The Patriots melted down in a style typical of the Raiders in the last two minutes of the game, blowing a seven-point lead and allowing a bizarre TD in the last second in a horrible play that will live on and on, thanks to social media.
However, it wasn’t the final play that was the outlier. That was just the “pièce de résistance” in a game that was chock full of blunders. Scott Zolak characterized what transpired as “This might be one of the dumbest teams I’ve ever seen,” Zolak said after the game.
The same mental mistakes, the bad situational football, and the same undisciplined football are all glaring and have been there since Week 1.