"After making a great throw to Evans, Losman took the Bills' momentum away by misreading the coverage and throwing an end-zone interception on a third-and-goal play from the Pats' 22. Evans ran a flat route underneath toward the left sideline while Sam Aiken ran a corner route behind him. Losman didn't see Pats corner Asante Samuel quickly back off his man, Evans, and easily move into position for the pickoff.
"It was a bad read by J.P. on the throw," Mularkey said. "We had Lee underneath." "
The real problem is the playcalling and play design.
Losman was trying to score a TD. His coaches, however had other ideas.
On 3rd and goal from the 20, the objective should be to score a TD, not inch the ball closer to the endzone.
Yet by Mullarkey's own words, the play had Evans (his best WR) runa pattern 15 yards short of the endzone.
The Pats DB recognized the stupidity of this play design and left our best WR wide open since he could do no harm at the 15 yard line and retreated to the endzone.
Seems awful familiar to the last NE game where Holcomb threw to Moulds as the decoy 7 yards short of a 1st down on 4th down.
Losman may not have executed properly, but he is really being hindered by the play calling and play design of Mullarkey. He is too cute for his own good.
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