Rich Eisen on Josh Allen’s Heroics in Patriots’ “Brutal Loss” to the Buffalo Bills in Week 15

Rich Eisen on Josh Allen’s Heroics in Patriots’ “Brutal Loss” to the Buffalo Bills in Week 15

And I want to talk about the Patriots as well, cuz they were the ones came in with as many wins in a row as Denver. Same number. They they started one and two and then won all the way up until this past week and had a chance to win their division with a home win against a Bills team that they shocked in game two of that 10-game win streak on Sunday Night Football and hit in the mouth. hit in the mouth repeatedly. And Drake May is the one who made the plays throughout. Not Josh Allen, not the reigning MVP, the kid growing into an MVP candidate this year. And the Patriots took a 21- nothing lead on the Buffalo Bills. And I gotta be honest with you. I’m sitting there thinking this is a changing of the guard moment because I don’t know how many times I’m gonna sit here and hear the Bills don’t have the weapons for Josh Allen and they’re letting him down. They can’t protect him and when he does run around he’s got to pull it out of his orifice. He’s got to keep putting the cape on. When are they going to finally lose? What’s going to happen? And we’re still wondering that as they win, taking care of business against the New England Patriots. Cuz when the second half hit, I don’t know what the hell Sean McDermott told this team in the locker room. Maybe he just turned to Josh Allen and say, “All right, you do it.” Because it looks like a fortress of solitude out here with the snow and the cold. Put on the cape, son. And he did. I mean, three passing touchdowns, no interceptions, and he ran at 48 yards as well. He ran one in that got called back to a penalty as well. Now, James Cook is unbelievable as well. 107 rush yards, his 11th game with 100 scrimmage yards or more. That’s the most in the NFL. And the team’s 10 and 10 and one when he does that. And when he’s got fewer than 100 yards, they’re 0 and3. So yes, the game does go through number four, but when you have 17, this helps as well. Josh Allen is now accounted for 37 offensive touchdowns this year. He’s the fourth player in NFL history to have six career seasons of 35 or more. And the only ones in front of him are Rogers and Brady with seven. He’s going to eviscerate that record by the time he hangs him up. He’s unbelievable. And then defensively, they’ll just I I don’t know. I mean, well, missing a liability. I know, but then but when it comes down to it, they make the play like tipping the ball on fourth down to end the game. I think my big takeaway from both of these teams, their defenses just aren’t good enough. maybe at the end of the day, but does it matter if Josh Allen shows up and he’s like, “I’m going to account for more touchdowns than you, you know, and and Buffalo’s final games. Um, they’re at Cleveland, which just got destroyed in Chicago, that big game against Philadelphia at home, and then they got the Jets at home, and they’re going to be playing over the next three weeks saying, “We don’t want this to be the end of High Mark. So yeah, I know we keep saying Joe Burrow is the window, but Josh Allen is the window, too. As long as he’s there, they got the window. And the number of times it’s like, “Yeah, who’s he going to throw to?” I it I don’t know. Like what would it look like if he had some like top number one receiver? What would it look like? I’m thinking the same thing about Drake May. That was the one glaring thing that New England didn’t have yesterday. Well, and here’s the thing about the Patriots. You know, it is jarring to watch them lose at home when they’re up by 21 points since they had won 104 straight home games when leading by that many. Yeah. Um so they’re now 124 and one when leading by 21 points at at any point in a home game in team history. So the Bills just did something that we’ve never seen. All right. And they had 173 more total yards than the Patriots in the second half. And so this is supposed to be a gritty team that needs more than just to have Trayvon Henderson hit a home run for them. Y I mean, if you don’t mind, that helps. They looked like the Yankees, which is like striking out most of the time and hoping for the home run hit. And so they got the home run hit, put them up, but they couldn’t stop Josh Allen at the end of the day. That said, if I’m going to tell Eagles fans to relax, which by the way, I cannot wait to revisit that subject matter later on this program as they have now just a magic number to win the division and get a home playoff game of one with three games to go. The Patriots still have the ultimate tiebreaker on the Bills, which is division record. Division record. And so all they got to do for New England is just they could even be one game worse than Buffalo the rest of the way as long as they beat their final two division opponents which is at the Jets and home for Miami when it’s going to be really cold. Okay. So they should still win this division. They got the Ravens next. Even if they lose to them and the Bills beat the Cleveland Browns, as we think they will, and they’re tied at 11-4 going into the final two games. They are visiting the Jets while the Bills have the Eagles at home. And even if the Bills do beat the Eagles and the Patriots beat the Jets, all they got to do is have a home win against Miami at home. They have the division. They probably have the second best record in the in the conference. And off we go. into the wild blue yonder of the playoffs in Gillette. So, it’s still there. That was a brutal loss, though. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen breaks down Josh Allen’s heroics to lead the Buffalo Bills from a 21-point deficit to a huge win over the New England Patriots in their AFC East showdown.

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