Patriots Loss To Buffalo

By Steve Atkinson 

A Much Bigger Loss This Weekend

On a somber note Brooke Avelar a beautiful soul was taken too soon on Saturday at only 26 years old. The link to her Go Fund Me is below if you can share or donate to help the family out. It would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-brooke-o-avelars-beautiful-life?

The Patriots Loss To Buffalo

The Patriots’ loss to Buffalo isn’t too concerning for the rest of the season. I think the Patriots were bound to lose a game either to Buffalo or Baltimore. Even though the AFC East title was at stake, the Patriots can still win the division; it just might get tougher. They need to beat Baltimore next Sunday—no excuses. You don’t want to have to win something in the last game of the season against the Dolphins. The Patriots used to be a second-half team, but now it seems they are more of a first-half team.

Patriots Need To Finish Games Better

Coming out with a 21-point lead looked promising until Buffalo rallied towards the end of the second quarter. The questionable pass interference call on Marcus Jones’ interception was interesting. However, the defense allowed a lot of points in the second half, and Drake Maye didn’t even pass for many yards in that period. It was like they came out flat. Mike Vrabel said after the game.

.I mean, we weren’t able to get any stops. When we had an opportunity to make a play, we weren’t able to make it. Penalties. And that’s how this game goes. A few small plays make the difference. We were very prepared for this team to — we were going to need 60 minutes to beat this team. This is a good football team. We had a lot of good football in there. And we had a lot of plays that, a few plays we’d like to have back that we’ll have to learn from.

Here was Drake Maye after the game.

Came out in the second half and just gotta make a play, pick up the first first down, I think that’s the biggest thing. Were some throws I wish I had back, but at the end of the day gotta keep the foot on the pedal and keep it going and kind of don’t let them dictate. It starts with me. And we kind of felt during the week that we had a chance this was going to happen, and just gotta keep our foot on the pedal. It happened in the first game, they came back, came back. Just gotta make a play and do my part when we had the ball and a chance to win the game, go win the game.

Sounds Like The Patriots Tried To Prepare For A Comeback

Drake saying they felt during the week that if they got to a lead there was a chance the Bills would come back and make it a game. That’s why they came out strong however they didn’t carry it over to the second half and it cost them. The redzone defense needs to be better if they want to make a run.