The Patriots had a pair of opportunities at the end of the game to score a late fourth-quarter touchdown and stun the Super Bowl runner-up Eagles with an opening-day upset in front of Tom Brady.
But, it wasn’t meant to be. New England was unable to complete the kind of game-winning drive that Patriots fans had seen Brady complete countless times over the years.
The Eagles kept the Patriots out of the end zone in the end when it mattered, dropping the Patriots to an 0-1 record with a 25-20 New England loss in Foxborough.