Welker disconsolate after dropped pass leads to loss

By Brian MacPhersonINDIANAPOLIS -- No, the pass was not perfect. That's no consolation for Wes Welker. "It's a play I've made a thousand times in practice and everything else," he said. "It comes to the biggest moment of my life, and I don't come up with it." The Patriots led by two points late in the fourth quarter and just needed to move the chains to salt the game away. Welker found some open space deep down the left side, and Tom Brady lofted the ball his way -- a little high and a little behind him, but well within his reach. Welker failed to bring it in. When he hit the ground, he got up slowly -- less because of injury and more out of sheer astonishment he'd failed to make the catch. "He went up to try and make it, as he always does, and we just couldn't connect," Brady said. Two plays later, the Patriots punted -- and the Giants, given plenty of time, drove down the field for the Super Bowl-winning touchdown. Welke...