He had established himself as one of the finest tactians of his generation, who had taken on continental football's deep thinkers and beaten them at their own game.

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The ball thudded to the ground, and this much was clear: Despite Brady's three previous championships, there remains one team he has not beaten when it has mattered most, one team that can reduce the coolest quarterback of his generation to desperation and defeat.

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