stay in Cover-2 and allowed underneath/dink passes to a QB who had shown no reason the entire game to defend him deep and knowing full well all the Pats needed was to get into FG range for a pretty reliable kicker. I mean, NEs receivers were pedestrian at best, no game breakers.

You are correct, Brady was essentially a rookie in SB36. But Lovie Smith's playcalling treated Brady like he was Dan Marino throwing to Duper and Clayton.

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