2015 Bills @ Patriots

on this clear 29 degree night here's lisa with rex ryan thank you mike rex you've said that you really thought that they tried to embarrass you in that week too lost how do you return that favor tonight well we're just going to go out and give them everything we have tonight we know we're a better football team than than we were in week two in in a few minutes and later tonight we're gonna find out how much better tom brady threw for 466 yards against you the most any quarterback ever has against one of your defenses what do you throw with him tonight well no we're gonna mix it up on him he's not gonna be able to sit back there i can promise you he's not gonna have that kind of night all right thank you good luck to you guys all right we will see if that promise is delivered on bill belichick and the patriots by this time next week could be the amc east champs we'll talk about that scenario if it factors in later on as usual when the patriots win the toss they defer chandler jones and the defense goes on the field to handle buffalo's offense first steven gustowski as good as it gets in this league not just with the field goals the game-winner against the giants last sunday at metlife in new jersey but also outstanding with the touchbacks as well buffalo it is good to have you back on monday night football it's been 2009 since then since we've seen the bills on a monday and they'll start it at the 20s there's no return with daenerys moore watching the guskowski kiss kick all right tyron taylor comes out virginia tech he wanted to go there because he was from the same area as michael vick and broke all the records there at virginia tech was an apprentice for four years in baltimore to joe flacco first opportunity as a starter missed a few games with a knee injury job but that completion percentage and the running ability has made it a good return since injury reminds me of russell wilson of the seahawks mike 250 yards rushing a very dangerous scrambler and he's taking care of the football so far look at this out of the gate john both was john mccoy and carlos williams together in the backfield it swings out to mccoy good move he's so good in space so that's a nice nine yard game to start logan ryan there for the tackle both backs together the rookie williams out of florida state can they get the ball to sami watkins he'd like to see more passes downfield to him charles play the tight end could be a big factor for this game and richie incognito that left guard has played very well for buffalo thus far this year not on the first plate jerome felt in the fullback tries to lead mccoy but gerard mayo whose play time is diminished of late might see a lot of them tonight in the game where buffalo looks to run the ball john mayo had a bad injury last year he is back number 51 left side of your screen you have to set the edge against these buffalo bill sweep plays that time felt number 42 the fullback missed at the point of attack third and five mayo had only played 49 snaps the last three games but in there jamie collins the linebackers still out for new england third straight week mccoy is up at the top of the screen and the linebacker hightower goes with him on third and five taylor pressured hit and it's incomplete malcolm brown the real rising rookie came up the gun along with dominique easley to put the pressure off and so did davon wilson back up safety man on a twist it's an inside blitz and they punish ty rod taylor great start for this new england defense and buffalo continues to have a lot of three and outs with their offense easily gets the credit for the pressure there not brown here is the ton first time tonight for colton schmidt of the bills and he's caught the 27-yard line and evan's goal is return only to the 34 and a good special teams player marcus easley's down for the bills and immediately the buffalo athletic training staff is out there to look it easily as you see the bills lot the bills concern for their injured player the patriots brought that offense out with tom brady they'll wait a moment as they look it easily basically out of the university of connecticut it is fifth year does have a touchdown this year you see he was making the tackle on amendola and one of his teammates came in to finish off the tackle and got the most of the guy who went to school at stores we always talk about matthew slater outstanding special teamer for the patriots easley is a core special teamer and such a key man to buffalo as you can see certainly dazed by that hit so he'll go through the full testing from the athletic training staff for the bills on their sideline so here comes tom brady and the patriots as they huddle they'll start it at their own 34-yard line you saw the players who the patriots were intending on starting tonight there was so much question john about the injuries up front they've been so mixed up up front because of those injuries and we'll note that cameron fleming is out there for the first snap at the starting right tackle even though sebastian vollmer is active and was working with the first unit in warm-ups tonight [Applause] first play it will be a run and flood we'll gain only our 35-yard line you'll be stopped in the early going you alluded to this in the pre-game as this offense morphs a little bit we're going to see a lot more legarrette plunge as the weather gets cold yes and you're going to see a lot of up tempo to try to regulate rex ryan and all the different defenses that he wants to run second and eight first pass towards gronkowski it's caught for the first down around darby over there on that side of the defense and it'll move the chains brady as lisa alluded to when interviewing rex ryan 466 yards whether rex is a head coach or a defensive coordinator most yards a quarterback is thrown for against one of his defenses [Applause] rex ryan you knew it was something to the right mike that time they ran a one-back power play there is rex ryan he knows that this patriot offense has scored on their opening possession the last three outings important they get a stop on second to nine the bills thought they caught a little movement king stare to our referee tonight offense number 60 five yard penalty still second down let's show you the folks on that buffalo defense jerry hughes had a very productive start this season mario williams only three sacks so far it's a guy with 94 in his career manny lawson preston brown nigel bratton the backers already called ronald darby having an excellent rookie season on the corner and you are very high on stefan gilmore the other corner like him a lot he's going to be a rich man he's a free agent playing for a big contract penalty made it second and 14 lawson was rushing the release to james white there'll be a yard shot in the first down tackled by bakari rambo in that sec there let's make a two-yard shot of the first down gonna be a screen pass to your left they bluff the rusher and james white important that he steps up and fills a big set of shoes that dion lewis left behind they've had a lot of success over the years with kevin fault shane vereen lewis was spectacular and they need white in a big way no julian edelman who's going to pick up the receiving slack perhaps chris harper will see more of a roll under after rookie out of cow is bottom of your screen spread out for 32 brady couldn't get the timeout i don't think before the movement by marcus cannon the left tackle ball start offense number 61. five-yard penalty third down that's two false starts already this offensive line it's amazing what bill belichick has been able to get done with tom brady in this offensive line you see fleming playing right tackle he played left tackle last week the center wasn't even drafted cannon the left tackle has been out for a few weeks i don't know who's coming and going with tom brady up front two penalties already [Applause] mike jack will there be 19. third and seventh hills break pressure another flag is down off the hands of gronkowski into the hands of rambo bakari rambo with the pick and some space across the 30 and down at the 24-yard line let's check the flag brady also took a hit and went down afterwards let's sort out the flag is that ball off the hands of gronkowski and bakari rambo if it stands will have a 39-yard return of the interception and it looks like he'll stay this way there are fouls by both teams on the play illegal formation offense number 61 was not on the line of scrimmage also prior to the pass holding defense number 20. those penalties offset and we will replay they're down the bill's defense started walking off the field after they heard the first report of a penalty and you see all the different looks mike that rex ryan has given to tom brady they've caused two false starts and they're causing a lot of communication with their rookie center and veteran quarterback watch carefully at all the movement in this buffalo defense in these obvious passing situations james white the back third and seventh pressure right up the middle at brady got rid of it complete for the first down to amendola at the 40. it's a gain of 11. corey graham got there a second later hard to coach this brady stands right in there under intense pressure and throws a beautiful strike for a first down pocket toughness and brady has done it for a long time that's impressive as i said john that interception before that was nullified with the offsetting penalties brady also took a really heavy shot so the bills are getting there early legarrette now the running back on first down virtually no gain as he is tearing down it was alex carrington on the stop this was after the interception brady took a step or two towards the play and then got hit by nigel bratton that's right at the hairy edge of what should be a foul they protect quarterbacks in that situation if you're pursuing a tackle you can be hit like that brady had only taken one step that way so that was just on the edge the second down and nod now a lot of time for brady who directs and just throws it incomplete in the direction of avendola that time new england got into their three tight end set mike three tight ends one running back that's a running formation that time they lined up in a no back set buffalo rush three and there's nobody open the bills were asking from their sideline if that should have been intentional grounding you saw where amendola was the ball bounced to him brady had moved to the left and was out of the tackle box there is no foul for illegal contact defense as the quarterback was out of the pocket when the contact took place it's an incomplete pass and will be third down the ring look at this buffalo defense leotis mcelveen has checked in how many corners or x corners around the field corey graham you see darby 28 stefan gilmore there are a lot of different coverage people nickel roby number 37 to match up with these open formations that patriots [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is third and nine here comes another pressure from the secondary and the pass is incomplete intended for dobson but the flag comes down it was gilmore in coverage on aaron dobson well these blitzes are getting home mike that's the third time brady's been hit i'll see [Applause] and buffalo who leads the league in penalties commits a big one here that's gilmore at right corner that's clearly a penalty watch nickel roby at the bottom of the screen rex ryan will rush four defenders you just don't know which four they are so far i've seen graham and roby get home from the bill's secondary it's a couple of different times buffalo buffet stopped the patriots but the drive continues [Applause] hey 52. 