{"id":73916,"date":"2019-02-03T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=73916"},"modified":"2019-02-03T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:03:54","slug":"patriots-over-rams-13-3-patriots-wr-julian-edelman-named-super-bowl-liii-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=73916","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Over Rams 13-3 &#038; Patriots WR Julian Edelman Named Super Bowl LIII MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA&#8230;In the lowest scoring game in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0history, there was no clear player &#8212; on offense, defense or special teams &#8212; to whom to award the Most Valuable Player. Such was the nature of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">New England Patriots<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/story\/0ap3000001016157\/article\/patriots-defeat-rams-133-in-super-bowl-liii\" target=\"_self\">complementary victory<\/a>.  But someone had to claim the prize and, on Sunday evening, that man was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/player\/julianedelman\/238498\/profile\">Julian Edelman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/usw9WiShXEs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t focused on [winning the MVP],&#8221; Edelman told CBS&#8217;s Jim Nantz on the victors&#8217; podium following New England&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/2019020300\/2018\/POST22\/patriots@rams\">13-3 win<\/a>\u00a0over the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/losangelesrams\/profile?team=LA\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0LIII. &#8220;I was just trying to go out and have a good week of practice and do my job. Sometimes the cookie crumbles that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The diminutive receiver finished with a game-high 10 catches for 141 yards. Always in the right place in the right time, eight of Edelman&#8217;s receptions led to first-down pick-ups.<\/p>\n<div id=\"vid2\" class=\"nfl-video-tag nfl-video-small nfl-video-right\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_10_3_1_1549262835051_260\" class=\"yui3-nfl-video-sandcastle yui3-widget yui3-nfl-video\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_10_3_1_1549262835051_262\" class=\"yui3-nfl-video-content yui3-widget-content-expanded\">\n<div id=\"nfl-video-sandcastle2\">Though seven of Edelman&#8217;s 10 receptions came in the first half, when New England scored just three points, his final grab was the second play on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">Patriots<\/a>&#8216; five-play game-winning touchdown drive midway through the fourth quarter.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In winning the MVP award, Edelman became just the second\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">Patriots<\/a>\u00a0player not named\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/player\/tombrady\/2504211\/profile\">Tom Brady<\/a>\u00a0to secure the honor (Deion Branch, XXXIX).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He deserves it,&#8221; Brady told Nantz on the podium about Edelman&#8217;s accolade. &#8220;That was one of the best games he ever played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As with most of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">Patriots<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday&#8217;s roster, Edelman was no stranger to the Big Game. This was his fourth appearance in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0and the third in which he&#8217;s played a major role. Edelman caught the game-winning touchdown in New England&#8217;s win over the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/seattleseahawks\/profile?team=SEA\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>. His acrobatic fingertip grab in the fourth quarter of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">Patriots<\/a>&#8216; win over the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/atlantafalcons\/profile?team=ATL\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0LI was the iconic moment of an historic comeback.<\/p>\n<p>But Edelman was sidelined for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">Patriots<\/a>&#8216; loss to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/philadelphiaeagles\/profile?team=PHI\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>\u00a0last season, kept off the team all year by a torn ACL. He was also missing for New England&#8217;s first four games of 2018, but for non-injury related reasons. Edelman was suspended for the season&#8217;s first quarter for violating the league&#8217;s PED policy.<\/p>\n<p>When he returned, Edelman was Brady&#8217;s top target, his younger brother again, racking up 74 receptions, 850 receiving yards and six touchdowns in 12 games of work.<\/p>\n<p>In the postseason, the 5-foot-10 former Kent State QB played larger than life once again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"vid3\" class=\"nfl-video-tag nfl-video-small nfl-video-right\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_10_3_1_1549262835051_350\" class=\"yui3-nfl-video-sandcastle yui3-widget yui3-nfl-video\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_10_3_1_1549262835051_352\" class=\"yui3-nfl-video-content yui3-widget-content-expanded\">\n<div id=\"nfl-video-sandcastle3\">Edelman finished the 2019 postseason with 26 receptions for 388 receiving yards in three\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/newenglandpatriots\/profile?team=NE\">Patriots<\/a>\u00a0victories. The MVP bestowed to him on Sunday night was for his decisive route-running and clutch conversions against the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/losangelesrams\/profile?team=LA\">Rams<\/a>\u00a0in Atlanta, but it could also be viewed as a postseason, or even a lifetime, achievement award.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By going over 100 yards for the sixth time in his postseason career, Edelman tied\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/teams\/dallascowboys\/profile?team=DAL\">Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0legend Michael Irvin for the second-most 100-yard postseason games all-time (seven). They are second only to the inimitable Jerry Rice with eight.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s esteemed company, company that would suggest that Edelman is an all-time great and bound for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/\">Pro Football Hall of Fame<\/a>, where the busts of Irvin and Rice already reside, when his time comes.<\/p>\n<p>That is a conversation for another day. Tomorrow, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just matters that we won, man,&#8221; Edelman told Nantz as the confetti poured down from the Mercedes-Benz Stadium roof. &#8220;It was a crazy year. We&#8217;ve got a resilient bunch of guys. It was unreal, man. It was like a home game here. We love you guys here. It was awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source NFL by Jeremy Bergman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA&#8230;In the lowest scoring game in\u00a0Super Bowl\u00a0history, there was no clear player &#8212; on offense, defense or special teams &#8212; to whom to award the Most Valuable Player. Such was the nature of the\u00a0New England Patriots&#8216;\u00a0complementary victory. But someone had to claim the prize and, on Sunday evening, that man was\u00a0Julian Edelman. \ufeff &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-sports","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/screencapture-youtube-watch-2019-02-03-23_01_10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}