February 21, 2025 • 48 mins
One game. One final test. Super Bowl XXXIX against the Philadelphia Eagles was more than just another championship—it was the ultimate statement. Battling a tough Eagles squad led by Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens, the Patriots overcame every punch thrown their way, pulling out a 24-21 victory and hoisting their third Lombardi Trophy in four years. But this episode doesn’t just celebrate the win—it reflects on what it all meant. Two decades later, the Patriots' first dynasty stands as a gold standard in NFL history, a foundation for the unparalleled success that would follow.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do you remember about the two thousand and four Patriots?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And the Patriots are world champions?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I am after winning two championships in three seasons. The
Patriots third Super Bowl win in two thousand and four
cemented their place as the NFL's dynasty of the New millennium.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Back to back world championships three out of four.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Now twenty years later, we're going back for our third
and final chapter, recapture how the greatest Patriots team of
the two thousands came together and reigned supreme.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Yes so too, lionos.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This is a Patriots Super Bowl sound odyssey. Yes, it's
a Dynasty episode four coronation. With two playoff victories in
hand over the Colts and Steelers, the Patriots were just
one game away from their dynastic coronation as they headed
to Jacksonville to face the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl
thirty nine.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Eagles did that fourth time, the charm first Super Bowl
since eighty second in team history. They lost to the
Raiders in Super Bowl fifteen, and they got their redemption fourteen.
Eagles played at each of the last four title games.
Sean and Michael, they're heading.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
To the Super Bowl, Matt Patricia offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Jacksonville was very interesting, you know, the new stadium, the
hotel situation. I remember they had like river boats in
like as hotels, Like they had Carnival cruise lines that
were using those as hotels.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Hotel space was nuts.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
Accommodating the thousands in town for the game proved to
be tricky, as city leaders decided to bring in cruise
ships along the North Bank to fit more fans.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
We stayed at the it was like the World Golf whatever.
I don't think it was the whole fame, but we
had the whole place to ourselves. That was pretty cool.
I just remember all of it being like this is unbelievable.
And then we practiced at a high school. We literally
practiced at a high school, you know, in the NFL
came in and they returved for the game field and
we had these big tarps. But I remember we'd be
practicing as the high school was getting out and everyone's
(01:44):
like climbing the fences, you know, looking at it like
we're literally here we go, the Patriots getting ready for
the Super Bowl, and we're at a high school right
now practicing. But we had a tough week of practice
down there wasn't as smooth as I think we would
have liked it to be, but you know, the guys
pulled it together for the game for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
For a coaches young son and a future Patriots coach himself,
it was a memorable week of build up towards the
big game.
Speaker 9 (02:05):
Brian Belichick.
Speaker 10 (02:06):
You know, when he goes to Super Bowl, the whole
family usually gets to go and spend the week there.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
And so I was.
Speaker 10 (02:17):
Thirteen at the time something like that, and so I
didn't know a whole lot, you know, in reality on
what was actually going on, you know, with the team
and like the scheme and stuff like that. But yeah,
as a kid especially, you know for the head coach,
like can you know, bring your family to walk throughs
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and you know they can be around the building and
the meetings and stuff.
Speaker 11 (02:45):
So it was.
Speaker 10 (02:47):
You know, it wasn't like in every meeting or anything,
but you know, every once in a while for a
walk through or something, I would be able to go
and that was, you know, big thrill, and you know
it would be around those guys Rodney Harrison and Rabell
and McGuinness and you know Corey Doan Tom obviously, you
know a lot of great players, and so you know,
(03:11):
I was I was kind of just around, like being
trying to take it all in. You know, pray they
were there three out of four years, but you know,
never took it for granted.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It's pretty special experience.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The biggest question hanging over the game was whether or
not Philly star receiver Terrell Owens was going to play.
Just weeks removed from a broken lower leg, Owens seemed
like a long shot to suit up, but would prove
to be an unexpected issue for the usually overly prepared Patriots.
Speaker 12 (03:36):
Hotel Owens playing in Jacksonville in Super Bowl thirty nine, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Have a feeling and he will.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
I have in fears running backs coach Parrel Owens.
Speaker 12 (03:47):
The hoofla around that just sort of overshadowed everything that
you know, you know, the whole Super Bowl game. Terrell's
coming back, blah blah blah blah blah. I always said
the same thing. Torell lay very good watching from the sideline.
I mean, just just be honest. I mean, if he's
if we're doing what we're supposed to do, We're not
giving them any breaks, and we're burning the clock and
(04:08):
we're keeping their butt on the sideline. We're gonna be
pretty good. Our defense would be all right, and sure enough, man,
I mean, it was the way we played.
Speaker 11 (04:17):
It was.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
It was our style of ball. We weren't flashy, we
weren't spread out all over the place, real freaking full
back in there, freaking big back, pound the shit out
of you, and that and that was the game.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Had coach Bill Belichick pulled out all the motivational tricks
he had forming the Patriot players the night before the
game of Phillies already playing Super Bowl parade route.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Let me just read your little something here. I thought
this was kind of interesting. First I thought it was
I couldn't believe it, But it's actually true.
Speaker 13 (04:43):
Find about the.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Philadelphia parade after the game.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
All right, it's eleven o'clock case.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And you want to attend that, Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots
fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (04:52):
The funny things about the lead up to Super Bowl
thirty nine, because during that two week period, everyone knows
you have to try to fill the the media cycle
and narratives with something to talk about. A the great
stuff from Bill Belichick outlining that Philadelphia had released their
Super Bowl parade plans and that footage that came out
(05:13):
of him being like, all right, So then they're going
to go down Broad Street and then it's going to
go by the Philadelphia Art Museum. They're going to take
a right over here, okay, and then it's gonna go
over They're going to ride over here. They're going to
stop at the Rocky Statue and take a bunch of photos.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
It's gonna go from Broad Street on the Washington Avenue,
pass City Hall, then down to Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and
we'll end up at the Part Museum.
Speaker 13 (05:38):
That was great, like giving this team that is so
professional and so fundamentally sound, even extra inspiration.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I remember all the fans, we were.
Speaker 14 (05:46):
Like, what they do?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
What do they think they are?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, they got parade plans. I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Scott Poli, Patriots director of player personnel.
Speaker 15 (05:55):
This is a little bit more personal. But you know,
from the time that I was a boy, all I
ever wanted was when Super Bowl ring, right, and I
prayed that they you thought it was wanted to be
a player all that and you get there finally, right,
And I knew other people.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I remember having a conversation with a guy by the
name of Dom Anneally. He was my first boss. He
was our college director at the Browns, and Dom was
working for the Colts at the time.
Speaker 15 (06:21):
He had been in the league for you know, he
had been in football for forty something years and had
never gotten too a Super Bowl. And I knew a
lot of people had been in the game, you know,
because I had a lot of amazing people, Tom de
Mitcherov Senior and Thomas's dad and all of these people
that were mentors of mine that had never.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Been in Super Bowls.
Speaker 15 (06:41):
And then you know, you get to this moment, it's
really surreal where you're there for the third time in
four years.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And yeah, there was a ton of gratitude, very emotional.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Tory Dillon, University of Watching. I just could believe I'm
there in your army. They glance it back on where
I was last year at that time to where I
was then. Unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, yeah, I mean I
put into work. I put into work. But even though
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when you do put into work, some people still don't
don't get to experience what I was experienced at that moment.
So it was a blessing, man, It was a blessing,
and it just reversed back to that handshake between Bill
and me and Scott Piola, Like that's the only That's
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what it goes back to. You think you could play
for us? Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Indeed, Belichick also dug into his bag of tricks on
the defensive side of the ball, altering the Patriots defense
in a way that no one, not the Patriots players
and especially not the Eagles.
Speaker 16 (07:49):
Would expect.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Roosevelt Colvin outside linebacker.
Speaker 17 (07:53):
We played a three to four all year and then
in the Super Bowl we go to a four to
three look and that put I think it was tied
in the middle along with Big C and then you
got Raves and and.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Brew and Fife.
Speaker 11 (08:10):
You know.
Speaker 18 (08:10):
It was a it was called Dolphin or something like that.
But it was a whole new defense we had never
never ran before. And we got down to Jacksonville and
it was like, Oh, this is what we're gonna run.
All we go on life. I get an opportunity to
get on the field, I can play defensive end. I
don't have to worry about dropping any coverage.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Let's go and uh uh it was. It was a
good situation.
Speaker 17 (08:29):
Man. I really, I really am am an appreciative to
mister Craft and Bill for sticking with me.
Speaker 16 (08:37):
Teddy Arizona.
Speaker 19 (08:38):
The defense was called Dolphin, and it was it was
four down line but then down lineman. But Rabel and
I were putting the a gaps and literally before the snap,
I'd looked to Raves and it's like you go or
I go. And then so that was the defense. You
just you blitz and then I'll cover the back man
the man no, my turn, my turn, and then then
both of us drop out. It was it was it
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was really a change for all three Super Bowl victories
we had. We had a different defensive scheme to start
the game. We ran a four to three tilts in
two thousand and one, we went basic three four versus
the Panthers, and then we came out in dolphin versus
the versus the Eagles. So he would I remember Friday
(09:19):
night before the game, we made an adjustment in terms
of what the coaches thought, and all right, we were
thinking new this Friday rack. You know, Romeo Cornell, our
defensive coordinator, what are we doing here? But it's what
they felt was best, and you know we did it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You try to put as much of the game plan
is in before you head down to the Super Bowl site,
as you can just because of the distractions and all
the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But we really got down there.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
And Bill, you know, wanted to change the game plan
and we went to what we call Dolphin nine. And
Dolphin nine would what be most most people would refer
to now as double mug. So I always like to
tell the story because as much as we give credit
to certain coaches for ning double mug, and you know,
all these different unique packages and things that everybody does nowadays.
(10:05):
You know, again, as coaches, I don't really think we
ever really invented everything.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I just kind of we reshuffle and.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Reuse it in different ways.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
But we did.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
We came out and double mug and we wanted to
get the two linebackers in in those A gaps and
put as much pressure on pressure on Donovan as we
could and you know, get to get Richard over the
guards and you know, get out of the three four
and not have the guard bubbles anymore.
Speaker 14 (10:26):
Knew it was a tough game, Phil, it was a
very tough opponent. We knew that it was going to
be a physical game.
Speaker 16 (10:31):
And we embraced that.
Speaker 14 (10:34):
We felt like we were the most physical team, and
that's what we talked about the entire the entire week,
the two weeks leading up to the game. The most
physical team is going to be the team who comes
out on top. And we did that with Carolina, which Carolina.
