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Patriots weren't sure what to do with Julian Edelman. Now he's Super Bowl MVP

ATLANTA - Julian Edelman was six months into his New England Patriots career in the fall of 2009, a tentative rookie unsure where he fit in or if he had the chops to cut it in the NFL, when he bumped into coach Bill Belichick during a late-night walk out of the team's practice facility.

"I had said maybe three words to him before that," a bleary eyed Edelman said early Monday, a few hours after the Patriots' 13-3 Super Bowl victory over the Los

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