Will the Patriots Lose Again Tonight
Josh Allen, Bills demolish Patriots in stunning 47-17 blowout
The Buffalo Bills, led by Josh Allen'southward v touchdown passes, humiliated the Patriots in every attribute of the game.
With a chance to definitively show themselves every bit the best squad in the AFC East, the Buffalo Bills didn't miss their shot to show the New England Patriots who was boss.
Josh Allen threw for five touchdowns, the Bills scored on every offensive possession, and the Patriots' crime couldn't get on rails in a 47-17 Buffalo blowout of the Patriots. Information technology also marked the worst performance always past New England's defense force in the Nib Belichick era.
With the loss, the Patriots' season is now over.
Here'south how information technology all went downwardly.
Fourth quarter
11:10 p.chiliad.: Bears legend Mitchell Trubisky comes on to accept the terminal kneeldowns, and Buffalo moves on to the next round with a resounding 47-17 beatdown of the Patriots. No doubt near who owns the AFC East later on this ane.
The Patriots' surprise wild-menu run ends early on, but you could exercise a lot worse than a 10-win season with a rookie quarterback.
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11:06 p.grand.: When one guy lets you down, throw it to Kendrick Bourne instead. That formula works for Mac Jones a second fourth dimension equally Bourne hauls in his second touchdown of the game post-obit a drib by a wide-open up Hunter Henry. (To be fair, Jones's throw could've been better, just like on his before end-zone miss to Jakobi Meyers).
It's 47-17 later on Nick Folk's extra signal. Jones will likely end this game 24-of-38 passing for 232 yards, two touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
Not his all-time game, but he's hardly the biggest problem the Patriots had in this 1.
11:02 p.m.: Ii-minute warning for the game. At last.
10:59 p.m.: The Bills aren't taking information technology easy on the Patriots upwards 37. They sent heat after Mac Jones on that third down, though he escaped a sack and got the brawl to Kendrick Bourne. Then he converted New England'southward third endeavor on fourth down today to Jakobi Meyers.
Just about four minutes left in this one.
10:47 p.m.: Come up on, now. Allen drops an absolute dime to Dawson Knox inside the ten-yard line, and merely incidental contact with J.C. Jackson's leg prevented a touchdown after Knox made the grab and rolled to the end zone.
2 plays subsequently, offensive tackle Tommy Doyle slips into the apartment for an easy touchdown throw from Allen.
The Patriots have blown out a few teams this yr seemingly because they could. The Bills are returning the favor. It's now 47-ten.
10:43 p.m.: This is just getting funny at this betoken. The Patriots accept to punt after a sack on Mac Jones, and Micah Hyde scoops upwardly a punt on a bounce inside the Bills' 10-thousand line and busts out a 52-yard return. It looked for a moment like Hyde might even take it all the way for a score if he hadn't tripped over his own blocker's leg.
Yet another crude special teams play from a unit that has struggled this season. Not that information technology really matters at this point, of course.
10:34 p.g.: Just when information technology looked like the Bills were going to just chew clock and become Devin Singletary to 100 yards, Allen rifles a sprint to Gabriel Davis for a 19-1000 touchdown. It's at present an even 40 for the Bills after the extra point.
Allen at present has every bit many touchdown passes (4) as incompletions. The Bills take scored touchdowns on all six of their drives and remain perfect on third down. Hard to know what else to say at this point.
3rd quarter
10:30 p.m: The third quarter is finally over. Information technology's still 33-ten Bills, with Buffalo threatening to score again.
x:23 p.chiliad.: As poor as much of the effort and execution has been on the Patriots' side of things, Bourne (four catches for 65 yards, i TD; 14 yards rushing) has brought it whenever he'due south had a chance this evening. His emergence has been a pleasant surprise later on a learning curve to showtime the season.
10:20 p.1000.: Touchdown, Patriots. Somehow, Kendrick Bourne ends up wide open up in the left corner of the stop zone, and Jones finds him on fourth-and-goal for the young quarterback'south kickoff career postseason touchdown throw. That'due south a good rebound afterward the rookie threw a scrap behind Jakobi Meyers on 3rd-and-goal, and the dependable receiver couldn't haul it in.
Nick Folk's extra betoken is good. 33-10 Bills.
x:18 p.m.: Jones finds Jakobi Meyers for a third-downward conversion to set up offset-and-goal, keeping the chance for a touchdown alive.
