If you were tuning in to watch a shootout between the best quarterback ever and the high-powered offense of the leagues’ youngest coached team, you were probably disappointed by Super Bowl LIII, which bucked the league-wide and years-long trend of offenses ruling the field and instead became an old school defensive battle over who could score more than 3 points. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a thriller in its own way, of course, as the game was a one-score game all the way until the last minute of play-time.
The Sean McVay-coached Los Angeles Rams came into the post-season having only failed to score 30 points in 3 regular season games, but, with star running back Todd Gurley hobbled and Jared Goff looking a little shaky, the Rams’ offensive production slowed down in the post-season. They managed to score 30 against the Dallas Cowboys, but it took overtime for the Rams to get to 26 to defeat the New Orleans Saints in the conference championship. But Bill Belichick, as usual, had the perfect game plan for the Rams’ formerly formidable offense, holding them to just 3 points after gaining just 62 yards on the ground and 198 in the air.
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