Patriots Blow Lead to Bills in Historic AFC East Showdown

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00:00Adam Kaufman saw firsthand the battle for the AFC East, which looked like it was going to go one

00:05way, and then it went the other. So let's bring him in to ask him what happened here. Adam,

00:10great to have you back here, of course, on the show on Newswire. It looked like the Patriots

00:13were going to wrap up the AFC East at halftime. To me, they were up 21-0. It was a real impressive

00:19offensive performance, but defensively, the Patriots looked stout. What went wrong in the

00:25second half? Is it just simply they're playing against the very best player in the National

00:30Football League, and it isn't even close? Is that the fair assessment? Because to me,

00:34that's sure how it looks like right now. I think there are multiple things at play.

00:38Obviously, for anyone that watched that game or was in attendance as I was, we saw history.

00:44The Patriots had won 120 straight games at home when leading by at least 17 points. Matter of fact,

00:51in NFL history, a team had never, a team sitting at least nine games over 500, leading by at least

00:5920 points, had never lost, period, in league history. So the Patriots giving up a 21-0 lead,

01:06obviously it was 24-7 at the break, and then watching that onslaught from Josh Allen in the

01:11second half, it was historic. In terms of how it kind of happened, it was very much both sides of

01:18the football, a tale of two halves. You had a Bills offense that really couldn't do anything in that

01:23opening half. In fact, Josh Allen had negative passing yardage in the opening quarter of the

01:28game. They weren't running particularly well. Travion Henderson was running all over the place.

01:34Ramondre Stevenson to a degree as well. You had two design runs for touchdowns out of Drake May.

01:38For whatever reason, and really the shift began late in the second quarter, but into the second

01:44half, it just completely flipped. The Bills scored touchdowns on five straight drives. That's not

01:51just scoring. It was touchdowns on five straight drives. And New England defensively, even though

01:58they are a top 10 defense in the NFL by many, many metrics, their red zone efficiency defensively

02:05is awful. Offense and defense, for that matter. But defensively, they have the worst red zone

02:11from showing across the board. 75%. That's the efficiency. 75% of drives from their opponents

02:21and in touchdowns. Never mind putting points up with field goals. And at home at Gillette Stadium,

02:26it's even worse. It's 85%. The Bills went five for six in the red zone yesterday. I think you

02:32could look at the Pats offense. It scored only seven points in that second half. Only mustered 100 total

02:39yards. And see how just the shift in play calling happened. Travion Henderson, I know he had the 65-yard

02:46touchdown run, but barely had any attempts in the second half. They broke away from the run

02:51kind of altogether. I don't really understand why they would abandon something that was working so

02:55well for them in the opening half. And yeah, Josh Allen is a machine. Guys come back from down double

03:01digits in the second half in the fourth quarter, no less, against Baltimore, against Cincinnati. And here,

03:06obviously, in this game, overcomes the three touchdown deficit. Patriots should still win

03:11the division. They're up a game. They hold a slew of tiebreakers. But the Bills are absolutely not a

03:16team that anyone wants to mess around with in the playoffs. That's for sure.