GET GOOD
FIELD POSITION.
AND THEN WHEN THE RAMS FINALLY
GOT THE BALL BACK, THEY GOT
STARTED ON THEIR 20.
AND, OF COURSE, KURT WARNER DOES
HIS BUSINESS, AND THEY END UP
WITH A FIELD GOAL.
>> THIRD AND 5 WE'LL CALL IT.
ANTOWAIN SMITH GOT MORE THAN I
THOUGHT.
BRADY OUT OF THE SHOTGUN.
>> SEE THE THREE WIDE RECEIVERS,
AND THEY REALLY LIKE THE SLOT.
HERE'S WHERE THEY LIKE TO GO ON
THAT.
>> KEVIN FAULK WAS THE INTENDED
RECEIVER.
>> YOU SEE WHO WAS COVERING HIM?
THAT'S ONE OF THOSE ZONE DOGS.
WHEN THE DEFENSIVE END,
GRANT WISTROM, WHO'S MADE SO
MANY BIG PLAYS FOR THE RAMS IN
THE LAST MONTH.
WATCH HIM.
HE STARTS OUT THERE.
NOW HE HAS TO COVER THE BACK.
AND GRANT WISTROM IS A DEFENSIVE
LINEMAN WHO CAN RUSH THE PASSER,
WHO CAN PLAY VERY WELL AGAINST
THE RUN, AND THEN CAN COVER
A BACK OUT OF THE BACKFIELD ON A
SWING PATTERN.
>> THE PATRIOTS HAD THE COVERAGE
FIGURED OUT, BUT THEY DIDN'T
FIGURE ON THE SPEED OF WISTROM.
DRE' BLY BACK FOR WALTER'S KICK.
AND BLY IS HIT JUST AS HE
CATCHES THE BALL AT THE 20.
FOUR-WIDE-RECEIVER SETUP FOR THE
RAMS, BUT...
THE ONE LONE RUNNING BACK IS
MARSHALL FAULK, AND THEY RUN THE
QUICK TRAP TO HIM.
>> YEAH, AND THAT'S THE THING
THAT THEY CAN DO TO YOU IS
SPREAD YOU OUT.
USUALLY WHEN MARSHALL FAULK
LINES UP THERE, IT'S A PASS.
SO, WHAT THEY TRY AND DO IS MAKE
YOU THINK THAT IT'S A PASS AND
THEN GET UP IN YOUR PASS-RUSH
LANES AND THEN COME ACROSS
AND TRAP YOU.
THAT TIME YOU SEE THEIR TRAPPER
WAS BIG ROD JONES.
ROD JONES -- HE'S A RIGHT
TACKLE.
WEIGHS ABOUT 350 OR 360 POUNDS.
>> ANYTIME YOU GET IN THAT
"ABOUT" AREA, THEY DON'T WANT TO
DISCLOSE.
>> WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
IS ON THE PROGRAM IT SAYS 340.
I TALKED TO JIM HANIFAN, AND HE
TOLD ME 350.
TALKED TO MIKE MARTZ, AND HE
GOES, "NO."
HE SAID, "ROD JONES IS OVER
360."
BUT I'LL TELL YOU,
LAST WEEK HE REALLY PLAYED WELL.
I WATCHED HIM ON FILM, AND HE
WAS AS GOOD AS ANYONE.
HERE'S THAT UNBALANCED AGAIN --
UNBALANCED TO THE RIGHT.
ORLANDO PACE LINED UP ON THE
RIGHT SIDE.
>> THIRD AND A YARD.
AND FAULK IS GONNA GET MORE THAN
THE YARD.
HE GETS A RAM FIRST DOWN AS HE
TIPS AROUND THE CORNER.
AND TY LAW TRIPS HIM UP.
>> YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID IS THEY
WENT UNBALANCED.
THEY TOOK ORLANDO PACE, PUT HIM
OVER IN THE RIGHT, AND THEY CAME
BACK TO THE TIGHT END SIDE AND
PULLED THE OFF GUARD,
ADAM TIMMERMAN.
HERE'S THE TIGHT END SIDE.
AND NOW THEY BRING
ADAM TIMMERMAN RIGHT HERE, AND
HE COMES FROM THE LEFT GUARD
SPOT.
MAKES THAT BLOCK RIGHT THERE,
AND MARSHALL FAULK WAS ABLE TO
RUN RIGHT AROUND IT.
THAT'S THE PASSING SIDE, OR THE
SHORT SIDE, OF AN UNBALANCED
LINE.
>> 20 SECONDS LEFT IN THE FIRST
QUARTER.
FAULK.
FAKES THE PITCH.
AND HE IS TAKEN DOWN BEHIND THE
LINE OF SCRIMMAGE BY
BOBBY HAMILTON.
>> BOBBY HAMILTON IS GOING TO
GET UP THE FIELD.
YOU SEE, WHEN THINGS START AWAY,
YOU SEE TUCKER STARTS TO BLOCK
TO THE RIGHT, AND THEN HAMILTON
DOESN'T GO FOR IT.
HE JUST STAYS CONTAIN.
WHEN THEY START LIKE THAT, YOU
WANT THAT END HERE TO CHASE.
HAMILTON DOESN'T CHASE.
INSTEAD OF CHASING, HE JUST RUNS
STRAIGHT UP THE FIELD, AND
THERE'S NO PLACE FOR
KURT WARNER TO GO.
>> IT'S THE END OF THE FIRST
QUARTER, AND LET'S CHECK IN ON
OUR TROOPS IN KANDAHAR,
AFGHANISTAN.
FIRST-QUARTER STATISTICS, AND
THUS FAR, I THINK, JOHN, BASED
ON PREDICTIONS, WHATEVER THAT
MEANS, THE PATRIOTS HAVE PLAYED
PRETTY WELL.
>> THEY'VE PLAYED VERY WELL, AND
IT'S A DEFENSIVE-BACK THING.
THEY'VE GONE FOUR, FIVE, SIX,
SEVEN DEFENSIVE BACKS.
THEY HAVEN'T BLITZED AT ALL.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MATCHING SPEED
AND COVERAGE AND NOT BLITZING.
>> WARNER BACK TO THROW.
STEPPING UP AND THROWS UP THE
MIDDLE.
INCOMPLETE.
A LOT OF PATRIOTS AROUND
AZ HAKIM.
>> WELL, I'LL TELL YOU,
IT LOOKS LIKE WILLIE McGINEST
WAS VERY CLOSE.
YOU SEE AZ HAKIM AS HE'S
COMING OFF THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THE
PATRIOTS ALL TALKED ABOUT WITH
THESE RECEIVERS IS TO BAT THEM
AROUND.
AZ HAKIM GOT BATTED ABOUT FOUR
TIMES ON THAT PLAY.
>> THEY BATTED EACH OTHER
AROUND.
THAT'S TERRANCE SHAW.
>> TERRANCE SHAW IS A SIXTH OR
SEVENTH DEFENSIVE BACK.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY'RE
USING MULTIPLE DEFENSIVE BACKS.
TERRANCE SHAW IS ONE OF THOSE
MULTIPLE DEFENSIVE BACKS.
[ APPLAUSE ]
YOU CAN SEE TERRANCE SHAW.
HE'S GONNA GET HIT BY HIS OWN
GUY.
WATCH -- RIGHT THERE.
ROMAN PHIFER IS COMING FROM ONE
SIDE.
TERRANCE SHAW WAS ON THE
COVERAGE ON THE OTHER SIDE, AND
THEY RAN INTO EACH OTHER.
>> NO BACKS FOR THE RAMS.
IT'S THIRD AND 15, AND WARNER
DROPS.
AND THROWS.
CAN'T GIVE HIM THAT MUCH TIME.
AZ HAKIM.
>> AND KURT WARNER DIDN'T LOOK
FOR THE SHORT CROSSER THAT TIME.
WE SEE TERRANCE SHAW GOING INTO
THE LOCKER ROOM THERE.
BUT WATCH THE PROTECTION THAT
KURT WARNER HAS.
AND THIS GIVES HIM THE TIME,
AND HE HAD A COUPLE SHORT
CROSSERS, AND HE DIDN'T EVEN
LOOK AT THEM.
HE IS GOING TO GO TO AZ HAKIM
RIGHT HERE ON THAT DEEP IN.
THE RAMS LOVE THESE PATTERNS.
YOU KNOW, RUN SOMEONE SHORT, GET
YOU TO BITE UNDERNEATH, AND THEN
COME IN BEHIND YOU ON THAT DEEP
IN.
THEY ALL RUN IT WELL.
I'LL TELL YOU, ONE THING ABOUT
THESE RAM RECEIVERS, THEY ALL
DO THIS -- RIGHT AT THE END,
THEY'RE GONNA GET DOWN.
>> FIRST AND 10 AT THE
NEW ENGLAND 39.
UNDERNEATH, INCOMPLETE.
ERNIE CONWELL.
>> THE GUY THAT MADE THAT HIT IS
LAWYER MILLOY.
YOU SAY, "WHO'S THE LEADER OF
THIS DEFENSE?"
IT'S NUMBER 36, LAWYER MILLOY.
AND HE'S THAT STRONG SAFETY.
HE'S THE LeROY BUTLER.
HE'S ALL THOSE GUYS THAT --
JOHN LYNCH, ALL THOSE TOUGH
SAFETIES THAT SIT THERE IN THE
MIDDLE.
AND IF YOU'RE GONNA BRING A
TIGHT END OR SOMEONE IN THE
MIDDLE, THEY ARE GOING TO BE
THERE WAITING AND UNLOAD ON YOU.
>> YOU BETTER BE PREPARED TO GET
HIT.
>> ROD JONES IS BACK IN THE GAME
NOW AT RIGHT TACKLE, PAT.
RYAN TUCKER HAD BEEN IN THERE A
SERIES FOR THEM.
>> FOUR-WIDE-RECEIVER SETUP FOR
THE RAMS, INCLUDING
RICKY PROEHL.
HERE'S WARNER.
GONNA RUN A QUARTERBACK DRAW.
DOES.
HESITATED A MOMENT, THEN GOT
ABOUT 4 OR 5 YARDS.
>> WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ROD JONES
AND HOW HE JUST CAME BACK IN.
AND YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT
BLOCK.
HE IS SO BIG AND SO STRONG.
WHEN HE GETS ON A GUY, HE JUST
COLLAPSES HIM.
WATCH RIGHT HERE.
YOU'RE GONNA SEE HIM HERE.
SEE HIM?
JUST TAKE THAT GUY JUST RIGHT
DOWN THERE.
KURT WARNER WANTS TO RUN A DRAW.
HE JUST RUNS IT RIGHT OVER
ROD JONES.
>> THERE'S NO ROOM IN THERE.
>> YOU CAN GET ON A GUY, BUT
WHEN YOU GET ON A GUY, AND YOU
KNOCK HIM 5 YARDS OUT OF THE
HOLE, THAT MAKES THAT HOLE
5 YARDS WIDE FOR YOUR
QUARTERBACK.
>> KNOCK HIM INTO YOUR OWN GUY.
KNOCK HIM BACK.
THIRD AND 5.
WARNER DROPS.
DEFLECTED!
PATRIOTS CHASE.
THEY CAN'T GET THERE.
THIS, I BELIEVE, IS OUT OF ALL
KICKERS' RANGE.
FOURTH AND 5.
>> IT'S A TYPE OF THING THAT
THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE HAS REALLY
GOTTEN THE RAMS OUT OF A RHYTHM.
AND IT'S NOT BY GETTING
KURT WARNER OUT OF A RHYTHM.
IT'S NOT BY BLITZING HIM OR
KNOCKING HIM DOWN OR ANY OF
THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
IT'S JUST HAVING GOOD COVERAGE,
HITTING THOSE RECEIVERS WHEN
THEY GET THE BALL, TIPPING
BALLS, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
>> WELL, MAYBE NOT.
JEFF WILKINS FROM 52 YARDS.
HE HIT FROM 50.
AND THAT ONE IS GONNA RUN OUT OF
GAS, I BELIEVE.
WIDE LEFT AND SHORT.
BOURBON STREET.
DID YOU PROWL BOURBON STREET
WHILE YOU WERE HERE?
>> [ LAUGHS ]
I WALKED UP AND DOWN IT.
I DON'T KNOW IF I PROWLED IT.
I WENT EARLY IN THE WEEK.
I WENT MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AND I
HAVEN'T BEEN BACK SINCE.
>> THIS IS ANTOWAIN SMITH.
3-0, RAMS.
>> THE RAMS HAVE HAD THE BALL.
THEY'VE GONE UP AND DOWN THE
FIELD.
THEY'VE HAD THE TIME OF
POSSESSION.
THEY'VE HAD ALL THOSE THINGS.
BUT THEY ONLY HAVE 3 POINTS.
THEY'RE WINNING THE GAME, BUT I
THINK THE PATRIOTS ARE WINNING
THE BATTLES IN THAT THEY REALLY
HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING GOING YET.
BUT THEY'VE ONLY HAD THE BALL
FOR 5:19.
BUT THEY'RE ONLY DOWN 3-0.
>> WHEN YOU LET THEM HANG CLOSE
LIKE THAT, IT CAN COME BACK TO
HAUNT YOU.
>> I THINK THAT'S A PLUS FOR THE
PATRIOTS.
>> ME TOO.
THAT'S ANTOWAIN SMITH AGAIN.
LEFT SIDE FOR 2 OR 3.
>> CHARLIE WEIS IS THE OFFENSIVE
COORDINATOR OF THE PATRIOTS, AND
NOW IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S JUST
TRYING TO TAKE SOME TIME OFF THE
CLOCK JUST TO LET YOUR DEFENSE
REST FOR A WHILE, IF NOTHING
ELSE, AND KIND OF SLOW THIS
THING DOWN OFFENSIVELY SO YOU
CAN KEEP YOUR DEFENSE FRESH.
AND TO DO THAT, YOU NEED A FEW
FIRST DOWNS.
>> THIRD AND 3, AND BRADY GOES
BACK TO THE SPREAD FORMATION,
SHOTGUN.
>> RIGHT.
AND MIKE COMPTON, THE LEFT
GUARD, BECOMES THE SNAPPER ON
THAT.
DAMIEN WOODY, THE CENTER,
BECOMES THE LEFT GUARD.
>> BRADY HAS TIME.
LOFTS IT DEEP.
INCOMPLETE.
IT LOOKED AS IF HE HAD A MAN.
THERE'S A FLAG ON THE PLAY.
DAVID PATTEN THE TARGET.
KIM HERRING ON THE COVERAGE.
>> YEAH, HE GOT OVER THERE.
I DON'T THINK THAT TOM BRADY GOT
ENOUGH ON THAT.
HE LEFT THAT BALL IN THE AIR TOO
LONG.
IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD HIM, BUT,
AGAIN, THE RAMS PLAY THAT
COVER 2.
SO YOU HAVE TO HIT THAT SLOT
BETWEEN THE CORNER AND SAFETY.
THERE'S GONNA BE A PENALTY
AGAINST THE RAMS.
>> HOLDING.
20, DEFENSE.
THAT'S A 5-YARD PENALTY.
AUTOMATIC FIRST DOWN.
>> IS BRADY A LOT BIGGER THAN
YOU THOUGHT HE WAS?
>> YEAH, AND HE'S EVEN A LITTLE
HEAVIER.
AT ONE TIME, HE WAS JUST A TALL,
SKINNY GUY, AND I THINK SINCE HE
GOT WITH THE PATRIOTS -- HE'S IN
HIS SECOND YEAR NOW -- THEY SAY
HE'S GAINED 30 POUNDS.
>> HE'S 6'4" AND 218, 230.
>> HE'S A VERY IMPRESSIVE GUY.
HE'S IMPRESSIVE WHEN YOU WATCH
HIM PLAY FOOTBALL, AND HE'S
IMPRESSIVE AS A PERSON.
>> HIS WEIGHT DEPENDS ON WHAT
HAPPENED THAT WEEK.
HERE HE IS AGAIN, OUTSIDE.
INCOMPLETE.
FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> I THINK THE LAST TWO PASSES,
THOUGH, TOM BRADY HASN'T THROWN
THEM.
I THINK HE'S AIMED THEM.
AND THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
THAT ONE, HE MAY HAVE HAD A SHOT
ON THIS LEFT SIDE DOWN HERE.
HE JUST KIND OF LOBBED IT.
AND THAT LAST PASS THERE HE
AIMED.
AND THAT'S A BAD THING.
>> HOLDING.
77, OFFENSE.
10-YARD PENALTY.
STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> MIKE COMPTON.
>> YEAH, MIKE COMPTON IS THE
LEFT GUARD, RIGHT THERE.
YOU SEE THE HOLD.
YOU SEE THAT LEFT HAND IN THERE?
AND THEN THE RIGHT HAND IN
THERE.
HE GOT A DOUBLE DIPPER ON THAT
ONE.
>> YES, HE DID.
>> BIG.
MIKE COMPTON, HE'S THE GUY
I SAID WAS A LEFT GUARD.
REMEMBER, HE PLAYED FOR DETROIT.
HE'S PLAYED EVERY OFFENSIVE-LINE
POSITION.
HE'S BEEN A TACKLE, A GUARD,
CENTER, AND ANYTIME THEY GO TO
SHOTGUN, HE AND DAMIEN WOODY
SWITCH POSITIONS.
>> HE WAS HOLDING TYOKA JACKSON.
HERE'S ANTOWAIN SMITH BEHIND THE
LINE.
THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
>> THAT'S THE THING THAT THIS
RAM DEFENSE DOES SO WELL, PAT,
IS SWARM.
IF ONE GUY CAN GET PENETRATION,
YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A
WHOLE BUNCH OF GUYS.
SEE THEM?
THEY ALL SLANT TO THE RIGHT, BUT
THEN THEY GET BACK QUICKLY TO
THE LEFT.
IF THE ONE GUY CAN GET IN THERE,
HERE COMES TWO, THREE, FOUR, AND
FIVE RIGHT NOW.
>> DEXTER McCLEON LED THE PACK.
FROM HIS CORNERBACK SPOT, HE
CAME UP IN A HURRY.
SECOND DOWN.
BRADY, DRAW PLAY.
ANTOWAIN SMITH.
LET'S GO DOWN TO RON PITTS.
>> JOHN MADDEN, YOU WERE JUST
TALKING ABOUT CHARLIE WEIS, THE
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR.
