I watched a bit of the game last night when it replayed on NFLN.
Brady was great but he wasn't the real MVP. It was both coordinators. They broke every tendencies they've had all year long. You name it- from running on first down to the tweaked coverages they threw at Mahomes. Their cover 2 shell was so deep the safeties were practically in the parking lot. The biggest thing to me was how much they changed the defense post-snap. Very disciplined- that D played lights out, assignment, alignment, responsibility. The offense had plenty of plays from our playbook- some of you probably recognized the famous "Charles Barkley" trap pass and the inside fake cut route that Edelman did, that AB copied for his TD.
As has been pointed out many times here, KC never bothered to adjust, never bothered to bring a new gameplan. Hubris was Reid's downfall.
I've bagged on both coordinators all season long. Have to now take my hat off to them.
In either their first or second playoff game,
@KontradictioN was the first to recognize that Bowles had been playing rope-a-dope during the regular season and had flipped the script in the postseason. I have to acknowledge that he was right.
Never would have occured to me that Bowles would be capable of doing something like that- so naturally I have to eat some crow here, but more unpleasant is the thought that he fooled me as well.