Krause: Patriots have Jekyll-and-Hyde look in win over Miami

Which half do you want to believe? Is it the first, when the Patriots were horrible, Tom Brady was sulking, and the defense couldn?t get off the field? Or the second, when everything changed with the wave of a wand?Objectively, there are parts of both that are equally encouraging and depressing. But at the end of the day, this is a classic “glass half empty … glass half full” day for New England.Glass half full: The Patriots won, 27-17, and they rallied from a 17-3 deficit to put together their best 30 minutes of football this season.Glass half empty: They only scored three points in the first half and have yet to put together a complete 60-minute game.The choice, one supposes, is in the eye of the beholder.The less said about the first half, the better. Quarterback Tom Brady threw for only 25 yards on 6-for-8 passing. His only throw for longer than 10 yards was almost picked off (he had one other interception) and the Dolphins were flagged for a phantom interference call.The Patriots — the team that was supposed to rush the ball effectively — only had 46 yards. The longest completion was seven.The Dolphins? Ryan Tannehill threw for two touchdown passes (five yards to Mike Wallace and four to Brandon Gibson) and was 11-for-18 for 72 yards.Only a Stephen Gostkowski field goal from 34 yards out saved the Pats from going into the locker room with a goose egg.And then … the second half.It looked to be more of the same until Dolphins kicker Caleb Sturgis clanged a field goal attempt off the right goalpost. From that point on, the switch flipped. Starting from his own 36, Brady led the Patriots on a five-play drive that ended with a beautiful throw to Aaron Dobson in the end zone for a 14-yard score. Then, the Patriots strip-sacked Tannehill (Logan Ryan, who is proving to be quite a find) and Rob Ninkovich recovered. Three plays later, Brandon Bolden took it in from the 2-yard line to tie the game.Gostkowski added another field goal before the quarter was out, and the Patriots succeeded in reversing the disturbing third-period doldrums that plagued them for the previous two weeks.Once the Patriots got on a roll, they really got on a roll. In the fourth quarter, two very bizarre plays happened, both of which went the Patriots? way. On the first one, Tannehill, from the Patriots 46, went deep to Wallace. Devin McCourty jumped up and batted it to Marquice Cole, who picked it off, getting both feet in bounds before falling out.Nine plays later, on the same drive, Brady was strip-sacked. With the ball rolling around, one of the Dolphins players tried to swoop it up but batted it 10 yards backwards, where Nate Solder of the Patriots recovered it.However, in the spirit of truly bizarre calls (two of which went against Boston teams this week), the Dolphins were penalized for “illegally batting the ball,” and the Pats had a first down on the Dolphin 13. Three plays later, Stevan Ridley ran it in from the 3-yard line.Half empty … half full. You decide. Me? I?m going with half full. They won, they recovered from a horrendous start, and they beat an AFC East team.