SB53: Choose Your Own Adventure

[BigSoxFan]

This isn't the analysis thread. This is a wish casting thread. I'm going to give a hypothetical and curious to see the responses since I've seen significant variations in people I've talked to. The hypothetical is the following:

If you could pre-determine the outcome of SB53, what would you like to see within reason of a typical Super Bowl game? Most here would obviously like to see a Patriots win but the question is how would you choose for it to go down? Again, you are guaranteed this outcome so you could say a game winning Hail Mary by Brady, for instance.

What outcome would give you the most pleasure as a fan? You can be as specific (i.e., individual plays) or general as you choose.

To get it started, my answer would be a truly dominant defensive performance in a double digit win that is highlighted by a defensive touchdown. I would love to see a game where the defense looks like first half AFCCG for an entire game and the offense just runs all over the Rams.

 

[drbretto]

53-0

You kinda can't top 28-3 in terms of drama or a comeback, and all the others have been so close. I don't know what my heart can take anymore, let's see a complete and utter destruction for 60 minutes and just revel in the fun.

 

[j44thor]

I want a BB/Brady FU touchdown, something we have never had the privilege of seeing in the SB.

 

[kelpapa]

Going into these games, my first thought is always a win in blow-out fashion. But, the most fun I've had as a fan is in the close games that swing back and forth.

I want Brady to put up a similar offensive performance as last year, and to win another MVP. Pats win on the last possession of the game with a touchdown to Gronk.

 

[Ale Xander]

69-0, 9TD for Gronk (8 receiving, 6 from TB12, 1 from JE11, and 1 from Hoyer, and one on an end around), and a 2PT conversion, a 65YD FG by Ghost as time expires in 1st half, and a safety on a corner blitz by JC Jackson.

 

[Saints Rest]

46-10. (reversing Super Bowl XX)
Gronk gets 2 TD's.
Develin gets a rushing TD.
Patterson returns a kick for a TD.
Jason McCourty gets a Pick-6.
Pats get a safety.
Ghost kicks 3 FG's.
Brady goes 23-25 (beating Simms' record).

 

[LogansDad]

After last year, I just want to see the other team punt the fucking ball once.

 

[DJnVa]

Yeah, if I get a choice I want a blowout. I want to enjoy the food, the commercials, my friends, etc. all while my team wins.

Specifics:
--Brady plays great
--Gronk spike
--Van Noy catches TD

 

[Red Averages]

Basically the first half of the Chiefs game for a full game. 24-10 or something similar would be fantastic. I'd be very happy having confidence in a win the entire game instead of suffering multiple heart attacks.

I'll also be on the field post game, so not having to face the possibility of a gut wrenching loss and hanging out in Rams confetti would be appreciated.

Edit - Also a Gronk td if it is his last game.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

I would like to see a very hard earned defensive stop with a lead to end the game and then three kneel downs.

There have been a few big games the Patriots could have won with a stop and they didn't get it done and either lost or had to win with Brady. I would just like to see the Patriots score to take a lead and then kick off with 2:00 left and the other team out of time outs and then a big ass stuff on fourth down, so Brady can come out and enjoy victory formation.

 

[ehaz]

I'd love to see a close and exciting game in the first half (maybe 21 - 14?) followed by an absolute beat down beginning about halfway through the 3rd.

Final score: 44 - 21

 

[snowmanny]

The Red Sox know the proper way to participate in championship series. 4-0,4-0,4-2,4-1. Maybe throw in a little angst in the middle, maybe not. Blow em out in the end either way.

We had enough “fun” last week.

21-10 at halftime, 42-17 final.

Ed: like what ehaz says

 

[Jim Ed Rice in HOF]

I'll also be on the field post game

Let me speak for the others here and say I hate you.

I want a thoroughly dominant game with at least 1 GRONKSPIKE. Every Patriots Super Bowl win has been close and it would be nice to see a cake walk not only for my heart health but also so I don't have to listen to people grasping at straws pointing out that while the Pats have won they're always last second or close games that they could have easily lost.