That Carolina game was probably the toughest game I've been in,
But the Philly game was another one, and we we
(10:54):
overcame that the opposite of it. We did that back
to back and is nothing you can take away from
those guys, nobody on that team, and it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 16 (11:03):
I'm very thankful to be a part of that back
to bank squad.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Do your job, Do your job. Just take care of
your assignment, know what it is, execute it and get
it taken care of it. This is over six months
now we've been working with this and today you've got
a chance to do something very special. It all comes
(11:28):
down to your performance tonight. Do your job, be physical,
and you be champions again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, good luck tonight. Man.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Like the Colt scheme in the divisional round, the first
quarter was a feeling out period.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's an mp backfield for McNabb. I'm third and three
from his own forty six McNabb is.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Back to the well the clip and they shack him.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Crack up the thirty five yard night head part on
the ground, bugle.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Round hands and let's say you sab it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
There was Teddy brush Ki Who's shack McNabb.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Bidney Harrison and added another interception deep in New England Territory, Westbrook.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
The lone running back comes out of the backfield in
motion left on first down. Back to throw is McNabb,
here's the rush.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He looks his fire.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Ears it is in accepted pick top by Rodney Harrison
at the three yard line.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
He read that perfectly, but Brady and the offense were
unable to move from their own ten yard line. The
defense continued to hold the line with a forced fumble
by Randall Gay that Eugene Wilson recovered.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
To the near side.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Left for the Eagles comes Greg Lewis, his speech to
slopped to the fireside right.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
McNab out of a shotgun.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm third and eleven handles the direct snap, stands in
the pocket, fires over the middle of his pot and
stopped at the Patriot.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Thirty eight guys life bumball fall on the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Pag three hits habits the pomball recovered by you Gene Wilson.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But again the offense could not turn the takeaway into points.
Philly would finally break the stalemate in the early second quarter.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
All Right, Eagles out, third down and goal to yard
at the Patriot seventh Westbrook.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The running back is offset left McNabb straight.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Back to throw, pump fakes, pump fake, pump fakes, look
fires end zone, touchdown, Philadelphia to the tight end LJ.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Smith.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So the Eagles draw first blood in Super Bowl thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Down seven zero, the Patriots offense started to come to life.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Brady on first and ten back to throw.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
It's a screen again, same play Dylan twenty five thirty
left tide line, thirty five forty forty two yard line
Corey Dylan.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Back to back screens to the left side.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
The Patriots drive from their own thirteen all the way
out to their own forty two on back to back
first down screen pass plays, and they were the same
screen exactly.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Just as they were threatening to tie the game from
the Eagles four yard line, Brady was sacked and fumbled,
with the Eagles recovery.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
The second and goal to go Patriot Philadelphia four yard line,
Brady calling sigma of off the running back.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
In motion right to left. Now tight left is Daniel
Graham Brady on second in goal. Brady from No.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
One drops the ball on the ground and falls on.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It back at the twelve yard blind. Now the big
fight for the ball.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
But they're saying the Eagles have been trying to hould
about of Brady's hands.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You've been reading stories about what takes place in those piles.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I mean as far as guy's biting and squeezing, and
a egle came.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Out with the ball and they're gonna get him.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The ball, You're kidding, Nick Fitzie Stevens. Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (14:22):
Trell Owens, meanwhile, who was playing on a surgically repaired
leg with like a pin in it, who wasn't even
expected to play games up for Super Bowl thirty nine,
has I think nine catches for over one hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
You know the other part about that game was, you know,
I remember trel Owans. Now he was hurt, right, so
he wasn't supposed to be able to play very well.
So you know we had Randall Gay on him for
that game, and Randall's he's a rookie, you know, and
from LSU and like all it's trel Owans.
Speaker 16 (14:49):
But he can't really run.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
This guy got a broken leg.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Like we'll be okay, dude, that like eleven catches right away.
I was like, we got a problem. This guy is
going off right now. We better figure out how we're
gonna stop this guy. You know, I think Renal Gay
want to believe in the team in tackles because that's
how many catches you know, to O had during the game.
So there was definitely some things in the game that
were an issue for sure, But we had such a
confident team. We had such a strong team of leaders.
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You know, they always believed, they never they never really doubted.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Philadelphia is out of the huddle with McNab out of
the shotgun formation and again Westbrook in motion out of
the back heel to the right, third down, seven, direct
snap to McNab, stands.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
In the pocket, stands in the pocket, fires at right,
Park owns up.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
The forty thirty five thirty right sideline twenty five head
out of bounds and the flag goes down back up field. Hey,
penalty marker down, Let's see what this may be against
the Patriots after the catch, holding Philadelphia.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
After the play personal foul unnecessary to rough Let's defense.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I'm a fifty nine half This to the goal first
down not a smart play.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 20 (16:02):
I feel like that game was never really in doubt
and never really in question, but when you watch it
over again, it was and Philly. Really, If I were
Philly and I watched that game over again, I was
Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb, I'd.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Be like, we should have won this game.
Speaker 20 (16:17):
They blew a lot of opportunities in the first half
to create a lead and create separation, and you know,
it's probably a testament to just how good the Patriots
were that they could play maybe a little bit less
than their best in the Super Bowl and still never
really lose control of the game.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And they didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The defense stepped up and forced a three and out,
and then Brady and the offense finally broke through, thanks
in part to a poor twenty nine yard pump by
the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Johnston gets the putt away and short when coming down
at the forty yard line, taken there by the Patriots
and inside the forty to the thirty seven was the
short man on the putt returning team, and that was
Troy Brown. They had Brown up short of Bethel Johnson's deep,
so the Pats have good field positions.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Seven plays later, Brady hit David Gives for New England's
first points of the.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Game, with Gibbons fireside right, branch right, Schlock, Patton near
side left, yelling alone running back second and goal, Philadelphia four.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Brady calling signals back.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
To throw, looks, look, looks, fires to the right, touchdown,
touchdown right, try out of the end zone took David Gibbons.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
It would stay seven to seven at halftime, and that
is going to.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Be the end of the first half and another altercation
as these two teams who don't.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Play each other very often apparently don't like each other
very much.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's going to win the first half and it ends
in a first half tie with each team getting a
second quarter touchdown at super Bowl thirty nine and Jacksonville
Floyd of the score at the half the defending world
champion New England Patriots seven the Philadelphia Eagles seven.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Patriots carried that momentum into the second half, opening the
third quarter with a nine play sixty nine yard touchdown
drive for their first lead.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
First and goal at the Eagle two double set time
fact to throw, Brady fires En zone caught touchdown, puts
down in the end zone, flags go down after the plague.
I believe it was Christian Fourier or David pat Mady
eight or eighty six Vrabel It's Rapel Mike Rabel all right.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But two possessions later the Eagles will counter, tying the
game with a ten play drive.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
And now the Eagles come out with an empty backfield.
Three receivers fireside right, two to the near side, left,
McNab drop straight back to throw.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Here's the rush. Fires and of the Ears.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Put cuts down Philadelphia by Brian Westbrook and go to
The Eagles drive could tie.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The ball game up if they hit the extra point.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
The Patriots offense continue to hunt, adding another touchdown after
another sustained drive and taking a twenty one to fourteen
lead that would then grow to a twenty four to
fourteen lead on a Vinitary field goal almost midway through
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Puksteen is the full back, First and goal at the
Philly too in motion left or right back to the
left Cobs fourty eight. They give us to the left
side to Corey Dillon and he is in cut down
Corey Dillon till yard.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Brian Belichick, it.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Was watching like Antoine Smith in the two thousand and
one and then two thousand and two happened, then getting
and then getting Corey Dillon. Yeah, that was a big
deal at the time, having you know, grind it out
type runner that that can wear down the defense. And
(19:23):
you saw that in the Eagle Super Bowl was a great,
great example of that with a couple of long drives
like one at the beginning of the second half, long
drive all the way down the field. He grinded it
out and I think that one finished with him with
a touchdown. But that you know, that mentality of wearing
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the opponent down both offensively and defensively with you know,
contact and with run game, you know, hitting the skill
players on defense, set in the edge, you know, against
the offensive line, getting off blocks, all that stuff. That
game is a great example of that.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Like most Patriots Super Bowls, the Eagles would not go
away quietly with McNab and Owens leading another scoring drive.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Owens fireside left with a slough to the left in
motion comes Lewis out of the slot back to throw
Fire's left side completely, Torell Owens a misstackle forty forty five.
He's at midfield and finally pushed out a bound at
the Patriot at thirty six.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Yard line, cutting the lead to twenty four to twenty one.
Just after the two minute warning.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
They break the huddle.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Owens comes to the near side right, Mitchell of the right, slot,
Westbrook to the fireside left, Lewis in the left slote
McNabb out of a shotgun, second and ten snap to
McNabb back to throw Looks Fires down the field, Editors
god touch down by Lewis thirty one yard touchdown pass
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Donovan McNabb, Greg.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Lewis, Brady and the Pats couldn't pick up one more
first down, giving the Eagles one more possession with just
forty six seconds left.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant, I.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Feel he got the ball back and you need to
go down and kick a field with a tie. But
we punted the ball and pinned them down inside the
five yard That was an amazing punt like that is
a huge, huge play in the game for the pun
team to put them on the long field. And I
remember Donovan coming out and he throws up all over
Hank and Hank and I laugh about it too. But
he Donovan had done that at Syrakese too, so I
(21:20):
had seen that before and I was like, Oh, he
just got sick. I'm like, we're gonna win. I was like,
we're gonna this is gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
With mcdabb getting sick on the field, the Eagles were
disjointed and played right into the Patriot's hands. Literally as
Rodney Harrison jumped an overthrown final pass that closed out
the victory.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
McNabb out of a shotgun this time that has Westbrook
to his right in the backfield way direct snap to
McNabb back to.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Throw, looks fires left.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And inceptor Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
After twenty he followed dab and that is it.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Petree up took out to the Super Bowl champions again.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Jim Niggy, Executive director of the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 21 (21:57):
But what I remember most about that game is us
ceiling on the Rodney Harrison interception and just going back
to the year before when Rodney's arm was in a slang,
you know, after I forget what the injury was, but
his arms in a sling and the confetti's raining down
and Rodney's crying, and then for he you know, fast
forward a year and for him to really you know,
seal the game on that on that final interception was
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really fitting because to me, Rodney Harrison, he embodied what
that Patriots team, that that era of the Patriots was
all about.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Rodney Harrison, third post season interception.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
For Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Scott Poli, Patriots director of player Personnel.
Speaker 15 (22:34):
And here's my things, my respect, you know for Andy
Reid as a coach and a person. He and I
had spent a lot of time together, even after games.
You know, we had played him against him other times
and and he was just always a favor of mine.