WELL, AFTER THE FIRST QUARTER HE
GOT THE ENTIRE OFFENSE TOGETHER,
AND HE SAID, "LISTEN.
WE DID WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IN
THAT FIRST QUARTER.
WE GOT TO SCORE POINTS THIS
QUARTER HERE.
WE GOT TO GO DOWN THE FIELD."
LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN.
PAT?
>> ALL RIGHT.
WE'LL TRY TO SEE IF THEY CAN.
>> WELL, I THINK THE FIRST THING
THEY OUGHT TO DO IS JUST TAKE
SOME TIME OFF THE CLOCK, LIKE I
WAS SAYING, AND GET SOME FIRST
DOWNS AND REST THEIR DEFENSE.
THIS IS GONNA BE TOUGH, THIS
THIRD AND VERY, VERY LONG.
>> 17, TO BE EXACT.
HERE'S BRADY OUT OF THE POCKET.
TOSSES IT OVER THE RAM BENCH.
>> THAT WAS SMART BECAUSE ONCE
YOU GET OUTSIDE THAT TIGHT END
BOX, THEN YOU CAN LEGALLY THROW
THE BALL AWAY.
IF YOU'RE INSIDE THAT TIGHT END,
AND IF YOU'RE BEING RUSHED, AND
IF YOU THROW IT AWAY, THAT'S
A PENALTY.
BUT AT LEAST BY THROWING IT AWAY
INSTEAD OF GOING OUT OF BOUNDS,
TOM BRADY AT LEAST GETS HIS
FOURTH DOWN BACK AT THE ORIGINAL
LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
>> HE WAS PRESSURED BY
TYOKA JACKSON.
KEN WALTER TO PUNT IT.
DRE' BLY BACK DEEP FOR THE RAMS.
WALTER'S KICK IS A GOOD ONE.
BLY LOOKED, SAW IT COMING.
GOT TO ABOUT THE 18.
>> LOOK AT THIS.
FEWEST FIRST-HALF POINTS --
9 POINTS TWICE VERSUS TAMPA AND
THE GIANTS.
THIS IS LIKE THEIR LAST
SUPER BOWL, THOUGH, AGAINST
TENNESSEE.
THEY HAD A LOT OF YARDAGE AND NO
POINTS.
LIKE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THAT
GAME, THEY HAD THREE FIELD
GOALS, BUT THEY HAD 294 YARDS.
>> WARNER GIVES TO FAULK.
AND FAULK BANGS OVER THE LEFT
SIDE.
MOVES THE PILE.
>> AND I KNOW WHAT BOTH COACHES
ARE SAYING RIGHT NOW, THAT WE
HAVE TO GET SOMETHING GOING.
PAT, DID YOU EVER THINK YOU
WOULD SEE ONE OF THESE THINGS ON
A FOOTBALL FIELD?
>> I THOUGHT IT WAS A NEW GOLF
CLUB.
>> NO, WHAT IT IS, IS THAT GUY
GOES AROUND, AND THAT PICKS UP
DEBRIS OFF THE FIELD.
>> DEBRIS?
>> YEAH, DEBRIS.
IT HAS STICKY STUFF ON IT.
AND AT TIME-OUTS, THEY GO OUT
AND ROLL THAT UP AND DOWN THIS
CARPET.
WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK, HUH?
>> LESTER HAYES HAD MORE STICKY
STUFF ON HIM THAN THAT.
>> SO DID FRED BILETNIKOFF.
>> HERE'S FAULK.
FAULK GETS OUT OF BOUNDS.
>> UH-OH.
LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS A HIT OUT
OF BOUNDS.
THEY DIDN'T CALL IT.
>> NO, THEY DIDN'T.
>> I'LL TELL YOU, HISTORICALLY,
IN SUPER BOWLS, THEY HAVE VERY
FEW PENALTIES.
YOU JUST THINK ABOUT IT.
THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PENALTIES
CALLED IN A SUPER BOWL.
HERE'S GOOD BLOCKING.
AGAIN, YOU GET YOUR CENTER OUT
THERE, McCOLLUM.
HE'S OUT THERE TRYING TO FIND
SOMEONE TO BLOCK.
AND THERE WERE NO BLUE JERSEYS
OR PATRIOTS AROUND THERE.
THAT WAS CLOSE TO MARSHALL FAULK
BEING HIT OUT OF BOUNDS.
BOY, DOES HE HAVE MOVES, DOESN'T
HE?
>> I THINK IT'S ONE OF THOSE
PHILOSOPHIES, LIKE, "HEY, THEY
GOT THIS FAR.
LET THEM PLAY."
>> AND THE OFFICIATING CREWS ARE
ALL-STAR CREWS.
THEY HAVEN'T WORKED TOGETHER ALL
YEAR.
>> FAULK.
HAS TO LET IT GO.
PICKED OFF!
TY LAW DOWN THE SIDELINES.
TOUCHDOWN!
THAT'S WHAT THE PATRIOTS WERE
WAITING FOR.
THE RUSH BY McGINEST IS WHAT
CAUSED IT.
[ CHEERING ]
>> AND HE HAD TO GET RID OF THE
BALL.
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
WATCH, MIKE VRABEL IS RIGHT
HERE.
HE'S NUMBER 50, AND HE HITS
KURT WARNER.
IN FACT, HE HIT HIM IN THE HEAD
JUST AS HE THREW THAT BALL.
AND THAT'S WHAT TOOK IT OFF IT.
WATCH TY LAW DOWN HERE.
HE'S PLAYING MAN-TO-MAN ON
ISAAC BRUCE.
AGAIN, HE'S WATCHING
KURT WARNER ALL THE WAY.
VRABEL HITS WARNER AS HE THROWS
THE BALL.
TY LAW GETS IT AND TAKES IT IN
THE END ZONE.
>> JUST TOOK SOMETHING OFF IT.
THAT LATE HIT -- IT WASN'T A
LATE HIT.
IT WAS A LEGAL HIT.
BUT IT TOOK ENOUGH OFF THE
THROW, AND TY LAW TOOK IT IN FOR
THE PATRIOTS.
>> AND NO ONE BLOCKED VRABEL.
>> 7-3.
THAT'S THE FIRST TIME THEY
BLITZED.
TY LAW IS EVEN MORE PROUD OF
THE PATRIOTS AND THE TROOPS AND
HIMSELF.
>> IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU
DO.
YOU GET AN INTERCEPTION.
YOU RUN IT FOR A TOUCHDOWN.
THEN YOU GO TO THE OXYGEN.
>> YO MURPHY.
SHORT OF THE 30.
>> YOU KNOW THAT DEFENSE, PAT.
THAT WAS THE FIRST BLITZ.
WATCH WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
THERE'S ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR,
FIVE DOWN LINEMEN.
THIS IS MIKE VRABEL HERE.
NOW THE RAMS TURN IN, IN THEIR
PASS PROTECTION, AND HE JUST
COMES FREE FROM THE OUTSIDE.
THEY STUNT TO THE INSIDE.
HERE'S VRABEL RIGHT HERE.
HE COMES IN UNBLOCKED, AND HE
HITS KURT WARNER JUST AS HE
THROWS THE BALL.
IN FACT HE DID HIT HIM IN THE
HEAD AND IN THE FACE.
BUT THAT TOOK ENOUGH OFF OF THAT
THAT TY LAW WAS ABLE TO GET THE
JUMP ON THE PASS TO
ISAAC BRUCE.
>> 7-3, NEW ENGLAND.
FIRST AND 10, RAMS AT THEIR OWN
28.
RYAN TUCKER IS NOW THE RIGHT
TACKLE.
HERE'S MARSHALL FAULK.
TAKEN DOWN AFTER MAYBE 1.
LET'S GO DOWN TO RON PITTS.
>> PAT, MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE
RAMS.
ROD JONES, A RIGHT TACKLE -- HE
REINJURED THAT GROIN.
HE IS OUT FOR SURE.
THAT COULD BE BIG PROBLEMS IF
THEY GET ANOTHER INJURY AT THE
TACKLE POSITION.
PAT?
>> HIS LAST PLAY WAS THAT PLAY
WHERE VRABEL WENT RIGHT BY HIM.
I THINK THAT PROBABLY THEY
DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THE FIVE-MAN
LINE, AND THEY PROBABLY SHOULD
HAVE FANNED OUT TO THAT SIDE.
>> AND HE BLOCKED DOWN.
>> HE BLOCKED DOWN.
THEN IT LOOKED LIKE HE
RECOGNIZED IT, AND MAYBE HE
PULLED HIS GROIN AGAIN TURNING
AROUND.
>> FUMBLE!
WARNER GETS IT BACK.
HAS TIME AND COMPLETES THE PASS.
TORRY HOLT.
>> THAT'S WHY KURT WARNER IS
KURT WARNER.
A LOT OF GUYS WOULD HAVE JUMPED
ON THAT, MISSED IT, OR WHATEVER.
HE JUST CALMLY PICKS IT UP AND
COMPLETES IT.
>> WELL, EVERYBODY STOPPED.
>> WATCH THIS.
HE JUST GOES IN THERE AND PICKS
IT UP.
THERE'S NO PASS RUSH THERE.
LUCKILY, SOME GUYS KEEP RUNNING.
HE FINALLY FINDS TORRY HOLT OUT
HERE, AND TORRY HOLT MAKES A
MOVE ON TY LAW.
LOOK AT THE SNAP HERE.
IT LOOKED LIKE HE PULLED HIS
HANDS OUT THERE BEFORE THE BALL
GOT UP THERE.
BUT HE MADE A HECK OF A PICKUP
AFTER DOING THAT.
>> AND HE GOT A FIRST DOWN.
>> THE THING ABOUT ARTIFICIAL
TURF -- THE BALL WILL BOUNCE
THAT WAY FOR YOU.
>> WARNER THROWS SIDEARM.
CAUGHT BY AZ HAKIM.
>> WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, HOW
CAN THE PATRIOTS DO IT?
WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO -- THEY
HAVE TO DO SOME THINGS ON
OFFENSE AND SCORE TOUCHDOWNS ON
DEFENSE, AND THEY'VE DONE THAT.
>> THEY LEAD 7-3.
>> AZ HAKIM IS SOMETHING.
ALL OF THESE RECEIVERS -- I
THINK ISAAC BRUCE IS A MASTER AT
BEING ABLE TO RUN A PASS PATTERN
AND NOT BREAK DOWN, NOT SLOW
DOWN, JUST COME QUICKLY OUT OF
YOUR CUT.
AND THEN WE SEE AZ HAKIM CAN DO
IT.
TORRY HOLT CAN DO IT.
RICKY PROEHL HAS ALWAYS BEEN
ABLE TO DO IT.
>> THAT'S BRUCE IN MOTION.
THIS IS BACK TO FAULK.
FAULK -- GOOD TACKLE.
GOOD, SOLID STOP BY
TEDY BRUSCHI.
>> THERE'S A FIRED-UP GUY,
TEDY BRUSCHI.
HE WAS OUT ON THE FIELD, PAT.
I WAS TALKING TO HIM ABOUT FOUR
HOURS BEFORE THE GAME.
HE COME OUT JUST TO PLAY CATCH,
AND HE WAS READY TO HIT SOMEONE
ABOUT 1:00 THIS AFTERNOON.
HE'S JUST THAT TYPE OF PLAYER.
HE'S VERY AGGRESSIVE.
HE'S VERY INSTINCTIVE.
AND THE THING YOU HAVE TO DO,
THE FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO DO
TO BE A GOOD DEFENSIVE PLAYER IS
TO BE A GOOD TACKLER.
>> WELL, THAT IS TEXTBOOK TACKLE
RIGHT THERE.
FOUR WIDE RECEIVERS ON THIRD
DOWN.
WARNER DROPS.
FOR PROEHL, AND IT'S PICKED OFF
BY THE PATRIOTS, BUT I THINK
THEY'RE OUT OF BOUNDS.
PATRIOTS' LAWYER MILLOY CAME
DOWN WITH IT.
>> I THINK WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
IS THAT MILLOY DIDN'T HAVE
CONTROL OF THE BALL WHEN HE WENT
OUT.
YOU SEE HIM.
HE'S JUST SITTING THERE.
HE'S PLAYING SAFETY RIGHT BACK
HERE.
CATCHES THE BALL.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT HE REALLY
DIDN'T HAVE CONTROL OF THE BALL
AND BOTH FEET IN BOUNDS.
THE BALL IS UP THERE, AND IT'S
SLIDING DOWN HIS LEG AS HE STEPS
OUT OF BOUNDS.
THAT WAS A GOOD CALL.
I'LL TELL YOU,
THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE HAS THIS
RAM OFFENSE A LITTLE SHOOK UP,
DON'T THEY?
>> YES, THEY DO.
TROY BROWN BACK DEEP FOR
BAKER'S PUNT.
SIGNALS FAIR CATCH AT THE 15.
AND THERE WAS NO RAM CLOSE BY.
IN JUST THREE SHORT WEEKS,
THE WORLD'S BEST DRIVERS RETURN
TO FOX FOR THE SUBWAY 400 AT
THE ROCK.
BRACE YOURSELF FOR 13 WEEKS OF
EXCITING NASCAR WINSTON CUP
ACTION LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT
BEFORE.
THE SUBWAY 400 AT THE ROCK.
FEBRUARY 24th,
RIGHT HERE ON FOX.
>> CAN'T BEAT A GOOD OLD RACE
AT THE ROCK, CAN YOU?
>> UNLESS IT'S WITH
SUPER BOWL XXXVI.
>> WELL, THAT'S AFTER
SUPER BOWL.
>> THAT'S IN THREE WEEKS.
>> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, LATER.
IN THREE WEEKS, YOU NEED A GOOD
OLD RACE AT THE ROCK.
PATRIOTS 7, RAMS 3.
6:10 LEFT IN THE FIRST.
THE PITCH IS BACK TO
ANTOWAIN SMITH, WHO BANGS HIS
WAY OUT CLOSE TO A PATRIOT FIRST
DOWN.
>> LOOK AT ALL THE ROOM THAT
TROY BROWN HAS ON THIS.
HERE'S TROY BROWN HERE.
AND THE CLOSEST GUY IS ABOUT
10 YARDS AWAY FROM HIM.
AND HE'S SO GOOD AT TAKING THAT
BALL AND GETTING IT UP THE
FIELD.
AND THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING NOW.
HE KNOWS THAT, TOO.
HE SAID, "WHY, OH, WHY, DID I
JUST DO THAT?"
>> FIRST-DOWN RUN BY SMITH.
>> HE'S HAD 8 CARRIES SO FAR FOR
38 YARDS.
ON THAT LAST PLAY, HE GOT 11 OF
THEM.
>> TWO TIGHT ENDS.
HERE'S BRADY.
PASS COMPLETE OUTSIDE TO HIS
FULLBACK, MARC EDWARDS.
>> THAT WAS A GOOD READ BY
TOM BRADY.
ADAM ARCHULETA, THE STRONG
SAFETY, CAME UP ON THAT SIDE,
AND HE WAS COMING ON THE BLITZ.
SO IF HE COMES ON A BLITZ, THEN
YOU HAVE TO GET IT OUT OF THERE
QUICKLY, AND YOU HAVE TO GET IT
OUT OF THERE HOT.
YOU SEE, HE'S RIGHT THERE.
YOU SEE HIM COME?
SO NOW BRADY SEES HIM COMING AND
KNOWS THAT THE AREA THAT HE
VACATED IS THE AREA THAT HE
WANTS TO GET THE BALL IN.
>> SECOND AND 5.
PATRIOTS AT THEIR OWN 31.
SMITH.
GETS CLOSE TO A FIRST.
>> WELL, THE PATRIOTS CAME OUT
HERE IN PRACTICE YESTERDAY, AND
THEY PRACTICED AND TOOK THEIR
TEAM PICTURE.
I WAS SURPRISED HOW BIG
ANTOWAIN SMITH IS.
I MEAN, HE LOOKS LIKE A
FULLBACK.
HE IS A BIG, POWERFUL GUY.
IT TAKES A FEW TO BRING HIM
DOWN, AND HE LOOKS LIKE HE KNOWS
HOW TO FINISH THOSE RUNS, TOO.
>> WELL, SO FAR HE HAS -- NO
QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
>> THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THEY
HAD TO DO IS ESTABLISH THE LINE
OF SCRIMMAGE.
>> MARC EDWARDS GETS THE CARRY
AND GETS THE FIRST DOWN FOR
NEW ENGLAND.
>> THOSE OLD LEAD FULLBACKS
USUALLY DON'T GET MANY CARRIES
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE TAILBACK
BEHIND THEM, AND HE'S USUALLY
THE FIRST GUY THROUGH, WHICH IS
THE BLOCKER.
THAT TIME THEY JUST HANDED IT TO
MARC EDWARDS.
SEE, USUALLY, WHEN THEY LINE UP
LIKE THIS, THE FIRST BACK HERE
BLOCKS, AND THE SECOND BACK GETS
THE BALL.
HERE, THEY JUST HAND IT TO
MARC EDWARDS, WHO IS THE FIRST
BACK OR THE FULLBACK.
SEE, BOOM, JUST RIGHT THERE.
THEY JUST GET A LITTLE SLAM.
IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH, 'CAUSE HE
GOT HIS SHOULDER PADS SO LOW TO
THE GROUND.
>> THEY DIDN'T NEED MUCH, BUT
WHATEVER THEY NEEDED, THEY GOT.
THE HAND-OFF IS INSIDE THIS
TIME, TO MARC EDWARDS AGAIN.
WHAT'S GOING ON?
>> WELL, WHEN YOU'RE GONNA THROW
A GUY A BONE, THROW HIM TWO
BONES IN A ROW.
>> COMING UP AT HALFTIME IS
THE E-TRADE FINANCIAL
SUPER BOWL XXXVI HALFTIME SHOW,
FEATURING A VERY SPECIAL
PERFORMANCE.
>> HOW ABOUT THIS SCORE, COMING
UP AT HALF?
>> SURPRISE AND ENTERTAINMENT.
ANTOWAIN SMITH THIS TIME IS
CAUGHT BEHIND THE LINE, AND GOOD
PURSUIT BY THE RAM DEFENSE.
>> THAT'S THE THING THAT THEY DO
SO WELL.
YOU KNOW, LOVIE SMITH, THE
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR OF THE
RAMS, BROUGHT THAT IN, WHERE NO
ONE CAN LOAF.
