![]() ![]() Matthews finished the game with four grabs for 109 yards and a score. Matthews made another leaping grab to pull back even with just two seconds on the clock. Sitting on the 10-yard line with six seconds remaining and trailing, 14-7, the Seahawks made the gamble to forgo a field goal and throw for the end zone. Matthews came up big again just before halftime. Three plays later, Lynch plunged in for a game-tying score. But on second-and-5 from midfield, Matthews got behind the defense and made an acrobatic, twisting grab to set Seattle up on the New England 11-yard line. Midway through the second quarter, the Seahawks were struggling offensively and Wilson had yet to complete a pass. Undrafted fourth-year man Chris Matthews, who came into the game without a single NFL reception, made two monster grabs in the first half to help the Seahawks climb back into the game. The Patriots have a bad history with unheralded wide receiver breakouts in the Super Bowl and that continued on Sunday night. With just under five minutes left, Edelman shook free of his man on the goal line and hauled in the go-ahead touchdown from Brady. Edelman was never checked for a concussion and stayed in the game. On the first of those catches, he took a hard helmet-to-helmet hit that left him wobbly and he struggled to climb back to his feet on several occasions after that. He w,as the key spark for the Patriots' critical fourth-quarter touchdown march to pull back within three, catching a pair of drive-extending passes. SB Nation presents: Final thoughts on the unbelievable finish to Super Bowl XLIX 1) Julian Edelman was the Patriots' star.Įdelman was Brady's go-to guy all night, tallying nine catches for 109 yards. A trio of chunk plays moved Seattle quickly downfield, setting up a game-tying touchdown from Wilson to Matthews with just two seconds on the clock. Brady capped a quick two-minute drive with a dime of a pass to Rob Gronkowski down the sideline to go back up by seven with 31 seconds left in the half, but once again, the Seahawks had a response. A long pass play from Wilson to Chris Matthews helped jolt the Seahawks out of an offensive funk midway through the second quarter and Marshawn Lynch punched it into the end zone three plays later to tie the game at 7. Brady completed the first of his two first-half scores, threading the ball to Brandon LaFell for an 11-yard touchdown.Ī flurry of points just before halftime tied up the game. The Patriots got on the board first, using a string of short dump off passes to move 65 yards for a 7-0 lead. Brady engineered a critical scoring drive, completing 5 of 7 passes and finding Danny Amendola for a 4-yard score with just under eight minutes left in the game.Īfter a scoreless first quarter, the game started heating up in the second. Wilson notched his second touchdown pass of the game late in the third quarter, finding Doug Baldwin for a 3-yard score.īut New England wasn't going quietly. Alternating big throws over the top from Wilson and downhill runs from Lynch, the Seahawks piled up 155 yards of offense and 10 unanswered points to climb in front, 24-14. The two teams came out of halftime tied, but the third quarter was all Seattle. Brady, who picked up his fourth career Super Bowl ring with the win, finished 37-of-50 for 328 yards, four touchdowns and two picks. ![]() With just over two minutes left in the game, Brady found Julian Edelman for a 3-yard touchdown, putting the Patriots on top for the first time since late in the second quarter. ![]() ![]() But as he's done so many times before, Tom Brady mounted a comeback, throwing two touchdowns in the final eight minutes to guide his team to the win. Trailing by 10 points midway through the fourth quarter, the Patriots were on the ropes. But Malcolm Butler stepped inside on a slant on the goal line and made the pick. That gave Seattle the ball inside the 10-yard line and looked to seal the Seahawks' late comeback. With 1:06 left, Seahawks wideout Jermaine Kearse hauled in a miraculous, juggling catch while going to the ground. But the Seahawks made the controversial decision to throw the ball, the Patriots intercepted on the 1-yard line and New England went on to win, 28-24. With the Seattle Seahawks sitting on the 4 yard-line with one minute remaining and down by four points, it looked as though the New England Patriots were headed to another disappointing Super Bowl finish. ![]()
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