25 first down and brady incomplete bronkowski was easily covered that time by rambo and again they get to top well cameron fleming the right tackle has his hands full he played left tackle last week he was cut at the end of training camp and i don't know how you come from the left side to the right side on a weekly basis but tom brady is going to need this running game because buffalo is putting him to the ground mcgarrett blunt runs to the left [Music] and he gains about two yards so i think you know blunt story was in pittsburgh last year and he left the field early in that game and then was picked up by new england chance to return back to new england had five very productive games three touchdowns 148 yards in the championship game folks around here knew what he was all about and what becomes even more important after that injury to dion lewis it'll be split between blunt james white and brandon bolden so it's third and seven again this time no pressure amendola can't get to the sticks pulled down to the 17 by leotis mckelvin and we'll get a 35-yard field goal attempt from gustowski good to see leotis mckelvin healthy again he missed the first six or seven games number 21 with a beautiful one-on-one tackle against amendola that sets up goskowski and how good is steven goskowski mike that's pretty good 30 in a row you mentioned the game-winner for the pro bowl kicker last couple of seasons ryan allen puts it down it's a 35-yard field goal attempt and not through so despite buffalo getting to brady hitting brady on that drive still they make enough plays bills with a penalty pack with a field goal [Music] espn's monday night football is brought to you by nationwide nationwide is on your side gmc we are professional grade gillette 25 million guys have switched to the gillette flex ball will you and espn fan shop.com powered by dick's sporting goods above here now inside flint stadium our coverage tonight from spider cam is brought to you by directv very impressive no overcoat for you 29 degrees you're tough enough here [Music] i'm speechless mike wait my teeth are chattering here i'm breaking into the cold it was an interesting first drive because you saw so much from rex ryan the built the bills held the patriots to a field goal the patriots have to be wondering you know what how we're gonna match this the rest of the way daenerys moore will return this from a yard deep in the end zone very little room tremendous special teamer nate ebner in on the tackle it's gonna give tyrod taylor and the buffalo offense 87 yards to go bring up the pats and they're in the lab figuring out what's next [Music] no number 91 jamie collins remains out for the third straight week dealing with an illness he hasn't even been practicing yet the patriots defense came up big in their last performance in this stadium limiting the redskins to 10 points taylor on first down from the 13. that pass complete to robert woods who works it just near the 21-yard line mark him officially at the 20. so matt patricia is the defensive coordinator for the new england patriots is the group they're working with mentioned nikovich and chandler jones on the ends jonathan freiny's played a lot more was a special teamer now becoming a defensive stalwart hightower outstanding and malcolm butler that super bowl hero keeps making big play after big play elevator going up for malcolm sean mccoy with the carriage that'll be a first down jonathan freiny makes the tackle sean mccoy missed a couple of games john with that hamstring injury we were visiting the bills in training camp the day you heard that hamstring couldn't get right but now you can see the bye week in the health back to back 112 yard games but also the dancing that we saw so often with mccoy in philadelphia he's a workhorse back and he can really catch the football he's the only guy in the league has carried it over 300 times the last two seasons look at their two best backs back there together again mccoy and the rookie williams the shot will take it to the right old trip over his teammate and it will be no gain back at the 25. this is a shotgun operation that greg roman the offensive coordinator of the bills utilizes roman came here from the 49ers he had experience with colin kaepernick a mobile running tight quarterback and they rely on taylor not only as a runner but as a threat after he hands the ball off he paralyzes defenses on the backside after the gain of one here is taylor got a good pocket to throw from it's another first down again it is woods robert woods third year out of southern cal 29 catches coming into tonight on this truck just a simple hook by number 10 woods right over the ball against his zone coverage catch it north south split defenders get the first down good decisive work by woods high percentage completion another first and ten and buffalo using a lot of two half back sets both carlos williams and mccoy together in the backfield [Applause] mccoy got a block from williams turned it up that's what i talked that's the acceleration we saw with shady mccoy in philadelphia gate of 11 and a buffalo first down their third on this draw and right corner malcolm butler has to make that tackle watch here at the bottom of the screen malcolm butler's got to step up make this tackle for sean mccoy running hard tonight as he gets into a rhythm in this buffalo bill style offense remember he played with andy reid then chip kelly now he's here with greg roman there's not a running play that lashon mccoy hasn't run and most running plays he makes better terrific back there he goes again the gain of four to midfield talking about shady and all the things he did in philadelphia became the all-time leading eagles rusher going to the pro bowl three times with philadelphia and those back-to-back hundred yard games that he has coming into tonight he's never had 103 consecutive games we visited with him last night you get the sense of his building comfort with his offense and this system as you said a different one for him yes indeed [Applause] second and six breather for mccoy williams will carry and he will gain three yards what is it that you like about carlos williams john he's big he makes a lot of yards mike and he scores touchdowns every time he plays i think he scored a touchdown in every game of the year but he's a completely different sized back he's got good elusiveness and he can catch a football as well they've got two all-purpose backs that are talented and clearly tonight they're using them both together missed three games for the concussion that's why he's still sitting on that record his first six games this game 10 for the bills chance to break that rookie mark set by robert edwards who's remember patriot fans injured that beach pro bowl week accident taylor scrambling with the flag down he's got the first down inside the 40. the safety tavon wilson got him to 39 but as we said there's a flag back in the backfield illegal formation offense number 66 was not on the line of scrimmage five yard penalty replay third down johnny no flags in buffalo we've seen that shot a lot when you watch bill's games that's ridiculous too late in this season and henderson's played too much football to not line up correctly on third down and it sets up third down and eight you have to keep an eye at the bottom of the screen of chandler jones number 95 had a couple sacks against courtney glenn in the first matchup with best receiving options all three are in that punch right at the bottom of the screen patriots will bring an extra rush of this time taylor's got the blocking but incomplete on the pass for woods and after a couple of first downs buffalo will punt it away penalties on henderson nullifies a first down penalty on gilmore keeps a drive alive that sets up a field goal you're not going to win in this stadium i don't know what the patriots one lost record is in this place but you're not going to beat them if you commit penalties it's a lot to a little especially if you're in the ac believe me i have lived that colton schmidt only has one touch back this year heavy rush no flag [Applause] as that ball dies right around the 25 yard line there's only 27 on the kick great pressure from the pass [Music] whether as a head coach or a defensive coordinator the 15th time rex ryan goes up against tom brady what'd he tell us last night john i got to change the picture on him what does that mean well he's going to give him some looks that he hasn't seen he's had 11 days to get ready i'm going to show three rushers at the top of the screen make brady send the protection that way and then bring two the other way he completely fooled brady with the blitz but credit to brady for getting the ball off before the blitz got home rex ryan is going to continue to give tom brady different looks he's going to show pressure and not blitz he's going to show coverage and then bring blitz but tom brady has his hands full tonight deciphering rex ryan's defenses after an 11 day [Applause] is layoff second drive for brady and the patriots and on the cross a ton of room for brandon lafell into buffalo territory first down a gain of 28 yards well you wanted somebody to step up for julian edelman this is a bad defense by buffalo it's just a simple shallow cross zone defense no one covers it tom brady it just seems he can play with any lineman any backs and any receivers every year and get better astonishing [Applause] the garrett blunt faked him brady in the throat to the tight end of scott chandler and we'll give him three yards on that player familiar to bill's fans scott spent the first four years of his career in buffalo and the patriots changing personnel frequently you see dobson amendola check back into the game they're using three tight ends they come back with three receivers and rex ryan has to counter with multiple secondary people here comes brady saw sebastian valmer 76 he's been in on this drive missed last week blood is tackled good internal pressure from marcel darius for the bills for the loss pro bowl player and darius at the top of the screen rejects this cutback run by legarrette blount so far buffalo has shut down the patriot running game and it's third and long another blitz disguise galaxy what's the mike's right [Applause] well the hand signals the pressure comes brady just hit the bail and get rid of it and the pass is incomplete couldn't account for everyone as preston brown was the rusher who came free it's an all-out blitz and brady thought that rex was going to bail out that time rex brought it and preston brown number 52 comes clean right up the middle and tom has no chance but to throw the ball away so far rex ryan is giving tom brady every look in the book seventh coming there ryan allen drops it straight down trying to make it a tough one for mckelvin to catch trying to kill it out of bounds and it takes a right turn right around the 15-yard line that's where buffalo's third drive will begin with three seconds left in this opening quarter figure out a pressure plant over there on the new england side [Music] got a tablet for three there belichick mcdaniels and brady josh mcdaniels offensive coordinator a lot of brain power there trying to figure out all minds all these looks that rex ryan has been giving the new england offense and to sort them out as the game goes on look for a tendency just three seconds remain in the corner as buffalo begins its third drive from their own 15-yard line tyrod taylor incomplete for shady mccoy gerard mayo and the coverage of the quarter comes to an end after one in foxborough pat's three nothing [Music] espn celebrating the legacy of monday night football three nothing patriots as the second quarter begins he went from undrafted to super bowl hero number five corner to number one corner malcolm butler last week it was following odell beckham jr and john as you look at more tape malcolm butler goes a lot of times not all but a lot of times where the best receiver goes tonight that's sammy watkins it's an impressive trait that butler has playing star coverage this early in his career second and ten as the quarter begins and with sean mccoy only for two yards tavon wilson down in the box there helping it on the tackle well beckham got loose for a big play early in the game last week but he responded down the stretch and so far against sammy watkins tonight so good but buffalo has got to get sammy watkins involved in this offense only 22 catches he had eight a couple weeks ago against the dolphins but this is a young man that needs to see the football to recognize his greatness this time in his passing situation more dbs on the field for new england as taylor is in trouble chandler jones almost gets the sack nikovich chases him taylor on the run throws complete for the first down to woods at the 34-yard line that is where he is so good that's russell wilson i said it earlier he reminds me of wilson i don't know how he gets out of this chandler jones has him down can't get it done here's nikovich can't bring him down and he has the poise and the talent to make those kind of plays what a play by tyrod taylor when there was nothing there officially to the 35-yard line so we'll make the game 18. buffalo's fourth first down in this first half mccoy accelerates and lashawn mccoy tackled by jonathan freiny the game six yards there well we talked about russell wilson you mentioned him john he and tyrod taylor went head to head a couple of times in 2010 north