HE COUNTS ANYONE THAT DOESN'T
HUSTLE, ANYONE THAT DOESN'T RUN
AS FAST AS THEY CAN ON EVERY
PLAY.
IF THEY SLOW DOWN, THEY GET A
LOAF.
IF THEY SPEED UP, THEY GET A
LOAF BECAUSE THAT MEANS THAT
THEY WERE LOAFING BEFORE THEY
SPEEDED UP.
AND SO EVERYONE IS SO CONSCIOUS
OF NOT GETTING A LOAF, THEY ALL
SPRINT TO THE BALL.
[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]
>> THERE ARE THE WHISTLES.
>> TIME-OUT, ST. LOUIS.
>> TIME-OUT, RAMS.
THAT'S THEIR FIRST.
>> THERE'S A GUY WHO'S BEEN
HAVING A GREAT SEASON
AND A GREAT LAST MONTH
AND A VERY DESERVING GUY WHO'S
HAVING A HOMECOMING.
YOU KNOW, WE JUST LOOKED AT
TWO OF THOSE RAMS THAT ARE GOING
TO BE IN THE PRO BOWL, BUT ALSO
TWO OF THOSE RAMS THAT ARE FROM
NEW ORLEANS, AND THIS IS
A HOMECOMING.
IN FACT, BOTH OF THOSE GUYS --
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
MARSHALL FAULK AND
AENEAS WILLIAMS -- SOLD HERE IN
THIS STADIUM.
THEY SOLD POPCORN AND THEY SOLD
SODA.
>> BRADY BACK TO THROW IT.
AND HE HAD NO TIME, AS THE RAMS
SWARM.
TYOKA JACKSON AND
LEONARD LITTLE.
>> THEY FAKE THE BLITZ, AND THEN
LEONARD LITTLE COMES ON A STUNT.
AND HE'S THE FIRST GUY THERE.
THE TACKLE WORKS TO THE OUTSIDE.
THE END IS NUMBER 91,
LEONARD LITTLE, WORKS TO THE
INSIDE ON THAT PLAY.
AND ALL BRADY CAN DO IS GET BOTH
HANDS ON THE BALL AND PROTECT IT
AS HE GOES DOWN.
THE RAMS DO THAT A LOT, WHERE
THEY STUNT THEIR LINE, WHERE
THEY'LL SLANT THE LINE, OR
THEY'LL TWIST THEM.
>> WALTER BACK TO PUNT.
DRE' BLY DEEP FOR THE RAMS.
SIGNALS FAIR CATCH.
WISELY SO.
FIRST AND 10 AT THEIR OWN 15.
INSIDE HAND-OFF TO AZ HAKIM,
WHO TRIPPED OVER THE TURF.
THEY'RE GOING NO-HUDDLE.
>> I WAS SAYING, THAT ONE --
THE ONLY BLITZ THEY HAD WAS THAT
MIKE VRABEL HIT ON WARNER WHEN
HE THREW THE INTERCEPTION.
>> FLAG ON THIS PLAY.
BERNIE KUKAR DISCUSSING IT WITH
HIS CREW.
>> I ALWAYS LIKED BERNIE KUKAR.
>> NEUTRAL-ZONE INFRACTION.
50, DEFENSE.
5-YARD PENALTY, FIRST DOWN.
>> MIKE VRABEL.
AND THAT'LL GIVE THE RAMS A
FIRST DOWN.
>> MIKE VRABEL, HE'S A
LINEBACKER THAT CAME OVER FROM
THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS.
AND THEY USE HIM AS A
LINEBACKER.
AND THEN THEY'LL ALSO PUT HIM
DOWN, LIKE THEY ARE RIGHT NOW.
HE'S DOWN NOW.
HE'LL PLAY A FOURTH OR FIFTH
DEFENSIVE LINEMAN.
>> WARNER UP THE MIDDLE TO
PROEHL, AND THE BALL POPS LOOSE.
AND THE PATRIOTS HAVE IT.
BUCKLEY HAS GOT THE BALL, AND
BUCKLEY IS CAUGHT FROM BEHIND.
THERE'S A FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> YEAH, BUT THE FLAG HAS TO BE
POSTPOSSESSION.
THE FLAG WAS WAY BACK HERE AFTER
THE RUNBACK HAD STARTED FOR
ABOUT 20 YARDS.
THIS IS WHAT THE PATRIOTS SAID
THEY HAD TO DO.
THEY SAID, "THEY'RE GONNA CATCH
SOME SOMETIMES, BUT WE GOT TO
KNOCK IT OUT OF THEM."
>> THERE IS NO FOUL ON THE PLAY.
THERE WAS NOT A BLOCK IN THE
BACK -- NO FOUL.
>> NO FOUL.
>> WATCH THIS.
HERE PROEHL IS GONNA COME IN,
AND YOU SEE HARRIS JUST COMES IN
THERE, AND HE JUST PUTS HIS
HELMET RIGHT ON THE BALL.
THAT WAS ANTWAN HARRIS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY USE
FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN DEFENSIVE
BACKS, MATCH UP THEIR SPEED WITH
THE SPEED.
ONE OF THOSE SPEED MATCHUPS,
AGAIN, IS ANTWAN HARRIS, WHO
COMES IN AND MAKES THE BIG HIT.
LOOK AT THAT.
16 WINS -- 31 TURNOVERS.
2 LOSSES -- 14 TURNOVERS.
>> BRADY GOES OUT OF THE
SHOTGUN.
FIRST AND 10 AT THE RAM 40.
BRADY.
THE INSIDE SCREEN.
TROY BROWN.
BROWN INSIDE THE RAM 25.
>> AND THEY BETTER TAKE A
TIME-OUT.
THIS IS A THING THAT THEY DO SO
WELL IS FIND DIFFERENT WAYS TO
GET THE BALL TO TROY BROWN.
THE SAME THINGS THAT MAKE HIM A
GREAT PUNT RETURNER MAKE HIM A
GREAT SCREEN RUNNER.
THE SECOND HE GETS THAT BALL,
BOOM, THAT NEXT STEP IS RIGHT UP
THE FIELD.
>> THEY GET A FIRST DOWN.
THEY TAKE A TIME-OUT.
TROY BROWN -- 101 CATCHES.
HE'S BEEN HANGING AROUND FOR
NINE YEARS, BUT THIS IS THE
FIRST YEAR HE'S BECOME A STAR.
>> YEAH, AND HE WAS ALWAYS A
VERY GOOD PUNT RETURNER.
YOU LOOK RIGHT HERE.
THAT 14.2 AVERAGE LED THE
LEAGUE.
AND YOU KNOW, HE IS SO
EXPLOSIVE.
HE'S NOT A BIG GUY, HE'S NOT
A REAL FAST GUY, BUT HIS FIRST
STEP.
YOU KNOW, AND IN FACT,
MIKE MARTZ WAS TELLING US THAT.
AND LOVIE SMITH SAID THE SAME
THING, THAT HIS FIRST STEP IN
GETTING TURNED AND GETTING UP
THE FIELD HE DOES AS WELL AS
ANYONE IN THE LEAGUE.
>> I WAS WATCHING HIM ON THE
TAPES.
THIS IS A RAM TIME-OUT NOW.
WATCHING HIM ON TAPE, AND IT
LOOKS AS IF THE DEFENDERS ARE
TRYING TO WAIT FOR HIM TO MAKE
HIS FIRST MOVE, AND HE'S ALREADY
GONE.
>> WELL, AND THAT'S THE THING
THAT HE DOES SO WELL, BECAUSE HE
NOT ONLY DOES IT QUICKLY, BUT HE
GETS LOW, TOO.
IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE
HE'S DOWN, AND THAT FIRST STEP
IS JUST A BURST.
YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST SAW OUT OF
MY LEFT EYE?
>> ME!
>> MATT LIGHT.
NO, NO, RIGHT DOWN THERE.
SEE MATT LIGHT, THE STARTING
LEFT TACKLE OF THE PATRIOTS, IS
LIMPING INTO THE LOCKER ROOM.
HE HAD AN INJURED KNEE, AND
THAT'LL BRING IN GRANT WILLIAMS.
I'M SURE THAT'S WHAT I JUST SAW
OUT OF MY LEFT EYE.
HE WAS A ROOKIE STARTING LEFT
TACKLE.
>> WELL, GRANT WILLIAMS WENT TO
NEARBY LSU.
HE'S 6'7".
HE'S THE LEFT TACKLE.
>> THIS IS WHERE MIKE COMPTON IS
THE SNAPPER.
>> BRADY -- COMPLETE.
THAT'S HIS BACKUP TIGHT END,
WIGGINS.
>> THAT'S THE TIGHT END THAT
THEY LIKE TO THROW TO.
RUTLEDGE IS KIND OF THE BLOCKER.
JERMAINE WIGGINS IS A RECEIVER,
AND BRADY LIKES HIM.
HE'S NOT THE FASTEST GUY, BUT HE
CAN GET IN AND OUT OF A BREAK.
>> THE PATRIOTS IN THE
2-MINUTE DRILL NOW -- NO
HUDDLE.
AND BRADY'S GOT THEM GOING.
INCOMPLETE.
INTENDED FOR PATTEN IN THE
CORNER OF THE END ZONE.
>> THAT'S ON DEXTER McCLEON.
ANYTIME YOU GET DOWN HERE AND
YOU'RE GOING TO PICK ON SOMEONE,
IT'S GOING TO BE DEXTER McCLEON.
LAST WEEK WE KNOW THAT THEY GOT
ONE ON HIM.
HERE'S DEXTER McCLEON.
IF YOU'RE GONNA GET SOMETHING,
YOU WANT TO GET SOMETHING ON
HIM.
YOU SEE THEY GOT THE MAN-TO-MAN.
REMEMBER, LAST WEEK THE
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES GOT A
TOUCHDOWN THAT SAME PLACE ON THE
FIELD, THAT SAME SIDE, AGAINST
DEXTER McCLEON.
>> THIRD AND ABOUT 2.
THE HAND-OFF -- THE PITCH COMES
BACK TO ANTOWAIN SMITH, AROUND
THE CORNER, FIRST DOWN.
BEG YOUR PARDON.
THAT'S KEVIN FAULK.
>> I'LL TELL YOU, A GREAT
BLOCK BY GRANT WILLIAMS.
WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT
GRANT WILLIAMS.
JUST CAME IN AS A LEFT TACKLE.
BUT WATCH THE BLOCK THAT HE
MAKES.
HE'S GONNA GET TWO.
HE'S GONNA PULL RIGHT HERE.
AND WATCH RIGHT THERE.
BOOM, HE GETS ONE.
RIGHT THERE HE GETS TWO.
THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD.
YOU BRING A BIG OLD TACKLE IN,
AND THEN HE GETS AROUND THE
CORNER, PROVIDES A CORNER FOR
YOU.
AND THEN KEVIN FAULK JUST USED
THAT BLOCK AND GOT TO THE
OUTSIDE.
>> FIRST AND GOAL AT THE RAM 8.
36 SECONDS LEFT BEFORE HALFTIME.
THE PATRIOTS...
[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]
>> THE PATRIOTS HAVE ONE
TIME-OUT.
>> AND THEY JUST TOOK IT.
REDMOND HAD COME IN AS THE
RUNNING BACK.
>> THE PATRIOTS HAVE NONE
TIME-OUTS.
THEY LIKE REDMOND AS A PASS
PROTECTOR.
THEY BRING HIM IN BECAUSE HE'S
THE BEST BLITZ BLOCKER.
YOU WONDER HOW THE SCORE GOT
THIS WAY, AND WE TALKED ABOUT
THE THING THAT THIS PATRIOT
DEFENSE SAID THAT THEY'RE GONNA
DO.
THEY'RE GONNA CATCH SOME, BUT
WHEN THEY DO, THEY'RE GONNA HIT
HIM, AND THEY'RE GONNA KNOCK THE
BALL OUT OF THERE.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW WELL THEY'VE
DONE THAT THIS FIRST HALF.
>> MAKE THEM PAY.
>> BILL BELICHICK TOLD ME THE
OTHER NIGHT.
HE SAID, "WE JUST GOT TO BE
PHYSICAL.
THE ONLY WAY WE CAN WIN THIS
GAME IS WE HAVE TO BE MORE
PHYSICAL ON THEM, AND WE HAVE TO
FIND OTHER WAYS TO SCORE OTHER
THAN OUR OFFENSE."
>> TALK ABOUT A GUY THAT'S
BECOME EASIER TO CONVERSE WITH
AND LOOSENED UP.
>> YEAH, HE'S A GOOD GUY.
HE'S A GREAT COACH.
>> YEP.
HERE'S BRADY BACK.
FIRING, END ZONE.
TOUCHDOWN!
PATRIOTS' DAVID PATTEN MADE A
GREAT CATCH.
>> THAT'S THE GUY THEY'RE GONNA
WORK ON IS DEXTER McCLEON.
THEY DIDN'T GET HIM THE FIRST
TIME.
THEY GOT HIM THAT TIME.
DAVID PATTEN MADE A HECK OF A
MOVE, THOUGH.
>> DID HE EVER.
AND WHAT A CATCH HE MADE.
>> AND WHAT A THROW TOM BRADY
MAKES.
WATCH HIM.
HE STARTS OUT.
THEN HE STARTS UP.
A LITTLE OUT-AND-UP, AND HE
THREW IT RIGHT TO THAT SECOND
PYLON.
SEE THE OUT THERE?
HE SELLS HIM ON THE OUT.
McCLEON TAKES A STEP UP.
BRADY THROWS IT RIGHT OVER TO A
PERFECT SPOT FOR DAVID PATTEN.
[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IF
SOMEONE'S GONNA EXPLODE ON
OFFENSE THAT IT'S GONNA BE THE
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS IN
SUPER BOWL XXXVI?
>> HERE COMES BERNIE KUKAR.
THIS LOOKS LIKE A REVIEW, MAYBE.
>> AND REMEMBER, IT'S IN THE
LAST 2 MINUTES OF THE HALF,
SO IT WOULD BE A BOOTH REVIEW.
IT'S NOT A CHALLENGE BY EITHER
COACH.
>> WE WILL REVIEW THE RULING ON
THE FIELD OF A TOUCHDOWN.
>> I DIDN'T SEE TOO MUCH WRONG
WITH THAT TOUCHDOWN.
>> THEY HAVE TO -- THEY JUST
HAVE TO SEE IF BOTH FEET WERE
INBOUNDS.
HE HAS CONTROL.
THERE'S ONE FOOT.
THERE'S A HAND.
THEN YOU DON'T NEED ANOTHER
FOOT.
YOU GOT THE HAND.
>> DID HE HAVE THE BALL?
YES.
THIS WILL BE A SHORT REVIEW, OR
SHOULD BE.
>> HE HAS CONTROL OF THE BALL.
HE'S DOWN RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S A TOUCHDOWN.
HE COULD HAVE LOST CONTROL OF IT
AFTER, THOUGH.
WATCH AFTER.
WATCH WHEN HE'S OUT, RIGHT
THERE.
RIGHT THERE.
LOOKED LIKE HE STARTED TO LOSE
CONTROL OF IT, BUT IF THEY CALL
IT A TOUCHDOWN, WHAT HAPPENS
AFTER DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE,
ANYWAY.
DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE,
ANYWAY.
BECAUSE IF HE HAS IT HERE,
CONTROL.
DOWN, DOWN.
NOW HE'S IN.
AND HE STILL HAD CONTROL.
>> STILL HAD CONTROL.
>> YEAH, HE DID.
LIKE I SAID, I'VE ALWAYS LIKED
BERNIE KUKAR AS A REFEREE.
ALL THE GAMES WE'VE DONE, I'VE
ALWAYS FELT WHEN HE REFEREES A
GAME, HE HAS CONTROL OF THAT
GAME.
AND I DON'T THINK THIS WILL BE
OVERRULED.
I DON'T THINK THIS CHALLENGE
WILL STAND UP.
>> AFTER REVIEWING THE PLAY, IT
IS A TOUCHDOWN.
[ CROWD CHEERING ]
>> SOMETHING ABOUT BERNIE KUKAR,
HE DOESN'T LEAVE ANY DOUBT.
>> NO, HE DOESN'T.
THAT'S WHAT I LIKE.
>> YEAH, "IT IS A TOUCHDOWN!"
HE BLURTS OUT THAT "TOUCHDOWN."
WHAT A THROW BY TOM BRADY.
AND DAVID PATTEN MADE A HECK OF
A MOVE.
HE SOLD DEXTER McCLEON ON THE
OUT.
McCLEON TOOK A BITE, AND THEN HE
RUNS THE UP, AND TOM BRADY MAKES
A PERFECT THROW.
>> VINATIERI FOR THE EXTRA
POINT.
14-3.
THIS IS "SHOCKDOME" XXXVI.
>> THAT'S THE GREAT THING ABOUT
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL AND ALL
FOOTBALL IS YOU NEVER KNOW
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
PEOPLE WILL SAY, "THIS IS GONNA
HAPPEN.
THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN."
AND IF YOU REALLY KNEW AND IF
YOU REALLY SAY WHAT WAS GONNA
HAPPEN, AND IT HAPPENED, THERE'D
BE NO REASON TO COME AND PLAY
THE GAME.
ULTIMATELY, EVENTUALLY, THEY GOT
TO GET OUT THERE AND PLAY IT.
>> I'VE HEARD YOU SAY THAT A
MILLION TIMES, WHEN SOMEONE
INEVITABLY ASKS ONE OF US,
"WHO'S GONNA WIN?
WHO'S GONNA WIN?"
WHO KNOWS?
AND IF YOU KNEW, YOU'D BE IN
ANOTHER BUSINESS, I THINK,
WOULDN'T YOU?
>> THIS IS THE PATRIOTS, PAT,
AFTER THE RULING.
DAVID PATTEN HAD TO KNOW THAT
THAT WAS A TOUCHDOWN AND KNOW
THAT HE WAS IN BOUNDS.
BUT HE JUST LIKED TO HEAR THE
ASSURANCE.
HE'S A SPEED GUY.
>> EX-GIANT.
>> LOOK WHO'S DEEP FOR THE RAMS.
WE SAW HIM DO THIS IN PRACTICE
YESTERDAY, AND I REMEMBER WHEN
JOE GIBBS USED TO COACH THE
WASHINGTON REDSKINS.
