Bill Belichick reflected on the Patriots’ New Year’s Eve loss to the Bills during his weekly interview on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show,” acknowledging the 27-21 defeat in Buffalo was the result of his own team’s mistakes.
“We put ourselves in a hole there in the second quarter, and then battled back, but couldn’t battle all the way back,” Belichick said on Tuesday morning. “It was just too much to give a good team like that.”
New England committed four turnovers.
“Each play had its own elements, but I’d just say in general the high level of execution that we needed on a couple of those plays we just didn’t have,” Belichick explained, “and obviously we paid for it.