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Curran, Johnson: ‘Dumb mistakes’ cost Pats in ‘brutal’ loss to Dolphins originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The New England Patriots’ fourth consecutive defeat may have been their most frustrating yet.
Jerod Mayo’s group was flagged a whopping 12 times in Sunday’s loss to the Miami Dolphins after committing only 16 total penalties through the first four games of the season. Miami took advantage of New England’s miscues, turning a seven-point deficit into a 15-10 victory.
The game came down to the final two minutes with the Patriots appearing to pull back ahead on a Jacoby Brissett touchdown pass to Ja’Lynn Polk. However, the TD was overturned as upon further review Polk’s heel was out of bounds. You can watch the controversial play here.
The Patriots came up just short on their final drive to fall to 1-4 on the season. Our Patriots insider Tom E. Curran shared his instant reaction to the “maddening” performance on Patriots Postgame Live.
“You do, to a degree, applaud the effort of a team that was down so many players. You applaud the effort of Jacoby Brissett, but you also lacerate them for the number of penalties, the number of dumb mistakes, the number of physical mistakes, from some of their better players,” Curran said. “Whether it’s Keion White with penalties, DeMario Douglas had a drop, Hunter Henry (had a penalty), Ja’Lynn Polk had a number of drops. And all of this is mitigated somewhat by the plays at the end that nearly extracted the win.
“This game is a little bit more maddening than Seattle to me, where they played really clean except for two mistakes. This was littered with mistakes and was very winnable, so this is one of those games where I look at it like, don’t get used to losing. Don’t be a loser team that beats itself with stupid 15-yard penalties that end up in field goal drives or stupid plays along the sideline or flipping out after a play goes against you and then not being ready for the next play.”
The Dolphins had 24 first downs to the…
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Publish date : 2024-10-06 21:12:15
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