That's just not fair. He went off the field with a hyper extended elbow three and a half minutes into what turned out to be the longest drive in Superbowl history with the Giants still on their own side of the field... 16 plays, 63 yards, 38 on the ground, FG which proved to be their margin of victory. He returned in the next series and played the remainder of the game seriously injured and they didn't score until the 4th quarter and he didn't give up the crucial play in either of their 4th quarter drives, nor was he the guy beaten for 2 TD's.
We lost because the greatest offense in NFL history was ***** slapped in the trenches for two and a half quarters by a DL you didn't think could hold their collective jocks. The worst players on the field in the SB were the NE Patriots Oline and their incompetent assistants, the NE TE's. 5 sacks, 8 knockdowns, untold hits in 21 pressures. That's 50% of NE's total offensive snaps dominated by 4 and occasionally 5 guys you assessed as posing no serious threat to impact a juggernaut passing offense indoors under climate controlled optimum passing conditions. We managed just two scoring drives seperated by two and a half quarters in which we couldn't even sniff the red zone. One of those came before the Giants DL got dialed in, the other came when they were finally, mercifully gassed.
Our defense gave up half as many points on Sunday as they did in the regular season matchup when we only beat them by 3. The problem was the Offense produced considerably less than half as many points.