Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald react to Josh Allen and Buffalo erasing a 21-point deficit to top New England and keep the AFC East crown up for grabs. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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The Patriots lose to the Bills at home at Gillette Stadium.
The Bills keep thoseyou knowkeep that division hope alive in the AFC East.
Make a big comeback, down three scores at halftime.
And I thought that Traveon Henderson’s run was in the 4th quarter.
I was like, Ooh, sorry, Sean McDermott, this could be a little scary.
Got some decisions to make, but no, the Bills pulled it off.
I thought the splits in this game were quite hysterical from first half to second half.
The Bills are in it, the Bills, I’m sure you looked it up, too.
The Bills ran 46 plays in the 2nd half.
The Patriots ran 18 plays.
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Bills had a 51% success rate.
This is true media.
Patriots had a 20% success rate.
Patriots had only one successful run.
Entire second half was intense and thrilling.
That was that long Henderson touchdown.
Only four total successful plays in the entire second half.
I’m gonna, in a minute, say this is what I was worried about, Um, but the Bills cranked it up in the second half.
Their defense played really well.
They had some cool defensive game plan stuff.
I’ll talk about it, but I thought their offense just started churning.
And it was just run after run, 52% rushing success rate.
0.53 EP dropback, only two negative runs, zero sacks in the second half.
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Averaged over 7.5 yards per play.
In the second half, they really cranked it up in the second half.
And it was like, oh yeah, you guys are very good, and uh, take this one from the Patriots.
A very entertaining football game.
What do you think about this one?
Chuck?
Man, it just felt like Buffalo could do it, Like they could do no wrong, basically.
Um, just in the, In the second half alone, they ran 46 plays for 273 yards.
Uh, which I mean, for some games, for some teams like that’s the whole game, Uh, with the production, they were right, the whole game, Uh, and I think what maybe tipped the scales in their favor, 4th quarter, their average starting field position was the 47-yard line.
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And it felt like that, too, because, you know, you have, like, all these games on, But when I was looking at the Bills in the 4th quarter, I was like, man, they are at midfield, they’re getting close, Like, in the Red Zone every time they have the ball.
And when you’re spotting, like Josh Allen.
That much field position, youre gonna give up a lot of points, like in a, In a short amount of time.
Shoot, now that the Chiefs are out Out of the playoffs for good, um, theres no one thats like super scary now that youve Beaten, uh, New England, uh, at New England.
I, I guess, I guess youre looking at Denver if youre Buffalo, But shoot, I feel like Buffalo, even though they’re gonna be like on the, On the outside, looking up from a home playoff game.
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They still have as good a chance as anyone because they have Josh Allen in the offense.
Um, but again, defense was scary, and you saw that today.
If the season ended, or the projected standings right now on the Athletics model, The Bills would be the 5th seed; they would play the Steelers in round one.
I’m not.
But we just saw that game.
We just saw what happened, like, you know, I would say Rogers is really scaring you.