Kyle Van Noy had a message for the doubters as he returned to the locker room after earning a place in Super Bowl LIII.
“Tell them boys, ‘Stop playing us!'” the Patriots linebacker, who had two sacks on Sunday, shouted. “Tell them, ‘Stop playing us.'”
Before the 37-31 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game, New England had seized on an unfamiliar role: underdog. If a video taken by ESPN”s Jeff Darlington of the team postgame Sunday is anything to go by, the players don’t plan on removing that chip from their shoulder before Feb 3.