3 f2. Al theyll take it here. Theyre going to make them, you would think cris of course. Al absolutely. They take a timeout to make them run a play. Cris and theres plenty of time left on that clock, which is what al putting four back on. Cris trying to do the math on that thing and i was thinking, well, if you had just run a few place, a sweep or whatever. Referee third and final timeout baltimore. Cris John Harbaugh is probably right. Referee please reset the game clock to 14 seconds, 14. Al it was an interesting call that he made. Instead of taking the timeout, which a lot of coaches would have done after the first down play, he waited. He did the math and he figured, okay, if i can get them to fourth down, i make them run a play and they put a few extra seconds back on the clock. Theres 14 seconds on the clock. Cris and it puts jacoby jones on the field. Stranger things have happened here. So you get all the hail mary possibilities. Theres a lot of things here. And by simply taking the knee instead of doing a pitch or a run or a scramble or anything else like that, those extra precious seconds did not tick off. Now here comes this guy, who has ten touchdowns on returns in his career, including one well all remember in the super bowl. Al baltimore is going to put ten guys up on the line and try for the punt block. Maybe a bad snap, bad kick. Youve got jones for the moment back at the 35 yard line. And ryan allen sets up at his 1 yard line to take the snap. Cris of course joe flacco has a huge arm, so hail marys are all probably going to be able to land in the end zone. Plenty of time for a return too. Al here comes the rush. And he does get it away. Jones will catch it at the 44 yard line and why fool around with it. As he runs out of bounds. There are a couple of seconds left on the clock. Cris and youre dead on, al. Because when you decide to go for the block, now theres nobody back there to help protect you as the returner, so the fair catch was the right play. Al absolutely, theres no question about it. Several seconds wasted by trying to run to the sideline. Time now for one more play. Of course the game cannot end, as you look at gronkowski going all the way back to the 5 yard line, the game cannot end on a defensive foul. Cris i always think the way to do this is to have your quarterback move, because you have to buy time for these receivers to get all the way down the field. Al four wide. Flacco stepping up, avoids the sack. Launches one into the end zone, and it is incomplete. Batted back out by the patriots. Even if smith made the catch, he wasnt in the end zone at the end. And so new england comes from behind, wins the game and moves on to the afc championship game. Cris i think that was gronk with the oldfashioned volleyball spike out of the back of the end zone. Al he was right in the middle of the action. Cris might have been Devin Mccourty. Good job of flacco buying some time. Gronk and Devin Mccourty were right there. It was a beautifully thrown ball. Al look at gronkowski. Cris it was actually mccourty who got his hands on the ball and was smart enough to get it out of the end zone, because even if it were caught wouldnt have mattered. Al tap it back out, exactly what he did. New england wins the game 3531. Meeting the colts or the broncos next week here in foxborough. Coming up next, the postgame report coming your way after these messages from your local nbc station. At Kaiser Permanente everything you need is under one roof. Another way care and coverage together makes life easier. Okay, a little easier. Become a member of Kaiser Permanente. Because together, we thrive. Welcome to the volkswagen postgame report. Here now, bob costas. In a game that will be long remembered, the patriots only lead was the final score. Talk about a cold, hard reality for the ravens, they did just about everything right. They gave the patriots everything they could handle and then some, but new england moves on and they stay here against the winner of tomorrows colts broncos game. The game balls, and we do this, as you know, every sunday night and on into the playoffs, the game balls go to tom brady, who was 33 for 50. His 50th throw was the gamewinning touchdown pass. Three tds and a touchdown on the ground for him. Julian edelman had eight receptions and also threw a touchdown pass to Danny Amendola, the first pass attempt of his entire career. He had been a quarterback at kent state. Wound up being a touchdown pass to Danny Amendola, so the game balls go to tom brady and Julian Edelman. And Michele Tafoya has the opportunity to speak with both of them right now on the field. Michele tom, you told us before the game you cant get down to the ravens. You got down by 14 twice, but you became the first team in postseason history to erase multiple 14point deficits. How were you guys able to get out of those situations . Yeah, you know, we played i dont think we played as well as we would have liked. I thought situationally we