carolina state led by wilson with a good edge with back from the hokies led by the quarterback who said the virginia tech records tyrod taylor walked out of there with a victory in that head-to-head meeting and taylor's been sitting around for four years on the bench as a backup but getting that starting opportunity this year after moving from baltimore here to buffalo but he's missing his rookie right guard for the moment john miller the third round pick out of louisville injured in that last play bill's athletic training staff out to look at him monday night football is brought to you by burger king now get 10 chicken nuggets only at bk toyota let's go places and nfl.com now watch what's trending in the nfl with the all new nfl now you're seeing some pictures of joe cardona the patriots rookie long snapper who also has a job during the week beyond the past naval prep academy in newport rhode island of course he finished up at the naval academy was a fifth round pick by the patriots very unique circumstance when he's not working here he's working there honoring his service commitment joe cardone has done a very good job of course the ties with bill belichick and his naval background cardona drafted and in the lead well concern for the buffalo bills as john miller has been lifted onto the cart and classy the patriots players as well as they've gone over along with the bills for miller i'll show you how this third round pick from louisville he got injured there he is 76 his leg gets whipped there the leg whip from hightower [Applause] and he was in a great deal of pain as he was down and they took off that shoe so the bills lose one of their starting offensive lineman john and craig erbig comes into the game of the interior it's a big loss i think general manager doug whaley did a great job with his draft choices they didn't have a first round pick they got ron darby in the second round he's been a very good corner carlos williams has been a good back and john miller has been a starter at right guard keep an eye on urbik at right guard when i've seen him play he has struggled this season let's see if new england tries to exploit that he's been around buffalo for a long time with starting experience this is taylor and his pass is caught by mccoy right near midfield and taylor was getting hit as he threw right off that right side jabal shearer dex cleveland brown right in tyrod taylor's face jontrell henderson at right tackle struggling and ty rod taylor showing me something tonight scrambling standing in the pocket and doing a lot at the line of scrimmage with this buffalo bill offense audibly here he goes again the shy of midfield williams made the first man miss the backfield that lost the football and fell right back on his stomach [Applause] very fortunate to get it back and the gains five and dominique easley saw that carrot out there [Music] cold night ball security to emphasize it both these teams have taken care of the football they're plus in the turnover ratio big reason why they're playing good football hills have turned it over 11 times in nine games patriots just seven thus far this year mccoy trying to get to the edge woods does a really nice job just a standoff by the wide receiver blocking allows mccoy to get the first down you said it mike what a job by robert woods it's hard to motivate your wide receivers to block at the point of attack like woods take a look at number 10 on the left side of your screen blocking tavonne wilson sustaining the block and allowing lashawn mccoy to stretch the ball to the perimeter that's impressive he said it this week john i know i know my role it's blocking only been targeted eight times for the last hundred plus snaps taylor throw complete and it is mccoy on the catch are they using lashawn a lot first down game just over four yards that's where i want to see more of lashawn mccoy utilized in the passing game he can line up as a receiver in these no back formations and kill you in one-on-one situations nice work by greg roman using a lot of different personnel groupings and formations chris hogan 15 in the game they backed him off the line to get everybody properly aligned just a short gain of a couple of yards there carlos williams you mentioned all the different things roman likes to do i don't know how he calls the game mike he's got all these different running plays inside zone zone reads gap runs traps perimeter tosses i can talk about his running game all night draws direct quarterback runs i mean i don't know what look at his menu of plays he's got i know he's got to have a rolodex or something to figure out which play to get to next it's a collage of offense his background is vast maybe white's taking some time to get better in terms of the diversity as the season has gone on play clock running down third and four and taylor with the shot for hogan broken up by chung and incomplete almost intercepted all the deflection by the rod harmon well ty rod taylor's got to make this throw to beat tom brady on the road hogan is running by jump and taylor under threw him [Applause] good no call poorly thrown football by tyrod taylor hogan had a couple steps against patrick chung see the ball hits chung even though he doesn't go back to acknowledge the ball that allows the no pass interference it turns into a long field goal attempt of 52 yards for dan carpenter that is pure on this chilly night so the bill's driving down the field starting at their own 15. you got a field goal to square the game in three hills have three could have had seven john gotta make these throws the protection is excellent and watch hogan in the slot he's gonna run right by chung on this swing route taylor's gotta make this play mike and he knows it fortunate on that deflection harmon just couldn't secure it doesn't turn into a pick and it gives carpenter the chance on this cold night to bang a 52 yarder that is with the breeze breeze is going left to right as you watch and the bills carry two place kickers jordan gay is the kickoff specialist for that reason touchback back to brady's bunch from the 20 in a moment well here at patriot place there's been some milestones in that patriots hall of fame for tom brady but how about the real hall of fame dominance over one team dan marino 72 touchdowns against the jets as most brady 61 against these bills is second one more than farve over the chicago bears and tom brady 11 more to get to in his career against buffalo to be number one against one team by a quarterback it's a run with brandon bolden for first down here and right now they're not close to any of that john as new england doesn't have the answer offensively to the rex riddle i don't think new england knows who they want to be on their offensive line it's another lineup change i see stork in the game now number 66. he's playing center for andrews andrews hadn't missed the snap at center all year mason just checked into left guard i don't know who's coming and going for new england up front three drives three different setups up front they're very versatile brady has no one open and just gets rid of it incomplete and it will be third down dave de guillermo is the offensive line coach dante scarnecki was here for a long time this group because of injuries john and their versatility used many different combinations this year many not one starter right now from last year's super bowl i have no idea why andrews was pulled out of the football game but clearly rex ryan has the patriot offensive line in a state of confusion we saw at the end of the last drive brady was very unhappy with the alliance a third and 10 run and will be short of the first down with james white so buffalo gets a three and out on this drive their best defensive showing so far and new england's back to the drawing board here have not seen a third and nine inside handoff from tom brady in a while they have to find five linemen that can stay healthy and play down the stretch or tom brady is going to have to make some major adjustments not a good kick into the win by ryan allen it'll get us some roll was going to end up being a 41-yard kick down to the 31-yard line that's where the bills will take over 3-3 games [Music] take again john's second possession tom brady's gone over frustrated with the offensive line play they do not have their act together right now to figure out what rex ryan's trying to do well they've had two false starts they haven't run the ball he made some mistakes and massive substitutions already here early in the second quarter by stopping them three now this is the best buffalo field position of this night the bills take over at their own 31 in a 3-3 game mccoy and they run out of the shotgun gained just a couple of yards i'm john i really love the fact that mayo is playing and playing well i mentioned earlier the dwindling snaps under 50 in the last three games total but this is a veteran who's been a captain here who knows when it's my time to play my role i'm gonna play it to my best and you gotta tip your hat to a veteran player who has helped freeny his replacement learned his defense five years in a row he had over a hundred tackles and he's responsible for helping number 55 freeing he find his niche here in new england what a team player charles clay quiet so far 85 the tight end block hightower but hightower pops off that block minimizes the mccoy gain and we'll have third down coming up lot of specialization in this patriot defense they use a lot of different personnel different defensive tackles number 72 akeem hicks the x new orleans saint acquired in a trade he's a run stuffer and on third down they bring in their first round picks easily number 99 malcolm brown number 90. they use a lot of different bodies creatively to do what they do best taylor jones who started this week atop the league list ten and a half sacks he's dropping in coverage here as taylor on the run throws incomplete tried to get it to robert woods again hightower was putting on the heat logan ryan had the coverage and it's punting time i like logan ryan the ex rutgers performer he leads the uh the patriots with four interceptions mike he quietly has come around i thought new england would be in trouble without revis and browner but man if these young coroners stepped up for bill belichick win at colton schmidt's back another good rush on him he gets this one away to the amendola back after the 60-yard kick and from the six he returns it only to the 13-yard line duke williams the safety on the tackle [Music] back here in new england the current 53-man roster that's excluding the players who are on ir there's not one first rounder on the offensive side of the ball for new england go back a bit to find the last time they took one of those edge guys skill guy a receiver a running back a tight end lawrence moroney was the last one in 2006 he had some productive years in big touchdown season 21 total as a matter of fact in his four years that he played with new england but didn't really pan out the way you thought a first rounder might they've had brady for all these years but they haven't brought in those great players in terms of first round draft picks around him underneath it is caught by amendola who gets out of bounds the yard shy of the first down at the 22-yard line and john here we are again in that mode with new england it is the players that they bring in from different places they don't get caught under a huge contract with many guys they find ways to find the answers within their roster by developing guys in this system credit bill belichick he's only interested in the present second and one to the air to grump couldn't bring it in play was negated earlier because of offsetting fouls was a pass gronkowski had in his hands and then didn't catch can't get that one it's third and one ball thrown just outside the cylinder of gronkowski's reach setting up a short yardage situation offensive line by the way same group as the last drive and they clear enough space for the first down on the ground with brandon bolden as he takes it across the 25-yard line well it's just a zone stretch play right off the right side and bolden who's been in his patriot offense for a while presses it right off the right side behind cannon and sebastian vollmer nice block by williams number 85 first down patriots [Applause] and stork in that center on this drive brady on play action nothing open deep scrambles and gets rid of it as he is out of the tackle box no grounding but second down this cory graham of the buffalo bills is very interesting the x