The old gunslinger tried. He did what he could. He flung the football around MetLife Stadium 45 times, and he flung his 39-year-old body at the Patriots defense a couple of times, sacrificing a few bruises and blisters in the name of eking out a first down or two.
It wasn’t enough, of course. The folks in the NFL love to preach their “On Any Given Sunday” mantra, and we love to eat it right up, but there are some Sundays when you know at 1 o’clock precisely what’s going to happen by 4 o’clock. The only thing you don’t know at the start is the score.