By Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Ok, so we decided to take the what-if game a step farther.
What if side judge Gary Cavaletto threw his penalty flag when the Rams’ Nickell Robey-Coleman drilled the Saints’ Tommylee Lewis on that third-down pass late in the NFC Championship. What if that put Wil Lutz in position to kick the winning field goal with little time remaining.
What if the New Orleans Saints faced the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 53 — a game in real life that turned out to be so dull it drew the lowest TV ratings in nearly a decade?
Surely, the Saints would have spiced things up a bit. Two all-time great quarterbacks, two innovative coaches who have been on the Super Bowl stage before. Yes, that would have had the makings of something special.
While we won’t ever know how the game would have played out in real life, we did the best we could with an EA Sports Madden ’19 simulation streamed to our New Orleans Saints on NOLA.com Facebook page. ...
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