I can't believe I'm defending Bill Belichick

Bill Belichick did a lot of dumb things on Sunday night. Not punting wasn't one of them. Let me begin by saying that Belichick screwed up the end game royally.  Facing a 3rd and 2, and a team with 1 timeout left, Belichick had an easy call:  RUN THE FOOTBALL. Indy has the 26th ranked 'Power' defense in the league. They only stop runs on third and fourth and two about 27% of the time.  Conversely, NE is 5th in power running, converting 76% of all power runs.  Running the ball on third down would have (at least) forced the Colts to burn their last timeout.  Assuming Indy made the stop (which is a HUGE assumption), perhaps punting to them would be more palatable knowing they would be out of timeouts.  Even had they been stopped on third down however, the odds of Indy stopping them on consecutive runs would be impossibly low. Add in the wasted timeouts, and it was a very un-Patriotlike final drive.  The Pats screwed it up, just not how everyone thinks. Let's tackle t...