First down plays for Pats on offense are below. + indicates the play did what you would hope to get out of that play in that situation. - means the opposite. * means first down on the play:
1: Michel for 5 yards (+)
2: Brady to Michel for -1 yard (-)
3: Michel up the middle for 2 yards (-)
4: Brady 9 yards to Gronk (+)
5: INC (-)
6: White run for 5 yards (+)
7: Brady 6 yards to Hogan (+)
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8: Michel for 12 yards (+)*
9: Defensive penalty (+)*
10: Offensive holding (-)
11: Brady 19 yards to Gronk (+)
12: INC (-)
13: Brady 9 yards to Hogan (+)
14: Intentional Grounding (------)
15: Michel for 9 yards (+)
16: Michel for 2 yards (-)
17: Brady to Gronk for 8 yards (+)
18 through 21: Garbage time, so ignoring.
6 run, 8 pass, 2 penalties, 1 def penalty
Interestingly, the first down doesn't appear so bad with 10 positive plays. Michel had 5 runs for 30 yards, and White did the job in the one run he had. Brady was 6-8, but only for 49 yards.
On to 2nd down:
1: Michel for 1 yard (-)
2: INC (-)
3: Brady 7 yards to Burkhead (+)
4: Brady 0 yard pass to White (-)
5: Brady 15 yards to Gronk (+)*
6: Brady 19 yards to Burkhead (+)*
7: Michel for 3 yards (neutral)
---- Halftime ----
8: Brady for 2 (+)*
9: Michel for 2 yards (-)
10: Michel for 7 yards (+)*
11: INC (-)
12: Brady 12 yards to Patterson (+)
13: Michel for 6 yards (+)*
14: INT (------------)
15: Brady sack for -10 (-)
16: Garbage time, so ignoring.
6 run, 9 pass. This was terrible. Michel had a couple of good runs for first down, although the Lions D was probably OK with him getting the 6 yards in the 4th quarter. But he also had a couple of runs where he went nowhere. Brady was an ugly 5-8 for 43 net yards with 1 INT and 1 sack. No big plays and only 5 first downs. Ugly.
3rd down:
1, 3rd-and-4: INC (-)
2, 3rd-and-11: INC (-)
3, 3rd-and-1: Michel for -1 yard (-)
4, 3rd-and-1: Michel for 2 yards (+)*
5, 3rd-and-1: Michel for -2 yards (-)
---- Halftime ----
6, 3rd-and-8: Brady 10 yards to White for TD (+)
7, 3rd-and-10: INC (-, third of 3 straight incompletions)
8, 3rd-and-8: Brady sacked for -3 yards (-). This was the drive that started with the Brady intentional grounding.
9, 3rd-and-12: INC (-)
Only 2 positive plays all night on 3rd down, despite having only one 3rd-and-long in the first half. Hard to blame the play calling; it shouldn't be that hard to pick up the yard.