played a little good. We showed a lot of toughness coming back from those two deficits. It took a lot of effort, a lot of guys making a lot of good plays and well be happy to host the championship game next week. Michele i know since you didnt feel you played your best you probably dont want to talk about this, but you passed joe montana, the guy you grew up watching for postseason touchdown passes. Can you take a minute and describe what that means to you . Well, ive been part of a lot of great teams and theres been a lot of guys who have been on the receiving ends of those too. Joe is obviously he and steve young were my two idols growing up, so its pretty special. Michele now, do you have a new idol in Julian Edelman who threw a 51yard touchdown pass . What happened on that play . Its not fair when he throws it better than i do. A it was a perfect spiral right in stride and he made it look easy. Im proud of him, what a player he is. Michele congratulations, tom. Hi, mom. Michele lets turn to Julian Edelman. 51yard touchdown strike on your first pass in your career. Tell me about the play and how long did you lobby for that . Weve had it in for ten weeks and, you know, the coaches finally got to call it. We were fortunate enough to execute it. I had to loosen up the arm a little bit. Thanks to coach martin, my golden flash coach at the college of san mateo, they all helped me out with that one. Michele what a throw. This game was so back and forth as tom and i were just discussing. 14 points, twice you came back. What is it about this team that allows you to get out of those kinds of situations . It comes through our preparation. We had a good week of practice. Unfortunately, we didnt do too great in those 14point deficits at the time, but we had the resiliency and the team had, you know, unbelievable poise to come out. Baltimore played a great game. They came out and hit us in the mouth and we were able to get up and keep playing. Michele as tom said, youll be hosting the afc championship game here next week. Julian, congratulations. Thanks. Michele bob. All right, michele, thanks. We welcome to the set now tony dungy and rodney harrison. As we said earlier, and Julian Edelman just acknowledged it, baltimore gave new england everything they could possibly have expected and then some. How did the patriots escape . They had some rust from being off, i think, but you cant say enough about tom brady. Being down 14 points with really no running game, it was all on him. He played great in the second half. I look at Bill Belichick and what hes done with his coaching staff. This is a mentally tough football team. You talk about situational football. Its no surprise to me during the waning minutes. Game they come up with big plays. Joe flacco was on fire early. Overall 28 of 45, nearly 300 yards. Four touchdowns, a couple of interceptions. Take us to the Fourth Quarter and new englands comeback. Well, it started off, they got in the nohuddle, up tempo. And in the third quarter, they really got going. Rodney, you called this play when we were watching it. Yeah, tom brady recognized the safety blitz and he raised his hand and you know its oneonone coverage and you know exactly where hes going, coach. And Danny Amendola came up huge. These plays dont look like a lot, but this, breaking a tackle, stretching the ball out, picking up the first down, that was big. Brandon lafell has been a guy thats up and down but tom brady talked about believing in him. But im really excited about the play of the safeties. They came up with two interceptions, and Patrick Chung played his best game of the season. And here youve got Darrelle Revis on the other side, youre going to favor torrey smith. Joe flacco just left the ball a little bit inside, but that was a great play, well set up. And you said it, situational football. Wheres the ball going in those big moments. And you talk about it even right to the end, how great a game this was with five seconds to go. You think the game is over after the interception in the end zone and it turns out that the ravens have one last shot at it. They hurl one into the end zone and for a split second everybodys heart stopped because the ball is up in the air. When the patriots always talk about team football, thats what it is about, bob. Its not just about superstars with tom brady and gronk, its about the role players as well. You saw a guy, Danny Amendola, who got paid a lot of money and was a real disappointment step up in the big moments, coach. You have to take your hatd off to the ravens. John harbaugh coached to the last minute, getting the punt returning and having one chance to win. They played great. In the pregame show dan patrick said to you do you coach any differently against Bill Belichick and you said not really except you know theres always going to be at least one thing that you havent seen. Well, that one thing was the touchdown pass. Yeah. They set it up beautifully. Throw a lot of balls out there