After another incompletion, Brady then completed five consecutive passes, including a circus tipped pass catch by Julian Edelman, to set up White's 1-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds to play. After two incompletions, Brady connected with Chris Hogan for 16 yards and a first down. Matt Bosher's punt pinned the Patriots back on their 9-yard line with 3:40 remaining. Ryan's 27-yard pass to Jones put the ball at the Patriots' 22 with 4:40 to play, but a second-down 12-yard sack by Trey Flowers and third-down holding penalty helped push Atlanta out of field goal range. White's run up the middle for the 2-point conversion cut the deficit to 28-20 with 5:56 left.
Five plays later Amendola caught a 6-yard touchdown pass. Alan Branch recovered the ball at the Falcons' 25. Three plays later, on third-and-1, Dont'a Hightower sacked Ryan and forced him to fumble. But a pair of sacks in the red zone by Grady Jarrett forced New England to settle for a field goal with 9:44 to play, trailing 28-12.
The Patriots' defense forced a three-and-out, and Brady completed 6 passes on the next drive. Gostkowski missed the extra point, leaving Atlanta's lead at 28-9. The Patriots answered with a 12-play drive that consumed more than six minutes, that was kept alive by Brady's 17-yard pass to Danny Amendola on fourth-and-3, and capped by White's 5-yard touchdown catch with 2:06 left in the quarter. After an exchange of punts to begin the second half, Matt Ryan connected on passes of 17 and 35 yards to Taylor Gabriel to highlight a 9-play, 85-yard drive that finished with Ryan's 6-yard touchdown pass to Tevin Coleman for a 28-3 lead with 8:31 left in the third quarter. A 28-yard catch by White on the next drive helped set up Stephen Gostkowski's 41-yard field goal just before halftime. However, faced with third-and-6 from the Falcons' 23, Brady's short pass to the left side was intercepted by Robert Alford, who raced 82 yards for a touchdown and 21-0 lead. The Patriots responded with a 6-plus minute drive that included 3 third-down conversions. The Falcons strung together consecutive 5-play touchdown drives early in the second quarter, the first started with consecutive catches by Julio Jones to set up Devonta Freeman's 5-yard run, and the latter a 19-yard touchdown pass to Austin Hooper on third-and-9, to take a 14-0 lead. New England maintained possession for 40:31 compared to 23:27 for the Falcons, and the Patriots ran more than twice as many plays (93-46). Tom Brady passed for 466 yards and 2 touchdowns, and James White scored 3 times, as the Patriots rallied from 25 points down in the third quarter to register the largest comeback in Super Bowl history and win their fifth title.
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