corner of the baltimore ravens converted to safety puts a lick on brady graham leads the bills in tackles he had a concussion in the opener against the colts wasn't out long this is one tough customer a perfect rex ryan defender it's really improved his communication with aaron williams their other safety out for a while their number one safety had that neck injury came back for a bit now on injured reserve designated to return can come back in mid-december brady similar looking play over the top toss to the middle great catch aaron dobson in traffic comes up gingerly but has the first out of the 43-yard line boy great catch and great throw in a tight window i just talked about graham number 20. they wish they had him in the post poorly played by rambo in the middle of the field and dobson is getting looked at by the training staff we talked about the patriots not taking receivers or running backs or tight ends in the first round thompson was taken to the second round a couple of years ago his third year out of marshall 37 catches early but had that foot problem back in 2014 and the patriots who saw julian edelman injure his foot last week a couple of weeks ago it was dion lewis now see dobson come off slowly and we're gonna have to look for chris harper mike number 14. just activated off the practice squad at some point we may see there he is 14 right there he's been a couple times already they're gonna need harper to step up they have that saying here like everywhere we go next man up harper in the slot at the bottom of the screen four receivers now available to the patriots with the injury to dobson matthew slater the great special team or being one of the four so after the catch by dobson new england has it at its own 42 and brady aborts that screen attempt with bouldin john buffalo who seems to have the answers right now when we talked to rex ryan last night there was a confidence about the plan for tonight and how they were going to give brady different looks and keep them off balance and so far rex got to feel really good about the way this first half is gone he's got a lot of corners that can cover that time he's used stephon gilmore to cover gronkowski we talked about that in the pregame he feels good about his edge corners against anybody new england [Applause] and new england's talent on those edges not the same with the injuries brady underneath amendola an umbrella of bills waiting to bring him down and they do at the 46 yard line rex ryan mixing it up that time a three-man rush and it's eight men in coverage he's showing an inside blitz but he's going to rush three buffalo bills and right after the catch buffalo bills are everywhere is it a blitz is it a bluff you be the judge [Applause] gronkowski into block brady has nobody opened and manny lawson brings him down for the flag comes down right by the sack spot [Applause] they bluff the blitz they fool the patriots again and tom brady can't be happy holding offense number 76 penalty has declined fourth down [Applause] showing an all-out blitz the inside linebackers will bluff and volmer who has been hurt gets beat by manny lawson a jack of all trades for buffalo former first round pick of the 49ers good pressure by aj tarpley almost got to that punt fair catch signal for and made on the dive as the punt was stopped up there in the wind by leotis mcelveen the number one scoring offense in the national football league the new england patriots limited to three in this first half time it comes down good to turn the monday night lights on some of the prep heroes and stars how about zaverian brothers the high school private catholic all boys school westwood mass undefeated season is rolling they had a chance to check out paul the great patriot place hallway be malcolm butler for a moment virtual reality if you will to make the pick like malcolm did severian's undefeated got their annual thanksgiving week game at fenway park against st john's prep and then play in the division one championship against central catholic here at gillette stadium on december 5th folks in this area it's a great day of prep football hope you can get out here and enjoy it sean mccoy on that first down carry to the 23-yard line we mentioned that they're playing at fenway park they reconfigured fenway for that notre dame boston college game on saturday some high schools are getting their opportunity to play games there there's a hurling competition there yesterday at fenway so it's been a great football weekend here in new england this thanksgiving weekend what experience that would be to play in fenway your son played in yankee stadium right lehigh played last year big win for the leopards [Applause] second and five for tyron taylor in the bills virtually even game in terms of yards so far mccoy has been the main cog in this offense jabel shearer comes up and makes that play it'll be third down the ball sheard is a good player he's versatile he can play right in left hand you can put him inside over the guard they gave him an 11 million dollar contract to come in here and be a versatile bill belichick no english patriot four sacks he's been very productive third at four where is sammy watkins of the buffalo bills top of the screen in this four wide set up is watkins boy wide open hogan that time he catches it into bill's territory into pat's territory at the 45-yard line somebody blew a coverage no one covered hogan second time he's been behind the patriots secondary this time taylor didn't miss him 31 yards on the grab by chris hogan and the bill's driving at the two-minute warning 3-3 the patriots have scored in every quarter this season since the first quarter of the first game against pittsburgh that streak in jeopardy now bill belichick in this patriots defense trying to find a way to stop buffalo last time they drive started the 15 they walked it down able to get a field goal to tie the game this drive starting at the 18-yard line with buffalo's opportunity to maybe take a halftime lead going in tyron taylor on first down second consecutive catch for hogan this one's a gain of nine after the big one of 31 a moment ago well mike malcolm butler blew a coverage when you have deep third you have to play deep third watch him jump sammy watkins on this under route and hogan runs right in to the area that butler should be covering to do your job didn't get it done that time 55 both teams full complement of timeouts here [Applause] at the end of the half mccoy running to the left going to get the first down logan ryan over there to finally push him out of bounds richie incognito was out there pulling leading the way excuse me mike i just can't reiterate enough how well these young corners have played overall for new england i know butler just had a blown coverage there but when you lose darrell rivas and brandon browner and arrington off the super bowl championship team and go 9-0 with logan ryan and butler and a lot of young guys stepping up it's a credit to him [Applause] first intent and taylor with a lot of time sings it over the middle complete for the first time woods no it's going to be incomplete it was tavon wilson with the hit [Applause] that charted from woods big hit by wilson that's what you have to do in the middle of the field playing zone coverage you key the quarterback you read his eyes when that ball leaves his hands you break on it nice job separating woods from the football second and long what is the protection plan for chandler jones leads the nfl and sacks they need something from jones right here second lieutenant england shows pressure brings four and throws the other way to hogan he's wrestled down at the 30 very active half for chayvon wilson the last time we had new england on a monday night it was that game in kansas city remember when all the questions came afterwards about what's wrong with brady and the patriots well that's the last time they had such a struggle putting points up shut out in that first half sitting on three here with buffalo running the clock with a minute 12 remaining [Applause] so hogan has caught three on the drive sammy watkins yet to be targeted third and six for tyrod taylor and buffalo bats now bring pressure and bring five taylor steps up launches it for mccoy who couldn't hang on as he went to the ground to try to secure it devon mccourty had the hit last and mccoy slow to get up had mccoy running free and what a range play by mccourty devin mccourty from his free safety position took the perfect angle to break up this pass you can't play it any better than mccourty just played that tyrod taylor thought he had a slam dunk touchdown mccoy is running wide open by himself and out of nowhere flashed mccordy mccoy is trying to tell the athletic training staff he's okay don't help me walk off he's coming to the sideline meantime with the wind at his back it's a wind that's around 10 miles per hour as it picks up certainly with the wind carpenter will try a 48-yard field goal for the go-ahead he made one from 52 going in this direction earlier in this half garrison sanborn snaps it to colton schmidt off the upright and no good and brady's in business with good field [Applause] position plenty of juice on it just moving left to right we've caught a little bit more of that inside portion of the right upright a lot of ricocheted back in instead it's out and as you said john the patriots take over the spot where carpenter's kick was attempted from the 38th and they've got gustowski so they might end up taking the lead to the locker room but they've got to find a way to pick up some first downs and see if the two-minute offense helps brady that pass incomplete lafell is the only receiver in the area again nobody open this is a three-man rush mike there's eight buffalo bills in coverage they show blitz they show the illusion of pressure and they bail out of there and play maximum zone they've got eight bills in coverage against five patriot receivers and as soon as you think they're bailing rex ryan brings it and so far brady has had no success deciphering if it is or is it second and ten here comes the pressure again underneath it's having goals stopping it on cut up the field into buffalo territory thrown down at the 44. and a timeout taken with 33 seconds remaining that's in good shape after that playing to danny amendola of 18 we've got the toyota halftime coming up in a moment boomer's final drive will include a look at the top two teams in the nfc we'll get chris morton and adam schefter's insider update it will include an update on peyton manning in the latest with his foot injury guys are on that of course next week the patriots will play the bills oh we'll play the broncos i should say and this patriots bills game looked like it was going to be one of two back-to-back prime time games a precursor for manning brady number 17 in their meetings all time but with the announcement from denver that will be brock osweiler again this week for the broncos it will be brady osweiler won instead [Applause] from the 44. final half minute here comes late pressure to brady throws in the middle it's held on to by brandon lafell at the 21-yard line what a great catch by lefelt another three-man rush and new england in field goal position second time out taken by the patriots 27 seconds to go just as we came back gene stereotour announced that the previous play is under review new england was the team that took the time out and again last two minutes all reviews initiated from upstairs in the booth take a look on that rollover it's the whole process of the lafell catch it's got secured at some point there's a good look in see the ball has not touched the ground at all and as you continue on the replay as he rolls over he's still got to finish it when he gets to the other side here on his back [Music] he gets that hand on it so as jean steritor takes a look in consultation with new york we'll step out patriots with a first down at the buffalo 20 with 27 seconds at a time out left you see josh mcdaniels and tom brady discussing their strategy john this drive is the best portion of the game for the new england offense as we wait to see if this one holds up or not buffalo using a three-man pass rush i think lafell caught that football mike but i think the question john is on the very end as he goes on to his back the second time around and rolls over does the ball come in contact with the ground and in any way does he lose control that's where the only question you could have at this point would be there is the catch by lafell might be a stanz and gene steratore