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This team is incredible. Every November, they seem to be the best team in the AFC. But by the end of December, they either miss the playoffs completely or barely squeak...
...field goal tries, Vinatieri has kept a clutch foot in the playoffs. He hit a 46-yard knuckleball in the Arctic cold to give the Pats a 17-14 home win over the Tennessee Titans, and converted all five tries in New England?s 24-14 AFC Championship victory over Indianapolis two weeks ago. With little scoring expected as the NFL?s two best defenses square off in Super Bowl XXXVIII on Sunday, don?t be shocked if the ex-high school wrestler from South Dakota determines the title once again. Says New England head coach Bill Belichick...
When you look at all of the Tuna’s success, he has always had Belichick as his right-hand man. Together they won two Super Bowls in five years with the Giants, in 1986 and 1990, and took a 1-15 Jets team to the AFC championship game after just three seasons. When they coached together in New England in 1996, they went to the Super Bowl in their first season back together—after Parcells could only muster the wild card loss to Belichick...
...AFC playoff games in 1996, it was Belichick’s defense which controlled the games by allowing just nine points combined...
...then moved to New England in 1993. Belichick took a head coaching job with Browns in 1991. How did Belichick fare? Pretty well. First year, 6-10. Then two years of 7-9 before breaking through at 11-5 in 1994, losing in the second round of the AFC Playoffs. He was fired the next season...