Detail mistakes have haunted the Patriots' offense all season -- particularly in December, when a Bill Belichick-coached team should be playing its best football.
Patricia also didn't seem to view the gaffe as a sign of a larger issue, noting that while the Patriots went 0-for-4 on third downs in the first half, they converted six third downs in a row to start the second half.
"Those plays came up later in the game, and we executed them well," Patricia said."We obviously didn’t do a very good job on third down in the first half trying to get a feel for some of the different looks that they had. But we came out in the second half, and I think we went 6-for-6 to start the second half. So we got a lot of that cleaned up at halftime.
"I was glad we got them fixed and we were able to execute them better in the second half. But obviously, we've got to start better than that, though." That third down wasn't New England's only glaring miscue; as ESPN's Dan Orlovsky pointed out on Twitter, the Patriots also weren't on the same page on a failed screen pass attempt later in the game.
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