has the ruler after review the ruling on the field stands it has a completed pass first he got on his back as he rolled over the ball does come in contact with her i'm so hard to tell if his hand came off looking in from both sides so it'll stand at the 20 for the patriots in first down i'll be shocked if rex ryan doesn't blitz here he's used a three-man rush tom brady has a couple completions he's had plenty of time to think about which blitz the call expect heat interesting here really using the width of the field as the motion comes to bring white into the back field 53 and 52. [Applause] on first down they do break three brady had to get out of there and throws it incomplete as he just eluded the rush with mario williams in pursuit when you let all your backs have free releases you've only got five protectors and you hear tom brady up there saying 53-52 so the offensive lineman are blocking the three-down lineman and the linebackers that brady points out problem is sometimes you have 90 numbers playing linebacker 20 numbers playing linebacker it's been a state of confusion so far here brady continuing to spend extra time here making sure the protections are all secure pocket collapses on him there and he throws it incomplete as one more time he gets hit that has been the story of this first half that pressure from buffalo third tip i like what i'm seeing from buffalo mario williams manny lawson hughes this is a high-priced pass rush unit and they're paid for these kinds of situations and marcel darius with inside penetration as well [Applause] they need this unit to capitalize with all these backup linemen playing for the patriots third and ten again new england has a timeout left free runner brady gets rid of it complete right with the first down inside the tent and into the end zone the missed tackle turns into a patriots touchdown the one time you blitz tom brady he rips you [Applause] nickel roby comes off the slot tom brady in his new third down two-minute back read it perfectly you're gonna see the blitz come right off your right side brady reads it perfectly throws the ball to his hot receiver and cory graham can't make the open field one-on-one tackle beautiful stiff arm james white the next fourth round pick they needed him to step up and so far he's made a couple nice plays tonight what a drive by new england for the extra point my snap handled well by ryan allen held at bay all half until that final snap you can see the frustration of rex ryan [Music] i feel like you've seen this movie so many times rex ryan's giving him confusion giving them troubles and what happens at the end the missed field goal by carpenter gives good field position and it's a three-man rush brady's able to hit a couple of passes to get down field completions of 18 24 and 20 and rex ryan has been barking up and down the sideline this entire minute since the touchdown was scored for james white second year out of wisconsin first time in the end zone in his nfl career bouncing ball is hopped on by buffalo's booby dixon who's knocked out of bounds and eight seconds left well mike when you blitz somebody has to cover the back i don't know if rex is upset with cory graham for not getting down in coverage or maybe mario williams is supposed to peel on white but that's too much space for any kind of blitz to work and rex ryan is not happy it's either graham or mario williams somebody didn't do what they're supposed to do and you make a mistake against tom brady that's what happens you throw your head sets you you don't go into the locker room in a good mood i wouldn't want to be lisa salters having to interview him i just pointed out deep stereotores stop that snapper because matthew slater the special teams pro bowler for the patriots was hurt on that kickoff to start but to end i should say the first half the start of the second half to see new england get the ball [Applause] and they scored before the half and get the ball always seems to work out the patriot way they're up 10-3 here's chris berman with the toyota halftime hi michael thank you very much very interesting half for oh about 28 minutes of it buffalo's pressure getting to brady tom was frustrated about what was going on but then it turns on one play brady gets it to the 60th different maze throwing a touchdown to james white and it's rex not suitable for lip reading again and frustrated it is 10-3 new england on top of buffalo welcome back to foxboro halfway between providence in boston third quarter mike to rico john gruden lisa salters on this cold night the numbers here at the break really they've gotten away from the running game on the new england side john eight rushes for those 16 yards pretty even look at the time possession way down there i'm sure enough i can get down there big advantage for buffalo however the big play happens buffalo doesn't take care of the opportunity as we look at our zale extraordinary moments it's buffalo's inability to make an extraordinary thing happen that has them down seven at the break they've had plenty of opportunities mike they're only seven points down early in the game they throw the ball to gronkowski and rambo intercepts and returns it 40 yards but it gets called back they have hogan wide open down the field tyrod taylor under threw it then they got mccoy wide open down the field and ty rock got hit as he threw it mccourty broke it up and right before the half you miss a field goal and tom brady gets great field position you see the frustration in rex ryan someone blew a coverage graham or mario williams really upset him he's got to regain his composure there's seven points down they move the ball hard to get over though they had plenty of chances in that first half mike if you're on the new england side do you feel any better about what happened at the end of that drive because there was real frustration on that side for the whole first half i feel really good getting some confidence we pass protected better got to find a running game and half the five had to find five lightman that tom brady can count on the rest of this game and the season jordan gay the kickoff specialist will kick it no return coming from patrick chung here's lisa salters on those cold sidelines yeah mike well i was nervous heading into that walk-off conversation with rex ryan he said yeah i'm upset to say the least he said we missed that tackle that led to the touchdown we missed chances for big plays we should be up in this game and now we're down i said how do you pull it together regain your composure he said we've just got to move on and then come out and show what we're made of i then asked him how about how the defense has been confusing tom brady so far he said hey it doesn't matter if we're confusing him we still got a tackle mike miss tackle and the missed pickup as you said john in that coverage allows the patriots to score before the break and they get the ball to start the second half why they defer and succeed so often there's a flag down as evandola slides down with a gain of a yard remember eric dobson hurt his ankle in the first half for new england injury on the opposite side with buffalo and their offensive guard their rookie john miller who injured his ankle was carted out defense number 91 lined up in the neutral zone penalty replay first down rob gronkowski always in the mix but john very little tonight just that one grab for 10 yards and not even targeted very often buffalo is not playing man-to-man coverage mike they're playing a lot of different kinds of zone sometimes just a three-man rush with eight defenders in zone coverage [Applause] first and five after the flag brady goes over the top great job by amendola to bring it in with the fingertips in front of preston brown and that's a new england first down i really like danny m and dola he's stepping in in the slot critical role for julian edelman nice catch away from his body [Applause] what move out danny [Applause] first down for the 31 right back to the air nothing open brady pressured by hughes got away now throws it away what's caught by amendola but was he out of bounds first there was a whistle there [Applause] as he got to the sideline oh boy yeah was he out of bounds first i didn't think so neither did i on the throw and i thought he was just flicking it to throw it away and then amendola broke free go back and look at this gene's territory and gary arthur the line judge discussed what happened there on that bill's sideline that's an inadvertent whistle i think mike he's in bounds and so is amendola [Applause] they're gonna have to give bill belichick a good explanation on this one looking up at the replay here it's very clear to see to them [Applause] nobody went out of bounds even amendola on the front might have been a touchdown breaking 70 yard touchdown is what we're talking about here and the play would be a duo for essentially in an inadvertent whistle decision and john let's talk about that in the back end of it the clear field that was out there tom brady keeps the play alive he's scrambling to his right emma dole at the bottom of the screen never goes out of bounds mike he's hitting and i think danny amendola might score here has a chance for big play when you hear the whistle there as he comes towards the sideline [Applause] the longer the conference goes on the more frustrating the fans get here's gene's territory rolling on the field is that when the receiver caught the football there was an inadvertent whistle by an official on the field the ball is there at the spot of where the reception was made that is where the receiver gained possession when the whistle was blown there was also a foul for interference with the coach from the buffalo sideline that 15-yard penalty is going to be added to the 45-yard line for the inadvertent whistle took place it will be first down new england on the buffalo 40. no chick selling one stop bowie because we want to jump this ball and go with the momentum here you saw rex ryan it may have been by the official who blew the inadvertent whistle in any case what could have been a touchdown does become a big gain for new england interesting what he said as jerry austin's with us here in the booth the two-time super bowl referee that the ball's dead as the spot of the whistle was real the catch was made because you couldn't presume that he was going to catch it if the whistle came before the grass 14 on the pass 15 on the penalty first down for brady play action looking for a shot down field breaking three left fell and he couldn't get it to him that pass incomplete as brady could get up there because he was knocked down we talked about that inadvertent whistle and let's watch here as rex ryan's over there by the line judge and rex is on the white there and that's why i guess the official said that he interfered with what he was trying to do and he's the one who blew the inverted whistle let me bring in jerry for your thoughts the key thing is when did the inverted whistle occur if it occurred while the ball is in the air it's a do-over play they said it occurred after there was possession and if that was the case then interference by the coach is out of it because it's a dead ball it's interesting so you see the line judge on the left side by rex ryan puts the whistle up to his mouth and the ball is he blows it there while the ball is in the air so the patriots were wronged on the play there's no doubt about that because they should have had a huge gain if not a touchdown in any case it's third and sixth and brady saw the pressure come right up the middle from nigel branham and it's incomplete and that'll only frustrate these fans more and understandably so because they had a big play taken away hard to figure out which way to send your protection and nigel bradham inside linebacker unaccounted for and this patriot offensive line continues to struggle outside of that one drive at the end of the first half mike again using the wind and going in this direction looking for the field goal attempt right now they have 10 on the field with the play clock down at eight and this is already a 54-yard attempt for gustowski cameron fleming runs out and you hate to have to use a timeout in this situation but bill belichick does so trying to get the points on the board just john that's one of those again bizarre plays that you never see except of course this year when you see everything it feels like that the buffalo side has reason to be upset because if it was an inverted whistle while the ball was in the air it was ruled as you heard from