But it'due south now 3rd-and-goal after a cease on Damien Harris and a throwaway from Mac Jones nether pressure.
ten:12 p.m.: Jones connects deep to Bourne but over the arm of cornerback Dane Jackson, and the Patriots' nearly electrical receiver adds more than yards subsequently the grab to get in a 43-one thousand play all told.
Then Bourne gets a reverse and follows a cake from Jones for some other kickoff down. New England has the ball at the Buffalo 14-yard line now.
ten:06 p.m.: No idea what that defensive play-call was supposed to be, just information technology probably didn't involve letting Emmanuel Sanders run broad open into the cease zone.
Nonetheless, that'due south what happened every bit Sanders hauls in a deep strike from Allen beyond the achieve of Joejuan Williams. Information technology looked like Williams thought he had safety assist over the meridian, but there was no one in the vicinity.
Another missed extra point leaves the score 33-iii Bills. Small comfort.
ten:03 p.m.: Bills stay perfect on third downs with another checkdown to Devin Singletary for a first downward.
In his early years, you could expect for Allen to make the big mistake and throw the football to the defense. He's just non doing that anymore. He'due south playing it rubber, and his playmakers are keeping the chains moving underneath.
If the Patriots' defense force wants the ball, they're going to have to take it away by force.
9:59 p.m.: Disaster strikes over again as Mac Jones'southward kickoff-down throw is tipped in the air before information technology reaches Hunter Henry, and Levi Wallace grabs it off the rebound for the Bills' second pick of Jones today.
Skillful play past the defense, but that throw also but didn't have plenty juice on it to sneak past Milano.
Bills are in great position to score.
ix:57 p.g.: That's a new wrinkle. Josh McDaniels dials upwards a screen confronting heavy pressure level, and Rhamondre Stevenson picks up a first downwardly with a concrete run after the catch.
Then Damien Harris bulls ahead for another first downward on the next play earlier giving fashion to Stevenson again. Harris has played somewhat sparingly today.
ix:55 p.m.: New England gets set up on offense subsequently another short return. They'd better have something good up their sleeve.
Second quarter
9:44 p.m.: It'southward halftime in Orchard Park, and boy are there some big numbers happening on Buffalo's side.
Josh Allen is 12-of-16 passing for 172 yards and two touchdowns to Dawson Knox and 63 yards rushing on 5 carries, which leads the Bills. That'southward saying something given that Devin Singletary has 58 yards already on eleven carries to become with two touchdowns himself.
Buffalo has nineteen first downs to the Patriots' 7, including 10 on the ground.
Mac Jones only has 106 yards passing on 10-of-sixteen through the air along with his deep interception, but information technology's hard to blame this loss too much on him. The Patriots don't have any answers on defense, and they're getting physically dominated all over the field.
nine:38 p.m.: Jones makes a nice back-shoulder throw on a slot fade to Jakobi Meyers to convert on third down, but they don't take plenty to time to have a shot at the end zone. The Patriots have to settle for a 44-yard Nick Folk field goal earlier the one-half ends, and he drills it through. 27-3 Bills.
The Patriots volition get the ball to start the tertiary quarter.
ix:36 p.m.: Getting sacked on a simulated spike? Now that's embarrassing. Jerry Hughes slips around Trent Brownish to drop Mac Jones later on he pretends to clock the ball, and the Patriots now face quaternary downwardly after a brusque completion.
9:30 p.m.: That's now iv touchdowns in four drives for the Bills equally Singletary bounces it outside and storms in from 16 yards out. The extra indicate is good, and information technology's 27-0.
The Bills have a cool 300 yards of total offense in the starting time one-half and haven't failed to catechumen a 3rd down notwithstanding. At this betoken, information technology's already about playing for pride. A score earlier the half would brand things experience less terrible.
9:27 p.1000.: Practice squad-elevated cornerback De'Vante Bausby gets in the game this drive and what happens? Allen comes his style on a scramble and leaves Bausby's ankles in the turf en road to a nine-thousand gain. Life comes at you lot fast.
Ii-infinitesimal warning in Orchard Park.
9:22 p.m.: Offset play of the Bills' drive–a checkdown to Isaiah McKenzie–goes for 19 yards as the speedster hits the turbo down the sideline. Then, the second play goes up pinnacle to Stefon Diggs for 45 yards. Simply like that, Buffalo is at New England's 25-m line.
