A 3 Step Comeback For You And Super Bowl Losing Coach Dan Quinn

As the curtain closed on the most dramatic denouement in Super Bowl history last Sunday, offering us so many indelible images—a tearful Tom Brady hoisting his fifth Vince Lombardi trophy, a defiant Bill Belichick pumping his fist skyward—I sunk back into my couch feeling oddly contrarian.

Rather than celebrate the many riveting plot points in the New England Patriots’ record-setting 25-point comeback victory—Julian Edelmann’s mind-boggling last-minute catch and Dont’a Hightower’s crushing fumble-forcing sack of Matt Ryan—or marvel at Belichick’s unflinching stewardship or Brady’s Shermanesque fourth-quarter march, I fixated on Atlanta’s fantastic failure.