New England Patriots links 1/22/18 - Tom Thumb delivers, Jags’ swag fades in fourth

TEAM TALK

• Gamebook: Full Jaguars-Patriots stats.
• Post Game Notes and Records: Patriots extend NFL-record to 10th Super Bowl.
• Erik Scalavino offers his analysis from the press box at Gillette Stadium: Big-game experience mattered.
• Paul Perillo shares his observations from the Patriots 24-20 win over the Jaguars: Tom Brady’s heroics allowed the Patriots to overcome a 10-point deficit.
• Andy Hart’s Stock Watch: Amendola, Gilmore punch Super Bowl ticket.
• Post Game Transcripts: Patriots and Jaguars.
• Post Game Pressers: Bill Belichick - Tom Brady - Danny Amendola - Devin McCourty.
• Highlights: Jaguars vs. Patriots, AFC Championship. (19.02 min. video)
• Highlights: AFC Trophy Presentation (20.12 min. video)
• Can’t-Miss Play: Gilmore makes CLUTCH pass breakup. (36 second clip)
• Can’t Miss Play: Amendola’s INCREDIBLE toe-tap TD. (37 second clip)
• Angelique Fiske reports Martellus Bennett drew cartoons of his teammates and shared them on his Instagram story. They are incredible.

LOCAL LINKS

• Jeff Howe recaps how Tom Brady lead the Patriots to the Super Bowl with a heart-stopping comeback.
• Phil Perry shares five quick-hitting thoughts on Patriots-Jaguars: 3. The Jaguars started to look like the Jaguars of old with about two minutes remaining in the first half.
• Mike Reiss recaps how led by Brady, the Patriots escaped with a win.
• Mike D’Abate (FullPressCoverage) Patriots tame Jaguars, advance to Super Bowl LII.
• Tom E. Curran says the game didn’t go as anyone thought, but it ended as expected.
• Ron Borges writes, “Winners do it. Losers talk about what they’re going to do.”
• Zack Cox goes inside the Patriots comeback: How Brady and Amendola crushed the Jaguar’s dreams.
• Ryan Hannable explains why Sunday was Tom Brady’s greatest 4th quarter playoff comeback of all time.
• Michael Hurley is sure that some day, it will all make sense just how ridiculous the Patriots’ run of success has been under Belichick and Brady.
• Karen Guregian says Tom Brady’s legend is still continuing to grow.
• Dan Ventura puts the focus on Mr. Clutch, Danny “Playoff” Amendola.
• Mike Reiss mentions how offseason acquisitions Stephon Gilmore and Brandin Cooks rose up on the big stage.
• Adam Kurkjian notes the second-half effort by the Patriots defense saves their season.
• Doug Kyed gives us his Pats-Jags takeaways: Defensive game plan took time to succeed.
• Mike Reiss gives us his Ups and Downs from Sunday: Trey Flowers and the Patriots found a way to win despite losing time-of-possession battle.
• Rich Thompson finds the Jaguars thought they had it won until Tom Brady took over.
• Tom E. Curran points out that when teams try to run and hide from the Patriots, they’ll find you and make you regret it.
• Dave Brown says of all the great teams that have come through Foxborough in the last 18 years, this just doesn’t feel like a team of that caliber that could make a deep playoff run.
• Mark Daniels discusses how the TB12 method has paid off for Rob Gronkowski this season. /Good read.
• Tom E. Curran takes a look at the best, and the worst, of the AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and Jaguars.
• Ryan Hannable finds the Jacksonville locker room unhappy with the discrepancy in penalties.
• NBC Sports Boston presents some facts and figures about what the Patriots have already accomplished, and what they’re hoping to achieve.
• Mike Reiss brings up how playing for a Super Bowl title in Minnesota will be “special” for Tom Brady, who has family in the area and spent summers there growing up.
• Steve Buckley reports the ‘Eagles are the latest entrant into the Patriots Invitational, er, Super Bowl’.
• Jeff Howe Patriots Notebook: Rob Gronkowski out with concussion, but team hopeful he’ll be back.
• Zack Cox Patriots Notes: Brandin Cooks delivers vs. Jaguars’ elite cornerbacks.