 

[CaptainLaddie]

A blowout that's over at halftime. Pats up 35-10 and getting the ball to start the second half, going up 42-10.

 

[ifmanis5]

How about a Super Bowl where the other team who has never been there before finally acts like a team that has never been there before and we have Hoyer Time in the 4th qtr and no heart attacks. No more Foles/Eli Irrational Magic, please.

 

[wiffleballhero]

I'm in the camp that wants to see a game where the Pats deliver an historic ass-thrashing.

The world knows the Pats can win in high stress situations.

One of the moronic 'knocks' on the Pats is that they are lucky. F-that.

Taking the Rams to the woodshed for sometime like a 56-0, 8 drive, 8 TD game would be a joy. I want the game thread to devolve into banter about guacamole recipes by the end of the second quarter.

(and in the final drive I want the Pats to run plays with Edelman as QB, using plays from his Kent State playbook vs. Mcvay).

 

[bagwell1]

I want a complete domination by the Pats but the Rams get every call and keep getting gifted touchdowns by the worst calls in SB history forcing Brady to engineer a legendary game tying touchdown drive as time expires.

Rams win the OT coin toss. 3 and out...punt...and Jules takes it to the house.

 

[BaseballJones]

Trying to be realistic here. Obviously want a Pats win in any fashion possible. But if I had my druthers...

I'd want the Patriots to start out strong. Either they get the ball first, march down the field and put up a TD, or if they play D first, get a quick 3-and-out and then march down the field for a TD. Then I'd like to see them extend the lead in the second quarter and be up by 10+ points at the half.

I'd like it extended in the third quarter so they enter the fourth up 17+ points or so. I'm fine with the Rams scoring a TD like with 10 minutes left, making it still a game, one that the Patriots need to finish. But then I'd like to see a long, punishing, game-clinching TD drive to put them back up 17 with a few minutes left. The Rams score a garbage time TD to make it a 10 point game again, and maybe even get the ball back with less than a minute to go, come down and maybe even get another score to make the final score look relatively close. But I want the actual game to be not as close as the score indicates.

Particulars...

I want Brady to throw for 300+ yards and win another MVP.
I want a Gronk TD.
I want a clean game by Brady - no turnovers and at least 65% completions.
I want at least one or two amazing plays...not just run-of-the-mill swing passes or whatever.

 

[Carmine Hose]

* To have Jared Goff in the grasp and it actually being called
* To have Devin McCourty battle JoJo Natson for a toss up ball, have Natson clutch it to the top of his helmet and then have the ball make contact with the turf for an incomplete pass
* To have Stephon Gilmore have a crucial Rams 3rd down pass thrown right to him and he catches it to effectively end the game
* To have Brady toss a 60+ yard bomb to Chris Hogan that hits off his fingers, but he holds on for the go ahead TD
* To have Brady toss a crucial 3rd down back shoulder pass to Julian Edelman that he holds onto
* To have a Goff to CJ Anderson pass to the back of the end zone, which Anderson bobbles before going out the back, to be correctly ruled incomplete

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

However much we lost to the Bears by, I want to win by one more than that

 

[Oppo]

Patterson KO TD, rushing TD, receiving TD
MVP

 

[djbayko]

53-0

You kinda can't top 28-3 in terms of drama or a comeback, and all the others have been so close. I don't know what my heart can take anymore, let's see a complete and utter destruction for 60 minutes and just revel in the fun.

This, please. Just once. No punts. Make the brands who bought ad slots in the 4th quarter regret their investment. Let’s Johnny Damon this MFer.

 

[ifmanis5]

However much we lost to the Bears by, I want to win by one more than that

46-10. Sadly, it's the only Pats final score I can recall.
I am up to speed on 28-3, though.

 

[RedOctober3829]

A first quarter TD would be nice.

Other than that, I don't care if they win by 1 or 100. Just win the game.

 

[TheoShmeo]

I want the Pats to blow the doors off the Rams. I want a game like the 2008 Game 6 against the Lakers. I want it to be a laugher by the second quarter and for the Pats to keep adding on.