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And so you knew they were well coached. They were
they were a talent and football team, Donovan, you know,
good good quarterback, a good team. They played smart. They
didn't make a lot of mistakes. And you know, thankfully,
the one the one hiccup they had was near the
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end of the game, right when they had to go two.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Minute drill and the Patriots done it again, back to
back pray out of four.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
There's a whole lot of hugging going right.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Paul Perillo Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
That was the difference.
Speaker 20 (23:32):
You know, you watch Donovan McNabb, who was, you know,
a talented guy, and you watched Tom Brady and you know,
I don't I'm not just talking about the punchline that
you know, McNabb is throwing up in the huddle. But
I felt like this is kind of the uh, the
origin of a lot of the Andy Reid can't handle
the clock. You remember how methodical they were in the
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you know, did down ten in the fourth quarter. I
just felt like it was a striking contrast between the
utmost in preparation and execution on the New England side
and sort of a little bit less than the best
in terms of those things on the Philadelphia side, and
that ultimately was the difference in the game. And you know,
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for if your Philadelphia, it sort of sort of overshadows
the remarkable performance by Terrell Owens in a game that
not many people and Bill Belichick has admitted this, they
didn't even expect him to play, which tells you why
he was such a problem, because they really weren't as
prepared for him as they normally would have been.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
The final horn sounded, and for the third time in
four seasons, the Patriots were Super Bowl champs, defeating the
Eagles by a score of twenty four to twenty one.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
That's your final playing prating with my favorite playing pat
at the end of the game him the Patriots are
World champions again twenty four twenty one, back to back
world championships, three out of four.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yes, it's a dynasty.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
With eleven catches for one hundred and thirty three yards.
Dion Branch was named the game's MVP.
Speaker 14 (25:00):
First of all, I'd like to thank God and all
my coaches and the players for having the confidence in
me to come out and put on the show that
we displayed tonight going against.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
A great team.
Speaker 16 (25:09):
And uh, we're just thankful right now.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Well, I'll tell you who else is thankful.
Speaker 20 (25:12):
I got something in my pocket I'd like to give
you as the MVP of Super Bowl thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
The Cadillac of your choice serves the keys.
Speaker 16 (25:18):
Ben Bratch Lewisville.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
I think a funny, a funny scenario right before this
actually happened, before they actually told you told.
Speaker 16 (25:26):
Me, you know Rightney always called me that I love
this guy.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
He calls me all the time talking about you know,
actually the real the most Valuable Player that game.
Speaker 16 (25:35):
And I tell him because what happened, the boat was
in and then he actually got his second pick a
little bit after the vote. So I am all the time.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
I'm like right, and if you kind of intercept the
ball a little bit earlier, like Coach Belichate was begging
you guys to play a little better defense on the
back end, maybe you.
Speaker 16 (25:51):
Would have won that award.
Speaker 14 (25:52):
You know, that's your fault if you want to wait
till with two seconds up on the clock ten except
a past you know.
Speaker 16 (25:59):
But overall, man, knowing that.
Speaker 14 (26:02):
You know, we're sitting on the bench, we're playing at
the defense. Stop these guys in which we knew they would,
We had faith that they would. You know, you can
look over to the side and see like twenty guys
with the suit song. You know you're not paying attention.
We know Tom Brady's being voupe. They're on our sidelines
because they believe we're gonna win the game.
Speaker 16 (26:18):
And then know and behold, one of the guys come
and tapped me on my shoulder, and it's so crazy
because it's surreal.
Speaker 17 (26:25):
Man.
Speaker 14 (26:25):
I can just I can feel it, man, I'm in
that moment. He saying, hey, if you all win, you're
the MVP. And it's just like my teammates that were around,
they were more excited about that right away then I
probably say I was more shocked, but they were way
more excited. You get what I'm saying. Tom was just
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standing in front of him like, well, you did it,
you did it.
Speaker 16 (26:49):
I'm like, no, we did it. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 14 (26:52):
But I think I take from that game that moment,
first winning the game, but the excitement for my teammate
when they told me that, hey, you will be the
m v P if you all finish this game.
Speaker 16 (27:04):
So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Two years in a row. Now you've you've had huge
games in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Eleven catches today for one hundred and thirty three yards.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
So me personally winning the game with my with my
teammates and having them sharing that moment is the most
important piece. The individual accolades come, those things come and go.
But I'm very honored, very blessed, very pleased to be
named amongst those great v MVPs in Super Bowl history.
Speaker 16 (27:35):
Corey Dyllon, University of Wicher, oh Man, What what a feeling?
Speaker 11 (27:39):
What what a feeling? I mean if you just coming
back for a circle, like from the year before to
the end, and believe me, there's there's a there's gonna
be a lot of Nates here for the rest of
your life, you know what I mean, That's that's just natural.
But to but to go through what I went through
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and then the very next year, he holding up the
trophy says it all. You know, I think that kind
of kills a lot of misconception out there about who
I am and what I can do.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Wow. Well, if not a dynasty, Gilday, I want to
say that, I want to know what one is.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
What is the most patriot like element of the Super
Bowl thirty nine win? It's two images. It's Troy Brown
doing his best to guard the best receiver in the NFL,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's the patriot way to me.
Speaker 13 (28:43):
And then it's Bill Belichick having the ice cold gatorade
bucket dumped over his head, hugging his dad, Like those
are those little moments along the way that sometimes we overlook,
but like that, that's what patriot greatness was all about.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Tonight, Yeah, wins the Lombardi Trophy any pass Vince Lombardy postseason.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
For Bill Belichick, the win officially solidified his place among
the game's all time greatest coaches. Culmination celebrated with his father,
with whom he shared so much of his football history.
Belichick had not only used his vast football knowledge to
find weaknesses and every opponent his team faced, but also
held together a championship team and found a way to
keep them hungry for continued greatness.
Speaker 22 (29:23):
To me, this trophy belongs to these players. They met
all comers this year. It's been a great challenge in
year for the last two playoff games against Indianapolis and Pittsburgh,
and then this great team out here today from the
NFC Philadelphia Eagles. These players have just played great all year.
It played the best in the big games and they
deserve it.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant and.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Obviously as a young coach trying to take in I
spent a lot of time with Bill from day one
I walk in that building. He just really invested in
us as young coaches and taught us and I think
if he recognized something in you that said, like, hey,
this guy's really intellectually can handle the game I want handled.
Then he really kind of pours into you. Like I
said at the beginning, I think the biggest thing for
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me coaching wise was the teaching in the team room
of the situational football and the he always just had
this vision of like where the game was gonna go
before it actually went there and staying in front of it,
which I thought was pretty amazing, you know, And he
would teach us that way, and that was that.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Was pretty impressive.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
We had a bunch of elphas in that room, so
the best way to motivate them a lot of times
was you know, hey, these these guys are really good.
Look what they do here. Or this guy's you know,
this guy's probably gonna be you know, really.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Hard to block. You're not gonna be able to block him,
or this guy's gonna run you over.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
And those guys actually were like, okay, all right, well
I'm about to show I'm.
Speaker 16 (30:42):
About to destroy this dude.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
And you know, we would he'd walk out of the
meeting room and he'd.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Have a little smirk and we'd be smile and he
was like, he's like, that guy's about to be in
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Charlie Weiss offensive coordinator.
Speaker 23 (30:52):
You know, my other awesome memory goes all the way
to my very end when you know, Bill grabbed me
and Romeo like that was a moment that'll always cherish
because you know, we've spent a lot of time together
and we were all going separate directions, so that was
kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's a scene we've seen now three times in the
last four years. Bill got a gatorade shower as the
final play of the game was run off by Tom Brady.
The let's let the quarterback kneel down and go home victorious.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
With an epic super Bowl win in the books, an
epic party followed and ended up complicating the travel plans
for one young assistant, Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
So we win the super Bowl, right, and I mean,
obviously I've never experienced anything with this before. Now I've
also been up for like seven months straight, like i
haven't slept, like I've been grinding.
Speaker 16 (31:45):
Like it's crazy.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
You know, you got your family, you got your friends
at the Super Bowl, you go to the after party.
I've never seen anything like this before. I've got like
earth wind and fire in this room over here. Snoop
Dogg's over there, like it's just the most amazing thing.
So you know, you're this is pretty it's pretty cool.
So you're having a good time, you're celebrating, you're with everybody.
We're laughing, we're joking. You're completely exhausted, but it's the
one night or it doesn't matter. So I get back
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to the hotel room, I'm exhausted. I'm like, I look,
and all of our bags have to be packed and
outside the door so they can come pick them up
and get them on because we're going right home.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
So you're you're completely exhausted.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It's you know, you probably had a few cocktails and
you're trying to figure this out. And I'm like, all
right that they're coming to get the bags. I got
to in ten minutes, you know, because we've been out
all night, and you're they pack everything up and then
I can sleep for twenty and then I got to
go catch the bus. So I pad just pack everything
in my bag and I put it outside the hotel
room and I pass out, wake up, and I'm like,
oh my gosh, you gotta go get on the bus.
And I remember looking around the room and I was like,
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I think I packed all my clothes. I'm like, they
took all my I had no clothes. I had nothing,
I think my boxers or whatever was wearing.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
And so now I'm like, how am I gonna get
on the bus? Like what am I gonna do?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
So I go, I go to the closet and then
you know, you get the hotel robe, you know, which
only comes to like here, right, It's all I got.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So I'm like, I'm gonna have to go buy clothes to.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Go get on the bus because I just packed and
they took all my.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
All my stuff is goings at the airport.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
So I have I have this tiny bathroom on you know,
like nobody wants to see this. And I'm like wandering
down to the gift shop and I remember buying this
really horrific you know super Bowl like sweat jets sweatsuit
or whatever you call him, like, you know, those warm
up jacket suits.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
And I literally that's what I wore home.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
And so the Patriots come to Jacksonville, Florida as defending champions,
and they will leave Jacksonville, Florida has defending champions the
best team in the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It would be a decade before the Patriots would raise
another Super Bowl banner fur they're putting into perspective how
special the three championship runs from two thousand and one
to two thousand and four were a plucky underdog that
came out of nowhere. In two thousand and one, kick.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Is on the way and it is good good.
Speaker 14 (34:00):
In a Terry BOMs of forties hay yard field goal
and the game is over head.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
A Patriots a super Bowl chapiot.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So Patriots are super Bowl champions.
Speaker 20 (34:12):
The best team in.
Speaker 24 (34:13):
The ne.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Had a mien a terry forty eight yards. Oh baby,
then used a down year in two thousand and two
as a springboard to back to back title.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He is hit.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Supermo two thousand and three proved the first title was
no fluke in two thousand and four cemented the Patriots
place in history.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
So this is truly a nice happening once again.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Three super Bowls in the last four years joins an
elite group are winning two Super Bowls back to back.
