Winning 2 of these last 3, makes reading these types of articles a bit less painful for me as a fan, and more able to truly appreciate the legacy of that amazing squad.
As a side note, I've always felt NE really hurt themselves game planning wise those days, by playing the bend don't break style of D. Where an aggressive attacking D style, limiting the opponent time of possession, not handing chunks of it to them, albeit with more risk, but more turnovers too, would of been the best way to go to maximizing that incredible offensive advantage by trading as many chances as possible. Especially with goober jr at QB. Slowing the game down made it too easy for him, and helped to limit the chances for his inevitable mistakes.