The Bills are trying to put this away early.
ix:18 p.thou.: Jones and the offense stammer after the penalization, and the Patriots will punt the brawl once more.
Star Lotulelei ate Jones upward for a sack on second downwardly, and so the young quarterback fabricated a rookie error, taking a delay-of-game penalty to set up a third-and-20. Minimal chance to do annihilation with that.
Now would be a nifty time for a takeaway.
ix:15 p.m.: New England will take that one. Buffalo's Levi Wallace gets flagged for an obvious pass interference on Nelson Agholor on third-and-6, and the Patriots get a new prepare of downs.
Jones was trying to sneak another deep brawl in between the corner and safe to Agholor and misfired too long. Just Wallace was holding Agholor the unabridged time.
ix:10 p.m.: The telephone call stands, and the rout is on in Orchard Park as Singletary's three-yard run officially goes in the books as a touchdown. The extra bespeak is no adept, which is about the but break New England has gotten and then far. It's now 20-0 with 7:20 left in the first one-half.
Sure, there's plenty of time to get back into it, but it's difficult to see a improvement the mode the two teams are playing.
9:07 p.m.: Devin Singletary appears to power his fashion into the end zone for another touchdown, just officials are about to review information technology to verify. Non that it matters the way this game is going: even if this score is overturned, the Bills will score in short order.
Singletary and Buffalo's offensive line accept but worked them this drive. The line is blowing the Patriots away at the point of attack, and Singletary is running aroused.
nine:03 p.m.: Things are unraveling for the Patriots' defense force right now.
A fifteen-yard facemask penalty on Daniel Ekuale during a tackle of Bills' running back Devin Singletary puts the ball at New England's 20-yard line. They haven't been able to contain Allen either from running or finding whoever he wants down the field, and they're starting to chemical compound their mistakes once more.
The Bills could make this a three-score game soon.
8:54 p.m.: Damien Harris got the corner on a third-and-three pitch, but he tin can't extend the brawl by the marker for the commencement down. The Patriots become three-and-out and punt the brawl dorsum to Buffalo.
This is dangerous territory for New England. Another touchdown from the Bills here, and the game might be but about over for a team that has struggled when playing from behind.
First quarter
8:52 p.k.: That'south one quarter in the books. The score: Bills fourteen, Patriots 0.
8:48 p.m.: Olszewski wasn't messing around there. He takes a knee with the brawl well-nigh a thousand into the finish zone, and New England will start at the 25-yard line this time. Let'south see how Mac Jones rebounds from the interception.
eight:43 p.1000.: Touchdown, Bills equally Allen rips an absolute cannon blast into the arms of Dawson Knox for an 11-thousand score. The coverage by safety Adrian Phillips was good, but the throw and take hold of were just amend.
It's at present fourteen-0 Bills. If the Patriots can't score here, this could get ugly.
8:41 p.thou.: The Patriots' defense force can't seem to stop anything the Bills are doing right now. Isaiah McKenzie makes another big catch for 19 yards, and Buffalo is knocking on the door at New England'southward 22-yard line.
Bills' offensive coordinator Brian Daboll is pressing all the correct buttons, Josh Allen is rifling the brawl through the cold like information technology's nil and Buffalo's receivers are getting it done.
viii:35 p.1000.: That is not what New England needed. Jones'due south deep ball intended for Nelson Agholor is picked off in the end zone by Micah Hyde. Information technology looked similar Agholor had a step on his human being, just Hyde came over and swiped it. The throw wasn't bad; the play was just better.
That kills a promising drive and gives Buffalo a chance to put New England in a big hole to kickoff the game.
8:34 p.thou.: The rookie is pulling out all the stops tonight. Facing tertiary-and-10 with bodies all around him in the pocket, Jones puts on a couple moves and picks up sixteen yards and a first down with his legs. That'due south precisely what the Patriots demand him to practise in this game to keep the ball moving.
viii:31 p.m.: Jones with some other big play on 3rd downwardly escaping pressure and finding Hunter Henry down the field for a 31-yard gain. The quarterback looked like he was going to down with pressure coming off of either side, only he broke the pocket, pressed the line of scrimmage and drew defenders toward him plenty to free Henry up for a big play.
8:28 p.thousand.: Sweet throw on second down by Mac Jones to connect with Kendrick Bourne for the start downwards. The rookie threw a comeback to the far sideline right on fourth dimension to Bourne, who hauled it in past a slipping defender before falling out of bounds himself.
