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They held James Cook to 49 yards on 15 carries, a 3.3 YPC.\u00a0 This was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time any team had held Cook under 100 yards.\u00a0 He was averaging 5,3 YPC coming in.\u00a0 The Defense also has three turnovers.\u00a0 In the first half, the defense had two turnovers from a talented Josh Allen-led offense. The Bills were also called for eight penalties compared to two for the\u00a0Patriots\u00a0in those first two frames.<\/li>\n<li>Stefon Diggs was outstanding in his return to Buffalo. Obviously, he was motivated, and I loved his enthusiasm on the sidelines getting his players up during the game.<\/li>\n<li>Andy Borregales has ice in his veins. He made the game-winning Field Goal look effortless.\u00a0 He said in his post-game press conference that he talked with fellow rookie long snapper Julian Ashby about playing in Buffalo in their pre-game chat.\u00a0 \u201cDude we are playing on Sunday Night Football.\u201d\u00a0 The kick was perfect, right down the middle of the uprights.\u00a0 A thing of beauty.\u00a0 I have to give the line on the Field Goal team a tremendous amount of credit for not flinching when Buffalo made a late shift trying to draw movement from the Pats line.<\/li>\n<li>The Patriots took a punch in the nose when Buffalo came right down with the second-half kickoff to score. The Patriots and Maye came right back and answered with their own TD.\u00a0 \u00a0Buffalo comes right back down the field in the Red Zone, and Marcus Jones intercepted Allen at the 9-yard line, stopping that drive.\u00a0 The Patriots then went on a 90-yard, 11-play drive for another TD.<\/li>\n<li>I thought Jahlani Tavai made a couple of good plays and was credited with 2 Tackles. Tavai had zero chance to practice tackling with anyone since he missed most of the off-season workouts and none of the Training Camp.<\/li>\n<li>Need to give credit to Mack Hollins and Pop Douglas for their downfield blocking. Douglas made a block to get Diggs a few more yards, and Hollins took the DB and pancaked him in the endzone on Stevenson\u2019s second TD.<\/li>\n<li>Kayshon Boutte had 3 catches on 3 targets for 43 yards. None better than the hole shot against two high safeties.\u00a0 Late in the 4th Quarter, with 1:25 left on the clock, that completion set up the game-winning Field Goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bad<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Too many stupid penalties got Buffalo back in the game. Cory Durden hits Allen in the facemask, followed by Joshua Farmer nailing James Cook after the whistle blew.\u00a0 That was 30 yards on one drive.\u00a0 Add Kayshon Boutte, 15-yard face mask right after a 15-yard penalty against Buffalo.\u00a0 Brenden Schooler also had a late hit out of bounds.\u00a0 That play made it 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 25.\u00a0 The False Start by Vederian Lowe blew up another Pats drive.\u00a0 Actually, that was Drake Mayes&#8217; fault for taking so long to hike the ball.<\/li>\n<li>Jaylinn Hawkins was absolutely brutal. Can anyone cover a TE?\u00a0 Dalton Kincaid had a Field Day with 6 catches on 6 targets for 108 yards, an 18 YPC.\u00a0 Even Dawson Knox had 2 catches on 2 targets.<\/li>\n<li>I was disappointed with Robert Spillane, despite him leading the team in tackles with 8 and having a Forced Fumble. Far too often, he was making tackles after 5 yards downfield.\u00a0 His pass coverage is very bad as well.<\/li>\n<li>The Offensive line and the TEs need to run block better. Buffalo loaded the box and sometimes had 10 men in the box.\u00a0 McDaniels and Maye need to check out of run plays and switch to more downfield pass plays in press man.<\/li>\n<li>The Patriots had no answer for Josh Allen running. He ended up with 53 yards rushing of their team&#8217;s total of 118.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ugly<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antonio Gibson\u2019s knee injury doesn\u2019t look good. 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