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Patriots News Links Catchup – Drake Maye shows killer edge, defense delivers
- Post Game Notes, Patriots at Bills: Patriots snap Buffalo’s 14-game home win streak; Pats improve to a 2-0 road record against the AFC East; Stefon Diggs has 2nd straight 100-yard game; Rhamondre Stevenson scores two rushing TDs; More!
- Gamebook: Full Patriots at Bills stats.
- Mike Dussault’s Rapid Recap: Patriots knock off undefeated Bills, 23-20.
- Evan Lazar’s Game Observations: 8 takeaways from the victory over the Bills in Week 5. 1. QB Drake Maye delivers first game-winning drive, out-duels Josh Allen in Buffalo; More!
- Post Game Pressers: Mike Vrabel – Drake Maye – Stefon Diggs, Hunter Henry, Robert Spillane, Christian Gonzalez, Marcus Jones, Rhamondre Stevenson.
- Inside the Locker Room: Celebration following the win in Buffalo. (1.29 min. video)
- Highlights: Mike Vrabel congratulates players as they head to the locker room. (1 min. video)
- Highlights: Patriots Week 5 win vs. the Bills on Sunday night. (1.30 min. video) or 20 min. video.
- Patriots Postgame Show: Full analysis of Patriots Week 5 win over Bills. (1 hour, 45 min.)
- Mike Reiss highlights how Drake Maye and Stefon Diggs starred in last night’s win in Buffalo.
- Mark Daniels shares 11 takeaways from the wild win in Buffalo. 1. Captain Diggs. More!
- Alex Barth picks out the 6 biggest takeaways from the Pats’ measuring-stick victory over the Bills. 1. Big day for recent first-round picks; 2. New additions stand out; More!
- Mike D’Abate emphasizes five key takeaways from last night’s defeat of the previously undefeated Bills. 1. The Patriots are Drake Maye’s team.
- Karen Guregian admits it’s hard to avoid feeling giddy about this Patriots win.
- Steve Balestrieri recaps how the Patriots stunned the Bills on a last-minute field goal to come away with a big 23-20 team win.
- Conor Ryan points out Drake Maye out-dueled Josh Allen last night. After a statement win in Buffalo, the Patriots might finally have their franchise QB in Drake Maye.
- Phil Perry discusses how Drake Maye earned that signature win over Josh Allen and the Bills.
- Ethan Hurwitz spotlights how the Patriots defense passed the primetime test vs. Bills.
- Andrew Callahan highlights DT Milton Williams post-game: ‘The world saw what we’re capable of’.
- Doug Kyed tells us how Mike Vrabel and the Patriots reacted to Rhamondre Stevenson’s latest fumble.
- Mark Morse gives us the good, bad, and ugly from Sunday night’s victory.
- Mike D’Abate reports on RB Antonio Gibson suffering a knee injury last night.
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I am not going back on my post. If the Patriots continue to play the way they did they can be a Top 5 team in the AFC. Be honest with yourselves who scares you at this point other then ourselves? Colts? Jags?
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Amazing to think that 1 year and 1 day ago we lost an absolutely horrible game to the Tyler Huntley led dolphins 10-15 which ultimately led to maye getting the starting job. Things can turn so quickly!
Any word on a RB3 yet? Hasty still around?
I don’t have the rose colored glasses on for this team yet. There’s still a handful of really egregious things wrong with this team that I think over a sample size of games we’d inevitably get exposed for.
1. **No longer Bend don’t Break.** Our Red Zone D is 30th in the league in allowing touchdowns. 75% of the time a team is there its a TD
2. **Penalties Abound:** 1st half against the Bills was great but completely reverted in the 2nd half. We’re still incurring penalties all over the place with no discernible patterns. Every week it’s a different set of players/ penalties but no doubt we rack them up
3. **LB Pass Coverage** is soft as hell. Since Week 1 our LBs have constantly been outmatched in covering RBs and TEs. We get gashed in the middle of the field or teams making high percentage throws in the flat. We have no depth there and the skill ceiling of our LBs is very low
4. **D is boom or bust on Gonzo**. Every team is “one injury away” from unraveling, but it’s concerning how night and day our Defense is without Gonzo. It affects literally every single play. The entire scheme changed when he came back, we were forced almost entirely into zone D when the season started, and it wasn’t until he came back that we were competitive
5. **Fumbling and RB Depth** nothing to say we don’t already know here. To have this problem this early in the season doesnt bode well for when playoff teams need it down the stretch
Lots of promising things though! This isn’t to say we’re bad, I could easily make a list of 5 amazing things we’re doing. I just look at these particular 5 negatives and see how easily things can turn on a whim
I just looked at our schedule and the next 3 weeks are 1-4 teams. We have 8 remaining games against teams 1-4 or worse
This is the year Maye makes the playoffs
Soooooooo what other team outside of us is going to walk into Buffalo during the playoffs and beat them? Cause the afc is hilariously weak man.