Truly America's team.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
According to the Advanced Statistic DVOA, the two thousand and
four team was the best of the bunch, not just
of these first three titles, but of all six of
new England super Bowl championships.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Aaron Schatz, creator of the Advanced Football metric DVOA.
Speaker 24 (35:04):
Yeah, so the two thousand and four Patriots are pretty
clearly the best Patriots championship team, not just of the
first dynasty, but of either of the two dynasties. They
had teams that were better in the regular season two
thousand and seven and twenty ten, but those teams got
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upset they didn't win super Bowls. Two thousand and four
is the best team to win a Super Bowl, And actually,
if you are looking at DVOA including the playoffs, they
are the ninth best team ever measured since nineteen seventy eight. Actually,
compared to a lot of the other great Patriots teams
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of the Belichick era, what stands out is that they
weren't great in all three phases because they were only
average in special teams.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
They were sixteenth on special teams that year. But I
mean they were great on offense and defense.
Speaker 24 (36:02):
They were third on offense, they were fourth on defense,
and they were great both passing and rushing. Right, so
they had a top five run offense, pass offense, run defense,
and pass defense.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
For those players, coaches and executives directly involved in the season.
Two thousand and four was a culmination in more ways
than one. Scott Pioli, Patriots director of player personnel in
two thousand and.
Speaker 15 (36:25):
Four was an incredible team because it was not only talented,
but we went out to We went out and got
you know, brought in players.
Speaker 25 (36:34):
That were accepted and that accepted us in our way,
and that our players accepted for he being a great example.
And everyone gets caught up with the just do your
job thing. That's a really important thing, but you want
to just do your job sometimes means being prepared to
be outside of your your stated job.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Troy did that right. There were other players that made
significant contributions. I mean, we didn't have a number one receiver,
y had David Gibbons, David Patten, Dion Branch, you know,
Patrick Pass had a bunch of catches that year.
Speaker 15 (37:12):
Christian Worriot, who can forget Christian right, We went out
and built a football team and had people buying to
that to that football team. I mean, you think about
the job that our coaching staff did to prepare those
players and to make sure, you know, our offensive coaching
staff and Charlie Weiss, you know, and Ernie, who had
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a lot of inputs that we knew what the strength
and the limitations where the players were, and when they
had to use new players, they used those players to
their strength and.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
They limited the limitations. Romeo on the other side of
the ball did the same thing. Brad Seally.
Speaker 15 (37:51):
You know that that staff, Dante Scardinekia, you know he
had to retool that offensive line. And to me, the
brilliance of the collective and how everyone did their job.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
That's to me with that twenty four team, so much
of now.
Speaker 19 (38:08):
We got to say it around here, we don't lose
hatt and T shirt games. Whenever we can get a
free you had and a free T shirt, we play
so much harder. But man, it feels good.
Speaker 16 (38:16):
I mean, that's three of you know, Teddy, Bruce Kith Arizona.
Speaker 19 (38:20):
I remember being on a flight back from back from
Carolina the super Bowl, the super Bowl in Houston, right yeah,
in Houston, and Fife calls me over. Roman Pfeiffer, one
of my favorite teammates, into the linebacker, calls me over
and says, brew Brew you know what, man, we win
this next one next year and we'll be a dynasty
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and we all sort of knew that, but you just
suppress it and not think about it, because I mean,
you just think about what you got to do. But
with all of that pressure, now, these players were the
same players that won a championship when no one thought
we could in one. So all of a sudden, we
were the underdog versus the Saint Louis Rams and then
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Saint Louis Rams and one, and now we've turned ourselves
into the favorites versus the Philadelphia Eagles, And that's an
entire mentality switch in terms of perspective. But still we
were the same people in terms of what we had
to be and in winning a championship. That's probably what
I remember most about these guys is that we stayed
the same. We learned what happened after one in terms
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of getting full of yourselves, but then we just reached
back and found it and we kept it that way
all the way through that season. You know, the six seven,
all these guys that just stayed around through the whole time,
that leading the way through the perspective that we had
to have with the work that had to be done.
I think it was a tough job in terms of
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leadership and a mentality that you had to maintain.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
We've been a long year, but everyone's so excited.
Speaker 16 (39:52):
It's it'll sing.
Speaker 17 (39:52):
It'll start sinking in the next few days.
Speaker 11 (39:54):
We did.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Once we get that third Super Bowl ring, that's what
it's really gonna think.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, Paul Parrillo, Patrio, it's Football Weekly.
Speaker 20 (40:01):
The best team that they've had in their history was
two thousand and four. I think it was the most
balanced team on both sides of the ball, not just
running and passing offensively, but offense, defense, special teams coaching.
Now you're starting to see Tom Brady really enter his prime.
He's clearly established himself as one of the best quarterbacks,
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if not the best quarterback by that time in football.
And there was just no weakness. I think of some
of the younger guys that were now three and four
year vets, you know, not just Brady, but like you know,
Richard Seymour, Matt Light, you know, those kinds of guys.
You know, you mix in some younger guys you know
that that had come in the draft, like you know,
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Daniel Graham was around, Benjamin Watson, Vince will Ford, you
know a Sante Samuel and Eugene Wilson, you know, those
are players that really contributed a lot more than you
would you would think that younger guys would, and it
was sort of a maturation of everything. Deon Branch, you know,
that was his third year. He was dominant. He was
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dominant in that postseason. So to me, the difference was
now they have a championship caliber offense as well they are.
They've had the defense for the last couple of years.
Now they have an offense to match Louisville.
Speaker 14 (41:16):
Yeah, I'll just say how we actually, you know a
lot of people talk about doing it going out mimicking
what you did the year before and then repeating everything,
but also not just saying doing it that way, but improving.
That's some of the things that I will probably say,
Hey again, O three, we set out to do it.
Speaker 16 (41:35):
We did it. Oh four, we set out to do it,
but even do it better. And we did that. We
did it.
Speaker 14 (41:41):
Everybody did it. We bought in all the coaches, started
with the front office, the scouts. You know, these guys
did a tremendous job going out scouting the proper guys,
the right guys to bring in to add to our
to what we have already. Coach Belichick bringing in the
venus the signings that we brought in our coach that
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that means it has a regis somewhere.
Speaker 16 (42:04):
You have to feel that.
Speaker 14 (42:06):
And and I think that's the biggest piece with us,
us actually going out mimicking what we did the year before,
but also doing it better. That's the stuff that that
the States women. It is almost like can you get better?
Can you do any better than what you did?
Speaker 16 (42:20):
Yes, you can. There's always work to be.
Speaker 11 (42:23):
In the food.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
Jim Niggi, Executive director of the Senior Board.
Speaker 21 (42:26):
I was fortunate to be a part of six Super
Bowl teams, you know, three there in New England, and
and the thing that sets all those teams apart, and
the locker rooms were constructed a little differently, but I
mean they all had they all had a connectivity, and
they all had really good glue guys in.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
The locker room.
Speaker 21 (42:44):
Lots made of of the alphas on these great teams
and the captains and the you know, the big name guys.
But you look at that team and there was a
lot of glue guys on that on that team, in
that locker room that kept that thing together. So it
was just a true team. I think in every sense
of the word, and that they adapted and they were focused,
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and I think they really again they embodied what Villain's got.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
To me.
Speaker 21 (43:09):
We're trying to build there, and that's just a tough, dependable,
smart football team week.
Speaker 16 (43:13):
In and week out.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (43:17):
All of it was special to me because, you know,
to get in the NFL and year one, you know, win.
Speaker 16 (43:21):
A Super Bowl was it's insane.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
You know, I've had buddies that have been coaching the
NFL for their entire lives and not even make a
playoff game. Now you also get very spoiled. You start
walking around and be like, Okay, yeah, this is easy,
like we're going to do this again.
Speaker 19 (43:33):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (43:33):
I think when you look back.
Speaker 7 (43:34):
At it, what you realize about each of the Super
Bowl teams, and certainly the four team all of them
is just just obviously great players, great players, but just
how much fun like everyone had while they worked.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
I thought that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 7 (43:51):
That was the key is they just were so tight,
they loved to go compete, They worked so hard together,
they played outstanding. The confidence was unbelievable. You know, the
confidence of this team was amazing, but just how hard
they worked for each other and how close they were,
you know, And I would say it to future teams
when we finally got back, and you know, I remember
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saying to my defenses too, I'm like, you know, when
you win this game, you're bonded for life. And that's
how you feel. You know that each one of them
is different. They're like your kids, you know, but each
one of them are different. But you're bonded to those
guys forever because you were able to achieve the highest
of mountains and you know, hold that trophy up because.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
You all did it together.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (44:34):
What stands out most to me about the Patriots coming
into the two thousand and four season as the Super
Bowl favorite after winning super Bowl thirty eight and then
raising the Lombardi at the tail end of the season
completing the job was this was the first time I
think true expectations had ever been foisted upon a team
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like they were the favorite. Everybody was looking to them,
everyone was gone for them, and they were able to
live up to the hype and handle the expectations. That
was a new element to Boston sports fandom and rooting
for the Patriots. Gon was expecting them to lose forty
eight to ten. With Steve Grogan running for his life.
Gon was wondering, what wait, Russ McPherson, who sequels Hodson?
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Like these are all faint memories. Now when you think
of the Patriots now, thanks to what they were able
to execute in the two thousand and four season, you
think greatness and a new standard was established, I think,
and now a new standard has been established that would
change the way we look at the Patriots and kind
of the Boston sports scene at large.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Scott Poli, Patriots Director of Player Personnel.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
It was truly a manifestation of what we set out
to do. And that was it because again you.
Speaker 15 (45:52):
Mentioned it was several years in and we you know,
we wanted to pride our organization on player development, acquisition,
player development and player lieutention. You know, we weren't able
to routine everyone for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 5 (46:10):
But you Lighty, you ask how you can't hear your voice?
I mean, it's it's.
Speaker 15 (46:17):
It was something incredible to be a part of, you
know what I mean, and to serve a role and
a purpose within.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
With so many people that were so willing to give.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
Twenty four twenty one back to back world championships three
out of four.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, so it's aste.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
This has been a Patriots Super Bowl Sound Odyssey two
thousand and four. Yes, it's a dynasty special. Thanks to
all the players, coaches, executives and everyone else who took
the time to sit down with me and recount their
fond memories. Also a shout out to Stacy James, Aaron
Salkin of the Patriots pr staff, Matt Smith of Craft
Sports Productions, and producer.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
And host of the Pats from the Past podcast.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Finally, a huge thing to audio producer Matt Morrell, the
man who dug up all the clips and cobbled all
twelve episodes of the Patriots Super Bowl Sound Odyssey together.
My name is Mike do So and thanks to you
the fans and listeners for joining me on this fun
trip down memory lane. The first Patriots Dynasty brought Patriots
fans together from around the world and grew the fan base,
but it was most special for those of us who
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never imagines anything like their dominance would ever be possible,
And after three titles, it was actually just the beginning.
