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Tenacity Helps Giants Neuter Brady

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The New England Patriots had scored touchdowns on their last two possessions, and more to the point, they had made it look easy.

The Patriots’ small, nimble receivers were running circles around the Giants’ linebackers and Tom Brady was having no trouble finding them in wide-open spaces. They may have been dink and dunk passes, but they added up to a 17-9 lead early in the third quarter and Brady had hardly been touched by the...

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