I want to see Brady, Gronk and Jules laughing it up on the sidelines as the final garbage time minutes tick off. Sports delirium.

Now, to be honest, I want this every time the Pats take the field. The Butler Game and 3-28 were fun and cool, as were both game winning AV kicks, but I don't need that kind of drama in my life.

I think that what I want is not unreasonable. The Pats are peaking right now and while the Rams were 13-3 and just beat a very good team on the road, my gut tells me that they can be had, and that what I want, or something along those lines, is indeed possible.

 

[54thMA]

How about a Super Bowl where the other team who has never been there before finally acts like a team that has never been there before and we have Hoyer Time in the 4th qtr and no heart attacks. No more Foles/Eli Irrational Magic, please.

Amen to this...………..sick of the tomato cans playing out of their asses and beating the Patriots, just please no Goff plays out of his mind/the 14 year old coach outcoaches the master/Talib harasses Edelman all game long and gets two INT's/Suh and Donald pummel Brady/Gurley and the corpse of CJ Anderson run wild out of the 11 personnel package/the Rams and their 17 fans get revenge over Super Bowl 36/story lines please for the love of God.

 

[triniSox]

A blowout where my heart gets to beat normally for once. Where I can bask in the 4th quarter.

 

[bernardsamuel]

I'd like to see the Patriots win the coin toss and take the ball, then score immediately on a runback which would include one or more laterals. After that, when the Patriots kick off, the returner would fumble into the air while being tackled, and the Patriots would return the fumble for the second touchdown. On the next defensive series, I'd opt for a re-creation of the Butt Fumble. After the ensuing kickoff in which the returner would mistakenly take the ball out of the end zone and get tackled at the five yard line, the Rams would then go three and out, followed by a deafening roar as Brady would enter the game for the first time following the punt. The first play from scrimmage would be a TD pass to Gronk.

Leading 28-0, the Patriots would play soft for one series, and the Rams would kick a field goal, making the score 28-3, following which we'd hear Edelman say it's going to be a hell of a story. Fast forward and the Patriots win 56-3, with Hoyer getting into the game and leading a TD drive. Also, the halftime show would feature some blooper of historical proportions, but of a nature that the performer would be laughing about it rather than being embarrassed (I don't wish ill on anyone other than Goodell - see below).

The post-game show would include a comment by Coach that there will be no film study on this game, because the team played perfect complementary football with no mistakes. Also, Belichick would say that his main goal entering the off-season will be to re-sign all the players who would become free agents and that, given how many players will be coming back from IR, he intends to punt on the upcoming draft and collect a mountain of draft choices for future years. Then, Mr, Kraft would appear on-stage, announcing that Myra has been resurrected and that negotiations for the next NFL/NFLPA contract have nearly been concluded, with a provision incorporating Goodell publishing the truth regarding the matters of 2007 and 2014, coupled with his suspension for two years.

Thank you, BSF (ironically, those are my initials in real life), for starting this thread!

 

[BlackJack]

I'd love to see a reasonably competitive game where the Pats get out to a lead that never drops below 7-10 points. A nice comfortable victory that feels like the game against the Chargers, where even though the final margin was only 13 points, the outcome never really feels like it's in doubt.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

I want to see a Gatorade bath for Belichick, something we haven’t seen since ‘04. And for the players to carry him off on their shoulders.

 

[pappymojo]

An explosive article is published the day before the game that incriminates Troy Vincent. Patriots win 28-3. McCourty brothers both get interceptions. Gronk wins the Super Bowl MVP with 8 receptions for 160 yards and two touchdowns. Roger Goodell trips and falls in a very embarrassing manner at some point during or immediately before the award ceremony. On Monday following the game Celtics trade for Anthony Davis but retain Tatum. On the Tuesday following the game, Trump resigns as President. Pence gives him a pardon. Trump, his son, his daughter and his son in law are later convicted by the state of New York. On the Wednesday following the game I win Megabucks. The jackpot is only 2.1 million but you cant have everything.

