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Here’s Mike Petraglia (aka @Trags) and Jimmy Toscano discussing why the Eagles are a tough matchup for the Pats. Things sure don’t get any easier for Tom Brady, facing as tough a front as he’s seen all year and one that has insane depth with eight players who can all produce for the front four. We all know pressure with the front four is what it’s all about against the Patriots defense and the Eagles should cause plenty of problems.
Mike Reiss brought up one of the Patriots most impossible and infamous stats to Bill Belichick yesterday, that the Patriots had yet to score a point in the first quarter of any of their seven Super Bowl appearances. Belichick scoffed even though the players said last year he was all over them about getting off to a fast start against the Falcons, which of course did not happen.
For as remarkable as the Patriots’ dominance since the early 2000s has been to never have scored a point out of the gate is just as remarkable and it’s hard to even guess why. The team has run the gamut from a defense-first squad to an unstoppable offensive one, but it never made a difference. Here are the Pats’ overall stats from Super Bowl first quarters:
| Play Results | Play Type | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tm | G | Plays | ToGo | Yds | 1st% | TO% | TD | FG | 1D | Int | Fum | Sack | Pass | Rush | Punt | FG |
| NYG | 2 | 18 | 8.00 | 5.17 | 33.3% | .0% | 6 | 11 | 7 | |||||||
| PHI | 1 | 15 | 8.07 | 3.00 | 6.7% | .0% | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
| SEA | 1 | 20 | 7.10 | 3.75 | 25.0% | 5.0% | 5 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 1 | |||||
| CAR | 1 | 19 | 9.11 | 4.68 | 15.8% | .0% | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| STL | 1 | 11 | 7.36 | 4.55 | 18.2% | .0% | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| ATL | 1 | 17 | 9.24 | 4.24 | 23.5% | .0% | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 2 | |||||
| Totals | 7 | 100 | 8.18 | 4.24 | 21.0% | 1.0% | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 36 | 10 | 1 |
| Pct | 7% | 0% | 0% | 21% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 53% | 36% | 10% | 1% | |||||
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