the announcement that was an inadvertent whistle after the catch but the new england fans have every right to be furious and the patriots themselves of what leak you said could have been a touchdown inadvertent whistle somebody made a mistake on the field we have enough officials that can't happen but here's goskowski mike and he's made so many field goals in a row it's unbelievable and many of these kicks are over 50 yards i think he's hit his last eight over 50. it's one from 54. and that one like carpenters drifts to the right and is no good so it remains 10-3 [Music] continuing theme here tonight the animated rex ryan aggravated this time with the officials he's still mad over the 15-yard penalty he was assessed for interfering with the officials on the white there on the sideline when the inadvertent whistle happened the other side the new england side is the one that should be more angry buffalo gets it back at its own 44 yard line tyrod taylor first at shut down field for sammy watkins is under thrown incomplete as he is throwing it into the wind and malcolm butler is there in coverage tyrod taylor has been a good deep ball passer this year i think watkins is running right by malcolm butler again ball's poorly thrown got to give watkins a chance to go up and play the football down the field so far he's been invisible in this football game first time they went his way opening target of the game who's expressed that frustration earlier this year he said i expect to be targeted 10 times a game second down taylor was flush with sean mccoy as a first down mayo pushed him out of bounds but a gain of 11 out of the backfield for shady mccoy taylor looking deep again for his tight end charles clay the coverage down the field holds up and taylor has a presence to get to his check down right side of your screen number charles clay that's where tyrod taylor wants to go but he flushes outside the pocket he checks the ball down and there's lashawn mccoy first down pills see that right guard 60 for buffalo craig irving still in john miller was carted off with an ankle injury in the first half another throw for taylor and this one is caught by charles clay they've not gone to him very often that's the top pass catcher on this buffalo team with 40. jerome felton did an excellent job picking up this blitz against hightower on the right side of your screen and i like tyrod taylor here give your receivers a chance to go play the ball great work by clay the leading receiver of this bill offense the x miami dolphin rarely comes off the field and he's paid youth dividends for the bills also his first target of the game yields a catch of 14. mccoy running to the right 20 eight yard line john they've done this uh a bunch in the first half but you always called rocket backs when you were calling the plays in philadelphia put your two halfbacks in the game together yeah i used to call rocket rocket our two tailbacks would run out there together they were good tailbacks too yeah well i took ricky waters out of the game he got all upset so we never took ricky out of the game again but i like what greg roman's doing use your two halfbacks here they are mccoy on your left there's carlos williams a rookie on the right there's a lot of deception that they can create with these two halfbacks in the game together williams lead to him a boy accelerates inside the tentless shawn mccoy reaching for the pylon give it to him is he in bounds they say they'll stop him at the one it'll be first and goal they run a sweep right off the right side [Applause] and carlos williams can become the lead blocker right there at the front side pylon i thought he got in let's see he's going to stretch it out and reach let's say give it to him mike [Applause] it is rule the touchdown now on the field just now they have real touchdown oh yeah it's gonna be close so the consultation happened with the two officials as that replay was being shown even by the second replay you could hear the reaction is under review by calling touchdown it allows them to go right away to replay get the automatic review of the call and i think we'll be looking closely at the elbow of mccoy on the sideline as he was reaching toward the pylon rule for the moment a shady mccoy touchdown run of 27 yards [Music] the touchdown on the field and gene stereotour will have the call here after the review the ruling on the field stands the runner lands on a defender's hand as knee hits his hand not down the ball breaks the plane the ruling stands touchdown buffalo [Applause] and the bills are an extra point away from time the game it's officially a 27-yard return to the knees on the hand and we were watching the elbow closely that right elbow of mccoy's that knee there you see it gave him the space to reach [Applause] that's right when he's touching pylon cam and the pylon itself actually so the touchdown stands and carpenter adds the extra point so instead of the big play for new england that could have been a touchdown to make it 17-3 that inadvertent whistle it comes back the other way the missed field goal by gustowski who had not missed a home field goal in 52 consecutive tries before that and mccoy gets the 27-yard score on john what i thought was a good drive by buffalo to tie the game at 10 10. got to credit rex ryan and the bills for keeping their composure a lot of adversity before the half everybody's screaming yelling they come out here they get a key stop after the inadvertent whistle and tyrod taylor takes him right down the field buffalo is a quick strike offense mike they don't score very often in the red zone they come from outside the red zone with these big plays important now that new england can solve this buffalo defense because they have hit tom brady nine times already and that's what rex ryan told us before the game that was part of their story to change the picture to try to get to brady and give me an assessment of what you've seen here through the first two quarters plus well buffalo's not playing man-to-man tonight they're playing a lot of zone and different kinds of zone some of it is zone pressure and they have taken rob gronkowski out of the game the patriots have been unable to run the football and i'm confused who's playing what position on this patriot offensive line [Applause] jordan gabe with the kickoff can't get to the goal line here it's fielded up front by the big tight end michael williams he's brought down just across the 20-yard line so it will be tom brady's ball there let's go back one more time and you can listen for the whistle on that inadvertent whistle as you saw the play rex ryan didn't seem to get in the way of the line judge at that point which is the 15-year play he complained about now let's listen that whistle was before the catch and amendola had a ton of green grass ahead of him look like he could have taken that the distance brady and the patriots take over from the 22 and that is incomplete intended for gronkowski i like this darby he's just a rookie out of florida state came into the game with 12 passes broken up and the cold weather doesn't bother the ex florida state seminole nice job driving on the throw and again rob gronkowski been awfully quiet tonight second and ten legarrette blood running to the left has not done much running and he is taken to the sideline by the corner stefan gilmore john that's just the ninth run here for new england and we've seen this a lot from this patriots team not just what the game plan is but also what the defense is giving you and they'll adjust on the fly right now it's 28 pass attempts and have 10 running plays with that one well i've seen new england throw it over 60 times in a couple different football games already and once again it's a confusion look from the buffalo bills nobody in a stance amendola in motion it's third and five brady climbs the pockets releases downfield and what a breakup by gilmore on the pass intended for lafell it hung as brady was getting hit what a job by gilmore in the air stefan gilmore could play all you have to do is get a buffalo bill tape and watch him he can tackle he can cover he's got great range and ball skills he can play left or right corner that time he goes for the odell beckham one-handed catch and tom brady went down again mike that's 10 times tonight brady's been hit when throwing kelvin had to dive forward to make that catch he does so and he's down to 37 after the ryan allen punt you saw that gilmore used the rib protection of the receiver lafell to grab come back around to make that spectacular play didn't get detected from the villains defense with another stop all even at 10. [Music] the buffalo bills did win here last year that was week 17 tom brady played only a half of that game it stopped a 12-game new england winning streak and the games played in foxborough against the bills so they have had dominance against buffalo here as they have so many of the teams in the afc east we're tied at ten nine and a half left in this third quarter and tyron taylor and the bills take over it their own 37. mccoy increasing him for seven to the 44. just scored a touchdown a moment ago mccoy can play he's an outstanding receiver he can run a lot of different routes and when he gets on the perimeter he is extremely dangerous he can go the distance shady mccoy is feeling it right now mike and that's a good thing if you're a bills fan 20 touches for mccoy 111 total yards and buffalo's only touchdown came on the prior drop taylor's got a pocket sammy watkins downfield butler was with him and mccourty came over for safety help three talented players converge on the ball it's malcolm butler not afraid of anyone odell beckham sami watkins high first round draft choices everybody talks about the class of 2014 malcolm butler didn't hear any of it undrafted division two player hasn't backed down any competition [Applause] keep an eye on tyrod taylor third down is short in these empty backfield sets don't be surprised if he takes off play clock running down taylor has to take the timeout so each team's had to use one here in the third [Applause] 8 48 to go john we talked to tyrod taylor last night and we covered him back in the orange bowl remember when he took virginia tech to the orange ball they played against stanford we talked about head coach frank beamer who's retiring in blacksburg said how he taught him so much about character and leadership and being great on and off the field so many of those virginia tech players over the years have shown some of those qualities but this is a player after his four years as an apprentice in baltimore with a lot of good offensive minds around him has really grasped his first opportunity to be an nfl starter like him a lot mike he's very calm and cool under pressure he's showing it again tonight the game has slowed down for him he's played enough football now to see things clearly buffalo's five and two with the taylor as a starter oh and two without him trying to run it chandler jones there to take it away enforce a buffalo punch chandler jones read bill belichick scouting report and third down is short be aware of the design quarterback runs with tyrod taylor antoine chandler jones a much improved run defender shows why he is probably heading to the pro bowl for sure mike that was a run not a sack so it doesn't add to his total it was a 10 and a half j.j watt had a couple last for yesterday to jump ahead fulton schmidt puts it up there hi evan dole at the 15. big pun return against the giants last week amendola brought it back 21 yards to the 36-yard line bob wilson what a block to spring amendola [Music] espn's monday night football is brought to you by navy federal credit union federally insured by ncua dick's sporting goods every holiday season starts at dick's nissan innovation that excites in dunkin donuts check out this week's excessive celebration at ddfieldpass.com the many faces of grunk rob gronkowski who's got that great athletic family his four brothers boardie junior dan chris and glenn his dad gordon played football at syracuse great grandfather was an olympic cyclist and western new york in his roots from williamsville high school just outside of buffalo played his first three years of high school ball there be quiet tonight evandola over the middle has been the busy man is a yard shy of the first down at the 45-yard line and the bill is entered on the play and is amendola quick what a beautiful release at the line of scrimmage he stuck manny lawson outside came back inside well done bakari rambo is the injured buffalo player