Tom Brady suffers sprained ankle, but no breaks or fractures, ESPN reports

And while here in New England, our Bill Belichick remains with his head safely affixed to his shoulders, the talk around the water-coolers certainly made it seem like a very dark shade of gray Monday.

Miami’s defense stepped up several times in the second half, including this fantastic pass breakup play by Tony Lippet.

Brady isn’t the only Patriots player nursing an injury.

But Patricia is a newcomer to the job-hunt landscape. “We have a chance to go into the last six games and had some opportunities there and we didn’t finish like we wanted to and the results didn’t come up like we hoped to”.

The only way for the Patriots (12-4) to earn the top spot is if the 11-4 lose to the visiting (4-11) on Sunday afternoon.

Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill warms up. We didn’€™t have many possession in the first half. They are a much better team with Brady than they would be without him. He was caught from behind at the Miami 6 yard line. Running back James White broke a tackle to turn a short pass reception into a 68-yard gain, but that one play accounted for more than half of New England’s passing yardage for the entire day.

“Whatever the offensive coordinator calls, whatever the coaches call”, he deferred. “We gotta amp it up and be ready to go”. “I mean, everybody played”.

As it were, the Pats settled for the No. 2 seed in the AFC when the Broncos beat the Chargers later on Sunday. New England gained only 196 yards of total offense.

“I’ve had worse”, Brady said on Monday. Wherever we play, we play. Luckily, Brady isn’t expected to miss much time as the Patriots won’t be playing in the Wild Card thanks to a first round bye.

It was a reasonable question since the Patriots threw the ball 128 times on the 144 occasions they faced third-and-5 or longer in 2015 (88 percent). “There is certainly plenty of that”.

Perhaps this is like the 2009 Saints, who lost their final three games of the season… or the 2011 Giants, who lost four in a row at one point in November/December… or the 2012 Ravens, who lost four of their last five games.

“Suh’s a big guy and he came down on the back of my, on the back of me”. I’ll try to go. Granted, we have some experience in this situation. “It has some value in terms of kind of having an idea of what you can get done in this situation or what your opportunities are”. Wouldn’t a limping Brady be the worst-case scenario coming out of this game?

Headed into the playoffs, it is absolutely certain that if the New England Patriots are going anywhere this season, they will need to play better football than they have as of late. “The only thing that’s going to matter is what happens a week from Saturday”.

Brady, 38, intends to use the bye week to get his troublesome ankle treated. Offensive lineman Sebastien Vollmer missed the finale with an ankle injury.

The Texans (9-7) closed the regular season with three consecutive intra-division wins for their first division title since 2012. The Patriots did bring in Players that would eventually bring in players who would have large contributions to the team, such as Running Back Dion Lewis, and Linebacker Jabaal Sheard.

The Dolphins enter the field before kickoff. Safeties Devin McCourty (ankle) and Patrick Chung (foot) both started the game despite sitting out last week; McCourty got through the game unscathed, but Chung was briefly knocked out of the game before returning to action.