Such an odd game.
People say "we are being outcoached" all the time on this forum. We rarely are. But in the first half Josh McDaniels thoroughly outcoached McDermott. We were being beaten by scheme and beaten play playcall.
On offense the first two drives were killed by Cooks bobbling a massive play and Palmer with a stupid false start but the Patriots were never really stopping us.
Then second half we continued to roll on offense.... but on defense it was a total switch around. McDermott had McDaniels' number on pretty much everything he called. Take out the long Henderson run (which was not on coaching the Bills had the perfect play called to stuff him he bounced put off his lineman's butt and Hairston had lost concentration thinking the play was dead and wandered inside, bad body position square to the line and gave up contain) and New England ran 17 plays for net 15 yards in the second half. Sure Maye missed a couple of passes in that and Henry should have caught one for a first down. But the Bills D had a beat on everything New England was trying to do.
I thought Brady (penultimate drive excluded where they got way too conservative) called a terrific game.