zamendola caught it for the eighth time tonight rambo had a huge impact in the game against the jets with an interception a couple of forced fumbles as rex ryan beat his old team now shaken up rambo landed on that shoulder and that's what they've been looking at and he's been grimacing on the sidelines the athletic training staff looking at the former draft pick out of georgia full force full weight coming down on that shoulder as john mentioned earlier aaron williams has been out that safety spot they've been mixing and matching throughout the season halfway through this third quarter brady will complete the first down to brandon lafell they'll take him out midfield brady stands it up after that one that's been rare tonight he's been hit a lot here he is getting hit after the interception pre-rushers confusion up front tom brady's gone down 10 times mike and sometimes hard ryan continues to mix up the looks garrett blunt to the left will gain about three yards how much of that is what rex ryan is doing how much of that is the instability and the changing nature of that offensive line which is settled down personnel wise since the fourth series rex does it to everybody mike over the years i don't think there's a defensive coach that causes more chaos and confusion than rex ryan and when he joined forces with the buffalo bills he just so happened to acquire some formidable rushers and it's a great combination for buffalo can they make the impact plays down the stretch against one of the all-time greats that's what i want to see second and seven play pass brady gonna take a shot downfield and it's incomplete intended for gronkowski and there's jerry hughes a 10-sack man last year has three this year running downfield with grump that's amazing to me jerry hughes got a huge contract to rush the passer here he's gonna peel out of the rush and cover rob gronkowski on a flatten up how good is this he pinned him right into the sideline played it perfectly hughes has had experience as an outside linebacker in this 3-4 defense we know he can play defensive end he's done it all exact numbers are down but there's a lot more ways to impact the game than getting sex pressure brady gets rid of it opens his avendola eludes the would be tackler abendola to the six yard line some of these man-to-man pressures have backfired 41 yards this is where they left to run up and running play here comes cory graham unblocked right down the middle and buffalo caught vintage patriots here a flag is down as one powers to the right side and it's in for the touchdown rather it's white james white i beg your pardon and for the touchdown let's see what the flag is buffalo is trying to get back outside the patriots trying to get themselves set and it will be a white touchdown it appears found brady you got to dip your hat to him he's been knocked down 10 times that time corey graham unblocked in his face he sees the hot receiver he gushes the bills and then jumps the ball into no huddle and gets after him again officials still are in conference there can't tell if white's knee is down you see a buffalo bill defender graham has his arm under the leg the upper part of the body was laying on another body before the ball crossed new england was trying to rush one of the things in those situations is do the patriots get set when they jump the ball like that rex ryan's out there he wants to know what the conversation's about a lot of coaches complain that the patriots aren't set when they jump the ball this quickly and run a play do they have seven men on the line of scrimmage are they lined up legally take a look at the patriots are they set look good to me they're for sure [Applause] so are they there for a second there's a very lengthy conference here it's a scoring play i'll make sure they've got it right [Applause] a lot of officials discussions here tonight mike ruling on the field is defense offside that penalty's declined the result of the play touchdown hey robert and jonathan kraft watch the patriots and tom brady retake the lead [Music] and again in this mix white trying to drag his leg across there as he put the ball towards the edge of the plane and then through touchdown was confirmed to be a replay and the extra point is added to make it 17 to 10. vintage patriots see them do it so often the amendola big play downfield jump the ball and get the touchdown 41 yards on this one john it's unbelievable i have no idea what duke williams a backup safety's doing looked like a full blitz and williams never got into coverage position remember a couple plays ago bukari rambo got hurt the backup safety williams comes into the game and he's not aligned properly as soon as amendola goes down like grease lightning the patriots are set up to run a play and buffalo can't get their substitution on the field well you know what else happens on that play john 2 the patriots are very close to having an extra player on the field saw chandler yes up at the top of the screen as he's running off as well so there were so many things and you understand why the discussion happened often when you have 12 players on the field is the snap imminent then they can shut down the play for too many men on the field but the patriots are trying to use that to their advantage and succeed in getting it off in time how about danny amendola mike nine catches 117 yards filling in for julian edelman and no drops this whole year john [Music] a lot of hang time there and no return on the kickoff by daenerys moore so go back to the point here and watch up at the top of the screen we've been talking about did buffalo have all of their bodies off and you have a patriot just gets to the white as the snap is about to be made and they are clear for the score as well to make it 17-10 and that's something that is reviewable we have uh extra men on the field guys running to the sideline but what other odd play will we have in this third quarter that's a good question been one of those huh let's see if tyrod taylor can answer he's played well tonight he's gonna have to play his best football of the year down the stretch third drive of this third quarter touchdown on the first drive three and out on the last one this one begins at the 20 and with john mccoy cannot get the edge dante hightower set it shut it down excuse me dante hightower can play inside outside he can play anywhere watch him work off charles clay the tight ends blocked actually it's richie incognito but nothing hightower [Applause] has played great football for new england [Applause] his fourth year really emerging as the leader in the tone center main communicator in that defense taylor on second and long tries the middle incomplete looking for play new england dropping back to the zone gave him nowhere to go it's third and law look at the frustration on sami watkins i don't know if this ball is intended for him or not he's going to run a shallow cross he's going to sit down against the zone coverage i don't know if it's known for him for clay but there's confusion in the middle of the field and sammy watkins no catches tonight and a big reason is malcolm butler number 21 is following him wherever he goes third and eleventh the pats bring five they try to keep a spy on taylor it's nikovich chasing tyron throws it up for grabs is out of bounds incomplete and that'll be back to back three and out to this buffalo offense it's impressive defense by the patriots they have not let tyrod taylor hurt him scrambling tonight and you have to credit butler the second year corner for helping to pitch a shutout on sammy watkins that's impressive punt into the wind returns to the left by the patriots have been very strong in the last two weeks colton schmidt to kick it on the run away it took a bounce favorable for buffalo it'll be a 47-yard kick and down that's the 34-yard line buffalo's right in the thick of this deal at five and four over the wild card side new england's already two to the good in the lost column on the bengals of the broncos in terms of having everybody come through foxborough to try to get to super bowl 50 in santa clara bills if they can win tonight rally they're there with pittsburgh one length ahead of that big mosh pit five and five chiefs who are red hot the texans the jets the raiders jaguars and dolphins for the moment pulling for new england bring buffalo back within a game i love when you get done with this week all the buys are done it's the sprint now we got the last six weeks peter king wrote about that his monday morning quarterback today couldn't agree more from the 34 brady about to get hit and the ball was hit as he threw it it has ruled an incomplete pass as jerry hughes was in coverage huge is telling his player to pick it up and run that in his mind could have been a fumble rob gronkowski mike no one knows who's covering gronk every play it's been somebody different here it's nigel bratham and preston brown doubling drop [Applause] tom brady under serious pressure again looks like brady had his hand on that ball as it was going forward [Applause] so not a fumble a garrett block leaks out of the backfield left being chased by preston brown that's moving the open field near the 40-yard line pick up just a little more than five danny amendola is being looked at on the sideline he came over a moment ago the athletic training staff looking at him that punt that he was waving everybody off on and then got away from he started reaching for his leg non-contact as well so edelman out with the broken foot dobson already now amendola being looked at [Applause] mario williams is on the buffalo sideline talking to the trainers third and five brady off the edge hughes couldn't get there that passes hard by chris harper we have a flag back by the quarterback and i think it's coming back holding offense number 61 10 yard penalty replay third down brady saw the audible he brought gronkowski in to protect [Applause] and they call cannon for holding at left tackle what a catch by harper mike just activated from the practice squad and with amendola being looked at on the sideline they're going to need harper big time that would have been his first catchy undrafted player from cal mario williams has a foot injury the bills are telling us his return is questionable much like rambo hurt on this lat drive last drive with his shoulder his return questionable as well [Applause] disagreement between bills and patriots as the guys head to their sidelines for the punting units to come on after that brandon bolden carry it will be a game of seven huge penalty on cannon nola fine the big play and buffalo continues to hang around ryan allen to kick this away 34 caught on the run by leonis mckelvin who lost the football on a monday night in foxborough again but this one is knocked out of bounds after possession was exchanged [Applause] dropped at the spot at the 24-yard line if buffalo had it long enough then it's their ball at the spot that it was fumbled and or new england they should say the spotter was fumbled and the patriots would have it at the buffalo 24. [Applause] you notice mikkel ruling on the field is a fumble initially by the receiving team recovered by the kicking team the kicking team member has possession as he's running toward the opponent's goal he fumbles the ball forward and out of bounds by rule the ball will come back to the original kicking team new england at the spot of the fumble first down new england perfect explanation there by gene sterritor the last time we were here on a monday night leonis mcelveen had a fumble on a kickoff late in the game that was recovered by new england patriots went in to go get the game winning touchdown [Applause] first nintendo england at the 30 yard line it's a nightmare for leotis mcelveen turning the ball over twice against their nemesis on the road see if rex ryan and this defense can rise to a very difficult challenge that is the first turnover of the game either way and new england gets it back at the 30 and blunt for once gained seven yards before nigel brown down england loves this play they get two double teams up front blunt starts one way and he cuts it back it's a design handbag they get two double teams up front and legarrette blount pounds it here he goes again from the first down inside the 20. and to the 19-yard line eric wants 250 plus pounds mike and in this cold weather in this stadium this time of year he's no fun to tackle and they don't have a lot of different blocking schemes they're not trying to fool anybody with blunt either in new england which is mostly