What do you remember about the two thousand and four Patriots?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And the Patriots are world champions?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I am after winning two championships in three seasons. The
Patriots third Super Bowl win in two thousand and four
cemented their place as the NFL's dynasty of the New millennium.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Back to back world championships three out of four.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Now twenty years later, we're going back for our third
and final chapter, recapture how the greatest Patriots team of
the two thousands came together and reigned supreme.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
Yes so too, lionos.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This is a Patriots Super Bowl sound odyssey. Yes, it's
a Dynasty episode four coronation. With two playoff victories in
hand over the Colts and Steelers, the Patriots were just
one game away from their dynastic coronation as they headed
to Jacksonville to face the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl
thirty nine.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Eagles did that fourth time, the charm first Super Bowl
since eighty second in team history. They lost to the
Raiders in Super Bowl fifteen, and they got their redemption fourteen.
Eagles played at each of the last four title games.
Sean and Michael, they're heading.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
To the Super Bowl, Matt Patricia offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Jacksonville was very interesting, you know, the new stadium, the
hotel situation. I remember they had like river boats in
like as hotels, Like they had Carnival cruise lines that
were using those as hotels.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Hotel space was nuts.
Speaker 8 (01:14):
Accommodating the thousands in town for the game proved to
be tricky, as city leaders decided to bring in cruise
ships along the North Bank to fit more fans.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
We stayed at the it was like the World Golf whatever.
I don't think it was the whole fame, but we
had the whole place to ourselves. That was pretty cool.
I just remember all of it being like this is unbelievable.
And then we practiced at a high school. We literally
practiced at a high school, you know, in the NFL
came in and they returved for the game field and
we had these big tarps. But I remember we'd be
practicing as the high school was getting out and everyone's
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like climbing the fences, you know, looking at it like
we're literally here we go, the Patriots getting ready for
the Super Bowl, and we're at a high school right
now practicing. But we had a tough week of practice
down there wasn't as smooth as I think we would
have liked it to be, but you know, the guys
pulled it together for the game for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
For a coaches young son and a future Patriots coach himself,
it was a memorable week of build up towards the
big game.
Speaker 9 (02:05):
Brian Belichick.
Speaker 10 (02:06):
You know, when he goes to Super Bowl, the whole
family usually gets to go and spend the week there.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
And so I was.
Speaker 10 (02:17):
Thirteen at the time something like that, and so I
didn't know a whole lot, you know, in reality on
what was actually going on, you know, with the team
and like the scheme and stuff like that. But yeah,
as a kid especially, you know for the head coach,
like can you know, bring your family to walk throughs
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and you know they can be around the building and
the meetings and stuff.
Speaker 11 (02:45):
So it was.
Speaker 10 (02:47):
You know, it wasn't like in every meeting or anything,
but you know, every once in a while for a
walk through or something, I would be able to go
and that was, you know, big thrill, and you know
it would be around those guys Rodney Harrison and Rabell
and McGuinness and you know Corey Doan Tom obviously, you
know a lot of great players, and so you know,
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I was I was kind of just around, like being
trying to take it all in. You know, pray they
were there three out of four years, but you know,
never took it for granted.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It's pretty special experience.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The biggest question hanging over the game was whether or
not Philly star receiver Terrell Owens was going to play.
Just weeks removed from a broken lower leg, Owens seemed
like a long shot to suit up, but would prove
to be an unexpected issue for the usually overly prepared Patriots.
Speaker 12 (03:36):
Hotel Owens playing in Jacksonville in Super Bowl thirty nine, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Have a feeling and he will.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
I have in fears running backs coach Parrel Owens.
Speaker 12 (03:47):
The hoofla around that just sort of overshadowed everything that
you know, you know, the whole Super Bowl game. Terrell's
coming back, blah blah blah blah blah. I always said
the same thing. Torell lay very good watching from the sideline.
I mean, just just be honest. I mean, if he's
if we're doing what we're supposed to do, We're not
giving them any breaks, and we're burning the clock and
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we're keeping their butt on the sideline. We're gonna be
pretty good. Our defense would be all right, and sure enough, man,
I mean, it was the way we played.
Speaker 11 (04:17):
It was.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
It was our style of ball. We weren't flashy, we
weren't spread out all over the place, real freaking full
back in there, freaking big back, pound the shit out
of you, and that and that was the game.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Had coach Bill Belichick pulled out all the motivational tricks
he had forming the Patriot players the night before the
game of Phillies already playing Super Bowl parade route.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Let me just read your little something here. I thought
this was kind of interesting. First I thought it was
I couldn't believe it, But it's actually true.
Speaker 13 (04:43):
Find about the.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Philadelphia parade after the game.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
All right, it's eleven o'clock case.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And you want to attend that, Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots
fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (04:52):
The funny things about the lead up to Super Bowl
thirty nine, because during that two week period, everyone knows
you have to try to fill the the media cycle
and narratives with something to talk about. A the great
stuff from Bill Belichick outlining that Philadelphia had released their
Super Bowl parade plans and that footage that came out
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of him being like, all right, So then they're going
to go down Broad Street and then it's going to
go by the Philadelphia Art Museum. They're going to take
a right over here, okay, and then it's gonna go
over They're going to ride over here. They're going to
stop at the Rocky Statue and take a bunch of photos.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
It's gonna go from Broad Street on the Washington Avenue,
pass City Hall, then down to Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and
we'll end up at the Part Museum.
Speaker 13 (05:38):
That was great, like giving this team that is so
professional and so fundamentally sound, even extra inspiration.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I remember all the fans, we were.
Speaker 14 (05:46):
Like, what they do?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
What do they think they are?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, they got parade plans. I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Scott Poli, Patriots director of player personnel.
Speaker 15 (05:55):
This is a little bit more personal. But you know,
from the time that I was a boy, all I
ever wanted was when Super Bowl ring, right, and I
prayed that they you thought it was wanted to be
a player all that and you get there finally, right,
And I knew other people.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I remember having a conversation with a guy by the
name of Dom Anneally. He was my first boss. He
was our college director at the Browns, and Dom was
working for the Colts at the time.
Speaker 15 (06:21):
He had been in the league for you know, he
had been in football for forty something years and had
never gotten too a Super Bowl. And I knew a
lot of people had been in the game, you know,
because I had a lot of amazing people, Tom de
Mitcherov Senior and Thomas's dad and all of these people
that were mentors of mine that had never.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Been in Super Bowls.
Speaker 15 (06:41):
And then you know, you get to this moment, it's
really surreal where you're there for the third time in
four years.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And yeah, there was a ton of gratitude, very emotional.
Speaker 11 (06:54):
Tory Dillon, University of Watching. I just could believe I'm
there in your army. They glance it back on where
I was last year at that time to where I
was then. Unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, yeah, I mean I
put into work. I put into work. But even though
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when you do put into work, some people still don't
don't get to experience what I was experienced at that moment.
So it was a blessing, man, It was a blessing,
and it just reversed back to that handshake between Bill
and me and Scott Piola, Like that's the only That's
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what it goes back to. You think you could play
for us? Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Indeed, Belichick also dug into his bag of tricks on
the defensive side of the ball, altering the Patriots defense
in a way that no one, not the Patriots players
and especially not the Eagles.
Speaker 16 (07:49):
Would expect.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Roosevelt Colvin outside linebacker.
Speaker 17 (07:53):
We played a three to four all year and then
in the Super Bowl we go to a four to
three look and that put I think it was tied
in the middle along with Big C and then you
got Raves and and.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Brew and Fife.
Speaker 11 (08:10):
You know.
Speaker 18 (08:10):
It was a it was called Dolphin or something like that.
But it was a whole new defense we had never
never ran before. And we got down to Jacksonville and
it was like, Oh, this is what we're gonna run.
All we go on life. I get an opportunity to
get on the field, I can play defensive end. I
don't have to worry about dropping any coverage.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Let's go and uh uh it was. It was a
good situation.
Speaker 17 (08:29):
Man. I really, I really am am an appreciative to
mister Craft and Bill for sticking with me.
Speaker 16 (08:37):
Teddy Arizona.
Speaker 19 (08:38):
The defense was called Dolphin, and it was it was
four down line but then down lineman. But Rabel and
I were putting the a gaps and literally before the snap,
I'd looked to Raves and it's like you go or
I go. And then so that was the defense. You
just you blitz and then I'll cover the back man
the man no, my turn, my turn, and then then
both of us drop out. It was it was it
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was really a change for all three Super Bowl victories
we had. We had a different defensive scheme to start
the game. We ran a four to three tilts in
two thousand and one, we went basic three four versus
the Panthers, and then we came out in dolphin versus
the versus the Eagles. So he would I remember Friday
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night before the game, we made an adjustment in terms
of what the coaches thought, and all right, we were
thinking new this Friday rack. You know, Romeo Cornell, our
defensive coordinator, what are we doing here? But it's what
they felt was best, and you know we did it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You try to put as much of the game plan
is in before you head down to the Super Bowl site,
as you can just because of the distractions and all
the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But we really got down there.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
And Bill, you know, wanted to change the game plan
and we went to what we call Dolphin nine. And
Dolphin nine would what be most most people would refer
to now as double mug. So I always like to
tell the story because as much as we give credit
to certain coaches for ning double mug, and you know,
all these different unique packages and things that everybody does nowadays.
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You know, again, as coaches, I don't really think we
ever really invented everything.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I just kind of we reshuffle and.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Reuse it in different ways.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
But we did.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
We came out and double mug and we wanted to
get the two linebackers in in those A gaps and
put as much pressure on pressure on Donovan as we
could and you know, get to get Richard over the
guards and you know, get out of the three four
and not have the guard bubbles anymore.
Speaker 14 (10:26):
Knew it was a tough game, Phil, it was a
very tough opponent. We knew that it was going to
be a physical game.
Speaker 16 (10:31):
And we embraced that.
Speaker 14 (10:34):
We felt like we were the most physical team, and
that's what we talked about the entire the entire week,
the two weeks leading up to the game. The most
physical team is going to be the team who comes
out on top. And we did that with Carolina, which Carolina.
