Bill Belichick had to love Monday night's game. You can envision the New England Patriots head coach, who loves studying football history from when the players were still wearing leather helmets, throwing on his team's win over the Buffalo Bills at some point next offseason and being taken back to another era.
The Patriots played old-school football Monday. Ancient football, maybe. Through three quarters in crazy wind gusts, they ran 39 plays, and 38 were runs. And that's how the Patriots took over control of the AFC East, and maybe the AFC period.
The Patriots went to Buffalo in the cold and wind, and won with a game plan that would have been fitting against the Canton Bulldogs.