FOXBORO — At the end of Sunday’s Patriots-Broncos game, on one sideline, there was the quarterback who engineered a fourth-quarter drive to tie the game and eventually lead his team to a dramatic overtime victory.

And on the other sideline, there was Tom Brady.

The Patriots quarterback struggled at times throughout Sunday’s overtime loss, especially in the second half. In particular, it appeared that he and veteran wide receivers Wes Welker and Randy Moss were not able to connect — he missed Moss twice with badly thrown balls and wasn’t able to hook up with Welker on a fourth-quarter pass attempt that looked like it could have been a game-breaker.

After taking a day to look at the film, Brady said the onus was on him.

“I’ve got to find ways to do a better job with Wes, with Randy, to get those guys the ball,” Brady told WEEI on Monday (for the entire transcript of the interview, click here). “We certainly had opportunities to get them the ball yesterday, and we didn’t.”

His most notable missed connection with Moss came on a first-half pass in the end zone. With the receiver wide open, Brady zipped it over his head. The Patriots ended up settling for a field goal.

“There is no excuse for missing Randy — I should make that 100 percent of the time and I didn’t,” said Brady, who targeted Moss four times on the day but only connected with him once. “Believe me, I wish I could do it all over again, but I can’t. Hopefully, I’ll do it better the next time.”

In addition, Brady missed on a fourth-quarter pass attempt to Welker on a route where Welker found a perfect seam in the Denver offense — but Brady ended up tossing the ball at Welker’s feet. Welker ended up with eight catches for 86 yards, but the botched connection was another of several missed offensive opportunities that haunted the Patriots.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday that any issues the New England offense has with timing are not the fault of any one player. Instead, timing adjustments are made from week to week, and it’s the responsibility of all 11 players to be on the same page on the same play.

“You are doing that all the time — every year, every quarterback, every receiver, everybody’s doing it,” Belichick said of the constant adjustments. “The routes always change a little bit. The coverages change. The team you’re playing — their personnel changes, you play against different guys week to week, so there’s always a little bit of a timing adjustment on a game-to-game basis.

“So it’s an ongoing process. It’s everybody. It’s the receivers, tight ends, backs, the quarterback.”

That ongoing process has caused some to compare the struggles the New England offense has had this season to what Peyton Manning and the Colts went through at the start of the 2008 season. Coming off offseason knee surgery, Manning had major timing issues out of the gate with veteran receivers such as Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne while Indianapolis stumbled to a 3-4 start.

But if history repeats itself — the Colts won nine straight to close out the season — the Patriots could be in for a happy ending.

“I think Patriots fans should look at the Colts last season,” said Mike Tanier, contributing editor of Football Outsiders. “Like Brady this season, Manning was coming off a period of inactivity, and the whole offense was out of whack for a month. They ended the season on a long winning streak.

“The development of [Julian] Edelman is a big plus. By midseason I don’t think you will see [Joey] Galloway much. Pats fans also have to like the way players like Sammy Morris have been re-integrated into the offense. Really, this is a very good team — not one that will go 17-0 — but a very good one.”