That Carolina game was probably the toughest game I've been in,
But the Philly game was another one, and we we
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overcame that the opposite of it. We did that back
to back and is nothing you can take away from
those guys, nobody on that team, and it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 16 (11:03):
I'm very thankful to be a part of that back
to bank squad.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Do your job, Do your job. Just take care of
your assignment, know what it is, execute it and get
it taken care of it. This is over six months
now we've been working with this and today you've got
a chance to do something very special. It all comes
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down to your performance tonight. Do your job, be physical,
and you be champions again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Okay, good luck tonight. Man.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Like the Colt scheme in the divisional round, the first
quarter was a feeling out period.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's an mp backfield for McNabb. I'm third and three
from his own forty six McNabb is.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Back to the well the clip and they shack him.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Crack up the thirty five yard night head part on
the ground, bugle.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Round hands and let's say you sab it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
There was Teddy brush Ki Who's shack McNabb.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Bidney Harrison and added another interception deep in New England Territory, Westbrook.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
The lone running back comes out of the backfield in
motion left on first down. Back to throw is McNabb,
here's the rush.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
He looks his fire.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Ears it is in accepted pick top by Rodney Harrison
at the three yard line.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
He read that perfectly, but Brady and the offense were
unable to move from their own ten yard line. The
defense continued to hold the line with a forced fumble
by Randall Gay that Eugene Wilson recovered.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
To the near side.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Left for the Eagles comes Greg Lewis, his speech to
slopped to the fireside right.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
McNab out of a shotgun.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm third and eleven handles the direct snap, stands in
the pocket, fires over the middle of his pot and
stopped at the Patriot.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Thirty eight guys life bumball fall on the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Pag three hits habits the pomball recovered by you Gene Wilson.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But again the offense could not turn the takeaway into points.
Philly would finally break the stalemate in the early second quarter.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
All Right, Eagles out, third down and goal to yard
at the Patriot seventh Westbrook.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
The running back is offset left McNabb straight.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Back to throw, pump fakes, pump fake, pump fakes, look
fires end zone, touchdown, Philadelphia to the tight end LJ.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Smith.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So the Eagles draw first blood in Super Bowl thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Down seven zero, the Patriots offense started to come to life.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Brady on first and ten back to throw.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
It's a screen again, same play Dylan twenty five thirty
left tide line, thirty five forty forty two yard line
Corey Dylan.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Back to back screens to the left side.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
The Patriots drive from their own thirteen all the way
out to their own forty two on back to back
first down screen pass plays, and they were the same
screen exactly.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Just as they were threatening to tie the game from
the Eagles four yard line, Brady was sacked and fumbled,
with the Eagles recovery.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
The second and goal to go Patriot Philadelphia four yard line,
Brady calling sigma of off the running back.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
In motion right to left. Now tight left is Daniel
Graham Brady on second in goal. Brady from No.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
One drops the ball on the ground and falls on.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It back at the twelve yard blind. Now the big
fight for the ball.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
But they're saying the Eagles have been trying to hould
about of Brady's hands.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You've been reading stories about what takes place in those piles.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I mean as far as guy's biting and squeezing, and
a egle came.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Out with the ball and they're gonna get him.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
The ball, You're kidding, Nick Fitzie Stevens. Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (14:22):
Trell Owens, meanwhile, who was playing on a surgically repaired
leg with like a pin in it, who wasn't even
expected to play games up for Super Bowl thirty nine,
has I think nine catches for over one hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
You know the other part about that game was, you know,
I remember trel Owans. Now he was hurt, right, so
he wasn't supposed to be able to play very well.
So you know we had Randall Gay on him for
that game, and Randall's he's a rookie, you know, and
from LSU and like all it's trel Owans.
Speaker 16 (14:49):
But he can't really run.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
This guy got a broken leg.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Like we'll be okay, dude, that like eleven catches right away.
I was like, we got a problem. This guy is
going off right now. We better figure out how we're
gonna stop this guy. You know, I think Renal Gay
want to believe in the team in tackles because that's
how many catches you know, to O had during the game.
So there was definitely some things in the game that
were an issue for sure, But we had such a
confident team. We had such a strong team of leaders.
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You know, they always believed, they never they never really doubted.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Philadelphia is out of the huddle with McNab out of
the shotgun formation and again Westbrook in motion out of
the back heel to the right, third down, seven, direct
snap to McNab, stands.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
In the pocket, stands in the pocket, fires at right,
Park owns up.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
The forty thirty five thirty right sideline twenty five head
out of bounds and the flag goes down back up field. Hey,
penalty marker down, Let's see what this may be against
the Patriots after the catch, holding Philadelphia.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
After the play personal foul unnecessary to rough Let's defense.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I'm a fifty nine half This to the goal first
down not a smart play.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Paul Parrillo, Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 20 (16:02):
I feel like that game was never really in doubt
and never really in question, but when you watch it
over again, it was and Philly. Really, If I were
Philly and I watched that game over again, I was
Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb, I'd.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Be like, we should have won this game.
Speaker 20 (16:17):
They blew a lot of opportunities in the first half
to create a lead and create separation, and you know,
it's probably a testament to just how good the Patriots
were that they could play maybe a little bit less
than their best in the Super Bowl and still never
really lose control of the game.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
And they didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The defense stepped up and forced a three and out,
and then Brady and the offense finally broke through, thanks
in part to a poor twenty nine yard pump by
the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Johnston gets the putt away and short when coming down
at the forty yard line, taken there by the Patriots
and inside the forty to the thirty seven was the
short man on the putt returning team, and that was
Troy Brown. They had Brown up short of Bethel Johnson's deep,
so the Pats have good field positions.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Seven plays later, Brady hit David Gives for New England's
first points of the.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Game, with Gibbons fireside right, branch right, Schlock, Patton near
side left, yelling alone running back second and goal, Philadelphia four.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Brady calling signals back.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
To throw, looks, look, looks, fires to the right, touchdown,
touchdown right, try out of the end zone took David Gibbons.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
It would stay seven to seven at halftime, and that
is going to.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Be the end of the first half and another altercation
as these two teams who don't.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Play each other very often apparently don't like each other
very much.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's going to win the first half and it ends
in a first half tie with each team getting a
second quarter touchdown at super Bowl thirty nine and Jacksonville
Floyd of the score at the half the defending world
champion New England Patriots seven the Philadelphia Eagles seven.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Patriots carried that momentum into the second half, opening the
third quarter with a nine play sixty nine yard touchdown
drive for their first lead.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
First and goal at the Eagle two double set time
fact to throw, Brady fires En zone caught touchdown, puts
down in the end zone, flags go down after the plague.
I believe it was Christian Fourier or David pat Mady
eight or eighty six Vrabel It's Rapel Mike Rabel all right.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
But two possessions later the Eagles will counter, tying the
game with a ten play drive.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
And now the Eagles come out with an empty backfield.
Three receivers fireside right, two to the near side, left,
McNab drop straight back to throw.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Here's the rush. Fires and of the Ears.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Put cuts down Philadelphia by Brian Westbrook and go to
The Eagles drive could tie.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The ball game up if they hit the extra point.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
The Patriots offense continue to hunt, adding another touchdown after
another sustained drive and taking a twenty one to fourteen
lead that would then grow to a twenty four to
fourteen lead on a Vinitary field goal almost midway through
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Puksteen is the full back, First and goal at the
Philly too in motion left or right back to the
left Cobs fourty eight. They give us to the left
side to Corey Dillon and he is in cut down
Corey Dillon till yard.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Brian Belichick, it.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Was watching like Antoine Smith in the two thousand and
one and then two thousand and two happened, then getting
and then getting Corey Dillon. Yeah, that was a big
deal at the time, having you know, grind it out
type runner that that can wear down the defense. And
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you saw that in the Eagle Super Bowl was a great,
great example of that with a couple of long drives
like one at the beginning of the second half, long
drive all the way down the field. He grinded it
out and I think that one finished with him with
a touchdown. But that you know, that mentality of wearing
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the opponent down both offensively and defensively with you know,
contact and with run game, you know, hitting the skill
players on defense, set in the edge, you know, against
the offensive line, getting off blocks, all that stuff. That
game is a great example of that.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Like most Patriots Super Bowls, the Eagles would not go
away quietly with McNab and Owens leading another scoring drive.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Owens fireside left with a slough to the left in
motion comes Lewis out of the slot back to throw
Fire's left side completely, Torell Owens a misstackle forty forty five.
He's at midfield and finally pushed out a bound at
the Patriot at thirty six.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Yard line, cutting the lead to twenty four to twenty one.
Just after the two minute warning.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
They break the huddle.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Owens comes to the near side right, Mitchell of the right, slot,
Westbrook to the fireside left, Lewis in the left slote
McNabb out of a shotgun, second and ten snap to
McNabb back to throw Looks Fires down the field, Editors
god touch down by Lewis thirty one yard touchdown pass
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Donovan McNabb, Greg.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Lewis, Brady and the Pats couldn't pick up one more
first down, giving the Eagles one more possession with just
forty six seconds left.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant, I.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Feel he got the ball back and you need to
go down and kick a field with a tie. But
we punted the ball and pinned them down inside the
five yard That was an amazing punt like that is
a huge, huge play in the game for the pun
team to put them on the long field. And I
remember Donovan coming out and he throws up all over
Hank and Hank and I laugh about it too. But
he Donovan had done that at Syrakese too, so I
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had seen that before and I was like, Oh, he
just got sick. I'm like, we're gonna win. I was like,
we're gonna this is gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
With mcdabb getting sick on the field, the Eagles were
disjointed and played right into the Patriot's hands. Literally as
Rodney Harrison jumped an overthrown final pass that closed out
the victory.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
McNabb out of a shotgun this time that has Westbrook
to his right in the backfield way direct snap to
McNabb back to.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Throw, looks fires left.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And inceptor Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
After twenty he followed dab and that is it.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Petree up took out to the Super Bowl champions again.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Jim Niggy, Executive director of the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 21 (21:57):
But what I remember most about that game is us
ceiling on the Rodney Harrison interception and just going back
to the year before when Rodney's arm was in a slang,
you know, after I forget what the injury was, but
his arms in a sling and the confetti's raining down
and Rodney's crying, and then for he you know, fast
forward a year and for him to really you know,
seal the game on that on that final interception was
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really fitting because to me, Rodney Harrison, he embodied what
that Patriots team, that that era of the Patriots was
all about.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Rodney Harrison, third post season interception.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
For Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Scott Poli, Patriots director of player Personnel.
Speaker 15 (22:34):
And here's my things, my respect, you know for Andy
Reid as a coach and a person. He and I
had spent a lot of time together, even after games.
You know, we had played him against him other times
and and he was just always a favor of mine.
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And so you knew they were well coached. They were
they were a talent and football team, Donovan, you know,
good good quarterback, a good team. They played smart. They
didn't make a lot of mistakes. And you know, thankfully,
the one the one hiccup they had was near the
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end of the game, right when they had to go two.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Minute drill and the Patriots done it again, back to
back pray out of four.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
There's a whole lot of hugging going right.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Paul Perillo Patriots Football Weekly.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
That was the difference.
