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Everything seemed to go downhill after that bizarre decision and the Eagles players seemed to take offense to the fact that Belichick was running trick plays up 14-3 or whatever it was. It changed the entire momentum of the game and fired up their sidelines.
Sorry the moment you mention the word momentum I stop taking anything serious that comes afterwards. It is one of those narrative devices people use to build a story out of randomly occurring events. Again we stopped the two following snaps after the drop kick for essentially no gain and it required a conversion on third and 10 by Bradford to not make them punt.
So they gained 6 yards on first down. Their momentum right ? Then we stop Murray with a loss of 6 yards. Momentum back on our side correct ? But then they convert a 3rd and 10 ? So it is back with them ?
You know what fired up their team ? Converting a third and long being 3-14 down, blocking a punt for a TD with only 14 secs on the clock, a pick six on their own 1 yard line after halftime and just a series later a punt returned for a TD.
Everyone remembers how we were 14-3 up and pretends like we had total control of the game when in reality the game started with 5 punts showcasing how inconsistent our offense had become at that point in 2015 (Lewis gone, Edelman gone, Gronk out..). It was the K. Martin, B. LaFell, S. Chandler and Dola show on offense with a OL that started to get exposed.