FOXBOROUGH -- For more than a half-hour of real time and nearly eight minutes of football time during the Patriots’ 59-24 rout of the Colts Sunday, Tom Brady did not take a single snap.

Yet during that span, which ran from 12:30 of the second quarter all the way down to 5:40, 17 points where scored — 14 for the Patriots, who turned a 14-7 deficit into a 21-17 advantage that would only grow.