Ask Patriots head coach Bill Belichick which play he thinks changed the trajectory of Sunday’s game against the Cowboys, and he’ll have an answer for you: Matthew Slater’s blocked punt in the first quarter.
ud83dudde3ufe0fBlocked by Matthew Slater, the 7-time Pro Bowl special teams player.#DALvsNE | #GoPats pic.twitter.com/SxupmrQcQK
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) November 24, 2019
“Probably the difference in the game, really, when you come right down to it,” Belichick said in his postgame press conference. “I thought that Joe Judge and Cam [Achord], we had a real aggressive approach in the kicking game today, and we were trying to challenge the ball handling and I thought we did a good job of that.