YOU COULD ALWAYS TELL A BIG GAME
WHEN DARRELL GREEN WAS BACK
THERE AS A PUNT RETURNER.
WHEN I SAW MARSHALL FAULK BACK
THERE AS A KICK RETURNER IN
PRACTICE YESTERDAY, I SAID THE
SAME THING, THAT IF YOU GET IN A
BIG GAME, YOU HAVE
MARSHALL FAULK BACK THERE IN
CASE YOU NEED A BIG PLAY ON A
KICKOFF RETURN.
>> I WOULD SAY THEY NEED A BIG
RETURN.
>> AND IF THEY NEED ANYONE TO
GET THEIR OFFENSE GOING OR GET
THEIR TEAM GOING, I THINK THAT
SPARK HAS ALWAYS BEEN
MARSHALL FAULK.
>> VINATIERI WILL KICK IT OFF.
TRYING TO GET IT AWAY FROM
MARSHALL FAULK, WHO SCAMPERS UP
AND STEPS OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE
6-YARD LINE.
VINATIERI DID A HECK OF A JOB TO
GET IT OVER THERE LIKE THAT,
DIDN'T HE?
>> VINATIERI'S DONE A HECK OF A
JOB FOR THESE PATRIOTS ALL YEAR.
HOW ABOUT THOSE TWO KICKS HE
MADE AGAINST THE OAKLAND RAIDERS
IN THAT SNOW BOWL?
>> UNBELIEVABLE.
>> AND THEN THE KICKING OFF.
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE DIFFERENT
HEROES.
YOU HAVE QUARTERBACKS AND
RUNNING BACKS AND WIDE
RECEIVERS.
AND THIS GUY RIGHT HERE HAS BEEN
A PRETTY BIG PART OF THIS
PATRIOT SUCCESS.
>> WHAT'S WRONG WITH HAVING A
KICKER AS YOUR HERO?
>> WELL, NO, I KNOW YOU CAN.
[ BOTH LAUGH ]
DUE RESPECT TO YOU, I USUALLY
SAY THAT.
AND THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A
CHIP SHOT ON A FIELD GOAL, TOO.
>> THAT'S CORRECT.
THE RAMS ARE JUST GONNA RUN IT
OUT AND GO IN AND TALK IT OVER.
>> GO IN, TALK IT OVER, AND COME
UP WITH A NEW PLAN BECAUSE
THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE, AGAIN,
WITHOUT A LOT OF BLITZING AND
STUNTING BUT USING MULTIPLE
DEFENSIVE BACKS, I THINK HAVE
KIND OF THROWN THIS RAM OFFENSE
FOR A LOOP.
>> THAT IS THE CORRECT SCORE,
14-3.
MIKE MARTZ.
AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE
FIRST-HALF STATISTICS.
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS ALL
ABOUT THE PATRIOTS DEFENSE, AND
I THINK USING THE FIVE, SIX,
SEVEN DEFENSIVE BACKS AND THEN
WHAT THEY DID WITH IT.
IF YOU LOOK HERE, THEY HAD TWO
TURNOVERS.
ONE WAS TY LAW'S INTERCEPTION
FOR A TOUCHDOWN.
AND THE OTHER ONE WAS
RICKY PROEHL'S FUMBLE, AND THEY
GOT 14 POINTS OFF IT.
AND THAT'S THE STORY, I THINK,
OF THE FIRST HALF IS THE JOB
THAT THAT PATRIOT DEFENSE DID
GENERALLY, BUT SPECIFICALLY
MATCHING UP THEIR SPEED GUYS,
THEIR DEFENSIVE BACKS, AND THEN
THOSE DEFENSIVE BACKS NOT ONLY
COVERING, BUT THE WAY THEY HIT.
>> AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE SORT
OF TALKING ABOUT "THE THINGS
THAT WE HAVE TO DO TO WIN," AND
THEY'VE PRETTY MUCH DONE THOSE.
>> YEAH.
"WE HAVE TO MATCH UP WITH THEIR
SPEED," AND THEN BE MORE
PHYSICAL THAN THEY WERE.
AND IN THE FIRST HALF, THE
PATRIOTS WERE MORE PHYSICAL THAN
THE RAMS.
>> FROM A YARD DEEP IN THE END
ZONE, IT'S PATRICK PASS.
HE GETS AWAY FROM ONE RAM.
PASS HEADS UP THE SIDELINE
OUTSIDE THE 30.
LET'S GO TO RON PITTS NOW, WHO
TALKED TO BILL BELICHICK AT THE
END OF THE FIRST HALF.
>> WHAT'S THE NUMBER-ONE
ADJUSTMENT YOU'RE GONNA WANT TO
MAKE WITH YOUR TEAM GOING IN
NOW?
>> WELL, I THINK WE NEED TO STAY
OUT OF LONG YARDAGE ON OFFENSE.
THAT'LL BE THE BIGGEST THING
THAT COULD HELP US.
>> ALL RIGHT, COACH.
GOOD LUCK, SECOND HALF.
>> NOT TOO MANY ADJUSTMENTS NEED
BE MADE.
THIS IS ANTOWAIN SMITH.
PAST THE 40.
>> I THINK THAT'S THE KEY, PAT.
WHEN BILL BELICHICK'S OUT
THERE, HE CAN'T THINK OF ANY
ADJUSTMENTS THAT HE HAS TO MAKE
FOR THE SECOND HALF.
THAT IS A PRETTY GOOD INDICATOR
THAT THINGS IN THE FIRST HALF
HAVE GONE VERY, VERY WELL.
THEIR OFFENSE HAS THREE
TOUCHDOWNS, AND THEIR DEFENSE
AND SPECIAL TEAMS HAVE THREE
TOUCHDOWNS IN THIS POSTSEASON.
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT HE SAYS.
HE SAID, "WE CAN'T BEAT THEM
JUST WITH OUR OFFENSE SCORING
TOUCHDOWNS.
WE HAVE TO SCORE TOUCHDOWNS
OTHER WAYS."
>> SMITH AGAIN.
INTO THE RAMS' SECONDARY.
>> HE MADE SOME GREAT MOVES ON
THAT PLAY.
LET'S LOOK AT TOM BRADY'S PASS
CHART IN THE FIRST HALF.
YOU SEE THE GOLD ONES ARE THE
COMPLETIONS.
AND HE REALLY HASN'T COMPLETED A
PASS OVER 10 YARDS.
BUT THE BIG ONE WAS THAT
TOUCHDOWN, THAT OUT-AND-UP DOWN
THERE TO DAVID PATTEN.
AND THAT WAS THE ONE THAT THEY
NEEDED.
EVERYTHING ELSE HAS BEEN
10 YARDS AND IN.
SO SOMEWHERE I EXPECT THEM
TO GO DEEP IN THIS HALF.
>> THEY'RE AT THE ST. LOUIS 47,
AND RIGHT NOW THEY'VE GOT THE
RAMS REELING.
>> RIGHT NOW WOULDN'T BE A BAD
PLAY.
>> GOING DEEP.
AND JUST OVERTHROWN.
DAVID PATTEN HAD A COUPLE OF
STEPS.
>> YOU LOOK AT THAT PASS CHART
AND SEE THAT YOU DIDN'T THROW
MANY OR COMPLETE MANY IN THAT
FIRST HALF.
SO IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
YOU TALK ABOUT AND SAY, "LOOK,
THE NEXT TIME WE GET GOOD FIELD
POSITION, LET'S GO FOR THE DEEP
ONE."
AND THEN, WHEN YOU'RE GONNA GO
FOR THE DEEP ONE, YOU'RE GONNA
GO TO YOUR SPEED GUY,
DAVID PATTEN.
SO YOU COULD KIND OF FEEL THAT
ONE COMING RIGHT THERE.
>> SECOND AND 10.
BRADY POINTING TO THE RAM
DEFENSE.
J.R. REDMOND IS THE BACK.
AND HE HAD NO CHANCE, AS
GRANT WISTROM, AS WE HAVE OFTEN
SEEN HIM DO, WHISTLED INTO THAT
SECONDARY AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN.
>> WE TALK ABOUT THE RAM DEFENSE
AND HOW THEY STUNT, AND YOU CAN
SEE WISTROM.
HE JUST GOES TO THE OUTSIDE --
I MEAN HE GOES TO THE INSIDE OF
THE TIGHT END AND GETS
PENETRATION.
THAT'S WHAT WILL FOUL UP ANY
RUNNING GAME IS WHEN A DEFENSIVE
GUY CAN BEAT A DOWN BLOCK AND
GET IN THE BACKFIELD AND GET THE
PENETRATION.
>> AND PENETRATION'S THE KEY
WORD.
>> WELL, GRANT WISTROM DOES THAT
A LOT.
AS I SAID EARLIER, IN THIS LAST
MONTH, HE'S COME UP WITH A LOT
OF BIG PLAYS FOR THIS RAM
DEFENSE.
>> THIRD AND LONG, THIRD AND 14.
HERE'S THAT SCREEN AGAIN TO
TROY BROWN.
THEY GET YARDAGE, BUT NOT ENOUGH
FOR A FIRST AND NOT ENOUGH FOR
VINATIERI.
>> BUT THEY DID A GOOD JOB.
TOM BRADY IS DOING A GOOD JOB OF
MANAGING THIS GAME.
SECOND-YEAR PLAYER -- HE'S THE
THIRD-YOUNGEST QUARTERBACK TO
EVER START IN A SUPER BOWL.
IF THE PATRIOTS WERE TO WIN,
HE'LL BE THE YOUNGEST
QUARTERBACK TO EVER WIN A
SUPER BOWL.
BUT I'LL TELL YOU,
HE'S PLAYING OUT THERE WITH A
HECK OF A LOT OF POISE.
>> FOR A YOUNG QUARTERBACK OR
FOR ANY QUARTERBACK -- IT
DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IF
HE'S YOUNG OR NOT -- HE IS
PLAYING WELL.
HIGH KICK.
DRE' BLY...
IS POINTING LIKE, "I'M SUPPOSED
TO GET A FLAG."
BUT NONE COMES FLYING.
THE PATRIOTS KEPT THE BALL JUST
OVER 4 MINUTES.
AND IT'S BEEN PRETTY TOUGH TO
COME BACK IN A SUPER BOWL.
BUT THE RAMS HAVE A CHORE IN
FRONT OF THEM -- FIRST AND 10 AT
THEIR OWN 16.
WARNER STEPS UP.
THERE'S A FLAG ON THE PLAY.
THE PASS IS COMPLETE TO HOLT,
BUT THERE'S A FLAG BACK DOWN
BACK BEHIND THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE.
THAT SHOULD BE HOLDING.
>> I WAS GONNA SAY THAT'S IN THE
AREA OF OFFENSIVE HOLDING, TOO,
AND THAT'S GONNA GO AGAINST THE
RAMS.
>> HOLDING.
84, OFFENSE.
HALF THE DISTANCE TO THE GOAL.
STILL FIRST DOWN.
>> ERNIE CONWELL.
>> AND ERNIE CONWELL IS RIGHT
HERE.
YOU SEE THAT LEFT HAND.
NOW SOMETIMES WHEN THEY'RE
HAVING TROUBLE WITH PASS
PROTECTION, THE RAMS WILL KEEP
ERNIE CONWELL, THEIR TIGHT END,
IN AS A PASS PROTECTOR TO HELP.
THAT'S WHAT THEY DID THAT TIME.
AND YOU COULD JUST SEE THAT HE
REACHED HIS LEFT HAND OUT THERE
AND GRABBED.
YOU SEE RYAN TUCKER AGAIN AS A
RIGHT TACKLE NOW.
ROD JONES HAS THAT GROIN INJURY
AND IS PROBABLY OUT FOR THE REST
OF THE GAME.
>> FIRST AND 18.
WARNER ROLLS RIGHT.
GONNA THROW BACK.
AND DOES THROW BACK.
THAT'S AZ HAKIM.
AND HE SCRAMBLES FOR FIRST-DOWN
YARDAGE AND ALMOST BROKE IT.
>> REMEMBER AGAINST THE
GREEN BAY PACKERS, KURT WARNER
DID THAT.
HE ROLLED RIGHT AND THREW BACK
TO THE OTHER SIDE.
WATCH HIM.
HE'S GONNA START OUT HERE, ROLL
TO HIS RIGHT.
THEY TAKE THEIR PASS PROTECTION
THAT WAY.
THEN HE LOOKS TO THE RIGHT,
COMES ALL THE WAY BACK AND HITS
AZ HAKIM ON THE LEFT SIDE.
AZ HAKIM IS ONE OF THOSE
PUNT-RETURNER-TYPE GUYS, TOO --
SEE, HE STARTED TO THE IN, HAD
THAT OPTION TO GO BACK TO THE
OUT -- THAT COULD DO THE SAME
THINGS -- RUN WITH THE BALL
AFTER HE CATCHES IT -- AS YOU
CAN AS A PUNT RETURNER.
>> WARNER ON FIRST.
PULLS IT DOWN.
PICKS IT BACK UP AND FIRES
COMPLETE.
ISAAC BRUCE.
THE RECEIVER HIT BY
LAWYER MILLOY.
>> I THINK HE WAS TRYING TO GO
DEEP TO TORRY HOLT.
AND WE SEE ISAAC BRUCE.
VERY QUICK.
HE SAYS THE THING THAT HE CAN
DO, AS HE SAID, "DON'T TAKE AWAY
A SIDE."
SO YOU CAN BEAT HIM WITH
QUICKNESS, BUT TY LAW WAS THERE.
TY LAW HAD PRETTY GOOD COVERAGE
ON HIM, AND HE JUST FELL DOWN.
>> YOU SEE HOW FAST BRUCE CAME
OUT OF THAT BREAK, THOUGH.
>> THAT'S THE THING THAT HE CAN
DO.
HE CAN RUN IN AND OUT OF A BREAK
AT FULL SPEED BETTER THAN ANYONE
IN THIS GAME.
>> WARNER.
INCOMPLETE.
HERE COMES THE FLAG.
TORRY HOLT WAS YELLING.
OTIS SMITH THE COVER MAN.
>> YEAH, AND OTIS SMITH WAS UP
TIGHT ON HIM.
AND I THINK THAT THEY TRY AND DO
THAT -- THROW BEHIND HIM, THROW
TO HIS BACK SHOULDER...
>> PASS INTERFERENCE.
45, DEFENSE.
THAT'S A FIRST DOWN.
>> ...AND EITHER GET A PASS
INTERFERENCE OR COMPLETION.
YOU SEE OTIS SMITH IS UP HERE
TIGHT.
TORRY HOLT GETS A LITTLE IN
FRONT OF HIM.
I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO THROW
TO THAT BACK SHOULDER TO EITHER
GET PASS INTERFERENCE OR CATCH A
BALL.
THAT WAS MORE TO GET PASS
INTERFERENCE, I THINK, THAN
ANYTHING ELSE.
>> THEY GET A FIRST DOWN, AND
THE RAMS GO IN A HURRY.
FAULK.
SACKED AT THE 49.
VRABEL, SEYMOUR.
>> AND I'LL TELL YOU,
HE HAD TORRY HOLT DOWN HERE ON
THIS SIDELINE.
IF HE WOULD HAVE JUST THROWN IT
TO HOLT, I THINK HE COULD HAVE
GOTTEN A TOUCHDOWN HERE.
AND HE'S ON THE LEFT.
HE'S LOOKING AT HIM RIGHT THERE.
YOU SEE, HE GETS THAT PRESSURE
THERE AND COULDN'T DO ANYTHING
ABOUT IT.
IF YOU LOOK ON THAT LEFT
SIDELINE, I THINK THAT
TORRY HOLT WAS RUNNING FREE.
SEE, MARSHALL FAULK COMES, AND
HE THROWS A WHIFF AT SEYMOUR.
AND SEYMOUR GETS ON KURT WARNER
BEFORE HE CAN EVEN GET THAT BALL
TO TORRY HOLT.
>> AND THE RAMS CALL TIME-OUT.
>> ORLANDO PACE INJURED HIS KNEE
LAST WEEK IN THE GAME AGAINST
THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES, AND HE
WASN'T SUPPOSED TO GO BACK IN.
THE TRAINERS AND DOCTORS DIDN'T
WANT HIM TO GO BACK IN.
AND JIM HANIFAN, THE LINE COACH,
SAID THE NEXT THING HE SAW, HE
WAS IN THERE PLAYING.
>> GOING DEEP!
OUT OF BOUNDS, OUT OF BOUNDS.
>> THAT WAS THE ONE I WAS
TALKING ABOUT, PAT.
THEY HAD THAT THE PLAY BEFORE.
AND THEN THAT WAS THE ONE THAT I
THINK WHEN RICHARD SEYMOUR GOT
TO KURT WARNER.
I THINK THAT'S WHERE HE WAS
TRYING TO GO ON THE PLAY BEFORE
BECAUSE HE HAD THE SAME THING.
AND THEY'RE PLAYING A FORM OF
COVER 2, AND THERE IS A HOLE
RIGHT THERE.
AND KURT WARNER JUST THROWS IT A
LITTLE WIDE.
>> WELL, HE GOT HIT JUST AS HE
LET IT GO.
>> AND I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY
SAW THAT, AGAIN, WAS ON THAT
PLAY BEFORE, 'CAUSE THEY HAD THE
SAME THING, AND TORRY HOLT WAS
WIDE OPEN ON THAT ONE.
>> THIRD DOWN, 17.
FOUR-WIDE-RECEIVER SETUP AGAIN.
SAFETY BLITZ COMING.
THEY PICK IT UP PRETTY WELL, BUT
THE BALL -- WARNER IS HIT.
HIS ARM WAS MOVING.
INCOMPLETE.
ROMAN PHIFER.
>> I'LL TELL YOU.
THESE GUYS ARE REALLY SOMETHING,
THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE.
HERE'S PHIFER RIGHT HERE.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT HE WAITS,
AND THEN HE COMES ON A DELAY.
YOU SEE, HE LETS THE BLOCKING
SET.
HE LETS EVERYONE GET SET.
THEN HE COMES ON A DELAYED
BLITZ.
HE GETS BOTH HANDS UP THERE, AND
KURT WARNER CAN'T THROW THROUGH
IT.
WATCH, BOTH HANDS UP THERE.
THE HAND IS COMING FORWARD, BUT
THE BALL IS OUT AFTER IT COMES
FORWARD.
