Having Marcus Burley inactive in SB49. How you dont keep him available when you're going up against Brady, Edelman and the rest of his targets, i dont know. but as soon as Jeremy lane went down, so did any chance of stopping Edelman from doing whatever he wanted. The momentum of the game shifted on that play. Had Burley been there, he'd have made a difference.
If Burley is there, i dont think we have to come back at all. No INT. No play call controversy. No broken dreams. No shattered legacy. No tipping the team culture in favor of Russ over the LOB. Without the injuries on defense that day, the defense wins us the game and all is good in South Alaska. We run it back one more time with a team fully bonded and playing for legacy behind a crushing defense, RB and a QB with a flair for the spectacular.