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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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GO PATS!!!<br />

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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