>> PHIFER ALMOST WAITED UNTIL
MARSHALL FAULK MADE HIS BLOCK.
AND THEN HERE HE CAME.
>> THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID.
THAT'S CALLED A DELAYED BLITZ,
AND ROMAN PHIFER DID AN
EXCELLENT JOB OF TIMING IT.
>> FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> DELAY OF GAME, OFFENSE.
5-YARD PENALTY.
STILL FOURTH DOWN.
>> THAT'S AGAINST THE RAMS.
>> I THINK THE RAMS PROBABLY
WANTED THAT.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS YOU
WANT -- 5 MORE YARDS SO THAT YOU
CAN GET IT.
LET'S WATCH THAT DELAYED BLITZ
AGAIN, AND YOU'LL SEE HIM WAIT
AND WAIT AND WAIT UNTIL THE
BLOCK HAPPENS HERE.
NOW, ONCE MARSHALL FAULK COMMITS
TO THAT BLOCK, THEN ROMAN PHIFER
IS GOING TO COME, JUST LIKE YOU
SAID.
>> TROY BROWN MOVES UP 5.
BAKER BACK TO PUNT.
BROWN CHASES IT OVER CLOSE TO
THE SIDELINE.
AND HE IS WRAPPED UP BY THE RAMS
SHORT OF THE 20-YARD LINE BY
JEFF ROBINSON.
>> THERE'S A GUY WHO'S DONE JUST
A WHALE OF A JOB -- THE
COMMISSIONER, PAUL TAGLIABUE,
NEXT TO HIS WIFE, CHAN, ENJOYING
AN AMERICAN SODA.
>> YEAH, AND HE'S VERY PROUD OF
HAVING THIS GAME PLAYED TODAY,
UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES,
BECAUSE HE HAD TO DO A LOT TO
GET IT CHANGED.
REMEMBER, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO
BE A WEEK AGO, AND THEY HAD A
CAR DEALERS' ASSOCIATION
MEETING, AND I THINK HE DID WHAT
A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT WOULD BE
IMPOSSIBLE.
>> THIS IS ANTOWAIN SMITH.
AND HE ROLLS OUT PAST THE 35.
LET'S GO DOWN TO RON PITTS.
>> GUYS, I TALKED TO MIKE MARTZ
AT HALFTIME -- OBVIOUSLY
FRUSTRATED.
HE SAID, "WE GOT TO DO TWO
THINGS -- HOLD ON TO THE BALL
AND FINISH DRIVES."
HE SAID, "WE'RE HAVING A
COMPLETE PROTECTION BREAKDOWN."
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED ON THE
TY LAW INTERCEPTION.
SOME OF THAT WAS ON KURT WARNER,
AS WELL.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BALL,
THE PATRIOTS IN THE LOCKER ROOM,
GUYS STARTED TO GET FIRED UP AT
FIRST.
THEN SOME VETERANS SAID, "HEY,
CALM DOWN.
WE GOT ANOTHER 30 MINUTES OF
FOOTBALL LEFT TO PLAY."
QUICK INJURY UPDATE --
MATT LIGHT, THE TACKLE, IS OUT
OF THE GAME.
PAT?
>> THANKS, RON.
THE RAMS ARE COMING SAFETY
BLITZ.
PATRIOTS ARE COMING REVERSE, AND
THIS IS DAVID PATTEN.
PATTEN STILL ON HIS FEET,
FIGHTING TO THE RAM 43.
PATRIOT FIRST DOWN.
>> I'LL TELL YOU,
CHARLIE WEIS IS OPENING UP
EVERYTHING, ISN'T HE, PAT?
HE HAS A RUN GOING, RUN RIGHT
AT THEM.
HE HAS A FEW BRADY PASSES.
HE HAS THE REVERSES.
WHEN WE WATCHED PRACTICE THE
OTHER DAY, I SAW THEM RUN ABOUT
10 REVERSES, AND I THOUGHT, "YOU
KNOW, THIS TEAM RUNS MORE
REVERSES THAN ANY TEAM THAT I'VE
EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE."
LOOK OUT, TOM BRADY!
DON'T GET OUT IN FRONT OF THAT
THING IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA BLOCK.
BUT THEY HAVE REVERSES.
THEY HAVE REVERSES RIGHT.
THEY HAVE REVERSES LEFT.
AND THEY HAVE PASSES OFF THE
REVERSES.
SEE BRADY OUT THERE IN FRONT?
>> [ LAUGHS ] YEAH.
>> IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA DO
ANYTHING, DON'T GET OUT THERE.
>> ANTOWAIN SMITH RIPS IT UP THE
MIDDLE FOR GOOD YARDAGE.
>> THIS WHOLE THING OF BEING
PHYSICAL AND THE PATRIOTS ARE
ALL ABOUT THAT TODAY.
AND COMING IN, THAT'S WHAT THEY
THOUGHT THEY COULD DO, AND THIS
IS PART OF IT, TOO, WHERE YOU
RUN A REVERSE ON THEM, YOU GET
SOME THINGS GOING, AND THEN YOU
JUST POUND STRAIGHT AT THEM
BECAUSE, AS I SAID EARLIER, THE
RAMS AREN'T A BIG DEFENSE.
THEY'RE A VERY FAST DEFENSE,
AND THEY FEEL, THE PATRIOTS DO,
THAT THEY'RE BIGGER AND STRONGER
AND THEY CAN MAKE SOME PLAYS
THERE.
LOOK AT THIS -- THREE TIMES TO
THE LEFT, FIVE TIMES IN THE
MIDDLE, SIX TIMES TO THE RIGHT.
SO THEY SPREAD IT OUT PRETTY
WELL.
>> SMITH AGAIN.
NOT MUCH THIS TIME.
WELL, FOR WHATEVER IT'S WORTH,
NO TEAM HAS EVER COME FROM THIS
FAR BEHIND AT THIS POINT AND WON
A SUPER BOWL.
>> YEAH, THAT'S A SURPRISE.
YOU THINK A TEAM LIKE THE RAMS,
YOU THINK IF THERE'S ANYONE THAT
CAN DO IT, IT WOULD BE AN
EXPLOSIVE TEAM LIKE THE RAMS.
BUT I WILL SAY THIS --
THE RAMS AREN'T EXPLOSIVE TODAY.
AND SOME OF IT IS THE RAMS.
SOME OF IT COULD BE KURT WARNER.
SOME OF IT COULD BE THE LINE.
BUT A BIG PART, OR THE BIGGEST
PART OF IT, TO ME, IS THIS
PATRIOT DEFENSE.
>> PATRIOT DEFENSE.
HERE'S BRADY BACK TO THROW.
AND FIRES TO TROY BROWN.
INCOMPLETE.
THAT WAS DRE' BLY WHO KNOCKED IT
AWAY.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT THIS OFFENSE IS
DOING?
THEY'RE JUST GETTING ENOUGH TIME
OF POSSESSION.
THEY'RE JUST GETTING ENOUGH
FIELD POSITION THAT THEY DON'T
GIVE THE RAMS GOOD FIELD
POSITION.
THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD COVERAGE BY
DRE' BLY.
>> YES, IT WAS.
>> WATCH HIM GET THAT RIGHT HAND
IN THERE AND KNOCK THE BALL
AWAY.
LOOKED LIKE DRE' BLY IS
EXPECTING THAT SLANT.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT,
YOU GET TO THIRD DOWN, YOU'RE
PROBABLY GONNA GO TO TROY BROWN.
>> WITH VINATIERI YOU THOUGHT
THEY MIGHT GO FOR A FIELD GOAL,
BUT THAT WOULD GIVE THE RAMS TOO
GOOD A FIELD POSITION, SO THEY
PUNT IT.
WENT INTO THE END ZONE, AND THE
RAMS WILL START AT THE 20.
CHARLIE WEIS TALKING TO BRADY.
THAT'S DREW BLEDSOE SITTING BY
HIM.
BUT HERE'S THE UNIT THAT'S DONE
THE MAGIC.
>> RIGHT.
AND THE PATRIOTS ARE IN THEIR
FIVE DEFENSIVE BACKS NOW ON
FIRST DOWN.
>> FAULK.
CAUGHT BY A PURSUING
ANTHONY PLEASANT.
>> WE TALK ABOUT THE RAMS AND
HOW THEIR DEFENSIVE LINE AND
THEY PURSUE.
THIS DEFENSIVE LINE OF THE
PATRIOTS HAS BEEN PURSUING, TOO.
AND WE'VE SEEN RICHARD SEYMOUR
MAKE A LOT OF PLAYS.
WE'VE SEEN ANTHONY PLEASANT JUST
MAKE THAT ONE.
LOOK AT THEIR DEFENSES.
SO THE REGULAR FOUR DEFENSIVE
BACKS IS THE SMALLEST OF THE
PACKAGES THAT THEY'RE USING.
>> THE RAMS, WHO ARE TRYING TO
COME FROM BEHIND, ONLY HAVE ONE
TIME-OUT LEFT.
>> YEAH, AND YOU SEE THERE THEY
WERE PLAYING FIVE DEFENSIVE
BACKS.
WE SAW TERRELL BUCKLEY JUST COME
OFF.
THEY'LL PUT BUCKLEY IN.
THEY'LL PUT McGINEST IN TO GIVE
THEM A PASS RUSH AND AN EXTRA
GUY.
AND THEN THEY'LL TAKE THEM OUT
AND GO TO BASE.
SO THEY KEEP CHANGING THAT THE
WHOLE GAME, AND THE RAMS HAVE
NEVER GOT A FEELING FOR IT.
>> LAWYER MILLOY.
>> THAT LAWYER MILLOY'S A
PLAYER, ISN'T HE?
>> YES, HE IS.
>> I LIKE THOSE GUYS THAT ARE
KIND OF HALF DEFENSIVE BACK AND
HALF LINEBACKER, THAT IF YOU
NEED A DEFENSIVE BACK, THEY CAN
HIT IN THE OPEN FIELD, AND IF
YOU NEED A LINEBACKER, THEY CAN
TACKLE LIKE THAT.
THERE'S NUMBER 27 IN THERE,
TERRELL BUCKLEY.
AGAIN, WHEN HE COMES IN, THAT
MEANS THAT THEY'RE IN FIVE
DEFENSIVE BACKS.
WHEN ANTWAN HARRIS COMES IN,
THEY'RE IN SIX DEFENSIVE BACKS.
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>> NOW THE PATRIOTS DON'T LIKE
WHAT THEY SEE, AND THEY CALL A
TIME-OUT.
>> WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS,
THE PRESSURE THAT THEY'VE GOTTEN
ON KURT WARNER TODAY.
YOU KNOW, AND THEY'VE ONLY
REALLY BLITZED LIKE THREE
OR FOUR TIMES.
AND YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF THIS
PRESSURE AND A LOT OF THESE HITS
ARE JUST THE FRONT FOUR.
THAT ONE, OF COURSE, THERE WAS
A BLITZ.
THAT WAS A DELAYED BLITZ.
BUT THEY'VE BEEN GETTING TO
KURT WARNER TODAY.
THEY'VE BEEN KNOCKING HIM AROUND
PRETTY WELL, AND, AGAIN, WITHOUT
A LOT OF BLITZING.
>> AND ONE OF THE TIMES THEY GOT
HIM AND GOT CLOSE, FORCED HIM
INTO THAT INTERCEPTION THAT PUT
THE PATRIOTS AHEAD.
>> THE GUY THAT HIT HIM ON THAT
INTERCEPTION WAS MIKE VRABEL.
>> SECOND AND 4.
>> AND HE DID HIT HIM PRETTY
GOOD, TOO.
>> YES, HE DID.
BRUCE GOES IN MOTION.
HAND-OFF IS TO FAULK.
MARSHALL FAULK.
>> IF YOU WATCHED, PAT, JUST TWO
PLAYS AGO, WATCH KURT WARNER.
HE LOOKED LIKE HE HURT HIS THUMB
AGAIN.
HE HURT HIS RIGHT THUMB ON THE
FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON, AND IT
HAS NEVER REALLY HEALED UP.
IN FACT, WE WERE TALKING TO HIM
THE OTHER DAY, AND HE SAID THAT
THING WON'T HEAL UP TILL
A MONTH OR SO AFTER HE QUITS
PLAYING, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T THROW
ANYMORE.
I THINK HE JUST HURT IT ON THAT
PLAY.
>> I THINK HE DID, TOO.
HE KEEPS SOMETHING ALMOST ALL
THE TIME THAT HE CAN SQUEEZE AND
TRY TO STRENGTHEN THAT THUMB.
BUT IT NEVER HAS BEEN RIGHT ALL
YEAR LONG.
HERE HE GOES.
THIS IS FAULK AGAIN.
FAULK RIGHT AT MIDFIELD.
>> ANYTIME THERE'S A RUN IN
THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF BLUE
JERSEYS AROUND THERE, TOO,
AREN'T THERE?
SOMETIMES YOU FORGET THOSE
DEFENSIVE LINEMEN, THE JOB THAT
THEY DO.
BUT LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE
TONIGHT.
AND, OF COURSE, THE BIG ONE WAS
TY LAW'S INTERCEPTION FOR
A TOUCHDOWN.
SO THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE HAS DONE
THEIR JOB.
>> TERRANCE SHAW BACK IN THE
GAME.
WARNER, ON SECOND DOWN.
DROPS TO THROW IT.
AND DROPS IT OUT TO TORRY HOLT,
WHO'S SLUNG TO THE GROUND BY
OTIS SMITH.
>> WE SEE THOSE DEFENSIVE BACKS
HERE, AND WE TALK ABOUT THE
NUMBER OF DEFENSIVE BACKS.
THIS TIME THEY HAVE SIX
DEFENSIVE BACKS IN THERE.
OTIS SMITH IS MAN-TO-MAN ON
TORRY HOLT.
HE JUST RUNS A CROSSING PATTERN,
AND OTIS SMITH RUNS WITH HIM.
THAT'S THE THING.
THERE'S A COUPLE WAYS TO USE
YOUR SPEED.
ONE IS TO GO STRAIGHT UP THE
FIELD.
THE OTHER IS TO GO ACROSS THE
FIELD.
I DON'T KNOW WHO THIS CROWD IS
FOR.
WHO WOULD YOU THINK?
I THINK THEY STARTED OUT A LOT
MORE FOR THE RAMS.
AND NOW I THINK THERE'S A LOT
MORE FOR THE PATRIOTS.
>> I AGREE.
WARNER PICKED OFF!
THAT'S OTIS SMITH, AND
OTIS SMITH GIVES IT TO THE
PATRIOTS AT THE RAM 33-YARD
LINE.
>> EVERYTHING THEY HAD TO DO,
THEY HAVE DONE.
THERE'S TORRY HOLT.
HE FALLS DOWN.
HE GOES TO GET UP.
THE BALL'S THROWN RIGHT OVER HIS
HEAD.
OTIS SMITH, WHO MAYBE HELPED HIM
DOWN, IS RIGHT THERE TO PICK IT
OFF.
THE PATRIOTS ARE DOING TODAY
EVERYTHING THAT THEY SAID THEY
HAD TO DO TO WIN THIS GAME.
>> THEY GET THE BALL AT THE RAM
33 WITH JUST OVER 3 MINUTES
LEFT, 3:25 LEFT IN THE THIRD
QUARTER.
>> MIKE MARTZ IS WATCHING THE
SCREEN THERE AND SHAKING HIS
HEAD BECAUSE THIS IS A TIMING
AND RHYTHM PASSING GAME.
AND YOU CAN THROW THE TIMING OF
THE QUARTERBACK OFF OR THROW THE
TIMING OF THE RHYTHM OF THE
RECEIVER OFF.
THAT TIME THEY THREW THE
RECEIVER'S TIMING OFF.
>> HERE'S BRADY GOING TO WORK.
CAUGHT BY BROWN.
>> BOY, DID HE DRILL THAT ONE IN
THERE.
>> HERE'S THE WAY THE PATRIOTS
WANTED TO BE INTRODUCED -- AS A
TEAM.
THAT'S WHAT BILL BELICHICK SAID
WAS SO IMPORTANT.
"WE'RE A TEAM."
AND THEY CAME OUT OF THE TUNNEL
AS A TEAM, AND THEY PLAYED AS A
TEAM -- NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
KEVIN FAULK IS THE DEEP BACK
BEHIND BRADY, FIRST AND 10.
PITCH IS BACK TO FAULK.
HE WAS GONNA THROW A HALFBACK
PASS.
>> HE WAS TRYING TO THROW IT.
>> TRYING TO LOAD UP.
>> THAT WAS THE THING WE SAW
THEM THE OTHER DAY NOT ONLY
THROW REVERSE PASSES BUT
HALFBACK PASSES.
AND YOU CAN SEE HIM COME OUT
HERE, AND HE HAS A RECEIVER
DEEP.
AND HE'S TRYING TO THROW IT
THERE.
NOW, THE RULE YOU ALWAYS TELL A
RUNNING BACK -- UNLESS THE GUY
IS RIDICULOUSLY WIDE OPEN, DON'T
THROW THE BALL.
THAT'S WHAT FAULK DID THERE.
THE GUY WASN'T RIDICULOUSLY WIDE
OPEN.
>> IT WAS GRANT WISTROM WHO CAME
ROCKETING IN AND GOT HIM.
SECOND AND 14.
ANTOWAIN SMITH IS BACK.
BRADY.
BACK TO THROW IT AGAIN.
RIGHT THROUGH THE HANDS OF
WIGGINS, THE SURE-HANDED ONE.
SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THE HANDS.
>> TORRY HOLT OVER THERE JUST
GOT PUSHED AROUND, AND WE TALKED
ABOUT THE TIMING BEING THROWN
OFF, AND HIS TIMING WAS THROWN
OFF.
AND KURT WARNER WAS LOOKING THAT
WAY AND THREW IT ANYWAY AND GOT
THE INTERCEPTION.
BUT THIS IS KIND OF THE PATRIOT
DEFENSIVE DAY SO FAR.
>> OH, MAN, IS IT.
>> AND TOM BRADY'S DAY.
YOU'D NEVER GUESS THAT THIS IS
THE FIRST YEAR THAT THIS GUY HAS
EVER STARTED AS A QUARTERBACK IN
THE NFL.
>> THIRD AND 14.
HE'S IN THE SHOTGUN.
HE STARTS PATTEN IN MOTION.
