Brady destroyed Mathieu and humiliated him on the biggest stage; telling him it's coming and then going at him with AB on that touchdown is absolutely ****ing hillarious and shows why Brady's most underrated skill (and a big separator from the Mannings, Rodgers of the league) has always been his on-field big **** energy.
It remains to be seen if Mathieu recovers from this and is the same player with all that swagger.
The Seahawks secondary never walked straight again after that SB49 fourth quarter pounding.
The Greatest Show on Turf was reduced to a punchline.
Matt Ryan and everyone on the Falcons broke into shards.
Yet after all those games, everyone was so confident they'd be okay.
I'm sure the Chiefs will be competitive with Mahomes, but I wonder how a lot of that team will recover from this. I think it's very possible that their defense - which was based more on confidence and leadership than talent - is going to suffer. Andy Reid will be feeling this for a long time.
This is just a humiliating ass whooping for a team that led the league in self-promotion and victory laps.
And that's another area where you have to give Bill Belichick a ton of credit...a lot of really tough losses for the Patriots, like any team over 20 years, and they always came right back with the same confidence.