Unfortunately we had four or five of them. I just don't think you're going to be 100 percent in those situations. We hit the fourth down for the touchdown. You're not going to make them all," he said. They were fortunate to even be in that spot, Brady hinted.
Brady knew it, and he essentially shrugged his shoulders when asked what happened on his final snap of the game, when former teammate Aqib Talib tipped Brady's attempt into the air and into the arms of corner Bradley Roby. Four plays later, they faced a fourth-and-goal and Gronkowski was there for Brady again, fighting through a double-team to grab a four-yard touchdown.īut the two-point conversion was one gotta-have-it scenario too many. On what seemed like their final opportunity to tie it, they converted on a fourth-and-10 from the 50-yard line on perfectly-placed pass from Brady to Gronkowski for a 40-yard gain. Their first two failed, leaving them down 20-12 with 1:52 left in the fourth quarter. Brady finished with 213 yards in the second half, but the Patriots couldn't muster scoring chances late without staring down desperate fourth-down situations. They tried to attack Broncos linebackers in one-on-one coverage on running back James White. In the second half, Brady and the Patriots did what they could to slow down Denver's unrelenting rush. We had some plays obviously we should've made. I think they did some things defensively. "We just never could really get into a rhythm with what we were doing. We were happy we were still in the game based on the way we played offensively," Brady said. Somehow, as bad as they had performed to that point, they were down 17-9. One indication that Brady knew his offense was up a creek was that he was actually pleasantly surprised at halftime.
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Julian Edelman couldn't shake free and Rob Gronkowski - when he wasn't on the sidelines dealing with cramps in the third quarter - saw double and triple-teams. The Broncos dropped seven or eight into coverage at times, dropping linebackers underneath the short-to-intermediate routes that Brady often relies upon. That set up a touchdown from Peyton Manning to tight end Owen Daniels three plays later, giving the Patriots a 14-6 lead.Īs the Patriots tried to scrape their way back into the game, they couldn't depend on any of the things they typically do well. Patriots training camp stock watch: ‘Pop' Douglas living up to his nickname His second-quarter interception, thrown right into Miller's numbers, was on him. His struggles weren't entirely precipitated by what his teammates could or couldn't do, either up front or in the secondary. For it to come down to a two-point conversion is a tough way to obviously end the season."īrady, of course, wasn't without fault. finally were able to score some points at the end.
I think you complement that with good coverage, it was just tough for us to ever get into a rhythm. "They got a great rush, and you know they got some great rushers," Brady said. He had a quarterback rating of 56.4, which was his lowest mark of the season. Not only was he on his back once out of every three drop-backs, he finished the game 27-for-56 for 310 yards, one touchdown and two picks. It was coverage that had Patriots pass-catchers Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski locked down for large chunks of the game.Īll of it combined to make Brady's day miserable. It was Denver edge rushers Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware who timed center Bryan Stork's snaps and sliced into the Patriots backfield almost unimpeded. More specifically, it was a Broncos interior defensive line that had its way with its counterpart on the other side of the line of scrimmage. "I think there was a lot of plays I got hit pretty hard today," Brady said with a chuckle. Listening to Brady during his postgame press conference at the visitor's podium at Mile High Stadium, it seemed as though he may have felt the same way. Consider that Tom Brady was sacked four times and hit 20 times in all by the Broncos in Sunday's AFC title game - the most any NFL quarterback has been hit in any game this season - and it could be considered a minor miracle that the Patriots even had a chance to tie the game late in the fourth quarter with a two-point conversion.
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