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Pat McAfee was ready to crown the Patriots in the first half. The former NFL punter turned media darling was celebrating prematurely along with Boston Connor, one of McAfee’s talking heads on the show. Here are a few other talking heads who talked a bit too soon.
No lead is ever safe when Josh Allen is the other quarterback on the field. The New England Patriots found that out the hard way by blowing a 21-point lead and falling in defeat for the first time since September on Sunday.
Buffalo scored touchdowns on five consecutive drives to beat New England. Plus, the Eagles demolished the Raiders, whiile the Chiefs will miss the playoffs.
The Patriots had outgained the Bills, 285-76, through two quarters and led by as many as 21 points before Buffalo found a little life with a late James Cook touchdown.
Buffalo's reigning MVP showed why he's the best quarterback in the AFC East, leading four touchdown drives after a disastrous start against the Patriots.
Benford had a big hand in each of the Bills’ last two wins. He returned a fumble for a touchdown and had an interception to help them beat the Steelers in Week 13 and he returned an interception for the go-ahead score against the Bengals in the fourth quarter last Sunday.
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Patriots get ‘a wakeup call’ about the need to play 60 minutes as Bills stampede back in second half
The Bills scored touchdowns on their first four possessions of the second half as as reigning MVP Josh Allen orchestrated methodical possession after methodical possession.
The Bills were subjugated in every way through the first half. Mike Vrabel out-coached Sean McDermott. Drake Maye out-quarterbacked Allen. Robert Kraft even out-ownered Terry Pegula, the presence of rapper Travis Scott in the Patriots’ owners’ box ramping up the cool quotient.
In his postgame press conference, Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel was practically at a loss for words about what had just transpired. In the end, he simply gave credit to a generational quarterback for, you know, being a generational quarterback.
The Buffalo Bills will be without CB Christian Benford while wide receiver Josh Palmer makes his return against the New England Patriots
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