Speaker 20 (23:32):
You know, you watch Donovan McNabb, who was, you know,
a talented guy, and you watched Tom Brady and you know,
I don't I'm not just talking about the punchline that
you know, McNabb is throwing up in the huddle. But
I felt like this is kind of the uh, the
origin of a lot of the Andy Reid can't handle
the clock. You remember how methodical they were in the
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you know, did down ten in the fourth quarter. I
just felt like it was a striking contrast between the
utmost in preparation and execution on the New England side
and sort of a little bit less than the best
in terms of those things on the Philadelphia side, and
that ultimately was the difference in the game. And you know,
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for if your Philadelphia, it sort of sort of overshadows
the remarkable performance by Terrell Owens in a game that
not many people and Bill Belichick has admitted this, they
didn't even expect him to play, which tells you why
he was such a problem, because they really weren't as
prepared for him as they normally would have been.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
The final horn sounded, and for the third time in
four seasons, the Patriots were Super Bowl champs, defeating the
Eagles by a score of twenty four to twenty one.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
That's your final playing prating with my favorite playing pat
at the end of the game him the Patriots are
World champions again twenty four twenty one, back to back
world championships, three out of four.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yes, it's a dynasty.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
With eleven catches for one hundred and thirty three yards.
Dion Branch was named the game's MVP.
Speaker 14 (25:00):
First of all, I'd like to thank God and all
my coaches and the players for having the confidence in
me to come out and put on the show that
we displayed tonight going against.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
A great team.
Speaker 16 (25:09):
And uh, we're just thankful right now.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Well, I'll tell you who else is thankful.
Speaker 20 (25:12):
I got something in my pocket I'd like to give
you as the MVP of Super Bowl thirty nine.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
The Cadillac of your choice serves the keys.
Speaker 16 (25:18):
Ben Bratch Lewisville.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
I think a funny, a funny scenario right before this
actually happened, before they actually told you told.
Speaker 16 (25:26):
Me, you know Rightney always called me that I love
this guy.
Speaker 14 (25:30):
He calls me all the time talking about you know,
actually the real the most Valuable Player that game.
Speaker 16 (25:35):
And I tell him because what happened, the boat was
in and then he actually got his second pick a
little bit after the vote. So I am all the time.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
I'm like right, and if you kind of intercept the
ball a little bit earlier, like Coach Belichate was begging
you guys to play a little better defense on the
back end, maybe you.
Speaker 16 (25:51):
Would have won that award.
Speaker 14 (25:52):
You know, that's your fault if you want to wait
till with two seconds up on the clock ten except
a past you know.
Speaker 16 (25:59):
But overall, man, knowing that.
Speaker 14 (26:02):
You know, we're sitting on the bench, we're playing at
the defense. Stop these guys in which we knew they would,
We had faith that they would. You know, you can
look over to the side and see like twenty guys
with the suit song. You know you're not paying attention.
We know Tom Brady's being voupe. They're on our sidelines
because they believe we're gonna win the game.
Speaker 16 (26:18):
And then know and behold, one of the guys come
and tapped me on my shoulder, and it's so crazy
because it's surreal.
Speaker 17 (26:25):
Man.
Speaker 14 (26:25):
I can just I can feel it, man, I'm in
that moment. He saying, hey, if you all win, you're
the MVP. And it's just like my teammates that were around,
they were more excited about that right away then I
probably say I was more shocked, but they were way
more excited. You get what I'm saying. Tom was just
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standing in front of him like, well, you did it,
you did it.
Speaker 16 (26:49):
I'm like, no, we did it. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 14 (26:52):
But I think I take from that game that moment,
first winning the game, but the excitement for my teammate
when they told me that, hey, you will be the
m v P if you all finish this game.
Speaker 16 (27:04):
So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Two years in a row. Now you've you've had huge
games in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Eleven catches today for one hundred and thirty three yards.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
So me personally winning the game with my with my
teammates and having them sharing that moment is the most
important piece. The individual accolades come, those things come and go.
But I'm very honored, very blessed, very pleased to be
named amongst those great v MVPs in Super Bowl history.
Speaker 16 (27:35):
Corey Dyllon, University of Wicher, oh Man, What what a feeling?
Speaker 11 (27:39):
What what a feeling? I mean if you just coming
back for a circle, like from the year before to
the end, and believe me, there's there's a there's gonna
be a lot of Nates here for the rest of
your life, you know what I mean, That's that's just natural.
But to but to go through what I went through
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and then the very next year, he holding up the
trophy says it all. You know, I think that kind
of kills a lot of misconception out there about who
I am and what I can do.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Wow. Well, if not a dynasty, Gilday, I want to
say that, I want to know what one is.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
What is the most patriot like element of the Super
Bowl thirty nine win? It's two images. It's Troy Brown
doing his best to guard the best receiver in the NFL,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's the patriot way to me.
Speaker 13 (28:43):
And then it's Bill Belichick having the ice cold gatorade
bucket dumped over his head, hugging his dad, Like those
are those little moments along the way that sometimes we overlook,
but like that, that's what patriot greatness was all about.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Tonight, Yeah, wins the Lombardi Trophy any pass Vince Lombardy postseason.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
For Bill Belichick, the win officially solidified his place among
the game's all time greatest coaches. Culmination celebrated with his father,
with whom he shared so much of his football history.
Belichick had not only used his vast football knowledge to
find weaknesses and every opponent his team faced, but also
held together a championship team and found a way to
keep them hungry for continued greatness.
Speaker 22 (29:23):
To me, this trophy belongs to these players. They met
all comers this year. It's been a great challenge in
year for the last two playoff games against Indianapolis and Pittsburgh,
and then this great team out here today from the
NFC Philadelphia Eagles. These players have just played great all year.
It played the best in the big games and they
deserve it.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant and.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Obviously as a young coach trying to take in I
spent a lot of time with Bill from day one
I walk in that building. He just really invested in
us as young coaches and taught us and I think
if he recognized something in you that said, like, hey,
this guy's really intellectually can handle the game I want handled.
Then he really kind of pours into you. Like I
said at the beginning, I think the biggest thing for
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me coaching wise was the teaching in the team room
of the situational football and the he always just had
this vision of like where the game was gonna go
before it actually went there and staying in front of it,
which I thought was pretty amazing, you know, And he
would teach us that way, and that was that.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Was pretty impressive.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
We had a bunch of elphas in that room, so
the best way to motivate them a lot of times
was you know, hey, these these guys are really good.
Look what they do here. Or this guy's you know,
this guy's probably gonna be you know, really.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Hard to block. You're not gonna be able to block him,
or this guy's gonna run you over.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
And those guys actually were like, okay, all right, well
I'm about to show I'm.
Speaker 16 (30:42):
About to destroy this dude.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
And you know, we would he'd walk out of the
meeting room and he'd.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Have a little smirk and we'd be smile and he
was like, he's like, that guy's about to be in
a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Charlie Weiss offensive coordinator.
Speaker 23 (30:52):
You know, my other awesome memory goes all the way
to my very end when you know, Bill grabbed me
and Romeo like that was a moment that'll always cherish
because you know, we've spent a lot of time together
and we were all going separate directions, so that was
kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's a scene we've seen now three times in the
last four years. Bill got a gatorade shower as the
final play of the game was run off by Tom Brady.
The let's let the quarterback kneel down and go home victorious.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
With an epic super Bowl win in the books, an
epic party followed and ended up complicating the travel plans
for one young assistant, Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
So we win the super Bowl, right, and I mean,
obviously I've never experienced anything with this before. Now I've
also been up for like seven months straight, like i
haven't slept, like I've been grinding.
Speaker 16 (31:45):
Like it's crazy.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
You know, you got your family, you got your friends
at the Super Bowl, you go to the after party.
I've never seen anything like this before. I've got like
earth wind and fire in this room over here. Snoop
Dogg's over there, like it's just the most amazing thing.
So you know, you're this is pretty it's pretty cool.
So you're having a good time, you're celebrating, you're with everybody.
We're laughing, we're joking. You're completely exhausted, but it's the
one night or it doesn't matter. So I get back
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to the hotel room, I'm exhausted. I'm like, I look,
and all of our bags have to be packed and
outside the door so they can come pick them up
and get them on because we're going right home.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
So you're you're completely exhausted.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
It's you know, you probably had a few cocktails and
you're trying to figure this out. And I'm like, all
right that they're coming to get the bags. I got
to in ten minutes, you know, because we've been out
all night, and you're they pack everything up and then
I can sleep for twenty and then I got to
go catch the bus. So I pad just pack everything
in my bag and I put it outside the hotel
room and I pass out, wake up, and I'm like,
oh my gosh, you gotta go get on the bus.
And I remember looking around the room and I was like,
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I think I packed all my clothes. I'm like, they
took all my I had no clothes. I had nothing,
I think my boxers or whatever was wearing.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
And so now I'm like, how am I gonna get
on the bus? Like what am I gonna do?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
So I go, I go to the closet and then
you know, you get the hotel robe, you know, which
only comes to like here, right, It's all I got.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
So I'm like, I'm gonna have to go buy clothes to.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Go get on the bus because I just packed and
they took all my.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
All my stuff is goings at the airport.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
So I have I have this tiny bathroom on you know,
like nobody wants to see this. And I'm like wandering
down to the gift shop and I remember buying this
really horrific you know super Bowl like sweat jets sweatsuit
or whatever you call him, like, you know, those warm
up jacket suits.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
And I literally that's what I wore home.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
And so the Patriots come to Jacksonville, Florida as defending champions,
and they will leave Jacksonville, Florida has defending champions the
best team in the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
It would be a decade before the Patriots would raise
another Super Bowl banner fur they're putting into perspective how
special the three championship runs from two thousand and one
to two thousand and four were a plucky underdog that
came out of nowhere. In two thousand and one, kick.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Is on the way and it is good good.
Speaker 14 (34:00):
In a Terry BOMs of forties hay yard field goal
and the game is over head.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
A Patriots a super Bowl chapiot.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So Patriots are super Bowl champions.
Speaker 20 (34:12):
The best team in.
Speaker 24 (34:13):
The ne.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Had a mien a terry forty eight yards. Oh baby,
then used a down year in two thousand and two
as a springboard to back to back title.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He is hit.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Supermo two thousand and three proved the first title was
no fluke in two thousand and four cemented the Patriots
place in history.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
So this is truly a nice happening once again.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Three super Bowls in the last four years joins an
elite group are winning two Super Bowls back to back.
Truly America's team.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
According to the Advanced Statistic DVOA, the two thousand and
four team was the best of the bunch, not just
of these first three titles, but of all six of
new England super Bowl championships.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Aaron Schatz, creator of the Advanced Football metric DVOA.
