Perfection still looked to be in the cards when Brady and his team mates regrouped to march 80 yards into the end zone for a 14-10 lead with 2:42 left in the game. The all out Blitz of Eli Manning by the Patriots though at the end of the game left Plaxico Burress with one-on-one coverage by Ellis Hobbs, and room for the winning TD.
In New England today, nobody's perfect...Not Tom Brady, not Bill Belichick, and not the Patriots.
Quotes from the New England Patriots on the loss of Super Bowl XLII and the less than perfect season:
"I probably need some time to reflect on the game and some time to reflect on the season. It is extremely disappointing. This isn't something any of us prepare for, but you go into a game and you know that some team is going to win and some team has to lose. I thought they had a very good game-plan. They executed it very well. It was a three-point win. We usually are on the better side of those three-point wins. We just have to regroup and come back and try to make it stronger next year." --QB Tom Brady
"They are a very good defensive football team. They played well. They made some plays. We made some plays. In the end, they made a couple more than we did." -- Coach Bill Belichick
"I think their intensity, from the beginning snap to the end of the game, was really higher than ours. We just couldn't meet that intensity. It kind of surprised me, just in the fact that all of the work we put in for the last two weeks, our game preparation. They had the better team today. When things like that happen, the only thing you can do is lick your wounds and try to come back at it next year." -- WR Randy Moss
"It's definitely tough. It's a heartbreaker. At the same time, we understand what it is. It's a game. Give the Giants all the credit in the world. They made the plays when they needed to and it's unfortunate, but you have to take the good with the bad. It's a tough way to lose, last game of the season like this, basically when all the marbles were on the table. It's just disappointing. I don't think there are any words to describe what we feel. We have to experience it and go through it, and understand what it is. We lost a football game. We didn't lose in life. We give the Giants a lot of credit. Make no excuses about what happened here today. They came out and they made the plays. Eli was spectacular. He didn't go down in the rush. We had him several times and he came up big for them. They're well coached. They did it." -- DL Richard Seymour
"The season means nothing now. It means nothing to me. As far as these players and great coaches I am around, this organization, I love them to death. But we didn't accomplish what we wanted to. Like I said, time after time, when you continually win and put a win together and so many people not wanting you to win, to lose at the end just hurts. You know it's all for nothing." -- CB Ellis Hobbs
In Perfectville, the '72 Dolphins were finally able to pop their champagne!
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