Everyone: Bill Belichick’s understudies are always doomed to fail once they leave. System guys. Can’t succeed on their own.
Alabama Crimson Tide offensive coordinator/ex-Patriots tight ends coach Brian Daboll: Hold that thought, I’ve got to get fitted for my second championship ring in 11 months.
Monday night’s college football championship game was equal parts sloppy and spectacular, brute strength and finesse, and as much of an old-school power throwback game as we’re likely to see in the CFP era for quite a while. And for the whole first half, college football’s Evil Empire was left holding a big old goose egg on the scoreboard.