Defensive battles are boring to watch and given that’s what that game was most likely outcome would be the Patriots would eventually get a breakout score at some point... and the Rams, less likely so. And that’s how it played out.
Boring to watch? You betcha, but hardly the first boring super bowl ever to happen.
I guess I’m old school. I sometimes kinda enjoy seeing what good defensive coordinators conjure up (and the players execute) to stymie what are both in this case obviously good offenses.)
The up the middle “two yards and a cloud of dust” plays are often not so exciting, but, overall,the chess game the sides are playing is on a pretty high level, at this level of competition. (Ok, so I used to play chess, knights and queens and all that, a lot!)