NATIONAL NEWS

• NFL Game Center (NFL.com) Jacksonville vs. New England: Recap, stats, highlights.
• Darin Gantt (ProFootballTalk) Thumbs up: Patriots advance to Super Bowl with stirring comeback.
• Danny Kelly (The Ringer) Once again, the Patriots unsung heroes saved the day.
• Jenny Vrentas (SI) For the Patriots, all hands pitch in on another AFC Championship.
• Riley McAtee (The Ringer) The six things that mattered more in Jaguars-Patriots than Tom Brady’s freakin’ thumb. 1. Stephon Gilmore’s tipped pass.
• Vinnie Iyer (Sporting News) Tom Brady outdoes himself with AFC title comeback, turns Jaguars into Falcons
• Judy Battista (NFL.com) Tom Brady, Patriots reach Super Bowl LII following familiar script.
• Peter King (SI) Monday Morning QB: Eagles, Patriots punch ticket for Minnesota.
• Rodger Sherman (The Ringer) The winners and losers From the NFL’s Conference Championship games. Loser: Anything new happening (besides Pats in the Super Bowl). Winner: Patriots conspiracy theorists (on both sides); More.
• Mark Cannizzaro (NY Post) Tom Brady isn’t human.
• Rich Cimimi (ESPN) Tom Brady says ‘little injury’ to hand did worry him ahead of AFC title win despite his play.
• Ian O’Connor (ESPN) Tom Brady’s age-defying brilliance is the best kind of problem.
• Rich Cimini (ESPN) Danny Amendola delivers, earns place in Bill’s special dictionary.
• Stephen Sheehan (FanRagSports) 3 things we learned about Patriots in win over Jaguars. 1. Danny Amendola is the most clutch receiver in NFL playoff history. /Amen.
• Analysis Team (Pro Football Focus) Refocused: New England Patriots 24, Jacksonville Jaguars 20.
• Charles P. Pierce (SI) ‘All three phases of the game’: Patriots’ emphasis on special teams shows in AFC Championship win.
• Mark Cannizzaro (NY Post) The Jaguars killed themselves, and they sadly know it.
• Gregg Rosenthal (NFL.com) The Debrief: Super Bowl storylines we won’t tire of.
• Tim McManus (ESPN) Lane Johnson on being installed as 5.5 underdogs in Super Bowl: “Pretty boy Tom Brady. Greatest QB of all time. I’d like nothing more than to dethrone that guy.”
• Ari Gilberg (NY Daily News) By the Numbers: Tom Brady vs. Nick Foles is a one-sided affair of epic proportions.
• Daniel Rapaport (SI) Super Bowl XXXIX Rematch: What happened when the Eagles and Patriots played in 2005.
• Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Tom Brady: We did just enough to win.
• Gary Myers (NY Daily News) Same old, same old: Tom Brady leads the Patriots to the Super Bowl yet again after comeback win over Jaguars.
• Gary Myers (NY Daily News) Tom Coughlin can’t beat Bill Belichick this time around as Jaguars’ impressive season comes to an end.
• Around the NFL (NFL.com) NFL community reacts to Patriots’ win over Jaguars.
• Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Belichick on Brady’s injury: He’s tough, but we’re not talking open-heart surgery.
• Danny Heifetz (The Ringer) The Patriots won the game, but lost Rob Gronkowski to a concussion.
• Josh Alper (ProFootballTalk) Barry Church on Gronk hit: I was just trying to play football. /bullsh*t.
• Dave Birkett (Detroit Free Press) Expected Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia revels in AFC title victory.
• Danny Heifetz (The Ringer) The Titans hired Mike Vrabel because they can’t hire Bill Belichick.
• Matt Clapp (Awful Announcing) Tom Brady wants the CBS cameramen to get the f*ck out of the way.
• Andrew Bucholtz (Awful Announcing) Boston ABC affiliate WCVB tweets a photo of Aaron Hernandez for a story about the Patriots’ win Sunday.
• AJ Hirsch Allen (Sports Al Dente) Much needed NFL rule changes.

VIEW FROM JACKSONVILLE

• John Reid (Jacksonville.com) 10 key numbers from Sunday’s Jaguars-Patriots AFC Championship game.
• Gene Frenette (Jacksonville.com) Operation Tom Brady finds way to cut out Jaguars’ heart.
• John Oehser and Brian Sexton (Jaguars.com) Quick thoughts: Patriots 24, Jaguars 20. 1. This one hurt.
• Matt Soergel (Jacksonville.com) Jaguars’ dream run to Super Bowl screeches to a halt in Foxborough.
• Ryan O’Halloran (Jacksonville.com) Jaguars Insider: First trip to Super Bowl denied after 10-point lead is squandered.
• John Oehser (Jaguars.com) Game report: Patriots 24, Jaguars 20.
• Michael DiRocco (ESPN) A.J. Bouye: Patriots were goading Jaguars to commit penalties. /Wahh.
• Darin Gantt (ProFootballTalk) Jaguars go from run of top-five picks to 29th.