Speaker 24 (35:04):
Yeah, so the two thousand and four Patriots are pretty
clearly the best Patriots championship team, not just of the
first dynasty, but of either of the two dynasties. They
had teams that were better in the regular season two
thousand and seven and twenty ten, but those teams got
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upset they didn't win super Bowls. Two thousand and four
is the best team to win a Super Bowl, And actually,
if you are looking at DVOA including the playoffs, they
are the ninth best team ever measured since nineteen seventy eight. Actually,
compared to a lot of the other great Patriots teams
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of the Belichick era, what stands out is that they
weren't great in all three phases because they were only
average in special teams.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
They were sixteenth on special teams that year. But I
mean they were great on offense and defense.
Speaker 24 (36:02):
They were third on offense, they were fourth on defense,
and they were great both passing and rushing. Right, so
they had a top five run offense, pass offense, run defense,
and pass defense.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
For those players, coaches and executives directly involved in the season.
Two thousand and four was a culmination in more ways
than one. Scott Pioli, Patriots director of player personnel in
two thousand and.
Speaker 15 (36:25):
Four was an incredible team because it was not only talented,
but we went out to We went out and got
you know, brought in players.
Speaker 25 (36:34):
That were accepted and that accepted us in our way,
and that our players accepted for he being a great example.
And everyone gets caught up with the just do your
job thing. That's a really important thing, but you want
to just do your job sometimes means being prepared to
be outside of your your stated job.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Troy did that right. There were other players that made
significant contributions. I mean, we didn't have a number one receiver,
y had David Gibbons, David Patten, Dion Branch, you know,
Patrick Pass had a bunch of catches that year.
Speaker 15 (37:12):
Christian Worriot, who can forget Christian right, We went out
and built a football team and had people buying to
that to that football team. I mean, you think about
the job that our coaching staff did to prepare those
players and to make sure, you know, our offensive coaching
staff and Charlie Weiss, you know, and Ernie, who had
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a lot of inputs that we knew what the strength
and the limitations where the players were, and when they
had to use new players, they used those players to
their strength and.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
They limited the limitations. Romeo on the other side of
the ball did the same thing. Brad Seally.
Speaker 15 (37:51):
You know that that staff, Dante Scardinekia, you know he
had to retool that offensive line. And to me, the
brilliance of the collective and how everyone did their job.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
That's to me with that twenty four team, so much
of now.
Speaker 19 (38:08):
We got to say it around here, we don't lose
hatt and T shirt games. Whenever we can get a
free you had and a free T shirt, we play
so much harder. But man, it feels good.
Speaker 16 (38:16):
I mean, that's three of you know, Teddy, Bruce Kith Arizona.
Speaker 19 (38:20):
I remember being on a flight back from back from
Carolina the super Bowl, the super Bowl in Houston, right yeah,
in Houston, and Fife calls me over. Roman Pfeiffer, one
of my favorite teammates, into the linebacker, calls me over
and says, brew Brew you know what, man, we win
this next one next year and we'll be a dynasty
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and we all sort of knew that, but you just
suppress it and not think about it, because I mean,
you just think about what you got to do. But
with all of that pressure, now, these players were the
same players that won a championship when no one thought
we could in one. So all of a sudden, we
were the underdog versus the Saint Louis Rams and then
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Saint Louis Rams and one, and now we've turned ourselves
into the favorites versus the Philadelphia Eagles, And that's an
entire mentality switch in terms of perspective. But still we
were the same people in terms of what we had
to be and in winning a championship. That's probably what
I remember most about these guys is that we stayed
the same. We learned what happened after one in terms
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of getting full of yourselves, but then we just reached
back and found it and we kept it that way
all the way through that season. You know, the six seven,
all these guys that just stayed around through the whole time,
that leading the way through the perspective that we had
to have with the work that had to be done.
I think it was a tough job in terms of
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leadership and a mentality that you had to maintain.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
We've been a long year, but everyone's so excited.
Speaker 16 (39:52):
It's it'll sing.
Speaker 17 (39:52):
It'll start sinking in the next few days.
Speaker 11 (39:54):
We did.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Once we get that third Super Bowl ring, that's what
it's really gonna think.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, Paul Parrillo, Patrio, it's Football Weekly.
Speaker 20 (40:01):
The best team that they've had in their history was
two thousand and four. I think it was the most
balanced team on both sides of the ball, not just
running and passing offensively, but offense, defense, special teams coaching.
Now you're starting to see Tom Brady really enter his prime.
He's clearly established himself as one of the best quarterbacks,
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if not the best quarterback by that time in football.
And there was just no weakness. I think of some
of the younger guys that were now three and four
year vets, you know, not just Brady, but like you know,
Richard Seymour, Matt Light, you know, those kinds of guys.
You know, you mix in some younger guys you know
that that had come in the draft, like you know,
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Daniel Graham was around, Benjamin Watson, Vince will Ford, you
know a Sante Samuel and Eugene Wilson, you know, those
are players that really contributed a lot more than you
would you would think that younger guys would, and it
was sort of a maturation of everything. Deon Branch, you know,
that was his third year. He was dominant. He was
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dominant in that postseason. So to me, the difference was
now they have a championship caliber offense as well they are.
They've had the defense for the last couple of years.
Now they have an offense to match Louisville.
Speaker 14 (41:16):
Yeah, I'll just say how we actually, you know a
lot of people talk about doing it going out mimicking
what you did the year before and then repeating everything,
but also not just saying doing it that way, but improving.
That's some of the things that I will probably say,
Hey again, O three, we set out to do it.
Speaker 16 (41:35):
We did it. Oh four, we set out to do it,
but even do it better. And we did that. We
did it.
Speaker 14 (41:41):
Everybody did it. We bought in all the coaches, started
with the front office, the scouts. You know, these guys
did a tremendous job going out scouting the proper guys,
the right guys to bring in to add to our
to what we have already. Coach Belichick bringing in the
venus the signings that we brought in our coach that
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that means it has a regis somewhere.
Speaker 16 (42:04):
You have to feel that.
Speaker 14 (42:06):
And and I think that's the biggest piece with us,
us actually going out mimicking what we did the year before,
but also doing it better. That's the stuff that that
the States women. It is almost like can you get better?
Can you do any better than what you did?
Speaker 16 (42:20):
Yes, you can. There's always work to be.
Speaker 11 (42:23):
In the food.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
Jim Niggi, Executive director of the Senior Board.
Speaker 21 (42:26):
I was fortunate to be a part of six Super
Bowl teams, you know, three there in New England, and
and the thing that sets all those teams apart, and
the locker rooms were constructed a little differently, but I
mean they all had they all had a connectivity, and
they all had really good glue guys in.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
The locker room.
Speaker 21 (42:44):
Lots made of of the alphas on these great teams
and the captains and the you know, the big name guys.
But you look at that team and there was a
lot of glue guys on that on that team, in
that locker room that kept that thing together. So it
was just a true team. I think in every sense
of the word, and that they adapted and they were focused,
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and I think they really again they embodied what Villain's got.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
To me.
Speaker 21 (43:09):
We're trying to build there, and that's just a tough, dependable,
smart football team week.
Speaker 16 (43:13):
In and week out.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Matt Patricia, offensive assistant.
Speaker 7 (43:17):
All of it was special to me because, you know,
to get in the NFL and year one, you know, win.
Speaker 16 (43:21):
A Super Bowl was it's insane.
Speaker 7 (43:23):
You know, I've had buddies that have been coaching the
NFL for their entire lives and not even make a
playoff game. Now you also get very spoiled. You start
walking around and be like, Okay, yeah, this is easy,
like we're going to do this again.
Speaker 19 (43:33):
It's not.
Speaker 5 (43:33):
I think when you look back.
Speaker 7 (43:34):
At it, what you realize about each of the Super
Bowl teams, and certainly the four team all of them
is just just obviously great players, great players, but just
how much fun like everyone had while they worked.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
I thought that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 7 (43:51):
That was the key is they just were so tight,
they loved to go compete, They worked so hard together,
they played outstanding. The confidence was unbelievable. You know, the
confidence of this team was amazing, but just how hard
they worked for each other and how close they were,
you know, And I would say it to future teams
when we finally got back, and you know, I remember
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saying to my defenses too, I'm like, you know, when
you win this game, you're bonded for life. And that's
how you feel. You know that each one of them
is different. They're like your kids, you know, but each
one of them are different. But you're bonded to those
guys forever because you were able to achieve the highest
of mountains and you know, hold that trophy up because.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
You all did it together.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Nick Fitzi Stevens, Patriots fan and personality.
Speaker 13 (44:34):
What stands out most to me about the Patriots coming
into the two thousand and four season as the Super
Bowl favorite after winning super Bowl thirty eight and then
raising the Lombardi at the tail end of the season
completing the job was this was the first time I
think true expectations had ever been foisted upon a team
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like they were the favorite. Everybody was looking to them,
everyone was gone for them, and they were able to
live up to the hype and handle the expectations. That
was a new element to Boston sports fandom and rooting
for the Patriots. Gon was expecting them to lose forty
eight to ten. With Steve Grogan running for his life.
Gon was wondering, what wait, Russ McPherson, who sequels Hodson?
(45:20):
Like these are all faint memories. Now when you think
of the Patriots now, thanks to what they were able
to execute in the two thousand and four season, you
think greatness and a new standard was established, I think,
and now a new standard has been established that would
change the way we look at the Patriots and kind
of the Boston sports scene at large.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Scott Poli, Patriots Director of Player Personnel.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
It was truly a manifestation of what we set out
to do. And that was it because again you.
Speaker 15 (45:52):
Mentioned it was several years in and we you know,
we wanted to pride our organization on player development, acquisition,
player development and player lieutention. You know, we weren't able
to routine everyone for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 5 (46:10):
But you Lighty, you ask how you can't hear your voice?
I mean, it's it's.
Speaker 15 (46:17):
It was something incredible to be a part of, you
know what I mean, and to serve a role and
a purpose within.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
With so many people that were so willing to give.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
Twenty four twenty one back to back world championships three
out of four.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, so it's aste.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
This has been a Patriots Super Bowl Sound Odyssey two
thousand and four. Yes, it's a dynasty special. Thanks to
all the players, coaches, executives and everyone else who took
the time to sit down with me and recount their
fond memories. Also a shout out to Stacy James, Aaron
Salkin of the Patriots pr staff, Matt Smith of Craft
Sports Productions, and producer.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
And host of the Pats from the Past podcast.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Finally, a huge thing to audio producer Matt Morrell, the
man who dug up all the clips and cobbled all
twelve episodes of the Patriots Super Bowl Sound Odyssey together.
My name is Mike do So and thanks to you
the fans and listeners for joining me on this fun
trip down memory lane. The first Patriots Dynasty brought Patriots
fans together from around the world and grew the fan base,
but it was most special for those of us who
(47:19):
never imagines anything like their dominance would ever be possible,
And after three titles, it was actually just the beginning.
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