 

[triniSox]

Also, I forgot to add. A SB MVP for Tom Brady and he announces his retirement in his acceptance speech as confetti rains down and I'm there for it all. He gets lifted off and carried away as the GOAT

 

[DJnVa]

Why would you want him to retire?

 

[triniSox]

I want him to retire on top and healthy. As much as I want it to continue, I'd rather him leave too early than too late

 

[BusRaker]

The O-Line handles the Rams D-Line and Sony Michel runs for almost 200 yards behind James Develin who decimates between 2 and 4 defenders on every carry. In the first half the Pats reel off 3 8-minute drives for 17 points and the Rams are down by two scores for the rest of the game. Goff throws two picks in the second half trying to play catch up while the offence simply keeps pounding out first downs. Brady ends up 11 for 19 with 150 yards and a TD. In a rare moment of sanity Develin wins the MVP despite having 0 yards on 0 rushes when the stat-obsessed 16 writers finally understand numbers aren't everything.

 

[Ralphwiggum]

Without getting overly specific like others I want a blowout like the Super Bowls of my youth when the game was never competitive. Give me 49ers - Chargers with the announcers with nothing left to do but wax poetic about the greatness of Brady, Belichick and the Pats for most of the 2nd half.

 

[WheresDewey]

I'll take a boring blow-out win that's over at the half. My cardiologist will take that, too.

Shared mvp to Brady and Gronk, who give vintage dominating performances.

 

[patinorange]

42-7. At halftime. Hoyer plays the fourth quarter.

 

[Bowhemian]

I want them to beat the Rams the same way they beat the Chargers. I want to be able to get drunk and relax, and start really celebrating before the end of the game.

 

[normstalls]

I'm with all those that would like a laugher. I would love to see a classic Patriot dominant performance.
If I am getting greedy, I'd also like Brady to win the MVP, one pick-six by a McCourty or Gilmore and at least one monster GRONK SPIKE.

 

[FredJones]

It's the Super Bowl. Hoyer's not seeing the field, blowout or not.

 

[Al Zarilla]

That’s funny, so many people post “just win” or by one point is fine before most games. Now, so many specifications! I’ll take a blowout too please. Lol.

 

[staz]

Open up that bag:
Flea flicker to a wide open Develin for 6
White on a hook, lateraling to Cordarelle at full speed for 6
Brady to Edelman to Dorsett for 6
That play at the end of regulation in SB 41 for 6
Edelman to Brady for 6
Any Slater TD for 6

Final: 42-0 (for #6)

 

[SMU_Sox]

I want a 34-17 win. I’d like to see a CP84 big play whether it be a jet sweep or a return or a downfield reception. But something that shows the brilliance of maximizing a guys skillset. Offensive and defensive lines dominate the game. 0 turnovers for the Patriots and at least 3 for the Rams. It’s 34-10 with 6:00 to go. Rams score with 2:56 left but never see the ball again.
It would be cool to see, when it is 27-10, JMC with a pick-six with his brother helping him block and celebrating in the end zone together.

MVP: in my fantasy it’s Sony Michel. He ends the game with 145 yards and 3TDs. Also has 3 receptions for 32 yards and 2 first downs. He shows why (when you are picking at 31) it’s actually ok to invest in an RB. Just a reminder that Michel should make a leap in the next 1-2 years in receiving. He’s also going to get his NFL legs under him. If you can’t tell I have an enormous Michel pride boner right now.

Edit: I want to be able to watch Trent Brown porn on here after. We’re talking highlight reel mauls and blowing shit up Michael Bay style.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Re: everyone wanting a blowout and being able to enjoy the game, let me tell you...I was really enjoying Super Bowl LI for a long, long time because it looked and felt like a blowout for the Falcons. During the four hours or whatever from the start of the game to the end, I probably enjoyed myself for a much higher proportion of the game than most of you did. And while obviously it ended in abject misery for me, I can actually now go back and watch the first three quarters and feel pretty good about them. (Do you guys watch the first three quarters when you have a chance to re-live that game, or do you skip straight to the comeback?)

