PostGame Thread OFFICIAL POSTGAME THREAD: Patriots Fall 35-31 to the Bills

[NFL Mystique]

Josh Allen Knows the guys who's Stopped him all that s time Mahomes: won't be in the dance this year.

I'm not banking on them beating three good to great teams to get to the SB. Even the Chiefs defense was one of the biggest reasons they won SB's.

 

[raduray]

I hope all you "I hoPe wR LoSe sO we Can oVeRcomE adversitY!" ****ers are happy now. Merry Christmas.

I'm commenting here on your capitalization choices as it caused me to comment on your post without reading it. I suspect I'm not alone.

 

[ViperGTS]

The Bills are now 4-2 this season when they give up 185 rushing yards or more in a game.

Allen was my preseason MVP pick and he might have played his way back into the conversation.

If you listen to the Buffalo guys, they are okay with getting gashed with the run. My thought has been thats fine if you have an opponent doesn't have an elite QB. I figured Maye would be able to pick them apart at will, especially with Benford down. I was wrong.

 

[condon84]

With KC out and Baltimore a non threat this is bills year.

The NFL will make sure of it if today was any indication

Broncos is going to spoil it. That Bills roster isn't that good. And I can't see Josh do what he did to Cincy and us against the Broncos defense in Mile High.

 

[NFL Mystique]

I mean he played like an MVP tonight.

Yep.

He was unstoppable

 

[festy1986]

Sure. Completely fair criticism. I'm just saying Drake Maye's not the reason the Patriots lost. Hell the block he tried to throw 50 yards downfield with 6 minutes to go on the go-ahead Henderson run really is enough to take him out of Blame Pie Slice #1.

Dawg didn't even get a first down.
Drake sucked. Everyone did.

 

[festy1986]

Broncos is going to spoil it. That Bills roster isn't that good. And I can't see Josh do what he did to Cincy and us against the Broncos defense in Mile High.

I know the bills roster ain't that good. It's not a Superbowl caliber team and their coaching sucks.

But I mean come on. They got calls today like they were the home team.

 

[ScottishPatriots]

Josh Allen was amazing today in the 2nd half but if we do our job and finish this division title off, history has proven it's very difficult to win 3 road playoff games in a row even if you are Josh Allen.

 

[TommyD4207]

Dawg didn't even get a first down.
Drake sucked. Everyone did.

He sucked in the 2 minute, yes.

"Everyone sucked" is a little much. Henderson sucked? Really?

 

[TheRainMaker]

I would like to hear from the couple of fans (you know who you are) who continually told us the Allen and the Bill's SB window is closed, and he's a running QB who's career is closed.

If Allen runs into a team with an actual pass rush like the Texans, he's dead to rights because his receivers are trash. They won today because the Pats front 7 was soft and couldn't stop the run. And when the defense did get a stop, the refs reset the game with a 1st down.

Allen being the veteran QB made the plays he needed to while Maye couldn't.

 

[raduray]

well, I'll take the 2 Henderson long TD's...didn't like those runs?

They were awesome, but you can't count on this happening on a regular basis. Take those away and the Bills dominated.

 

[PatsFan2]

Broncos is going to spoil it. That Bills roster isn't that good. And I can't see Josh do what he did to Cincy and us against the Broncos defense in Mile High.

They had quite a Second Half against us.

 

[festy1986]

He sucked in the 2 minute, yes.

"Everyone sucked" is a little much. Henderson sucked? Really?

You don't need to debate every tiny detail from every single post.

You can accept some hyperbole in your life.

Drake was pathetic the entire second half. Full stop.

Henderson was great. It's fine.

 

[ViperGTS]

Sure. Completely fair criticism. I'm just saying Drake Maye's not the reason the Patriots lost. Hell the block he tried to throw 50 yards downfield with 6 minutes to go on the go-ahead Henderson run really is enough to take him out of Blame Pie Slice #1.

I pretty much disagree. He's the dude who leads the team, he's the dude who is probably gonna get 65-70 per year.

He can be better, and when he's not balling his ass off and they lose...it starts at the top.

 

[BennyBledsoe]

Well, that was embarrassing. Defense seemed to forget the game goes on for four quarters. I don't want to deny that Josh Allen played great, but that was awful.

 

[Lagaffe_07]

Sure. Completely fair criticism. I'm just saying Drake Maye's not the reason the Patriots lost. Hell the block he tried to throw 50 yards downfield with 6 minutes to go on the go-ahead Henderson run really is enough to take him out of Blame Pie Slice #1.

I disagree. If you argument for Drake Maye is that the D should have held up then it’s not a great argument for Maye. The D has been making plays late in a lot of games this year to keep the win while the Offense went awol in the 2nd half.

Today we needed Maye to pull one out of the bag and he failed again. Even JJ McCarthy has more 4th quarter comeback that Maye.

I fear we got Aaron Rodgers without the douche part. Amazing talent but constantly coming up small when it matters

 

[VectorPrime]

This was a huge gut punch. The final score is completely deceiving with how bad the Pats blew it.

 

[condon84]

I know the bills roster ain't that good. It's not a Superbowl caliber team and their coaching sucks.

But I mean come on. They got calls today like they were the home team.

Refs weren't the reason why we lost today. Marcus and Davis penalties were both legit. Majority of the calls were legit. We got a TD from a missed call in the first half. It evened out imo.

 

[TommyD4207]

I pretty much disagree. He's the dude who leads the team, he's the dude who is probably gonna get 65-70 per year.

He can be better, and when he's not balling his ass off and they lose...it starts at the top.

He's 23. He's not the MVP he was being portrayed as, yet. And he's not making 65-70 yet, either.

He can be better, and hopefully will be. How there's not more vitriol directed at Schooler is beyond me, I can point to 4 ****ups that cost the Patriots points, almost directly.

 

[Grogan14]

Regression to the mean

I do not care about the MVP award.
Allen or Stafford are more deserving.

Truth is that Maye has consistently not done well in the clutch when losing with the time running out.
Top qbs are very very clutch period.

This has been a flukey year. They are a good ascending team but were never going to be serious SB contenders