A HIGH SNAP, WHICH HE GOT AND --
WHOA!
THE UP BACK TOOK IT.
KEVIN FAULK.
IT WAS A GOOD FAKE BY BRADY.
>> BRADY FAKED, AND THEY JUST
SNAPPED IT.
INSTEAD OF SNAPPING IT TO BRADY
IN THE SHOTGUN, THEY SNAP IT
TO KEVIN FAULK.
WATCH.
KEVIN FAULK IS RIGHT THERE.
SEE, THEY SNAP IT TO HIM.
BRADY GOES LIKE IT'S A HIGH ONE,
AND KEVIN FAULK JUST RUNS IT TO
THE OUTSIDE.
THEY DIDN'T GET A FIRST DOWN,
BUT THEY GOT BETTER POSITION FOR
THEIR FIELD-GOAL ATTEMPT.
>> ADAM VINATIERI ON FROM
37 YARDS OUT.
VINATIERI CERTAINLY ONE OF THE
BEST KICKERS, AND THAT
EXHIBITION HE PUT ON IN THE
SNOWSTORM JUST ADDED TO HIS
CREDENTIALS.
AND SO DOES THAT ONE.
17-3.
LOOK AT THAT.
>> LAWYER MILLOY AND TY LAW.
REMEMBER WHEN WE DID A PRESEASON
GAME A YEAR AGO, AND WE WENT TO
THE PATRIOTS' TRAINING CAMP.
I REMEMBER WATCHING TY LAW, AND
I WAS THINKING, JUST IN
PRACTICE, "HE'S ONE OF THE BEST
DEFENSIVE BACKS THAT I'VE SEEN."
THE WAY THAT HE MOVES AND
COVERS.
>> THE TECHNIQUE WAS SO GOOD.
>> YEAH, IT WAS JUST SOMETHING
WHERE YOU WOULD JUST STAND THERE
ON THE SIDELINE, AND YOU
COULDN'T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF HIM.
HE REMINDED ME A LOT OF
MIKE HAYNES.
REMEMBER HOW MIKE HAYNES WAS SO
SMOOTH?
TY LAW IS A VERY SMOOTH
DEFENSIVE BACK.
THEN THE GUY SITTING NEXT TO
HIM, LAWYER MILLOY, HE'S A
CARD-CARRYING HITTER.
>> VINATIERI'S KICK CHASES
YO MURPHY OVER INTO THE CORNER.
RETURNING KICKOFFS IS NOT A GOOD
TIME TO DANCE.
1:05 LEFT TO PLAY IN THE THIRD.
THE FOOTBALL SEASON DOESN'T END
WITH THE SUPER BOWL.
STILL ONE MORE GAME.
DON'T MISS THE BEST PLAYERS IN
THE NFL.
>> BUT THE PATRIOTS -- WHAT A
STORY.
THE LAST GAME THEY LOST WAS TO
THE RAMS, AND THAT MADE THEM
5-5.
FROM THAT POINT ON,
THEY HAVEN'T LOST ANOTHER GAME.
>> EIGHT IN A ROW.
WARNER RETREATS.
HITS ISAAC BRUCE -- FIRST DOWN,
RAMS.
LESS THAN A MINUTE LEFT IN THE
THIRD.
17-3, PATRIOTS.
>> AND YOU CAN FEEL THAT NOW THE
RAMS FEEL THAT THERE HAS TO BE
SOME URGENCY IN THIS.
YOU CAN FEEL, YOU KNOW, THAT "WE
CAN'T BE HORSING AROUND HERE
ANYMORE.
WE HAVE TO GET THE BALL AND GET
IT UP THE FIELD, GET IN AND OUT
OF THE HUDDLE."
DO THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, KIND
OF SPEED THIS GAME UP, CHANGE
THE TEMPO, BECAUSE THE PATRIOTS
HAVE BEEN CONTROLLING THE TEMPO.
>> GET SOME POINTS ON THE BOARD.
HERE'S WARNER BACK TO THROW
AGAIN.
LOOKING AND THROWING TO FAULK.
FAULK, AS ONLY HE CAN DO, DODGES
THE FIRST MAN.
>> I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING.
THIS PATRIOT TEAM CAME HERE TO
HIT TODAY.
>> THEY ARE TACKLING HARD.
>> THIS IS HITTING WEATHER.
A GUY'S OUT IN THE OPEN, AND
MARSHALL FAULK WE KNOW IS VERY
DANGEROUS IN THE OPEN FIELD.
BUT LOOK HOW THEY SURROUND HIM.
THEY GOT HIM OUTSIDE, INSIDE,
AND THEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.
YOU ALWAYS TRY AND FORM A
TRIANGLE AGAINST A GUY IN THE
OPEN FIELD.
>> 17-3.
THE PATRIOTS OVER THE RAMS.
>> WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?
>> WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TAPE WE
LOOKED AT -- MONDAY, I GUESS.
LOOKED AT THE PATRIOTS, AND WE
THOUGHT, "NO WAY THEY CAN STAY
WITH THE RAMS."
>> WELL, AS WE START OUR FOURTH
QUARTER, PAT, IT'S OUR LAST
FOURTH QUARTER TOGETHER, AND I
JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS FOR ALL
THE MEMORIES OF A LOT OF GREAT
QUARTERS.
>> THEY HAVE REALLY BEEN.
IT'S BEEN TERRIFIC.
>> YEAH, 21 YEARS, AND THEN YOU
MULTIPLY ALL THOSE YEARS BY ALL
THOSE GAMES, AND THEN YOU
MULTIPLY THAT BY ALL THOSE
QUARTERS.
IT'S BEEN VERY, VERY SPECIAL,
AND YOU'VE MADE IT VERY SPECIAL.
>> WELL, SO HAVE YOU, AND I
APPRECIATE IT.
[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]
FUMBLE!
AND A FLAG AS WELL.
>> THERE'S NO PLAY, NO PLAY.
>> REFEREE BERNIE KUKAR SAID
THERE'S NO PLAY.
>> FALSE START.
45, OFFENSE.
THAT'S A 5-YARD PENALTY.
IT'S STILL THIRD DOWN.
>> JEFF ROBINSON.
BUT THIS ONE'S NOT OVER YET,
JOHN.
>> NO, NO, IT'S NOT.
I'M JUST SAYING, WE'RE JUST
STARTING THE FOURTH QUARTER.
THERE'S JEFF ROBINSON THERE.
AND YOU SEE JUST THAT LITTLE
WIGGLE.
ONCE YOU GET DOWN THERE, YOU PUT
THAT HAND DOWN, YOU CAN'T HAVE
ANY MORE LITTLE WIGGLES.
>> THIRD AND 6.
>> DON'T YOU FEEL LIKE THE RAMS
HAVEN'T REALLY GOTTEN
OFFENSIVELY INTO ANY KIND OF
RHYTHM TODAY?
>> I REALLY DO.
THERE'S WARNER BACK TO THROW.
AND DOES THROW UP THE MIDDLE TO
AZ HAKIM, AND THAT'LL MOVE THE
STICKS.
>> HERE'S AZ HAKIM.
HE STARTS ON THE LEFT, THEN HE
COMES IN MOTION, THEN HE STARTS
UP THE FIELD, AND THEN HE COMES
BACK IN.
TERRELL BUCKLEY WAS ON HIM
MAN-TO-MAN, AND HE KIND OF GOT
HIM TURNED AROUND.
BUT AZ HAKIM HAS THAT QUICKNESS.
AGAIN, HE STARTED ON THE LEFT
SIDE, CAME ALL THE WAY ACROSS
THE FORMATION, THE RIGHT SIDE,
THEN HE COMES UP, AND THEN HE
COMES IN.
>> ON FIRST DOWN, WARNER HAS A
LOT OF TIME, ALL KINDS OF TIME.
NOW HE'S CHASED.
HE GETS AWAY.
THROWS IT TO ERNIE CONWELL.
CONWELL FIGHTS ON HIS FEET,
FIGHTS DOWN CLOSE TO A FIRST
DOWN -- NOT QUITE.
>> THAT WAS EITHER A REAL GOOD
PASS PROTECTION OR A REALLY
LOUSY PASS RUSH.
>> SEEMED LIKE THAT PLAY TOOK A
MINUTE.
>> I KNOW.
BUT KURT WARNER -- IT IS GREAT
PASS PROTECTION.
LOOK AT HIM LOOKING AND LOOKING
AND LOOKING.
AND THEN HE RUNS.
AND THEN HE GOES BACK THE OTHER
WAY, GETS OUT OF A TACKLE.
THAT'S NOT VERY KURT WARNER TYPE
OF GUY.
YOU SEE ERNIE CONWELL.
HE'S JUST SITTING THERE IN THE
MIDDLE.
HE GAVE HIM THAT SIGNAL, PUT HIS
ARM UP.
"IF YOU NEED TO THROW IT TO
SOMEONE SHORT, HERE I AM, KURT."
>> SECOND AND 1.
THE HAND-OFF IS TO HODGINS.
ONE OF THE FEW TIMES HE CARRIES
THE BALL.
>> HE'LL CATCH A FEW NOW AND
THEN.
AS YOU SAY, WHEN YOU PUT MEAT IN
THERE, OLD JAMES HODGINS,
270 POUNDS.
HAS A LITTLE TROUBLE GETTING
THAT WHOLE HEAD IN THAT HELMET.
>> YEAH.
>> BUT HE'S THE BLOCKER AND ONCE
IN A WHILE A RECEIVER AND VERY,
VERY SELDOM A RUNNER.
>> FIRST AND 10.
RAMS AT THE PATRIOT 31-YARD
LINE.
>> THINGS ARE BODING PRETTY WELL
FOR THE PATRIOTS WITH THOSE
NUMBERS, AREN'T THEY?
>> WARNER BACK AGAIN.
HAS TIME AGAIN.
THROWS TO FAULK.
FAULK IS TRIPPED UP INSIDE THE
10, AS HE HEADED FOR THE END
ZONE.
MARSHALL FAULK IS SLOW IN
GETTING UP.
>> AND WATCH KURT WARNER.
THESE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS
AND THROWS THAT HE CAN MAKE, AND
THESE ARE THE KINDS OF MOVES
THAT MARSHALL FAULK CAN MAKE.
BUT HE THROWS IT WHERE YOU DON'T
HAVE TO BREAK STRIDE.
MARSHALL FAULK DIDN'T HAVE TO
COME BEHIND.
HE DIDN'T HAVE TO GO IN FRONT.
HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING.
THAT BALL HIT MARSHALL FAULK
RIGHT BETWEEN THE 2 AND THE 8.
WATCH IT.
THAT'S PERFECT.
PERFECT WHERE YOU HAVE A STEP OR
TWO ON THE GUY AND IN CATCHING
THE BALL, YOU KEEP THAT STEP OR
TWO ON THE GUY.
>> FAULK LIMPED, BUT HE'S STILL
IN THE GAME.
FIRST AND GOAL, RAMS.
HERE'S WARNER.
AGAIN, THE PROTECTION'S GREAT.
PASS COMPLETE TO JEFF ROBINSON
INSIDE THE 5, TO THE 3.
>> I'LL TELL YOU.
AGAIN, THIS RAM OFFENSIVE LINE
IS EITHER REALLY GEARING IT UP
FOR THE PASS PROTECTION, OR THIS
PATRIOT DEFENSIVE LINE CAN'T GET
OFF THE LINE ANYMORE.
LOOK AT THIS.
AND LOOK AT THIS POCKET THAT
THEY MAKE FOR KURT WARNER.
AND HE CAN WAIT UP THERE AND
WAIT FOR ROBINSON TO DO
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
ON THOSE LAST TWO PASSES, THEY
GAVE KURT WARNER WAY, WAY, WAY
TOO MUCH TIME.
>> RAMS LED THE NFL WITH 66
RED-ZONE POSSESSIONS IN WHICH
THEY SCORED.
HERE'S WARNER, FIRING IN THE END
ZONE.
INCOMPLETE.
>> WHO ALMOST MADE THAT PLAY WAS
LAWYER MILLOY.
>> I KNOW IT.
>> YEAH, HE SAW THAT COMING
ACROSS.
HE WAS GONNA GO GET IT.
HERE'S LAWYER MILLOY RIGHT HERE.
HE'S GONNA COME OUT.
KURT WARNER IS LOOKING TO THE
RIGHT ALL THE WAY.
LAWYER MILLOY GETS A JUMP ON IT
AND KNOCKS THAT THING DOWN.
WATCH HIM GET IN THERE AND
STRETCH OUT.
HE ALMOST CAUGHT IT.
THERE WAS NO WAY THAT AZ HAKIM
WAS GONNA GET IT.
KURT WARNER WAS SAYING THAT
AZ HAKIM OR SOMEONE WAS HELD.
>> FAULK IS THE DEEP BACK.
WARNER LOFTS IT.
INCOMPLETE.
ALMOST INTERCEPTED BY TY LAW.
DO YOU SETTLE FOR A FIELD GOAL
IF YOU'RE THE RAMS, DOWN 17-3 AT
THIS POINT?
>> WELL, I LOOK OVER THERE, AND
I SEE THAT MIKE MARTZ IS NOT
SENDING IN THE FIELD-GOAL TEAM.
>> RAMS' BALL, FOURTH AND 3,
JUST OUTSIDE THE 3.
FOURTH DOWN.
THEY TRAIL 17-3 AND NO SIGN OF
THE FIELD-GOAL TEAM.
THEY'RE GONNA GO FOR IT.
>> ON MIKE MARTZ'S PLAY-CALL
SHEET, HE HAS AN AREA CALLED
"MUST SCORE" AND FOURTH-DOWN
PLAYS ON THE GOAL LINE.
HE'S THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.
HE'S VISUALIZED THIS, AND HE HAS
THE PLAY THAT HE WANTS FOR THIS
SITUATION.
>> HE HASN'T USED THAT SHEET,
"MUST SCORE," TOO MUCH TODAY.
>> OR HE'S USED IT, AND IT
HASN'T WORKED.
>> HAS CONWELL IN MOTION.
HERE'S WARNER.
HE'S GONNA TRY TO SCRAMBLE IN.
LOST THE BALL!
THE PATRIOTS HAVE IT.
THEY SCOOP IT UP.
THIS COULD BE THE LONGEST --
THIS IS TEBUCKY JONES.
TEBUCKY JONES TO THE 5, A FLAG
ON THE PLAY.
I BELIEVE HE MIGHT HAVE STEPPED
OUT OF BOUNDS.
>> THE FLAG IS WAY BACK ON THE
5-YARD LINE.
>> WAY BACK.
>> KURT WARNER IS GOING IN,
TRYING TO SCORE, FUMBLES IT.
TEBUCKY JONES PICKS IT UP AND
RUNS IT ALL THE WAY.
THE RAMS ARE GOING BACK LIKE THE
PENALTY IS AGAINST THE PATRIOTS.
THE FLAG, AGAIN, WAS ABOUT THE
ORIGINAL LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
SEE THE OFFICIALS STANDING OVER
THE FLAG RIGHT NOW AT THE 6-YARD
LINE.
>> THE FLAG WAS THROWN WHILE THE
RAMS STILL HAD THE BALL.
>> IF THAT'S HOLDING, WHICH HE
SIGNALED AGAINST THE PATRIOTS,
THAT'S NOT ONLY THE RAMS' BALL
BACK, BUT THAT'S AUTOMATIC FIRST
DOWN.
>> BOY, THAT'S A KILLER, ISN'T
IT?
>> HOLDING.
DEFENSE, 55.
HALF THE DISTANCE TO THE GOAL.
FIRST DOWN.
>> WILLIE McGINEST.
>> WATCH.
HERE HE IS, RIGHT HERE.
HE JUST GRABS MARSHALL FAULK AND
TACKLES HIM, AND THEN HE GRABS
HIM AGAIN FOR A TAKEDOWN.
>> BUT HE DOESN'T TAKE HIM DOWN.
>> THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THE FLAG
WAS.
WILLIE McGINEST.
IF IT WERE A PLAY FAKE, YOU
COULD HAVE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT
HE WAS RUNNING WITH THE BALL AND
TRYING TO TACKLE HIM.
HE JUST GRABBED HIM AND MAULED
HIM THERE.
WHAT A TURN OF EVENTS.
>> FIRST AND GOAL, RAMS, AFTER
TEBUCKY JONES HAD PICKED UP THAT
FUMBLE AND TAKEN IT ALMOST
100 YARDS.
>> BOY, ISN'T THAT SOMETHING,
HOW THINGS HAPPEN IN A GAME AND
HOW IT CAN CHANGE?
YOU TALK ABOUT THE OFFENSE
VERSUS DEFENSE, DEFENSE VERSUS
OFFENSE, SPECIAL TEAMS.
THEN HOW ABOUT A PENALTY?
HOW ABOUT A PENALTY ON A
TOUCHDOWN FUMBLE RETURN?
>> CHANGES THE WHOLE COMPLEXION
OF THE GAME.
>> THE RAMS ARE IN THEIR JUMBO
PACKAGE HERE, WHERE THEY HAVE
ALL TIGHT ENDS, FULLBACKS.
>> FAULK WON'T MAKE IT.
HE'S HIT RIGHT AT THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE BY THE PATRIOTS.
>> I WAS WATCHING THE RAMS
PRACTICE THE OTHER DAY.
AND FROM THIS FORMATION, THEY'RE
THROWING A LOT OF PLAY PASS.
AND I THINK THEY'RE SETTING IT
UP HERE, WHERE THEY RUN THE BALL
IN HERE.
AND THE PATRIOTS ARE REALLY
SELLING OUT ON RUN.
NOW I THINK WHAT YOU CAN DO ON
THE NEXT PLAY HERE OR EVEN ON
THIS PLAY, HAD THEY FAKED THE
RUN AND THROWN A PASS TO ONE
OF THOSE TIGHT ENDS IN THERE, IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN AN EASY
TOUCHDOWN.
BUT NOW, ON THIS DOWN, THE
PATRIOTS HAVE JUST SUBSTITUTED
FIVE PLAYERS.
IN FACT, THEY ONLY GOT 10 GUYS
IN THERE.
>> TIME-OUT, PATRIOTS.
AND THEY ONLY HAVE ONE LEFT NOW.
>> I THINK THE PATRIOTS GOT
CAUGHT A MAN SHORT ON DEFENSE,
PAT.
