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came into Sunday's game with an 11-3 career record against the , including a 3-0 mark in the playoffs and five straight wins dating back to 2013. , meanwhile, was 3-8 overall and 0-2 in the postseason against the , and that includes a 2008 victory that saw backup start for the injured Brady. More NFL Put another way: A lot of folks, us included, fully expected the Patriots to leave Heinz Kellen Mond Jersey Field with a win. There was really no reason to feel otherwise; Pittsburgh was on a three-game losing streak -- including a demoralizing Week 14 lo s to the (not-so-fun fact: Big Ben is 0-4 against the Raiders in Oakland), and while the Pats were victimized by the Miami Miracle last week, everyone a sumed they'd bounce back Harrison Hand Jersey in Pittsburgh. You know, because that's what they always do.Except it didn't happen. Brady looked like a 41-year-old quarterback playing a game with guys almost half his age. He finished 25 of 36 for 279 yards, including a you-knew- -was-coming 63-yard first-quarter touchdown pa s to . But Brady also did something he almost never does: Threw an inexplicable fourth-quarter red-zone interception that ranks as one of the worst pa ses in his 19 seasons. WOW. picks off TB12!: CBSWATCH: NFL (@NFL) For some perspective, from 2007-2016, Brady went six games without a pick against the Steelers, and in those games to sed 19 touchdowns and registered a pa ser rating no lower than 101.8. with New England trailing 14-10? "I was just trying to flick it out of bounds," he told reporters, via NBC Sports Boston. "I didn't want to take the sack. Shouldn't Andrew Booth Jr. Jersey happen." Steelers cornerback , who came down with the ball, has a . "I was waiting for it for awhile," he said, via the . "We've been trying to get after it. We've been dropping ones that have been hitting us in the face." Chazz Surratt Jersey But Brady, who prides himself on perfect mechanics, looked more like against the Steelers. On 37 pa s plays, he was sacked just once and hit six times more, but the chuck-and-duck was a regular occurrence. Put another way: The specter of a pa s rush hurried Brady into off-balance or back-footed throws. The results were uncharacteristic; he was inaccurate when it mattered most; first on the interception and then on the final drive when he misfired into the end zone on one attempt after the next as the Pats tried to tie the score."It's not any one thing," Brady said of the team's back-to-back lo ses. "It's a lot of things collectively." The bad news is that the Patriots are now the No. 3 seed in the AFC, behind the and . And New England has never won a under Bill Belichick without first having a first-round bye. The good news is that they finish the season against the and , and unle s the Texans win out Anthony Barr Jersey (at Philly, Jacksonville), there's a good chance the Patriots have wild-card weekend off and host at least one playoff game in Gillette Stadium. |
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