It's worth noting that Brandon Bolden ran untouched down the same sideline earlier in the game from a similar distance.
I can't decide if that makes it better or worse. At least we knew who to blame for 2009. This is a bunch of veteran leaders and youngsters and they play like a bunch of jerks sometimes.
The defensive performance was pretty concerning even without the last play. If I didn't know any better, I'd think they don't gameplan for road games. Three TDs in the first four drives for the 25th scoring offense? And easy TDs, too. Yikes. The Dolphins scored 34 points on 48 offensive plays yesterday. That shouldn't be possible. They did not even face a third down on any of their five TD drives; they only faced four second downs on those drives.
I haven't looked closer at these numbers to see where we differ, but the Pats only touched the ball four times in the second half and drove into FG attempts three times. That's pretty good, especially with not really trying to score a TD on the last drive. It would have been nice if they punched in another TD, and it would have been nice if Gostkowski hit the FG he missed, but the O was hardly stymied. And it goes without saying it was all Brady / the pass game; the run offense was putrid.
The other play like this was the 12 men on the field penalty that the Dolphins tried to call timeout for but didn't get. If they get that timeout and the Pats can convert a first down (which would have been tougher with a 1st-and-10 than a 1st-and-5, so not apples-to-apples), it's over. Of course, it should have been over anyway.