Brady has sprained ankle

He seemingly chose the latter, and it wasn’t quite enough during the Patriots 20-10 loss to the Dolphins.

“I’ve had worse. I’ve had plenty of injuries that are worse than this one”, Brady said. With so much talk regarding his play and his future as the franchise’s signal-caller, the Texas A&M product outdueled Brady by connecting on 66 percent of his passes, going 25-for-38 for 350 yards, a pair of touchdowns and no interceptions to earn a quarterback rating of 112.8. It was obvious after the game, that Brady, was in pain after. “But it will be all right”. “I wanted to stay in there and play yesterday and see if I could do some stuff to help our team….” The following week, wide receiver Danny Amendola would suffer a sprained knee. But overall, this was a team that was clearly not at full strength on either side of the football. “Hopefully we’ve learned some lessons over the past couple of weeks, and we can play more Patriot-like football”, said Brady.

The Pats are in the playoffs, but that’s only because they played so well during the first half of the season.

Miami scored the game’s first touchdown on Ryan Tannehill’s 15-yard pass to Parker with 36 seconds left in the first half.

As the AFC’s No. 2 seed, the Patriots have a bye this weekend before the divisional round January 16-17.

The Patriots appeared to be sending mixed signals on Sunday.

I get it, they’re hurt.

What doesn’t add up is the Patriots – after Brady got his ankle rolled and was visibly limping – deciding to throw the ball with nearly normal regularity in the second half.

New England ran the ball 21 times in the first half, but Gronkowski wasn’t looking to discuss the curious run-first approach that’s a rarity for the Patriots.

The New England Patriots are in a slump at the worst possible time of the season, and their quarterback Tom Brady may not be fully healthy by the time the playoffs begin.

And Bill Belichick’s explanations when asked specific questions about the plan only muddied the waters.

Kansas City wraps up a ten game winning streak and seem to be somewhat of the hot team under the radar, still.

But 9 times out of 10 this season, Belichick and the Patriots did agree that’s what they should do.

After losing to the Dolphins, the focus now shifts toward the postseason, which is the start of the road to Santa Clara. Only two of them were downed inside the 20-yard line, and he was’t able to get much hang time on a critical fourth-quarter punt when the Patriots were trailing by seven points.

Five teams essentially are co-favorites to win the Super Bowl, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers. I mean, whatever it is, it is and wherever we play, we play. Wherever we play, we play.

What happened? We only wish we knew, because we know we aren’t going to get an explanation out of the taciturn, word-stingy Belichick.