If the Patriots ultimately miss the NFL playoffs by a single game, New Englands likely will look back to Week 15 and think about what could have been.
The Patriots looked like they were on their way to back-to-back road wins when they owned a touchdown lead late in the fourth quarter at Allegiant Stadium. New England eventually allowed Las Vegas to tie the game, but there were reasons to be confident in the Patriots’ chances in overtime against a Raiders team that had been terrible in crunch-time situations all season long.
Unfortunately for New England, there was no extra frame on that mid-December afternoon.