Of course that play didn't determine the game; it was simply indicative of how the day went. Besides playing with some bad injuries, the Pats weren't focused properly and they certainly weren't playing well at the end of that season. To clarify, the anger directed at coach Fairbanks was unjust; after he built the best team in the league, he got robbed in '76; then, after he came to an agreement with Hannah & Gray in '77, Mr. Sullivan refused to pay them, extending their holdout and leading to costly early losses at Cleveland and New York which kept us out of the playoffs. As coaches do all the time, he accepted a golden offer from Colorado so he didn't have to worry about having the rug pulled out from under him again. The worst thing he ever did was to try to make Plunkett a runner, which nearly got the kid killed, and cutting Tom Neville.