Amendola was cast as the No. 1 receiver on Monday because Julian Edelman is out with a foot injury.
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For the second time this season, the New England Patriots and franchise quarterback Tom Brady defeated the Buffalo Bills 20-13 to continue their dominance and stay undefeated at 10-0.
Lining up under center, Brady began barking out an unusual signal: “Rex Ryan!”.
The Patriots are close to winning the American Football Conference (AFC) East again with their unblemished record. “That’s a mistake. We shouldn’t have blown the whistle”, said Blandino. “We’ve got to do a better job if we’re going to score more points”.
But Brady didn’t have one of his best days against the Bills. “Rex has moved around a lot, but there isn’t one player who wouldn’t say, ‘I would do anything for Rex Ryan'”. Brady took several hits and threw the ball away on several occasions under pressure provided by the Bills.
The Bills tried to capitalize on the Pats’ struggles, driving for a 48-yard field goal attempt, but Dan Carpenter doinked it off an upright with 46 seconds left. “You get pretty limited quickly in the things that you can do”. “But we made enough plays and we got some big plays from special teams, got some big plays defensively”, said Patriots head coach Bill Belichick after the game. And that they can annoy any defense with receivers and running backs that not too many people know about or care about outside of the MA state lines. Now covering his beloved hometown team, his knowledge and passion for pro football has resulted in multiple fantasy football championships. We’ve got to find ways to get off the field, and they capitalized. The high-priced tight end had just one catch against the Patriots and left the game with a neck injury late.
Referee Gene Steratore told a pool reporter that it was decided that Watkins “gave himself up in the field of play”. And it was only after the Patriots lost a potential touchdown pass from quarterback Tom Brady to Amendola because of an inadvertent whistle blown by an official.
Running back LeSean McCoy scored on a 27-yard touchdown run to tie it at 10 for the Bills (5-5) in the third quarter.
The Patriots proceeded to go three and out, and Stephen Gostkowski had his long consecutive field goal streak snapped by missing a 54-yard field goal wide right.
Brady threw a first-half interception that was nullified by offsetting penalties. The loss, the second of the season to the Patriots, dropped Buffalo to 5-5.
A odd occurrence happened early in the third quarter which, if the Bills were capable of doing so, could have turned momentum in favor of the Bills permanently.
Leodis McKelvin fielded a punt but coughed up the ball 2 yards later. New England’s Jonathan Freeny picked up the ball and rumbled 5 yards before he lost the ball and it bounced out of bounds.
SHOULDERING THE LOAD: Tyrod Taylor was 20 of 36 for 233 yards for Buffalo. We had a bench-area obstruction foul then, that we actually tacked on to the spot of, I believe we went from the 45 to the 40-yard line, because we tacked on the 15-yard foul from that spot.
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“No, just communication on offense”, Brady said.
