Super Bowl LI - Atlanta Falcons vs. New England Patriots

Who will be Super Bowl Champions?

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NE 38 ATL 30

NE has the better coach, better QB and a better defense. Atlanta's offense is better but NE's offense is good. BB with two weeks to prepare, Brady in a dome.
 
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The Nba is going to end up like the NFL with the Cavs and Warriors the only teams that win chips. Its crazy how 4 Qbs have dominated the league the last 10 years as far as winning rings.
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the last 15 years which is crazy...
[thread="657945"]2016 Nfl Offseason Thread/24450#post_27392268​[/thread]
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Didn't they say that the falcons are the 12th different team to represent the NFC in the last 16 years?
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http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/18445958/ultimate-super-bowl-preview

Ultimate Super Bowl Preview

After 266 games, 34,008 offensive snaps and 1,361 touchdowns, just two teams remain. Will Tom and Bill add a fifth Super Bowl title to their legacy? Or will Matt Ryan's jet-powered offense finally earn a title for Atlanta? Here's your head-to-head breakdown of how the Patriots and the Falcons will stack up come Feb. 5.

THE BEST OF THE BEST

Get ready for a shootout in Texas, folks. According to ESPN's efficiency metric*, we get the chance to watch the NFL's two best offenses face off in Houston. The Falcons paced the league with 58 offensive TDs this season, while the Patriots finished third with 51. But against a stingy Pats D (which allowed a league-low 250 points all season), the Falcons will need to keep firing on all cylinders if they're going to score enough to make up for their porous defense. In the regular season, the Falcons were shredded for 371.2 yards (eighth most in the NFL) and 25 points per game. They also gave up 30 -- barely more than the Pats averaged -- six times.


HOW THEY GOT HERE

The Patriots and Falcons combined for just one loss after Week 10 while finishing first (plus-11.9) and second (8.38), respectively, in the NFL in scoring margin for the season (New England won seven of its regular season games by at least two TDs). It was more of the same in the postseason for both squads -- Atlanta outscored its opponents by a combined 39 points, and New England by 37.
PATRIOTS OFFENSE AGAINST FALCONS DEFENSE

SCOUTING REPORT: TOM BRADY
Brady set the league on fire, throwing for 3,554 yards and 28 TDs in only 12 regular season games, and excelled with the long ball (league-best 58.8 percent completion rate on throws of 11-plus yards). But the Falcons won't make it easy to go deep: Atlanta allowed the seventh-lowest QBR on such throws (72.5).


SCOUTING REPORT: QB PRESSURE
Tom Brady isn't exactly mobile, but his average of 2.39 seconds from snap to throw keeps him out of trouble under pressure. He shouldn't have to worry much against Atlanta, whose defense pressured QBs only 24.9 percent of the time (sixth-lowest in the league).


SCOUTING REPORT: RUSHING
New England ranked a weak 25th in yards per carry, but don't let that fool you: The Pats are dangerous. LeGarrette Blount, who led the league in rushing TDs (18), and a finally healthy Dion Lewis could run rampant against the Falcons, who allowed the seventh-highest yards per carry in the NFL (4.52).

CLUTCH TIME
In 2016, Brady put up the league's third-best two-minute drill QBR (89.0) -- and his fourth-quarter QBR was 82.7.

TURNOVERS
Even with starts from Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett, the Pats threw just two INTs all season, fewest in the NFL.
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FALCONS OFFENSE VS PATRIOTS DEFENSE

SCOUTING REPORT: MATT RYAN
Completing 69.9 percent of his passes in the regular season, a revitalized Matty Ice turned in a MVP-caliber season (and hasn't thrown an interception since Week 13!). New England's pass defense needs to focus on stopping the long ball -- Ryan had 69 passes for gains of at least 20 yards, the NFL's second highest mark.


SCOUTING REPORT: QB PRESSURE
Under pressure, Matt Ryan led the league in yards per attempt (7.5) and was sixth in completion rate (50.4 percent). That spells trouble for New England's pass rush. The Pats made QB contact on just 50 plays when pressuring (sixth fewest in the NFL).


SCOUTING REPORT: RUSHING
Atlanta's lethal running back duo of Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman rushed for 19 TDs. But even this pair might be stifled by the Pats' run D, which allowed only three runs of 20-plus yards and just six rushing TDs on almost 400 attempts -- both lowest in the league.

CLUTCH TIME
Bad news, Birds: Ryan's 54.3 fourth-quarter QBR ranked 19th in the NFL; when trailing, his QBR in the final two minutes was a dismal 2.2.

TURNOVERS
Totaling just four lost fumbles and a very un-Matt Ryan-like 7 INTs, the Falcons were one of just five teams in the NFL with a TO margin of at least plus-10.
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Man I ****** love tom Brady

But I've been cheering for the falcons all season, team is :pimp:

I'm legit torn and don't want either to lose :smh:
 
All the trash games are gonna be made up for with this one. Gonna come down to the final possession in a shootout :pimp:
 
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Ay y'all know Stacey Dash dumb, fine *** got fired?
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What a time to be alive
 
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