Patriots DL Milton Williams saves defense with 4th-down sack in Miami

MIAMI GARDENS Fla Harold Landry knew Related Articles Callahan Mike Vrabel Patriots plant seeds of hope in thrilling win at Miami Rhamondre Stevenson shows why he s still Patriots top running back in win Drake Maye s winning performance instills confidence in Patriots teammates Why Patriots veteran appreciated Will Campbell s leadership in win Best and worst What we learned from Patriots - win over Dolphins Digging in next to defensive tackle Milton Williams before Miami s final offensive play Sunday Landry saw the ball snap and then a blur That blur was Williams who had fired off the line a split-second before any other lineman At that point Landry figured he had Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa dead to rights He beat me off the ball mentioned Landry the Patriots captain and top edge rusher I knew something good was about to happen for him And once he smoked the offensive guard I knew it was gonna be a sack Sure enough Tagovailoa went down and the Patriots had a win Williams dropped Tagovailoa on fourth-and- to end Miami s hopes of a game-winning drive in the final minute of the Patriots thrilling - win It was Williams second sack of the match a topsy-turvy affair that had the Patriots defense struggling to keep up for greater part of the afternoon But the Pats ultimately shut the Dolphins offense out in the fourth quarter forcing a punt intercepting Tagovailoa once and sacking him four times The whole match they did a good job of making sure that getting the ball out of Tua s hands quick and we just kept going Williams disclosed We were talking on the sidelines about just keep rushing keep rushing and just executing Williams led all players with two sacks while Landry edge rusher K Lavon Chaisson and inside linebacker Robert Spillane each had one The Patriots recorded just one pressure in the first half and had a single sack through three quarters but broke through with enough persistence and a little luck Before Williams sack Dolphins running back De Von Achane stepped half a foot out of bounds on an apparent -yard touchdown reception down the left sideline However the play was called back to the Patriots -yard line with left Miami melted down from there with a false start penalty a delay of challenge an incompletion short pass and two sacks Luckily he stepped out That would ve been bad Just next play Williams disclosed of Achane s catch-and-run Something bad happened you got to move on In this league they re not going to stop and they re not going to wait on you or nothing They re not going to feel sorry for you You got to go to the next play We messed up that play go to the next play and make sure you re in a position where you re supposed to be and execute and we did that