I THINK FIVE GUYS CAME OUT AND
ONLY FOUR WENT IN.
SO NOW YOU COULDN'T RUN THAT
PLAY PASS BECAUSE BILL BELICHICK
IS NOT GONNA LET YOU DO.
WHAT HE SHOWED YOU ON FIRST
DOWN, WHERE THE PLAY PASS AND A
THROW WOULD HAVE BEEN
SUCCESSFUL, HE'S NOT GOING TO
GIVE YOU THE SAME DEFENSE ON
17-3.
9:33 LEFT TO PLAY IN THE
CONTEST.
THE PATRIOTS LEAD IT.
>> AND THE PATRIOTS REALLY WOULD
HAVE LED IT HAD WILLIE McGINEST
NOT HAD THAT HOLDING PENALTY.
>> SECOND.
TOUCHDOWN, RAMS -- KURT WARNER.
THEY WAITED, CALLED TIME-OUT,
AND THEY GOT IT -- 17-9.
>> AND WATCH KURT WARNER.
IT'S JUST A QUARTERBACK SNEAK.
THAT COULD EVEN BE ONE OF THOSE
GOOSE PLAYS.
YOU SEE THE TACKLES ARE BOTH
OUTSIDE, AND HE JUST GETS RIGHT
IN BEHIND HIS BIG CENTER,
ANDY McCOLLUM.
BOTH TACKLES KIND OF TOOK IT
OUTSIDE, AND THERE WAS NO ONE
OVER THE CENTER.
SO KURT WARNER COULD JUST TAKE
THAT QUARTERBACK SNEAK AND JUST
FOLLOW HIS CENTER.
>> WILKINS.
EXTRA POINT IS GOOD.
17-10.
>> AND THEY'RE FIREFIGHTERS, AND
YOU CAN SALUTE THE FIREFIGHTERS
AND THE POLICEMEN OF OUR
COUNTRY ALSO.
>> PATRICK PASS BRINGING IT OUT.
HE WAS ABOUT 4 YARDS DEEP IN THE
END ZONE WHEN HE BROUGHT IT OUT.
>> THERE'S ONE OF JOE ANDRUZZI'S
BROTHERS THERE, AND THEN THE
OTHER TWO ARE SITTING A
LITTLE -- THERE'S AN ANDRUZZI,
AND THERE'S AN ANDRUZZI.
THREE ANDRUZZIS BEING CIRCLED,
THREE ANDRUZZI FIREFIGHTERS,
THREE ANDRUZZI HEROES.
AND TO ME THEY'RE ALL HEROES.
>> FIRST AND 10 AT THE 25.
TOM BRADY -- 9 OUT OF 16, THE
ONE TOUCHDOWN TO DAVID PATTEN.
THEY NEED A COUPLE OF FIRST
DOWNS NOW.
>> AND THE THING THAT BRADY
CAN'T DO IS FORCE ANYTHING HERE,
BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL AHEAD.
DON'T LET WHAT HAPPENED
MAKE YOU THINK YOU'RE BEHIND.
>> MARC EDWARDS CAUGHT THE PASS
FROM BRADY.
LET'S GO DOWN TO RON PITTS.
>> PAT, RIGHT BEFORE THAT RAMS
TOUCHDOWN, LOVIE SMITH, THE
RAMS' DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR, GOT
THE ENTIRE DEFENSE TOGETHER.
HE SAID, "LISTEN.
THIS IS IT, FOURTH QUARTER.
WE'RE DOWN THREE TURNOVERS.
WE NEED TO RIP IT, STRIP IT, DO
WHATEVER YOU CAN TO GET THE BALL
BACK FOR OUR OFFENSE."
DEFINITELY A SENSE OF URGENCY IN
FULL EFFECT ON THE RAMS'
SIDELINE.
PAT?
>> NEVER HEARD IT PUT QUITE LIKE
THAT -- "WE'RE DOWN THREE
TURNOVERS."
>> THAT'S THE THING THAT THEY
USUALLY GET, AND THEY HAVEN'T
GOTTEN THEM TODAY.
>> SECOND AND 8.
ANTOWAIN SMITH JUGGLED IT,
REGAINED POSSESSION, AND CIRCLED
THE RIGHT SIDE FOR ABOUT 5.
>> WE SHOWED JOE ANDRUZZI AND
HIS BROTHERS THERE, AND
JOE ANDRUZZI'S DOING A GOOD JOB
TODAY.
HE AND DAMIEN WOODY IN THE
MIDDLE AND MIKE COMPTON AND THAT
WHOLE OFFENSIVE LINE IS DOING A
PRETTY GOOD JOB OF BOTH
PROTECTING FOR TOM BRADY AND
BLOCKING FOR ANTOWAIN SMITH.
>> EXCUSE ME.
MATT LIGHT WENT OUT, AND HIS
PLACE WAS TAKEN BY
GRANT WILLIAMS, AND HE'S DONE A
GOOD JOB.
>> YEAH, THEY'VE KIND OF
CONTROLLED THIS LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE PRETTY MUCH.
THIS IS THE ONE WHERE, AGAIN,
DAMIEN WOODY GOES TO LEFT GUARD,
AND THE LEFT GUARD,
MIKE COMPTON, BECOMES THE
SNAPPER.
>> BRADY.
FIRES INCOMPLETE, AND THEY'LL
HAVE TO PUNT.
THE PRESSURE WAS COMING AROUND
FROM WISTROM.
>> BRADY DID GET RID OF THE
BALL, THOUGH.
HERE WE'RE GONNA SEE
LEONARD LITTLE.
HE'S COMING FROM THIS LEFT SIDE.
WISTROM CAME FROM THE RIGHT
SIDE.
AND THEY BOTH MET AT BLUE 12.
YOU GO TO BLUE 12, I'LL GO TO
BLUE 12, AND WE'LL MEET THERE.
>> DRE' BLY DEEP, STANDING BACK
ABOUT HIS 23-YARD LINE.
GOOD SNAP.
AND A GOOD, GOOD KICK.
CHASES HIM ALL THE WAY BACK TO
THE 15, BUT DRE' BLY TRYING TO
TURN SOMETHING INTO SOMETHING
BIG, GETS IT BACK TO ONLY ABOUT
THE 24.
FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> I WAS SAYING EARLIER THAT,
HISTORICALLY, THERE'S NOT A LOT
OF PENALTIES IN THE SUPER BOWL,
BUT THERE DOES SEEM TO BE AN
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
I WOULDN'T SAN AN INORDINATE
AMOUNT.
>> WELL, WE'VE SEEN MORE,
CERTAINLY.
>> WHAT'S THAT WORD,
"INORDINATE"?
>> YEAH, THAT'S --
>> YEAH, NOT AN INORDINATE
AMOUNT, BUT THERE'S JUST AN
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
>> YEAH.
>> HOLDING.
57 OF THE RETURN TEAM DURING THE
KICK.
WE'LL ASSESS THE PENALTY FROM
THE CHANGE OF POSSESSION, HALF
THE DISTANCE TO THE GOAL.
FIRST DOWN.
>> IT WAS RIGHT THERE, AND HE
WAS HOLDING LARRY IZZO.
>> THE RAMS NEED A 93-YARD
DRIVE HERE TO TIE THIS GAME.
THE PATRIOTS HAVE TO STOP THEM
DOWN HERE OR GET ANOTHER
TURNOVER.
>> THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A
SUPER BOWL THAT WENT INTO
OVERTIME.
WARNER 21 OUT OF 34, 256 YARDS.
TWO BIG INTERCEPTIONS.
>> AND THEN THIS IS A BIG AREA
HERE.
IF THE PATRIOT DEFENSE CAN HOLD
UP HERE AND STOP THEM, THEN
THEY'RE GONNA GET GOOD FIELD
POSITION.
OF COURSE, IF THEY GET A
TURNOVER, THAT WOULD BE REALLY
BIG.
NOW FOR THE RAMS, YOU DON'T
THINK OF 93 YARDS.
YOU START THINKING, "JUST GET
FIRST DOWNS."
>> FAULK SHIFTS BEHIND WARNER.
AND KURT WARNER THROWS.
INCOMPLETE.
TORRY HOLT WITH OTIS SMITH, THE
DEFENDER.
>> THEY MUST THINK THAT THEY CAN
GET SOMETHING OUT THERE WHEN
OTIS SMITH IS UP IN TIGHT
COVERAGE.
YOU SEE HOW TIGHT OTIS SMITH IS?
THEY MUST THINK BECAUSE HE TURNS
HIS HEAD OR SOMETHING THAT THEY
CAN JUST THROW THE BALL RIGHT
OVER HIS HEAD.
THEY TRIED THAT THREE OR FOUR
TIMES, AND I THINK THE MOST
SUCCESS THEY'VE HAD ON IT WAS A
PASS INTERFERENCE.
>> AND HE'S ALSO 36 YEARS OLD.
THEY MUST FIGURE HE CAN'T RUN.
>> YEAH, BUT THEY'RE NOT TAKING
HIM DEEP, THOUGH.
THEY'RE ONLY THROWING IT ABOUT
4, 5, OR 6 YARDS WHEN HE'S UP
THERE IN THAT PRESS COVERAGE.
>> SECOND AND 10.
BRUCE IN MOTION.
HERE'S WARNER BACK TO THROW.
HAS TIME AND LOTS OF IT.
THE PASS IS CAUGHT BY HOLT.
GETS OUT OF BOUNDS AND STOPS THE
CLOCK WITH 7:34 LEFT.
>> ROMAN PHIFER WAS RIGHT THERE
TO MAKE THE TACKLE.
ROMAN PHIFER'S BEEN IN THIS
LEAGUE FOR A 11 YEARS AND PLAYED
ALL THOSE YEARS WITH THE RAMS
WHEN THEY WERE A BAD TEAM.
HE LEAVES, AND THEY GET TO BE A
GOOD TEAM.
WATCH KURT WARNER, PAT, HOW HE
MOVES THE BALL AS HE GOES BACK.
AND THAT'S ALL ABOUT A GRIP.
HE'S MOVING IT AND ROTATING IT
TO GET THE PROPER GRIP ON IT
BEFORE HE THROWS IT.
>> HE'S ONLY GOT ONE FINGER ON
THE LACES.
THAT'S THE LITTLE FINGER.
THE INDEX FINGER'S OVER THE
POINT OF THE BALL.
>> AND THAT RIGHT THUMB IS STILL
BOTHERING HIM.
>> THIRD AND 3, AND WARNER
STARTED TO LEAVE, AND HE DOES
COMPLETE THE PASS.
AND OUT OF BOUNDS GOES
ISAAC BRUCE.
IF THEY MARK IT WHERE HE WENT
OUT OF BOUNDS, WHICH THEY WON'T.
HE GOT THE FIRST DOWN.
>> AS YOU SAID, KURT WARNER,
JUST BEFORE HE THREW THAT, HE
LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GONNA RUN,
DIDN'T HE?
HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GONNA RUN
TO THE RIGHT.
ISAAC BRUCE COMES OVER HERE IN
MOTION.
COMES ALL THE WAY AND THEN GOES
ALL THE WAY BACK.
TY LAW IS ON HIM MAN-TO-MAN.
LAW CAME ALL THE WAY ACROSS
WITH HIM IN MOTION, AND THEN HE
STARTED BACK CROSSING, THE WAY
HE JUST CAME.
>> FIRST DOWN.
WARNER BACK.
PUMP.
CHASED.
GETS AWAY FROM THE PRESSURE.
HE IS REALLY HIT.
KURT WARNER TOOK A SHOT.
HELMET CAME LOOSE, BUT HE IS
SOME TOUGH GUY.
>> I THINK A LOT OF OTHER STUFF
CAME LOOSE ON THAT ONE.
THAT WAS WILLIE McGINEST, AND
THAT WAS THE THING WHERE IT WAS
NO PASS RUSH.
IT WAS GOOD PASS PROTECTION, BUT
IT WAS GOOD COVERAGE, BECAUSE HE
HAD NO ONE TO THROW TO.
AND THEN HE HAD TO WAIT AND WAIT
AND WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO GET
OPEN.
AND WHILE HE WAS WAITING,
WILLIE McGINEST GOT IN THAT
POSITION TO PUT THAT THING ON
HIS HELMET.
>> HE GOT ROCKED AND THEN
SANDWICHED.
>> BUT SEE, HE HAD TIME.
HE HAD ALL THE TIME IN THE
WORLD, BUT THERE WAS NO ONE
OPEN.
>> PATRIOTS.
HERE COMES THE SAFETY BLITZ.
WARNER THROWS.
HAS A MAN OPEN.
IT'S RICKY PROEHL, CLOSE TO
MIDFIELD.
>> THESE GUYS ARE SOMETHING.
>> THEY ARE.
>> WHAT DO YOU DO AGAINST
KURT WARNER?
ARE YOU GONNA BLITZ HIM?
HERE'S RICKY PROEHL RIGHT HERE.
HERE'S THE BLITZ.
HE KNOWS THAT SOMEONE LEFT THAT
AREA.
AND WE TALK ABOUT GUYS THAT CAN
RUN PASS PATTERNS AND RUN FULL
SPEED ON THEIR BREAKS.
RICKY PROEHL ALSO DID THAT.
>> HE KNOWS HOW TO GET OPEN.
>> YEP, AND HE GOT OPEN AGAINST
TY LAW, TOO.
THAT WASN'T SOME BACKUP SAFETY
OR SOMETHING.
>> FIRST AND 10.
KURT WARNER HAS BEEN HIT 11
TIMES.
LOOKING, LOOKING.
GETS IT OUTSIDE TO ROBINSON,
WHO GETS OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE
PATRIOT 40 -- ANOTHER RAM FIRST
DOWN.
>> AND YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT
THIS THING STARTED ON THE 7-YARD
LINE.
I SAID THEY HAD TO GO 93 YARDS
TO TIE THE GAME, AND THEY'RE IN
THAT MODE RIGHT NOW.
AND, AGAIN, IT'S ALL ABOUT PASS
PROTECTION BECAUSE KURT WARNER
IS GETTING WAY TOO MUCH TIME.
AND THEN HE'S ABLE TO COME OFF
TO SOMEONE SHORT, LIKE HE DOES
TO ROBINSON HERE.
BUT HIS WIDE RECEIVERS AREN'T
GETTING OPEN.
THERE'S NOTHING THERE FOR HIM TO
THROW TO, AND HE HAS PLENTY OF
TIME.
>> ROBINSON WAS ABOUT THE FIFTH
OPTION.
THE HAND-OFF IS TO FAULK, AND
THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
>> THEY WERE GONNA HIT THAT ONE.
MIKE VRABEL READ THAT ONE.
HE SAID, "YOU AREN'T GOING
ANYWHERE."
I WAS TALKING ABOUT BEING OUT
HERE EARLY, ABOUT THREE HOURS
BEFORE THE GAME, MIKE VRABEL
COMES OUT.
AND OF ALL GUYS, HE COMES OUT
WITH DREW BLEDSOE.
AND DREW BLEDSOE THROWS PASSES
TO MIKE VRABEL, AND HE RUNS PASS
PATTERNS.
>> AND THERE IS DREW BLEDSOE
GETTING LOOSE.
>> DREW BLEDSOE TOLD ME HE HAD A
VISION THAT HE WAS GONNA PLAY IN
THIS GAME, AND THE PATRIOTS WERE
GONNA WIN.
>> OF COURSE, BRADY IS LOOSENING
UP ALSO.
AGAIN WARNER HAS TIME.
TIME -- HE'S CHASED.
NOW HE'S DOWN BY McGINEST.
WILLIE McGINEST.
WARNER, LOOKING AND SEARCHING
FOR SOMEBODY TO THROW TO,
COULDN'T FIND ANYBODY, AND
FINALLY McGINEST GOT THERE.
>> AND THAT'S WHY YOU LIKE
WILLIE McGINEST, THE SPEED OF
IT.
YOU LOOK DOWNFIELD, AND THIS IS
WHAT HE SEES.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT ALL HIS
RECEIVERS ARE PLASTERED.
HE HAD SOMETHING MAYBE HERE,
BUT, AGAIN, YOU NOT ONLY HAVE TO
HAVE IT OPEN, BUT YOU HAVE TO
SEE IT OPEN.
AND THE GOOD THING ABOUT A
WILLIE McGINEST IS HE CAN RUN.
AND IF YOU START TO RUN AND
YOU'RE GONNA MOVE IN THE POCKET,
WILLIE McGINEST CAN RUN AND
CATCH YOU.
YOU SEE HERE HE'S BLOCKED.
BUT WATCH RIGHT HERE WHEN HE
TAKES OFF, THE SPEED THAT HE
HAS TO MAKE THAT PLAY.
>> BIG THIRD AND 25.
AND NEW ENGLAND TAKES THEIR LAST
TIME-OUT.
SO THERE ARE NO TIME-OUTS LEFT
IN THIS GAME UNLESS WE GO TO
OVERTIME.
4:01.
>> WHEN WAS THAT, BOB?
>> WARNER'S FINGER WAS JAMMED.
YOU SAW HIM FLINCH WHEN THE BALL
HIT IT, AND HE JUST WALKED AWAY.
HERE IS FOURTH DOWN.
THIRD AND 25, BEG YOUR PARDON.
FLAG ON THE PLAY.
SOMEBODY MOVE?
A CONFERENCE.
WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO
INORDINATE.
[ BOTH LAUGH ]
>> NEUTRAL-ZONE INFRACTION.
93, DEFENSE.
5-YARD PENALTY.
STILL THIRD DOWN.
>> RICHARD SEYMOUR.
>> RICHARD SEYMOUR HAS BEEN VERY
ACTIVE.
HE'S A ROOKIE, NUMBER-ONE DRAFT
CHOICE.
YOU SEE WHAT KURT WARNER'S DONE
HERE TODAY.
A SUPER BOWL FACT...
>> I DON'T THINK TOO MANY OF
THOSE WERE IN A LOSING CAUSE,
HOWEVER.
HERE'S WARNER WITH ALL KINDS OF
TIME AGAIN.
AND THROWING INCOMPLETE.
AND NO FLAGS THIS TIME.
TORRY HOLT WAS THE INTENDED
RECEIVER, AND THE RAMS'
OFFENSIVE UNIT STAYS ON THE
FIELD.
>> AND AGAIN IT'S BEEN ABOUT THE
PASS COVERAGE.
