What more can you say?
In his first season away from the New England Patriots, 43-year-old Tom Brady bested teams led by Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs to win his seventh Super Bowl ring — more Super Bowl wins than any NFL franchise.
Brady will always be remembered as a Patriot, first and foremost. His magnum opus remains Super 51, in which he famously erased a 28-3 deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons to win in overtime.
But as NFL Media’s Judy Battista perfectly stated in her postgame piece, this is Brady’s “crowning achievement.”
Much will be made about Brady winning a Super Bowl outside of Bill Belichick’s ‘Patriot Way,’ and that’s notable, but this win did much more than that for Brady’s legacy.
Congratulations to the greatest of all time.
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) February 8, 2021
Here are our takeaways, both in-game and legacy wise, from the GOAT’s Super Bowl 55 performance.