Atlanta running back says he ‘could have been close to Tom Brady’ if Falcons won Super Bowl LI
Losing the Super Bowl is certainly a hard pill to swallow. But losing the Super Bowl by blowing a 25-point third-quarter lead is undoubtedly a harder pill to swallow.
Devonta Freeman of the Atlanta Falcons shared on SiriusXM Blitz that he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to move on from his team’s 34-28 loss in Super Bowl LI.
“It’s hard to move on from something like that,” Freeman told NFL radio hosts Bruce Murray and Brady Quinn. “I don’t think I’ll ever move on from something like that. To be honest, I think it’ll always play in the back of my head.”
The running back went explain that this particular defeat is even harder to get over because he believes the Falcons have the potential to win Super Bowl LII, too. And Freeman postulates that having back-to-back titles under his belt would put him near, if not in, the upper echelon of players that includes the likes of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
“I feel like we’re going to get a Super Bowl this year,” he said. “And I feel like this could have been two [Super Bowl wins in a row.] I could have been close to Tom Brady, you know what I mean? It’ll always play in the back of my head and the back of my mind.”
Freeman also claimed if he had stayed in the game, he would have won MVP: “Let’s say it like this, if I would have stayed in the game — I don’t know why I got out the game, actually — but if I would have stayed in the game, I would have got MVP. I look at my stats and I see my numbers didn’t lie. Look at my numbers.”
However, the 25-year-old knows that he can’t dwell on the past and is confident that his team will “seize the moment” when the next opportunity comes along.