I THINK THEY'RE GONNA PUNT HERE,
PAT.
I THINK THAT WITH 4 MINUTES YOU
WANT TO PUT THEM DOWN AND THEN
GET A FULL SET OF DOWNS.
>> YOU'RE RIGHT.
HERE COMES BAKER.
>> YEAH, I WOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE
ONE MORE SHOT AND THEN LET THE
PATRIOTS HAVE THIS FIELD
POSITION HERE.
I THINK YOU PUNT, AND THEN YOU
RELY ON YOUR DEFENSE.
>> TROY BROWN BACK DEEP.
THIS IS A HIGH, GOOD KICK BY
BAKER.
TROY'S JUST GONNA WATCH IT SAIL
INTO THE END ZONE.
THE PATRIOTS WILL TAKE OVER AT
THE 20.
3:44 LEFT.
THE PATRIOTS UP BY A TOUCHDOWN.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FIRST HALF.
TURNOVERS.
THERE'S A BIG INTERCEPTION THAT
PUT THE PATRIOTS AHEAD.
AT THAT TIME, THE RAMS LED IT
3-0.
THAT MADE IT 7-3.
AND HERE'S THE TOUCHDOWN PASS
FROM BRADY TO PATTEN THAT PUT
THEM UP 14-3.
WARNER.
FUMBLED.
BUT THERE WAS A HOLDING CALL,
A VIOLATION AGAINST
THE PATRIOTS, SO THE RAMS GOT
FOUR MORE CHANCES, AND WARNER
SCAMPERED IN.
ANTOWAIN SMITH.
>> I THINK WHAT THE RAMS DID BY
PUNTING IS -- WE KNOW THEY DON'T
HAVE ANY TIME-OUTS LEFT, BUT
THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME.
THEY'RE GONNA GET A TIME-OUT IF
THEY CAN STOP THEM.
THEY GET A TIME-OUT AT CHANGE OF
POSSESSION.
YOU GET A TIME-OUT AT THE
2-MINUTE WARNING.
SO EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T HAVE
ANY TIME-OUTS, THERE ARE STILL A
COUPLE THERE.
BUT THEY CAN'T ALLOW THE
PATRIOTS TO GET A FIRST DOWN.
>> AND THE CLOCK RUNS WITH 3:15.
SECOND AND 11.
ANTOWAIN SMITH LOST A YARD.
BRADY POINTS.
SMITH'S THE DEEP BACK.
AND BRADY'S GONNA THROW IT.
THROWS IT TO SMITH, WHO'S HIT
IMMEDIATELY.
GOT JUST A FEW YARDS.
LONDON FLETCHER BROUGHT HIM
DOWN.
>> AND THERE'S THAT SWARMING RAM
DEFENSE BACK.
THERE'S NO TIME-OUTS, AGAIN.
YOU SEE THE RAM DEFENSIVE LINE,
HOW THEY STUNT?
NOW, WHEN YOU THROW THOSE
CHECK DOWNS, LONDON FLETCHER,
WHO'S GETTING BACK, WILL LET YOU
CATCH STUFF IN FRONT OF HIM,
BUT THEN THEY'RE ALL GONNA
COLLAPSE ON IT RIGHT THERE, BOTH
DAVIS AND FLETCHER.
>> THIRD AND LONG.
>> THIS IS A BIG PLAY IN THIS
GAME.
>> IT CERTAINLY IS.
THEY NEED 8 FOR A FIRST.
BRADY'S UP UNDER CENTER.
BROWN GOES IN MOTION.
PITCH IS BACK TO ANTOWAIN SMITH.
HE WON'T GET THAT FIRST DOWN,
AND THE PATRIOTS WILL HAVE TO
PUNT.
>> THEY'LL GET A TIME-OUT HERE
AT THE 2-MINUTE WARNING, AND
THEN AFTER THE PUNT, THEY'LL GET
ANOTHER TIME-OUT AT THE CHANGE
OF POSSESSION.
>> THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A PUNT
RETURN FOR A TOUCHDOWN IN A
SUPER BOWL.
BACK DEEP IS DRE' BLY FOR THE
RAMS.
END-OVER-END, TOUGH-TO-HANDLE
KICK.
TAKES A RAM BOUNCE, BUT THERE'S
A FLAG ON THE PLAY.
>> BOY, AND THAT FLAG WAS ALMOST
LAUNCHED, WASN'T IT?
>> YEP.
>> IT CAME FLYING ABOUT 30 YARDS
ACROSS THE FIELD.
WHAT HE HAS IS A HOLD.
HE HASN'T POINTED IN ANY
DIRECTION YET.
>> BUT HE'S VERY, VERY POSITIVE
ABOUT IT.
>> AND HIS EYES ARE VERY BIG.
>> YEP.
>> SO HE MUST HAVE A GOOD ONE.
IT WAS ONLY A 30-YARD PUNT.
>> WASN'T HIS BEST, CERTAINLY.
HERE'S BERNIE KUKAR.
IT'S HOLDING AGAINST THE
PATRIOTS!
>> HOLDING.
34 OF THE KICKING TEAM.
THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED.
FIRST DOWN, ST. LOUIS.
>> PENALTY DECLINED.
AND SO THE RAMS WILL TAKE IT
OVER IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE.
IT WAS CALLED AGAINST
TEBUCKY JONES.
FIRST AND 10 FOR THE RAMS AT
THEIR OWN 45.
>> AND THIS PATRIOT DEFENSE HAS
BEEN DOING IT ALL DAY.
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN GETTING THE
PASS RUSH LATELY.
KURT WARNER, I WAS JUST WATCHING
HIM ON THE SIDELINE, AND THAT
THUMB IS REALLY BOTHERING HIM.
>> HE WAS FLEXING IT, STRETCHING
IT.
>> AND WHEN IT BOTHERS HIM, HE
CAN'T THROW DEEP BECAUSE IT
AFFECTS HIS GRIP.
>> THREE-MAN RUSH.
WARNER.
TO AZ HAKIM, WHO'S DOWN THE
SIDELINE.
PICKS UP ABOUT 10 EXTRA.
TO THE 37.
>> GOOD MOVE BY AZ HAKIM.
YOU GET TO THAT SIDELINE, A LOT
OF TIMES THEY EXPECT THAT YOU'RE
JUST GONNA GO OUT OF BOUNDS.
AND IF YOU STAY IN BOUNDS, YOU
CAN ALWAYS MAKE BIGGER PLAYS.
WATCH.
YOU FAKE THEM TO THE OUTSIDE.
DON'T STEP OUT OF BOUNDS.
COME RIGHT DOWN THAT LINE.
HERE'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT,
PAT, HERE WITH KURT WARNER.
YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT THUMB,
HE'S TRYING TO STRETCH IT OUT.
HE GOT IT POPPED A COUPLE TIMES
TODAY.
>> YO MURPHY JUST CHECKED IN TO
THE RAM OFFENSE.
THAT'S HE DEEP.
AND THEY DROP IT OUT TO
YO MURPHY.
AND THEY GET ANOTHER FIRST DOWN.
>> I THINK THEY PLANNED THAT ALL
THE WAY.
YO MURPHY WAS THE GUY -- AS YOU
SAID, THEY BRING HIM IN, AND
THEY PUT HIM IN THE BACKFIELD
RIGHT THERE.
THEY COME ON A BLITZ, AND THEY
JUST DUMP IT OUT.
YO MURPHY, A WIDE RECEIVER, LINE
HIM UP IN THE BACKFIELD AND
THROW HIM ON A LOOP.
THEY HAVE MARSHALL FAULK THERE.
HE'S THE FIRST GUY, AND THEN
THEY PUT YO MURPHY ON THE
OUTSIDE OF MARSHALL FAULK.
SWING MARSHALL FAULK UP AND
YO MURPHY OUTSIDE.
>> FIRST AND 10 FOR THE RAMS AT
THE NEW ENGLAND 26.
1:37 LEFT.
WARNER LOFTS IT.
AND RICKY PROEHL IS GONNA SCORE.
RICKY PROEHL HAS COME UP WITH
SOME BIG ONES, NONE BIGGER
THAN THAT ONE FROM 26 YARDS OUT
FROM KURT WARNER.
>> HOW ABOUT KURT WARNER'S BIG
ONES THAT HE'S COME UP WITH?
MAYBE NONE BIGGER THAN THAT.
HERE'S RICKY PROEHL, RIGHT
THERE.
YOU SEE?
IT'S A LITTLE PICK.
START INSIDE.
RICKY PROEHL GOES TO THE
OUTSIDE.
MAKES A MOVE THERE ON
TEBUCKY JONES AND TAKES IT BACK
TO THE INSIDE.
WATCH THIS MOVE HE MAKES ON
TEBUCKY JONES, RIGHT THERE.
SEE, HE STOPS, CUTS.
JONES REACHES OUT.
RICKY PROEHL RUNS RIGHT THROUGH
IT AND DIVES INTO THE END ZONE.
>> WILKINS FOR THE EXTRA POINT.
>> THIS IS WHAT SUPER BOWLS ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE, PAT.
>> IT'S TIED AT 17.
THE RAMS COME ROARING BACK.
>> YOU CAN SEE KURT WARNER HERE.
AGAIN, I THINK HE IS HAVING A
TOUGH TIME GRIPPING THE BALL.
BUT WHEN HE GETS A WIDE-OPEN
GUY, LIKE RICKY PROEHL IS SO
WIDE OPEN THERE, HE IS NOT GONNA
MISS HIM.
REMEMBER THAT CATCH AGAINST
TAMPA BAY IN THE NFC
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME A COUPLE OF
YEARS AGO.
WHICH ONE IS BIGGER?
THAT ONE HE JUST MADE OR THAT
ONE AGAINST TAMPA BAY?
>> YOU'RE GONNA SEE IT RIGHT OUT
HERE.
THE TWO GUYS GO WITH THE INSIDE
RECEIVER, AND NO ONE GOES WITH
RICKY PROEHL.
YOU SEE THAT INSIDE?
SO THERE'S RICKY PROEHL FREE.
THEY HAD TWO GUYS GO WITH ONE
GUY, AND NO ONE GOES WITH ONE
GUY.
>> AND THAT GUY KNOWS HOW TO GET
OPEN AND GET IN THE END ZONE.
>> YOU KNOW THE FUNNY THING
ABOUT THAT DRIVE IS
MARSHALL FAULK, ISAAC BRUCE, OR
TORRY HOLT DIDN'T TOUCH THE BALL
ON THAT DRIVE.
AND THE GUYS YOU'D THINK, "WELL,
THOSE ARE THE GUYS THEY'RE GONNA
GO TO."
THEY DIDN'T GO TO THOSE GUYS.
>> 1:30, THE PATRIOTS HAVE NO
TIME-OUTS LEFT.
WILKINS KICKS IT OFF.
TROY BROWN.
SHAKES ONE TACKLER.
GETS A GOOD BLOCK.
BUT THE RAM COVERAGE IS GOOD.
>> LOOK AT THIS.
RICKY PROEHL AND THAT PLAY THAT
HE MADE -- HE'S THE FOURTH WIDE
RECEIVER.
REMEMBER WHEN DICK VERMEIL WAS
COACH OF THE RAMS, HE SAID,
"HE'S ONE OF OUR MOST VALUABLE
PLAYERS.
HE'S NOT A STARTER, HE'S NOT THE
THIRD WIDE RECEIVER.
HE'S THE FOURTH, BUT HE LETS US
DO A LOT OF THINGS."
>> "HE'S A GUY WE GOT TO FIND A
PLACE FOR."
MIKE MARTZ SAID THE SAME THING.
>> AND NOW WITH NO TIME-OUTS, I
THINK THAT THE PATRIOTS, WITH
THIS FIELD POSITION, YOU HAVE TO
JUST RUN THE CLOCK OUT.
YOU HAVE TO PLAY FOR OVERTIME
NOW.
I DON'T THINK YOU WANT TO FORCE
ANYTHING HERE.
YOU DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING
STUPID BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO
TIME-OUTS, AND YOU'RE BACKED UP.
>> BRADY'S IN THE SHOTGUN, AND
HE'S GONNA THROW IT.
NOTHING STUPID.
GETS IT UP TO J.R. REDMOND.
PASS COMPLETE.
GETS OUT TO THE 21.
>> I DON'T AGREE WITH WHAT THE
PATRIOTS ARE DOING RIGHT HERE.
I WOULD PLAY FOR OVERTIME.
IF I HAD GOOD FIELD POSITION, I
WOULDN'T.
BUT IN THIS FIELD POSITION, I
WOULD PLAY FOR OVERTIME.
>> NOW JUST A MINUTE.
THEY HAVE NO TIME-OUTS LEFT.
BRADY AGAIN THROWS.
THAT'S TO REDMOND AGAIN, AND
THAT'LL MOVE THE STICKS, BUT
THAT DOESN'T STOP THE CLOCK.
>> WELL, TOM BRADY, HE WANTS TO
GET THEM LINED UP SO HE CAN JUST
THROW THE BALL DOWN AND STOP THE
CLOCK, AS HE DID RIGHT THERE.
>> 41 SECONDS LEFT.
>> THIS GUY IS REALLY COOL,
THOUGH.
I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED WATCHING
TOM BRADY ON FILM AND TELEVISION
GAMES AND SO ON, BUT THE WAY
HE'S PLAYING THIS GAME TODAY, HE
HAS BEEN VERY, VERY IMPRESSIVE
WITH HIS CALMNESS.
>> VINATIERI LOOSENING ON THE
SIDELINE.
>> THEY NEED ABOUT 40 MORE YARDS
BEFORE THEY'RE GONNA BE IN
FIELD-GOAL RANGE.
>> HERE'S BRADY.
NOT MUCH PRESSURE.
THROWS OUT TO REDMOND AGAIN.
REDMOND.
GETS A FIRST DOWN.
STOP THE CLOCK, STOP THE CLOCK.
>> AND I THINK MORE IMPORTANTLY
THAN GETTING THE FIRST DOWN IS
THAT HE GOT OUT OF BOUNDS AND
STOPPED THE CLOCK.
AND NOW I KIND OF LIKE WHAT THE
PATRIOTS ARE DOING.
>> HAVE SOME, WELL, UNPLEASANT
MEMORIES IN SOME WAYS AND SOME
PLEASANT IN THAT OTHER OVERTIME
GAME BACK IN 1958, BECAUSE I WAS
PLAYING.
>> WELL, THE RAMS ARE GETTING A
LITTLE TOO LOOSE, I THINK, WITH
THEIR DEFENSE.
WHEN THEY HAD THEM BACKED UP,
YOU THINK THEY WOULD HAVE
PRESSURED THEM A LITTLE MORE.
HERE THEY COME.
>> HERE THEY COME, AND BRADY
THROWS INCOMPLETE.
HE JUST GOT RID OF IT.
PRESSURED BY TOMMY POLLEY.
>> YOU'RE GONNA SEE HERE THAT
THEY'RE GONNA OVERLOAD THIS
SIDE, AND THEY'RE COMING FROM
THE BLITZ RIGHT HERE.
THEY HAVE TWO FREE RUSHERS, AND
TOM BRADY BETTER GET RID OF THAT
BALL.
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE
THAT FUMBLE RETURN WAS CALLED
BACK DUE TO A PENALTY,
10:09 IN THE FOURTH, AND THE
RAMS HAVE OUTSCORED.
>> TO SAY THAT PENALTY WAS
LARGE...
>> AND IT'S BEEN 14-0 FOR THE
RAMS SINCE THAT POINT.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
HERE'S BRADY AGAIN.
UP THE MIDDLE, CAUGHT.
AND IT'S TROY BROWN, AND HE GETS
OUT OF BOUNDS.
AND THEY MIGHT BE IN VINATIERI'S
RANGE WITH 21 SECONDS LEFT.
>> THIS IS AMAZING.
THIS IS SOMETHING.
AND I'LL ADMIT THAT, AS A COACH
AND AS AN ANALYST, I DON'T THINK
THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE, BUT THEY
HAD THE GUTS.
THEY HAVE A YOUNG QUARTERBACK.
AND THEY DID IT.
THEY WERE BACKED UP.
THEY WERE INSIDE THEIR OWN 20.
THEY HAD NO TIME-OUTS LEFT, AND
THEY'RE CALLING THESE PLAYS.
AND NOT ONLY CALLING THESE
PLAYS, BUT MAKING THESE PLAYS.
AT SOME POINT, WHEN YOU'RE IN
THE SUPER BOWL, YOU HAVE TO LET
IT ALL HANG OUT.
AND I'LL SAY THIS --
CHARLIE WEIS AND THIS PATRIOT
TEAM, THEY ARE LETTING IT ALL
HANG OUT.
>> RIGHT NOW IT WOULD BE A
53-YARDER.
HERE COMES THE BLITZ, AND HERE'S
BRADY.
HE DUMPS IT TO WIGGINS, DOWN TO
THE 30.
AND NOW, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT,
THEY ARE IN RANGE, BUT THEY GOT
TO HURRY.
MAYBE HE CAN SPIKE IT RIGHT HERE
AND STOP THE CLOCK.
>> THAT'S WHAT HE'LL DO.
HE'LL SPIKE IT HERE.
>> 7 SECONDS.
THEY GOT VINATIERI IN RANGE.
>> I'LL TELL YOU,
WHAT TOM BRADY JUST DID GIVES ME
GOOSE BUMPS.
>> HE HAS CERTAINLY GOT PLENTY
OF DISTANCE.
I WAS WATCHING HIM BEFORE THE
GAME, AND HE WAS -- WELL, HE
PULLED THAT ONE IN PREGAME, BUT
MOST OF THEM HE HIT IN PREGAME.
AND HE DOESN'T MISS MANY.
THIS WOULD BE FROM 48 YARDS OUT.
>> AND THIS HAS BEEN A YEAR
ABOUT VINATIERI AND MAKING SOME
GREAT KICKS AGAINST THE RAIDERS,
TWO OF THE GREATEST KICKS THAT
I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
>> HERE COMES ONE OF GREATER
IMPORTANCE, IF HE MAKES IT.
AND IT'S RIGHT DOWN THE PIPE.
ADAM VINATIERI!
NO TIME ON THE CLOCK, AND THE
PATRIOTS HAVE WON
SUPER BOWL XXXVI.
UNBELIEVABLE!
>> THAT'S THE WAY YOU SHOULD WIN
A SUPER BOWL.
