Tom Brady was vulnerable against the Jaguars – but he refuses to break

A hand injury was supposed to hamper the New England quarterback but – as ever – he took apart the opposition when it mattered

“We’re not talking about open-heart surgery,” New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Sunday evening.

Belichick was talking about Tom Brady’s throwing hand, injured in practice last week. But Brady was pretty surgical as he carved apart the Jacksonville Jaguars on the way to his eighth Super Bowl. In a fourth quarter the Jaguars will never forget, he took away their heart and then he pulled the Super Bowl dream to which they so precariously clung those final few minutes, until it was gone for good.

@EAGLES FLEA FLICKER TD ALERT! #MINvsPHI #NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/KOsyOgmqRO

Bill Belichick treated that AFC Championship trophy like it was a piece of garbage LMAO pic.twitter.com/9HwmWqHy1H