Woulda, coulda, shoulda.......he won. If wishes were horses, they should have entered on them - they might have had a better shot than they did with the one they showed up with.
There was time out of the gate for anyone else to rush ahead of RH.
No one did. No one pressed him early, no one challenged him late.
Except Gronk.
No one knows what might have happened, but we do know what did happen.