Did Pats take their foot off the gas- What went wrong?

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NE win streak is over. Pats up 24-7, then Josh Allen happened. Second half? Brutal. Was it more on coaching, or the players? Did Pats take their foot off the gas- What went wrong? #NFL

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00:00Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, 35-21, 35-31.

00:06Everybody's here this morning.

00:07Courtney, Curtis, Coach Wiggins.

00:10Coach, where are you emotionally this morning?

00:13You had a great game plan for the first half, and then the second half,

00:18you just, I don't know what happened.

00:20You decided not to show up.

00:22Defensively, you allowed 35 passing yards to Josh Allen in the first half,

00:27and then in the second half, you let him go out there and throw four.

00:29I think it was like $1.58.

00:31Same when you look at the Russian.

00:34It just was one of those games.

00:36I don't know what happened in the second half.

00:38Offensively, defensively, you couldn't stop anybody,

00:40and offensively, you were like 3-0, 3-0, 3-0.

00:43Yeah, I mean, Mike Vrabel was blaming it on missed tackles and penalties,

00:49but it did seem like to the novice eye that that was two different football teams,

00:56the first half team and the second half team.

00:59Which is confusing, because I'm sure Mike Vrabel was prepared for the Bills

01:03to come out in the second half and perform better,

01:05because the Bills do perform better in the second half.

01:07So that was something that I would have thought that they were better prepared for.

01:11It just felt like they lost steam in a way.

01:14Yeah, you gave this away.

01:15Yeah, you were in a great opportunity, and I had thought that this was perfect for you.

01:22You win this football game.

01:23I thought Denver was going to lose, but for some reason,

01:27Bo Nix didn't show up yesterday.

01:28It was John Elway who went out there, and he looked spectacular.

01:33Bo Nix looked really, really good yesterday.

01:36Right.

01:36So, yeah, Denver clinches.

01:40They're a playoff team.

01:41You are not yet.

01:44However, it's one loss, and there were some.

01:48We talked about this when we were doing the show with Ken and Scheim yesterday.

01:51Scheim, some wanted this football team to lose a game like that yesterday.

01:55Yeah, you don't want to lose like that, though.

01:57Like, losing a game is one thing, but losing like that is tough.

02:00That was a kick in the nuts.

02:03Like, that is how every team felt when they came to play the Patriots,

02:07when they had a better record than the Patriots,

02:10and then the Patriots were like, you know,

02:11we don't really start our games until the Thanksgiving holiday anyway,

02:15so we're going to win, beat you, and embarrass you.

02:17The second half was awful.

02:19I put so much of that on coaching.

02:22Like, the conservative approach on offense, the manner in which, like, I don't know.

02:27I know that you don't like to waste a timeout,

02:29but there were some moments where, like, the Allen offense was just, like, churning.

02:34Yeah.

02:35Like, maybe call a timeout, figure something out.

02:37I also was frustrated as hell.

02:39Like, you're up 24-7, and then it's 24-14.

02:45Yeah.

02:45And it's like, you had the double pass.

02:47You had all these creative offensive plays in the first half,

02:50and you had owned the game,

02:52and it was like the coaches took their foot off the gas,

02:55the players took their foot off the gas.

02:56You had the merchandise in the last half.

03:14But you had a major foundation.

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