The metropolis Bills evidenced that they are a mentally thickened aggroup by nearly battling backwards from a 14-point inadequacy against the New England Patriots, but they also evidenced that they are not essentially beatific by dropping behind, imperfectness to near the notch and dropping 37-31 to their AFC East rival.
There were a aggregation of expensive mistakes.
The Bills sworn 14 penalties for 148 yards, fivesome of which gave the Patriots prototypal downs. It started early, with threesome penalties motion a 3rd-and-1 on Buffalo's inaugural intend into a 3rd-and-21, which the aggroup unsuccessful to convert.
Those flags were at their poorest in the prototypal half, when the Bills composed 10 of them for 119 yards. The rigour of whatever of the flags could be questioned, but regardless, the Bills had chances to intend and unsuccessful to cipher because of the other, more expensive mistakes: turnovers.
"You invoke it over at the digit and you invoke it over on our half of the field, they intend a brief touchdown discover of it," Bills nous railcar Chan Gailey said (per BuffaloBills.com).
"We are not beatific sufficiency still to not endeavor extremely substantially and win. We've got to endeavor extremely substantially to win. We're not there yet. There are whatever another teams that crapper do that. We're not. We're not digit of those teams. We are confident of effort there, but we hit not gotten there and it's my employ to intend us there. We can't invoke it over threesome nowadays and intend ball games most of the time."
The turnovers were not the imperfectness of the work staff. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was answerable for digit of the team's threesome turnovers, a sack-fumble in the prototypal half and the game-ending interception.
The sack-fumble came as a termination of miscommunication on the opprobrious line, allowing antitank face Vince Wilfork to intend finished the middle. The interception came on a miscommunication between Fitzpatrick and panoramic earpiece T.J. Graham, who ran the criminal route, selection behindhand Devin McCourty when he should hit revilement in face of him.
Had he finished the latter, it would hit been an cushy catch. Because he did the former, it was an cushy catch—but for the criminal guy.
To Fitzpatrick's credit, he place the aggroup in function to intend the game, overcoming a intense period from the accumulation and from those around him on offense. They showed their possibleness at nowadays against the Patriots. Fitzpatrick said after the mettlesome (per BuffaloBills.com):
"Offensively that's the collection of aggroup and the collection of mettlesome organisation and the clog that we poverty to do. We got our guys the touches. We got whatever endeavor state throws with the artefact they were activity downfield a lowercase bit. Got histrion involved, Stevie involved, Donald did whatever beatific stuff. We've meet got to encounter a artefact to vantage it discover at the end."
He's correct in those aspects (and though he didn't name streaming backwards C.J. Spiller, the Bills eventually got him participating with 17 touches for 112 yards).
What Fitzpatrick doesn't contact on is what collection of aggroup the Bills unsmooth up against; that existence digit of the league's poorest transfer defenses. He also didn't contact on what collection of aggroup the Bills revealed themselves to be in motion the ball over and committing expensive penalties.
Fred Jackson, same Fitzpatrick, water into the collection of having finished so such to support his aggroup fisticuffs back, but not sufficiency in the key moment, expiration up a bloomer at New England's 1-yard distinction that killed a possibleness scoring drive.
Regardless of who gets the blame, though, well-coached teams with precocious players ofttimes don't attain those kinds of mistakes.
It appears the Bills, correct now, are neither a well-coached aggroup nor digit in cacoethes of precocious players. Changes are reaching soon, and they are probable subtractions. With the back and the nous railcar in focus, the science shouldn't be likewise hornlike to do.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.
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