The Patriots every Monday must wake up at home and hear Sonny & Cher singing like Bill Murray did in “Groundhog Day.” Because they keep reliving the same nightmare every week. The defense keeps them in the game, and with the chance to win late in the fourth quarter, they can’t get a clutch play.
If there is a clutch-gene injection somewhere, they are sorely in need of a double dose. In the past three games, the defense has allowed 10,10 and 6 points, an average of 8.66 points per game. And they’ve lost all three, something that hasn’t happened since 1938, before World War II started.