MIAMI (AP) – Tom Brady threw a dumb pass and A.J. Feeley threw a beauty, finally giving the Miami Dolphins something to savor in this long, miserable season: an upset of the New England Patriots.

With Brady’s ugly interception providing an opening, Miami scored two touchdowns in the final 2:07 to stun the Patriots 29-28 Monday night.

The much-maligned Feeley threw for the game-winning score, a 21-yard touchdown pass to Derrius Thompson on fourth-and-10 with 1:23 left.

The stunning victory rivaled the biggest in Dolphins’ history, because they’ve rarely been so woeful. With the win, Miami (3-11) avoided being swept by AFC East opponents this season.

New England (12-2), which has already clinched the AFC East, lost ground to Pittsburgh (13-1) in the race for a first-round playoff bye and home-field advantage. The defeat was just the second in 29 games for the defending Super Bowl champions.

The Patriots appeared to clinch the win when Brady threw his third touchdown pass, a 2-yarder to Daniel Graham for a 28-17 lead with 3:59 left.

But the Dolphins drove 68 yards to score on Sammy Morris’ 1-yard run with 2:07 remaining, and then came Brady’s uncharacteristic mistake.

On third down, he threw as he was being sacked by Jason Taylor. The ill-advised, off-balance pass sailed directly to linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, giving Miami a first down at the Patriots’ 21 with 1:45 left.

Three plays later, on fourth and 10, Thompson beat Troy Brown – a receiver who doubles as a fifth cornerback – and made the winning catch in the end zone.

Brady’s fourth interception, a desperation throw picked off by Arturo Freeman with 58 seconds left, sealed the upset.

Brady was picked off twice by Miami’s Sammy Knight, the latter of which set up Travis Minor’s 1-yard run with 6:50 remaining in the third that temporarily gave the Dolphins a 17-14 lead – their first of the night.

New England stayed cool on the unseasonably chilly, 52-degree night in South Florida, though, thanks to Brady. He directed a 10-play, 71-yard drive to answer Minor’s touchdown, and hit Dillon on a third-down play to retake the lead and put the Patriots back in position for their fifth straight win over Miami.

Brady was 3-for-4 for 22 yards on the drive that put New England back on top, and was 15-for-23 for 146 yards and two touchdowns through three quarters – helping the Patriots build a 259-137 edge in total yardage entering the final quarter.

Sammy Morris had a 2-yard touchdown run in the first quarter for Miami, which was seeking to avoid setting franchise-records of a 12th loss this season and sixth defeat at home.

Brady’s 31-yard throw to Kevin Faulk on the game’s opening drive extended the Patriots’ NFL record for consecutive games scoring first to 19 in the regular season and 22 overall – a key factor in that run that has seen New England win 27 times in its last 28 games entering Monday.

Miami tied the game at 7-7, thanks largely to Wes Welker’s 71-yard punt return – the longest this season by the Dolphins – midway through the first quarter. He was taken down by Je’Rod Cherry at the New England 2, but Morris leaped over the goal-line pile one play later for the first Miami touchdown.

Dillon had a 3-yard touchdown run in the second quarter for the Patriots. Miami got within 14-10 at halftime on Olindo Mare’s 30-yard field goal with 1:52 left in the half.

The Dolphins turned to trickery on their opening third-quarter drive, and it burned them. A double-reverse try went awry when Marty Booker dropped a handoff from fellow wideout Chris Chambers, and New England moved to the Miami 20 on its ensuing possession.

But Brady’s first-down pass to the right side was grabbed by Knight, who returned the ball 32 yards to the Miami 42 – and the Dolphins benefited further from a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty by New England’s Matt Light.

Minor carried the ball five times for 21 yards on the next Miami drive, barreling in from the 1 for a 17-14 Dolphins lead.

Miami quarterback A.J. Feeley – starting on Monday night for the first time – was 14-for-24 for 103 yards through three quarters. He’d played on the prime-time stage once previously, going 3-for-3 in relief of Koy Detmer two seasons ago for Philadelphia in a win over San Francisco.

The matchup featured two teams heading in decidedly different directions.

New England needed a victory to keep pace with Pittsburgh (13-1) in the race for home-field advantage in the AFC; the Steelers, who defeated the Patriots 34-20 on Oct. 31, would hold the tiebreaker edge over the defending Super Bowl champions should they finish the year with identical records.

The Dolphins were looking for an upset that would spare them three dubious distinctions; a 12th loss of the season and a sixth home defeat – both of which would be franchise-worsts – plus the ignominy of becoming just the fourth team in the past eight seasons to lose every game against divisional rivals.

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