That'south a proficient sign for the Patriots' offense.
viii:27 p.m.: Gunner Olszewski probably should've taken the human knee on that one.
The Patriots' kick render took the ball out of the end zone and got stoned at the 13-yard line subsequently but a fourteen-thousand render. Mac Jones and the criminal offence take over.
eight:22 p.thou.: Josh Allen is just magical.
The Patriots had him cornered against the sideline with nowhere to go thank you to great coverage down the field, and he just flips an incredible throw up to Dawson Knox on the back line of the end zone for a touchdown. Insane.
The extra signal is skillful, making the score 7-0 Buffalo afterward the first drive of the game.
That's what elite quarterback play looks like: even when you do only about everything right, you tin yet somehow lose because the other guy is also skilful.
8:21 p.m.: The Bills get physical on tertiary-and-3 from simply outside the x-thou line and pick up the first down on another run from Allen. Buffalo chosen a quarterback ability and only blimp it down the Patriots' throats. If this is any indication, Allen's legs are going to be merely equally important as his arm today.
viii:18 p.m.: Josh Allen rips off a huge 26-yard scramble to set the Bills upwards in field goal territory at the Patriots' 31-g line. Allen fabricated a nice move on Matthew Judon in the open field and so turned on the jets for the big gain.
Keeping Allen in the pocket is a necessity for New England. The defence force didn't practice it there.
8:xvi p.m.: Buffalo starts at the 30-one thousand line and immediately pick up a start downward within two plays–a nine-yard completion to Stefon Diggs on commencement downwards and a short run by Devin Singletary.
Pregame
8:14 p.m.: The Patriots won the toss and chose to defer, meaning they'll get the ball to get-go the second one-half. It'll exist Josh Allen and the Bills' law-breaking up commencement. Let's become.
viii:11 p.m.: So much for going sleeveless…even Josh Allen wasn't trying to mess around with a -5 air current chill, apparently.
8:04 p.grand.: Good news for the Patriots is that rubber Kyle Dugger is, in fact, in pads and looking like he will play this evening.
The bad news: he'southward got a bulky club on the injured right hand that kept him out of last week'southward game. Wrapping upwardly and tackling, also as playing the football in the air, could get complicated.
Hopefully, information technology won't limit him much. The Patriots missed Dugger a lot confronting the Dolphins.
seven:59 p.chiliad.: The Globe'south Ben Volin reports this game could end upwards the third-coldest in Patriots' history by the time it kicks off. Though the temperature is technically about seven degrees, it feels similar information technology's five below zero.
Hope y'all're enjoying the couch right at present.
Fortunately, the cold doesn't seem to be dampening Kendrick Bourne's spirits any.
7:51 p.m.: It looks like Justin Herron will indeed get the first wait at left tackle in place of the injured Isaiah Wynn, via ESPN's Mike Reiss and other reporters on the scene.
seven:44 p.m.: According to multiple sources, Joejuan Williams looks like the first human being up to replace Jalen Mills against the Bills.
Williams has played sparingly this season, making just one start, and has been depression on the Patriots' defensive dorsum totem pole fifty-fifty when injuries have striking. Simply Mills' and Shaun Wade'southward COVID-related absences accept left New England's cornerback room in desperate shape.
If Williams struggles, Justin Bethel, who has been solid in limited action, could see more playing time.
vii:30 p.thou.: The cold isn't going to terminate Josh Allen from letting the guns out tonight. But Mac Jones? He'due south going to be rocking a scuba suit under his uniform, according to CLNS Media's Evan Lazar. He did the same thing in the starting time game against the Bills in Orchard Park.
The latest weather forecast lists the temperature at seven degrees with current of air arctic advisories that will brand the conditions feel like they're in subzero territory.
Lazar also reports the atmospheric condition isn't bothering Jones's ability to throw the football, which could exist a sign the Patriots won't run the ball on every play like they did last time.
6:50 p.m.: The Patriots will officially be without starting left tackle Isaiah Wynn tonight every bit he headlines the team's inactive listing.
Wynn was projected equally a express participant on Wednesday if the Patriots had practiced after suffering an ankle injury against Miami in Week xviii. Then, he missed practice on Thursday and Fri.
Justin Herron took his place with uneven results last calendar week and may accept to play in Wynn's stead again.
Kristian Wilkerson, who was elevated from the practice squad, is too inactive, meaning N'Keal Harry will likely meet a big role as a blocker against the Bills.
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