short to shane vereen, quick passes to amendola and set up the play to edelman for the double pass. You talk about the respect of the Baltimore Ravens. This is a mentally tough team as well. Most teams when they get up on the patriots by two touchdowns and the patriots make that surge, most teams would fall apart. The Baltimore Ravens hung in there for four quarters. Youve got to give them a lot of credit. Heres a mantra in every sport, you play them one at a time. Yes, the colts have to think about the broncos and vice versa, theyll play tomorrow in denver. But you have to believe that the hearts sank for both indianapolis and for denver because, all right, you win the game, youve got to come here. Dont even think about that, bob. You think about the game. You do think about it. Do you really . Ive been there watching and saying, you know what, if baltimore wins, were going to go out and win tomorrow and well be at home. But it should be the same mentality, coach. You do, but believe me, youre thinking about it and you but if youre indy, youre going to get to play them indoors if you win at denver. If youre denver, youve got a bad history when it comes to coming to foxborough. You want them there. You beat them there last year. Thats a great point, but i tell you this. If im the patriots, i want the Indianapolis Colts to come here because they dont believe this is a young team but they dont believe they can come here and win a Football Game on the road in the cold. Whereas the broncos do. Youre if the patriots, you want the colts rather the broncos. Yeah. The broncos have played games here. They were up 210 a couple of years ago, lost the game but they know they can score. They know they can compete here. The colts have not with andrew luck. I tell you this, bob, i look at the Denver Broncos and, yes, they have Peyton Manning. He struggled the last month of the season. But im more afraid of Peyton Manning as opposed to andrew luck in the playoffs. Fair enough. Lets go get warm. Final score, patriots 35, ravens 31. Al and cris will wrap things up from upstairs after this. Double wings, extra ranch. We need to do something different. Callahans . Ehh, i mean get away. Like away away. Road trip . Double wings, extra ranch. It feels good to mix it up. The allnew, fuelefficient Volkswagen Golf tdi clean diesel. Up to 594 miles of adventure in every tank. Introducing the allnew Volkswagen Golf family. 2015 motor trend car of the year. 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We are farmers bumpadum bumbumbumbum al wild one in new england tonight, 3531 was the final score. We were talking to Bill Belichick the other day, asking him about this team and he said its a team thats improved every week. He said our defense has been great, we dont outscore teams, we can beat them by scoring 13 points. Not the case tonight. Hard working, unselfish group. Tell them what to do and they try to do it and they got it done tonight. Cris and they did it with tom brady. You know, we talked about at the top of the show its so tough to run on the ravens, but who would have ever imagined four runs only in the second half. And what were they . Tom brady, quarterback sneak, and three tom brady kneeldowns. That was their entire running game the second half and they come back and win the game because they have one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Al coaches are always saying you have to run the ball and stop the run. Sometimes you dont. So the guys already discussed the afc side of the bracket. You know that denver is going to come here next week or indianapolis, whoever wins tomorrow. What do you think about on the nfc side right now . Cris i have to see somebody beat seattle. We saw them in arizona. I thought they were absolutely brilliant. Russell wilson was so good. The Dallas Cowboys may be the team that scares you because of the fact that they can run the football so effectively. You go into green bay, youre not sure about aaron rodgers, how healthy hes going to be, and the cowboys have already gone to seattle and won there because they can run the football. Maybe the only thing i see that you can do against that seattle defense, run right at them and theyre pretty good at that. Al it ought to be a lot of fun by the time we get to phoenix, it will be time for the super bowl. Meanwhile, we work with some of the greatest people of all time on all sides of the both sides of the ball, production, engineering, technical, you name it. And again, sunday night football the number one primetime show on television. Were going to go off the air tonight with an acknowledgement to the folks who make this show what it is. We really appreciate it and love you guys. