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Patriots Wild Card Week Report Card in 47-17 Thrashing by the Bills

Pats Bid Uninspired Adieu to Season in Humiliating Fashion

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the loss to Buffalo was ugly…U-G-L-Y was the way I believe I characterized it. That game, in contrast to the one of Saturday night, was a Picasso. The Patriots weren’t just bad on Saturday in Buffalo, they were historically bad.

The Bills kept pouring it on, trying to erase two decades of frustration and heartbreak. As they should have. Some fans and media were quite upset with it, forgetting perhaps that when Tom Brady and Co. were torturing the Bills so many times, the refrain from New England was always, “It isn’t the Patriots job to stop their own offense from scoring, it is the defense’s.