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JANUARY <strong>31</strong>, 2019<br />
WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 5<br />
Super Bowl LIII<br />
In the younger,<br />
cheaper NFL, Super Bowl<br />
champs get cut, too<br />
Sources: Ticketmaster, NFL.com, Nielsen, superbowlbets.com, wilson.com, nationalchickencouncil.org,<br />
usbankstadium.com, primesport.com<br />
Graphic: Staff, Tribune News Service<br />
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BY EDDIE PELLS<br />
ASSOCIATED PRESS<br />
A word of warning to all those<br />
soon-to-be Super Bowl champions<br />
in New England or Los<br />
Angeles: Don’t get too comfortable.<br />
You might be looking for a<br />
job fairly soon.<br />
The NFL’s inexorable trend<br />
of going younger and cheaper<br />
does not bypass the best teams<br />
in the league. In fact, it may<br />
help them stay as good as they<br />
are.<br />
An Associated Press analysis<br />
of Super Bowl champions over<br />
the past seven years revealed<br />
that title teams shed an average<br />
of 20.4 players off their 53-man<br />
rosters from the Super Bowl<br />
to Week 1 of the next season.<br />
That’s 38.5 percent. On average,<br />
the new players had 1.8<br />
fewer years of experience than<br />
the players they replaced.<br />
The findings were in line<br />
with data analyzed by the AP<br />
that showed a steady trend<br />
downward in experience of all<br />
teams despite attempts in the<br />
2006 and 2011 collective bargaining<br />
agreements to stem<br />
that tide. Average experience<br />
on opening-day rosters has<br />
dropped from 4.6 years to 4.3<br />
since 2005 .<br />
“I mean, look, there’s a lot<br />
of turnover in the National<br />
Football League on every<br />
team in every year,” Patriots<br />
coach Bill Belichick said.<br />
“It’s the National Football<br />
League. Teams turn over a lot<br />
of players and a lot of coaches<br />
every single year, every single<br />
team.”<br />
No team does it with quite<br />
the high-profile effectiveness as<br />
the Patriots, who have collected<br />
five Super Bowl titles since<br />
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2002, and will be going for No.<br />
6 on Sunday against the Rams.<br />
New England’s five Super<br />
Bowl champions turned over<br />
an average of 19.2 players the<br />
season after they won their<br />
titles. The season after their<br />
2015 win over the Seahawks,<br />
they brought in 24 new players<br />
— the biggest number among<br />
all the teams surveyed in this<br />
analysis.<br />
How does all this turn out?<br />
Not very well, except for the<br />
Patriots. Of the past seven Super<br />
Bowl teams, none has repeated.<br />
Two have returned to the Super<br />
Bowl to lose. Two have lost in<br />
the playoffs. Three didn’t even<br />
make the playoffs.<br />
The 2003-04 Patriots are the<br />
last team to repeat.<br />
Belichick’s famously unsentimental<br />
view of rosters, and the<br />
players who fill them, has led to<br />
some of the most awkward, unpopular<br />
and sometimes downright<br />
messy break-ups in recent<br />
memory.<br />
Coming off a season in which<br />
the Patriots lost the AFC title<br />
game, Belichick traded away<br />
linebacker Jamie Collins — to<br />
the then 0-8 Browns, no less<br />
— in the middle of the 2016<br />
season. New England won the<br />
Super Bowl that year.<br />
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Seymour. Lawyer Milloy,<br />
Jimmy Garoppolo, Wes Welker,<br />
Damien Woody. New England<br />
said goodbye to all of them<br />
when they still had gas left in<br />
the tank.<br />
They unexpectedly benched<br />
the cornerback who saved the<br />
2015 Super Bowl, Malcolm<br />
Butler, at the Super Bowl three<br />
years later, then let him go via<br />
free agency. Drew Bledsoe got<br />
injured in 2001 and his days<br />
were numbered. He got traded<br />
to the Bills after a backup<br />
named Tom Brady stepped in<br />
and did fairly well.<br />
Through it all, Brady and<br />
Belichick have been the<br />
constant.<br />
“Some of it is perception, and<br />
some of it is reality,” said Eric<br />
Winston, the former NFL offensive<br />
lineman who is now the<br />
president of the players’ union.<br />
“Every NFL team, in certain<br />
areas, goes through maturations<br />
and goes through the process<br />
of, ‘How do we build a team?’<br />
And then it changes. One year,<br />
it’s finding a few older free<br />
agents who can play. Another,<br />
everyone wants to get younger<br />
when the Seahawks win with an<br />
average age of 26.4.”<br />
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