Anyway, this is just a cautionary note: you may wish for a blowout, but I doubt you'll actually be able to enjoy it as a blowout until the fourth quarter (and thereafter in retrospect).

 

[Adrian's Dome]

Re: everyone wanting a blowout and being able to enjoy the game, let me tell you...I was really enjoying Super Bowl LI for a long, long time because it looked and felt like a blowout for the Falcons. During the four hours or whatever from the start of the game to the end, I probably enjoyed myself for a much higher proportion of the game than most of you did. And while obviously it ended in abject misery for me, I can actually now go back and watch the first three quarters and feel pretty good about them. (Do you guys watch the first three quarters when you have a chance to re-live that game, or do you skip straight to the comeback?)

Anyway, this is just a cautionary note: you may wish for a blowout, but I doubt you'll actually be able to enjoy it as a blowout until the fourth quarter (and thereafter in retrospect).

I have never watched a second, not a fucking iota, of the two SBs against the Giants again after the fact. How you can do that after getting your guts absolutely torn out is beyond me.

I want a big win. Low stress for me, domination for my team. I'd like to watch, eat some wings, kill a twelver, and enjoy myself as opposed to feeling like I'm about to have an aneurism. Much as I've enjoyed the Brady/Belichick era, very few moments in the postseasons have been easy, and never any in the SB.

 

[snowmanny]

Re: everyone wanting a blowout and being able to enjoy the game, let me tell you...I was really enjoying Super Bowl LI for a long, long time because it looked and felt like a blowout for the Falcons. During the four hours or whatever from the start of the game to the end, I probably enjoyed myself for a much higher proportion of the game than most of you did. And while obviously it ended in abject misery for me, I can actually now go back and watch the first three quarters and feel pretty good about them. (Do you guys watch the first three quarters when you have a chance to re-live that game, or do you skip straight to the comeback?)

Anyway, this is just a cautionary note: you may wish for a blowout, but I doubt you'll actually be able to enjoy it as a blowout until the fourth quarter (and thereafter in retrospect).

You do realize that the Patriots have been to eight Super Bowls in 17 years and the two biggest "blowouts" ended with :
Second Place: A Brady Hail Mary into the end zone in a loss
First Place: Donovan McNabb getting the ball back with a chance to tie the game (ed-with a FG) AND 14 MORE SECONDS ON THE CLOCK THAN PATRICK MAHOMES HAD ON SUNDAY WHEN HE TIED THE GAME, right?

I completely expect three and a half hours of mind-numbing out of body terror which comes down to the last minute because THAT"S WHAT WE"VE HAD EVERY FUCKING TIME!

So yeah, I want one of those Cowboys-Bills games. Even though I have zero expectation that's what we'll get.

 

[Bellhorn]

I want to see Jared Goff recreate the Butt Fumble. I was taking a dump when the original happened, and my life has felt empty and meaningless ever since.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

I have never watched a second, not a fucking iota, of the two SBs against the Giants again after the fact. How you can do that after getting your guts absolutely torn out is beyond me.

The Falcons have never won a Super Bowl. Those first two-and-a-half quarters are the pinnacle of the franchise's existence.

That's how.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

You do realize that the Patriots have been to eight Super Bowls in 17 years and the two biggest "blowouts" ended with :
Second Place: A Brady Hail Mary into the end zone in a loss
First Place: Donovan McNabb getting the ball back with a chance to tie the game (ed-with a FG) AND 14 MORE SECONDS ON THE CLOCK THAN PATRICK MAHOMES HAD ON SUNDAY WHEN HE TIED THE GAME, right?

I completely expect three and a half hours of mind-numbing out of body terror which comes down to the last minute because THAT"S WHAT WE"VE HAD EVERY FUCKING TIME!

So yeah, I want one of those Cowboys-Bills games. Even though I have zero expectation that's what we'll get.

My heart bleeds for you.