"Coach Belichick outsmarted himself having Rob Gronkowski on the field for a 70-yard Hail Mary and keeping his best defensive player on the sidelines, Devin McCourty," NBC's Rodney Harrison said on "Football Night in America."
Here's what happened. The Patriots were leading 33-28 - seemingly this close to a rare recent win in Miami - when the Dolphins pulled off a wonderfully absurd play that seemed to unfold in slow motion, involved a couple of laterals and resulted in a 69-yard touchdown. Oddly enough, one of the guys on defense was the often injured tight end Rob Gronkowski, who stumbled and couldn't regain his footing in time to tackle Kenyan Drake before he reached the end zone.