Patriots Notes: How Goal-Line Defense Helped Turn Tide In AFC Title Game

Patriots Notes: How Goal-Line Defense Helped Turn Tide In AFC Title Game

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FOXBORO, Mass. — Tom Brady and Chris Hogan both had fantastically productive performances in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game. But two of the most important sequences in the New England Patriots’ rout of the Pittsburgh Steelers came on the defensive side of the ball.

The Patriots’ defense mounted two successful goal-line stands, keeping the Steelers out of the end zone on seven plays from inside the 5-yard line. Pittsburgh managed just thre…

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