“Ugly wins are people too!”
This was my mature, post-game response to the grumbling fanatics in my living room who were unhappy with the performance of the Patriots offense in Buffalo on Sunday. Fortunately, Jeff Howe of ‘The Athletic’ phrased it much better in a recent column:
17. There will surely be a narrative that the Patriots didn’t earn any style points in their victory against the Bills, but don’t buy into it. When a team is that dominant on defense and special teams, style points are sometimes mistaken for fantasy points.