Historic home-field advantage, a win for diversity and coaching malpractice — it’s a championship-caliber way to wrap up NFL Recap season.
2020 NFL Championship Sunday Recap
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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) scores on a 1-yard touchdown reception during the second half of the AFC championship NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo.
(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Bills 24
Chiefs 38
Tom Brady may be the NFL’s greatest winner, but Patrick Mahomes is in the midst of the greatest three-season stretch we’ve ever seen. If he beats Brady on his home field — the only quarterback to beat Mahomes in the playoffs — to win back-to-back titles for the first time since Brady’s 2003-04 Patriots, it could be the start of Mahomes’ own march toward GOAT status.
Buffalo has nothing to hang its head about — the 2020 Bills were a fantastic thrill ride, right down to Josh Allen’s solid dual-threat performance against the juggernaut Chiefs. Allen and Stefon Diggs took the appropriate steps to ensure this won’t be the last time the Bills will play in this game.
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) evades a tackle as he looks to pass against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the second half of the NFC championship NFL football game in Green Bay, Wis., Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
(AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Bucs 31
Packers 26
Green Bay blew it.
In what might be Aaron Rodgers’ final act as the Packers QB, he should have run in a potential game-tying touchdown …
Rodgers blew it. This is a touchdown if he runs. pic.twitter.com/KPOlH1sXFz
— Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) January 24, 2021
… and Matt LaFleur committed coaching malpractice by taking a meaningless field goal rather than giving his legendary QB another chance to get in the end zone on a goal-to-go situation. The Packers will be haunted by that, and the inability to cash in any of Tom Brady’s three interceptions for points that could have rendered that entire late-game disaster moot.
But give it up for Bruce Arians and the GOAT. Arians’ commitment to diversity has paid off big dividends, and Brady’s legend now includes the first case of home-field advantage in the Super Bowl in what is his 10th appearance on football’s biggest stage. Hopefully, more will be made about finally giving minority coaches their due than rehashing Brady’s obvious status as the most decorated player in NFL history.
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