The New England Patriots were ripe for the taking on Monday night. He and his coaching staff had come up with a list of a few things each player needed to focus on that week to succeed. New England is fourth defending Super Bowl champion to begin following season 9-0 and first since Green Bay (13-0) in 2011.
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However, a phantom officiating whistle blew and halted the play just before Amendola collected Brady’s pass.
“I’m not choosing nobody else but Rex Ryan”, Lewis said, via CSN New England. That’s what championship teams do.
“We’ve just got to do things better if we want to score more points, and I always talk about just execution, us all being on the same page”.
This was a ragged and at times freakish contest. A big reason why Ryan’s blitzes were effective at hitting and rattling Brady was the fact their pass protection remains a mess without left tackle Nate Solder, on injured reserve with a biceps injury.
The controversy occurred after Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, scrambling toward the right sideline, lofted a pass toward Amendola.
Leodis McKelvin summoned ghosts of Mondays past, fumbling a punt late in the third quarter with the Bills down by seven points.
The loss dropped the Bills to 5-5 on the season.
Next up for the Bills is another critical road game in Kansas City.
For more on this game, see the five takeaways slideshow below. Once again, the Patriots had their struggles, especially with the offensive line.
Buffalo erased tight end Rob Gronkowski – two catches for 37 yards – and those aren’t new trends.
-RB LeSean McCoy had a 27-yard touchdown run in the loss. Tyrod Taylor, given a chance to outduel Brady on his home turf, was ordinary. A week later, there were 18 seconds improperly run off the game clock during a Monday night game at San Diego.
Taylor missed receivers low, high and wide. His numbers (46 yards total offense and 1 score) weren’t anything to shout in the streets about. For the second time against the Pats, he didn’t look like a franchise quarterback. We were down to two healthy receivers.
There were also plenty of long meetings throughout the game among the officiating crew, a really long review of a first-down catch that wasn’t spotted right at the start of the Bills’ final drive, and a wrong call on a Watkins fourth-down catch that had to be reversed after a review. How does that happen?
“I have no idea”, Ryan said. By rule, he said, the Patriots get the ball at the spot where Amendola caught the ball, which was the Patriot 45. Attacking a weak offensive line, they were able to get to the QB and put him on the ground.
It’s been more of the same this season. It was a lot of stuff to the flats, which suggested that the coaches still don’t trust Taylor to make the tough throws from the pocket.
Brady threw a first-half interception that was nullified by offsetting penalties.
White had his most productive game against Buffalo.
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A Dan Carpenter field goal tied the game at ten early in the third quarter. They complete the ball. There are second- and third-stringers like running back James White, making key plays for a team whose skill-position talent is falling victim to one injury after the next (this week, it was receivers Aaron Dobson and Amendola who hobbled off); there is a defense that seems to come up big whenever it needs to.
