Sometimes in the NFL things don’t go your way, and you have to find ugly ways to win. Good teams, and good head coaches, manage to win this sort of unwatchable monstruosities of a football game, defined by the tiniest details and on a few meaningful plays, so it was great watching Steichen manage to defeat the king of winning ugly football games, and it was somewhat poetic placing perhaps the final nail on Belichick’s coffin.
The defense was lights out, special teams did their job, and in the end the game was basically defined by the Colts’ offense making less mistakes than the Patriots.