Pats blow 21-0 Lead, Fail to Clinch AFC East Title

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00:00It's important, I think, to frame this game in a certain light.

00:04There are obviously two ways you can look at it.

00:06Patriots are up 21-0 at home.

00:08You don't blow leads like that if you're a good team.

00:11However, this was a young team.

00:14We say this every week.

00:16Snaps from rookies this season.

00:18I think the Patriots are second in the National Football League in that category.

00:21It's a team that didn't know how to win a game like this,

00:24and that was clear in the second half.

00:27Andrew, how do you look at this?

00:29Do you look at it as a good team who blew a lead they shouldn't have

00:32or rookies that hadn't been there before that were taught a very valuable lesson?

00:37No, this is a good team that blew it,

00:40and I think there is a lesson to be taken here,

00:43and they all know it that, as I wrote after the game,

00:46you can't commit the cardinal sin of surviving a horror movie,

00:48which is exactly what this game became once they went up 21-0,

00:52and that you've got to kill off the villain, in this case the Bills,

00:54in this case the division champions, when you have the chance,

00:57and they did not early in that second half when Drake May,

01:00who was 9-11 at halftime, goes 5-12 after that,

01:04and part of it was taking sacks.

01:06The interception was whatever.

01:07It was basically an arm punt, but he was inaccurate,

01:09and the simplest analysis going into this game was the right one,

01:13because when you look at the construction of both of these teams,

01:16the quarterback who plays best was going to win this game.

01:19It was obviously Drake May in the first half,

01:21but what Josh Allen did in the second half, of course, with James Cook,

01:25is what won this game for Buffalo,

01:27and deeper stats would tell you this was just the third inaccurate performance

01:31of Drake May's season by completion percentage over expected.

01:35That's a third in the last five games,

01:37so there's something here where he's kind of,

01:40I'm not saying regressed because he's still great,

01:42he's going to be fine,

01:43but when he's not at his best,

01:46which is to be expected sometimes,

01:48the Patriots are going to suffer because of how much is on his shoulders.

01:50That's what this was about to me.