All week, we all had the same question: “Was the win over Buffalo signs that the team had turned a corner, or was that big win just an outlier?” Unfortunately, it seems that the answer was the latter and not the former.
And it wasn’t just the offense that was bad. The defense shared in its misery against Miami, who have owned New England in South Beach for most of the nearly 60-year history between the two teams. Costly mistakes, penalties, turnovers… haven’t we heard this ad nauseam for the past two years?
Miami won 31-17, but with the game clock waning, the Patriots still had a puncher’s chance.