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2019 AFC Championship Game: One of the Patriots’ biggest plays against the Chiefs was improvised

One of the pivotal plays of the New England Patriots’ win in Super Bowl 49 against the Seattle Seahawks was never actually run in a practice session leading up to the game. Instead, the team installed it the night before the game by running it in a walkthrough setting at the team hotel’s ballroom. The play in question? No other than the game-winning touchdown pass from Tom Brady to wide receiver Julian Edelman.

Four year later, it looks like a similar scenario happened again. “We just put in eight new plays in the game plan this morning,” Brady told NBC’s Peter King after the Patriots’ thrilling 37-31 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game.