Some thoughts following Sunday’s loss:
1) Sunday’s 35-23 loss in Buffalo ended up the way things have for much of the season for the New England Patriots. Bill Belichick put together a game plan that kept them in the contest until miscues and letdowns ultimately caught up to them and ended up costing them the game.
That’s basically been the story all season. Plenty of good, but just enough bad where they came up short, and some of it was self-inflicted.
It didn’t take long before things went wrong. It obviously started with the Bills’ Nyheim Hines returning the opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown, firing up a crowd that was already emotional over the events with Damar Hamlin, which has fortunately turned into a story of an incredible recovery.