The Buffalo Bills’ loss to the New England Patriots is being taken especially hard by fans (myself included). As is natural, fingers are being pointed. For some reason, a lot of those fingers are being pointed at the defense. I’m not here to tell you they played flawless [cough...cough...64-yard touchdown run]. I am going to tell you they did not “get run all over.” And in fact they played really well overall. Let’s do this!
By the numbers
Usually my recap/analysis pieces are video-centric but not this week. Don’t worry. There’ll be some GIFs, but only from two specific drives for reasons I’m about to make clear.