Patriots lost Super Bowl XLVI because they
Wes Welker lay nearly prostrate on cheap air max 90
the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium, his hands on his helmet — a symbol of disbelief and disconsolation.
Welker has caught 607 passes in his five years with the Patriots. But it’s what should have been No. 608 that dropped him — and all of New England — to his knees on Sunday night.
Welker was open, the Giants coverage blown for one of the few times all night. As Tom Brady’s throw — far from his best but good enough for Welker — was in the air, Patriots fans were already doing the math. A first down here, maybe one more, and the game is over.
But Welker didn’t make the catch. Turning his body on the left side of the field, the mirror image, it seems, of David Patten back in that first Super Bowl victory 10 years earlier, Welker’s hands fought the ball, knocking it to the ground instead of pulling it in.
It’s overly simplistic to parse the game down to two plays, to say the Patriots lost Super Bowl XLVI because they didn’t complete a pass they normally do, while the Giants, moments later, completed one they normally don’t. New England made mistakes throughout the contest, but a fan’s memory can be short in instances like this: The last mistake is the one that lingers.
Welker was brutally honest after the game.
“The ball is right there,” he said. “I’ve just got to make the play. It’s a play I’ve made a thousand times in practice and everything else. It comes to the biggest moment of my life and I don’t come up with it. It’s discouraging.”
There’s really only one way to make the play even more cheap air max 95 discouraging. And that’s if it’s the last memory of Welker in a Patriots uniform.
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