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome america to centurylink field, home of the 12 and the World ChampionSeattle Seahawks. Lynch, cutting it back, in he goes for the touchdown. The Seattle Seahawks will win this one going away. Look at that protection for manning. Right on the money. Julius thomas, to the end zone, touchdown cutler to the end zone. Oh, a onehanded grab by brandon marshall. Spectacular and there goes murray, inside the 10, juking and faking and scoring. And manning guns it and it is touchdown congratulate your quarterback, Peyton Manning, on touchdown number 509. All that time pays off with the record breaker. And look at him. He understands now his place in history and taking that top shelf. Ben hanging in the pocket, fires, brown makes the catch. Turns it inside. Breaking tackles, Antonio Brown all the way to the end zone. Touchdown, pittsburgh and you can only say one thing about that young man this year. Wow. That is six touchdown passes for roethlisberger for the second week in a row. Good protection, lots of time, wide open, jordy nelson, turns it back inside. Jordy nelson to the end zone. Lambeau leap to follow. Brady goes to gronkowski. Gronkowski look at that. Theres your exclamation point. Wow and manning is going to heave one. A onehanded catch. How in the world . Oh, my goodness. This is sick. Put this to music. I dont think he stepped out, either. That may be the greatest catch ive ever seen. Brady, play action throws edelman. Boy, hes had some quarter and off he goes breaking tackles. Julian edelman all the way to the end zone. Blitz, romo going deep for bryant. Touchdown three touchdown catches tonight for dez bryant. Lynch, with some high stepping and some shifty maneuvering, and peterson tries to strip it. Oh, you want to call that sick . That is absolutely spectacular and he does it all the time. We have seen magic tonight out of the Seattle Seahawks, and the biggest game of the year. I mean that is just incredible football. The terrible towels whirling, and this crowd is ready to rock n roll. Heres Antonio Brown trying to get to the outside. Now hell try the other way, picking up blockers. And brown down the sideline he goes for the touchdown. Nbc sports, home of super bowl xlix, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football league. Olivia. Super hungry . Get my Chipotle Chicken Club combo. Its got the chipotle sauce you love and spicy crispy chicken. You get it with fries and a drink for just 4. 99. Thats a ton of food. Lets do this. A San Francisco neighborhood on alert after a deadly attack. The memorial that is honoring the victims today and what may have been behind the shooting. 24 hours after two violent hostage dramas. The woman hunted by police today and the show of solidarity in france and beyond. The closure that has bay area drivers scrambling right now. Good evening to you. Were on now because of the afc divisional playoff game. Happening now, a historic closure of a california icon. Take a live look at an empty Golden Gate Bridge. Thats a strange sight. Bridge workers gave our photographer a ride to the construction site. Another look at the toll plaza. This is the longest closure in the bridges 78 year history. Christy smith joins us now with more of whats going on. Reporter word is they are really pleased with how this project is proceeding. Theyre on schedule and theyre saying that 87 of that barrier is in place. Lets be clear. That doesnt mean 87 of the entire project happening this weekend is complete. Just the barrier. They are individual pieces that are linked together by large steel pins. The work, as you can imagine, has to be very precise. The barriers replacing pylons that were once placed by hand. Its meant to prevent headon collisions. One of the barriers, what theyre telling us they completed about 10,000 feet. The total length is under 12000. What will happen next is the transfer machines will be used to align and tension the whole chain of the barrier. Also we need to position the barriers barriers. Reporter there may be some preliminary runs later tonight, sort of a stop and start motion on the barrier alignment. The east sidewalk still open to pedestrians and cyclists who are out here watching some of the work that was going on at least they were earlier today. The lots though are closed. At this point, theyre saying still shooting for that 4 00 a. M. Monday opening time. Nbc bay area news. Certainly a beautiful picture behind you. More details now on the closure and also some transportation alternatives. The golden gate ferry is offering expanded service this weekend and golden gate transit buses will still be allowed on the span. They will be escorted through the construction zone. Walkers and bicyclists will be allowed on the east sidewalk. Cal trans estimates 160,000 cars drive over the Golden Gate Bridge every weekend. We are live near the bay bridge toll plaza with more. You got the traffic there behind you. Reporter lots of traffic. Traffic is pretty heavy here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its always looks like we lost her. Well continue to follow that. As you can see, just from looking at that span, we usually see that in the morning at the height of the rush hour commute