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Patriots score on final play of first half against Bears

Stevenson's forty-eight-yard catch-and-run came with three seconds left, and the Bears still led twenty to fourteen at the half; their defense had outgained New England before it.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBears twenty-seven, Patriots twenty-one, one thirty-three left in the third. But look, we have to talk about the end of the half.

  2. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThree seconds left, and Rhamondre Stevenson takes it forty-eight yards for the touchdown.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorForty-eight yards is a lot. Was anybody chasing him?

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorYahoo says Jaylon Johnson took a bad angle, Dillon Thieneman and Kyler Gordon collided, and Cam Lewis didn't have the speed.

  5. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThree guys, three failures, one play. I'm telling you, that's teamwork.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo everybody contributed. Which one is the red one?

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThey're all in the same jersey, Vera. And the Bears had outgained them two seventeen to one seventy-nine before it.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the defense was winning, and then it just stopped being a defense.

  9. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat is exactly right. That is the whole game.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorForty-eight yards, and the only player who knew where he was going was wearing the other color.

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