The game was played right after it had been raining, and the baseball infield at Joe Robbie Stadium was basically a mud pit. But that helped me because everyone else was sliding around. Even though I couldn't move as well as I did before, I felt like I was still going to be able to make people miss.

That's what I had to do on a third-and-10 play at the end of the first quarter. I took off running, and I dove into the mud for a big first down. That was the moment in my comeback where my mind and body took over, where you just figure out a way to make it happen.

[Patriots quarterback] Drew Bledsoe and I both kept our teams in the game during the first half. When Drew connected with [tight end] Ben Coates in the third quarter to give the Patriots a 21-10 lead, I began to feel a lot of urgency to start matching points with him. In those kind of games, you feel like you have to score every time you get the ball.

Pretty soon after that, I was able to hit [tight end] Keith Jackson for a touchdown, and that made me feel like there was going to be a lot more scoring for both teams down the stretch. I kind of felt that whoever got the ball last was going to win.

Now we were losing by 10 points late in the third quarter, and we were facing a third-and-long from around the 50-yard line. As I was moving around in the pocket, [wide receiver] Irving Fryar was running an in pattern, and when he saw me scramble a little bit to the outside, he turned up field. New England's safeties didn't go with him, and he was able to beat the cornerback up the field. I was able to make a good throw for another touchdown.

For as memorable as my first four touchdown passes were that afternoon, none of them were as cool as the last one. It was fourth-down-and-5 with a few minutes left in the fourth quarter. We were losing by three points, but Coach Shula had no interest in trying to kick a long field goal to tie the game, and I felt the same way. We were going to run a short pattern on the left side just to get the first down. But coming out of the huddle, I told Irving that if he got bump-and-run coverage, we should just go deep and end it right there. We nodded at each other when he got to the line, and he took off for the end-zone.