The New England Patriots opened their 2018 season in successful fashion, with a 27-20 victory over the visiting Houston Texans. The game came down to the very last play – a Hail Mary attempt by Houston quarterback Deshaun Watson – just as the Patriots predicted according to head coach Bill Belichick: “We talked about it going down to the last play, that’s what it was,” Belichick told his players in the postgame locker room.
The NFL’s best coach then went on to praise his team’s situational awareness, before also adding that it still has a long way to go: “It was a a good win, [but] there’s a lot of things we can do better – a lot of room for improvement.