Sterling Xie: Hey, so that pick play worked without getting called for a penalty for once. Looked like
Danny Amendola could have been called for OPI -- he even gave the "I didn't do it" hands up signal as it happened -- but Edelman got free down the sideline and took it in for a 59-yard touchdown. Brady's splits between deep balls to the left and deep balls to the right have to be like the San Francisco Giants' splits between even-year seasons and odd-year seasons.
Aaron Schatz: The Cowboys also ran the pick play with
Jason Witten on third-and-4 in the red zone, and it was a great example of how it should work for the receiver setting the pick: Terrence Williams was very clearly just running a route and not trying to block, but he ran right in the way of
Devin McCourty. It was not a good example of how it should work for the receiver catching the ball, because McCourty got around Williams quickly and got over to tackle Witten short of the sticks. And the Cowboys kicked a field goal to be down 20-6 instead of going for it on fourth-and-2 because of course they did. And then on the next drive, that pass to Edelman to make it 27-6.