abandoned the run now just punishing on this drive once again to the 18-yard line darius grabs his leg marcel went to the locker room briefly in the third quarter and now he goes back down to be looked at so mario williams got hurt before with that foot injury that had him questionable to return and now they look at the twice pro bowler marcel darius [Applause] when you run legarrette blunt three consecutive times it might not add up to a lot of yards but the defense has to commit themselves to stop him and off of these running plays they set up some great play action passes and rob gronkowski is usually the guy they're looking for darius number 99 to see what happened to him as he goes down he was walking off and the new england fans by their boos letting him know that they doubt the amount of pain that he's in he did visit the locker room earlier in this half and then came back out [Applause] meantime danny amendola has a knee injury the patriots are telling us his return is questionable no dobson no amendola and of course no edelman [Applause] off the injury last week brady saw braddom on the opposite side of the field he knew they were short of defenders so he audible through a running play and radham took off like he knew the audible was coming can get a first down at the nine brady on play action towards gronkowski and it's incomplete and rob gronkowski had a very quiet night just the one catch jerry hughes put the pressure on force the timing off and guskowski will come in for the field goal attempt jerry hughes has played a great football game tonight for buffalo may not show that on the stat sheet but brady came out of that play action fake and had no chance to do anything but throw it away you saw that it's been a long time since a home field goal missed for goskowski you'll try this one from 35. again another nice job on the hold by ryan allen puts it down and the patriots take a 10 point lead they've scored 10 here in this third quarter mention the last time that we saw the bills and the patch on the monday night here down 11 late the brainy pass gets it tight and mckelvin loses the ball very similar spot on the field recovered at brady right back to the top of the touchdown for the 25-24 win as we were talking about tonight as mckelvin secured the punt and had it knocked out and punched out by brandon king he's done a good job as one of the gunners from the patch the last few weeks and into the hands of jonathan freed before he got booted away and turns into a patriots field goal [Music] it's a terrible feeling [Music] see if mckelvin can redeem himself the bills are going to have to get a turnover of their own mike but mistakes have doomed the bills they've had a couple key penalties a couple great opportunities in the passing game they haven't made and hard to win at this place no doubt their record in this building or a stadium is incredible i still can't get over it it really is with belichick and brady working together and what you talked about over the years john with all the variety of players they've done it with you seeing it tonight look at all the players who are out because of injury just the receiving core here this evening daenerys moore with no return on the kick and buffalo will take over from its own 20-yard line what do you think about what the bills have looked like offensively as they came out of halftime i think they've done some good things they have missed some deep shots that they normally hit in the passing game mike they've run the ball okay but tyrod taylor has got to get a score on the board and make this a one possession game somehow someway they've got to get sami watkins involved in this offense they traded a lot to go get him in the first round he's been no factor at all in this game moving up from the number nine spot they used a first and a fourth rounder in addition to get up to the number four pick in that draft to take watches here's mccoy and they acquired by trade good tackle by logan ryan i know you love corners that are involved in the run game i really do mike and you have to do it all for bill belichick he can't just be a one-dimensional cover guy this is a sweet hand-off sweep to the left side he keys it and goes in there with authority just like he did for greg schiano in the rutgers days ryan and ron harmon the safety we're in that same class at rutgers who came out in that draft a few years ago and parts of this young new england secondary final snap of this third quarter taylor a penalty flag comes in at the back end of this play perhaps a face mask on nick of it barry anderson the umpire was the one who threw it [Applause] one of the longest third quarters we've ever had mike there is no fault for a face mask on the play third down buffalo this is also the end of the third quarter and the patriots a quarter away from 10-0 they're up 10 after three in the battle of rex and belichick on monday night football full night temperature in the 20s quarterback numbers a little bit lower than these two guys have been putting up thus far this year taylor completing right around half his pass is same as brady no interceptions in the game and the one sack is a bit misleading because tom brady's been hit a lot by the buffalo defense on this night fourth quarter begins patriots leading by 10 and tyrod taylor's third and four stepping up in the middle and they were waiting for him brought down for essentially no gain ninkovic retracing his steps comes to meet dominique easily last year's first round pick out of florida everybody's running the same blitzes two linebackers blitzing in the a gaps one blitzes one leaves and there's one on one blocking up front there's easily nikovich wrapping up tyrod taylor three and out john chris harper goes back because of the amendola injury to catch the punch from colton schmidt under the watchful eye of ivan fears their running backs coach harper did a lot of this practice on saturday calls for and makes the fair catch and duke williams had a very good idea no amendola back there so he kind of went make sure he was close by hey coach gert do you love football i love it all right we'll test you see how much all of you love it up there can't wait for this johnny football the ravens of the browns next monday night excited to get back to ohio and cleveland browns young quarterback it's been a tough year for both those teams but you got to take a good look at your teams and adversity too mike the elevator doesn't go up all the time sometimes it goes down and you got to see what you have and both cleveland and baltimore are going to do exactly that and you love football i sure did so you love us in football i know you'll be with us monday night 8 15. eastern penalty flag before this one time excuse me before that timeout buffalo calls their second time out of the half but buffalo has used a lot of timeouts this year in odd situations that one hurts [Music] espn's monday night football is brought to you by goodyear tires chosen by experts for superior performance good year more driven directv call 1-800 directv at nflshop.com order your holiday gifts today and save up to 15 off you're wondering what that is john it's old sturbridge village massachusetts reenactment of the traditional 1830s thanksgiving as we get ready for the great holiday on thursday brady first down looking for grump puck by gronkowski at the 45-yard line conversation with the officials and confirmed a catch at a gain of 25. matter of time before they shoot a play-action pass down the field and i think brock has control and has completed the catch mike well done what a route by rob gronkowski and before bukari rambo can get there he secures the ball for new england empty out the backfield garrett blunts go get on the top of the screen [Applause] on the line of scrimmage they had enough people shot down field towards harper on the deflection it's taken it and they're accepted by stefan gilmore grump pulls down back at the five-yard line brady disgusted with himself with a 10-point lead first down in that field position why force that ball to harper who you just activated into the strength of the bill's defense it's gram number 20 carrying harper right down the scene and stefan gilmore on the old-fashioned tip drill gets his third interception and poor route distribution didn't need to do that with a 10-point lead on first down in that field position for gilmore to pick his third for brady just the fourth he has thrown this year buffalo likes to take shots in this field position and i'm going to keep saying it sammy watkins against whoever covers them deserves a couple shots just mccoy running towards the edge got around mayo patiently waited for the block he's pulled down at the 13 yard line so clean up one more injury thing john by the way back over with buffalo aaron dobson's been out most of the game with that ankle injury the patriots tell us he is now out before the game a lot of players both sides lost remember buffalo lost john miller their right guard in the first half of this one craig irving has jumped over there and played most of the way number 60 looking back at taylor now [Applause] second and three setting up the screen to mccoy it's not gonna die dives forward great awareness acceleration in the first down but we have a flag down on the opposite side and the bills may have been downfield too early it's the preliminary indication ineligible man downfield offense number 66 five yard penalty replay second down chantrell henderson the right tackle that's his second penalty tonight can't go downfield on a screen take a look at henderson number 66. good call second and eight inside pass rushers both these patriots first round draft choices malcolm brown number 90 and 99 dominick easily see if they can go to work against urbic a backup right guard [Applause] taking it time for taylor sideline for watkins butler with the coverage the contact of the flag is thrown it's gonna be against new england but tyrod taylor is gonna get somebody hurt these free safeties are driving on his eyes and the ball's just in the air too long pass interference defense number 21 spot foul automatic first down talk to dante hightower malcolm butler together we're asking butler about all the notoriety the celebrity that came with the super bowl play and hightower was just effusive in his praise of how hard butler worked in all the plays leading up to the one we all saw in the super bowl against seattle and he's come to the field since that moment with still the great attention to detail guilty there the penalty cost of 31 williams has taylor out there in front trying to get in the way of a defender but it's logan ryan with another run game stop from his cornerback position tyrod taylor he's going to hand the ball off to williams and see that williams needs some help he's going to go in there look for a block so one thing i worry about with tyrod taylor mike he's already missed a couple games with an injury but he's working his blocking that's your quarterback that's where you want to block right just get in the way don't hit anybody protect yourself save yourself from the 43-yard line scanning the field coming across to hogan chris hit hard up high by ninkovic right around that first down mark at the 49. they see ty rod taylor bill belichick rushes three it's a maximum zone he's got time to go through his progressions and get to his second and third receiver it's a nice work by tyrod taylor and sets up a second and short nice time to take a shot here off of play action i think actually they get a measurement so close to touching the 49-yard line it's a little short up here mike yeah i like it gives you plenty of time to look at that big menu of plays and you're down by 10 you're on the road here comes mill 79 an extra offensive lineman this is their heavy group and they love to slam their big back their rookie half back williams in this situation expect to see williams on an inside run tight end as well matthew mulligan the university of maine ron williams bounces outside jung comes up brings him up fourth down he got a tendency against bill belichick you're in trouble they ran tyrod taylor on a quarterback run on third and short and on the right side of your screen 23 chunk unblocked stuffs it and buffalo in addition to the missed opportunities they had two of 11 on third down conversions that one of the few third in shorts they didn't make here tonight [Applause] colton schmidt kicks it again it is chris harper back and he catches it on the way out of bounds plus six yard line mark was officially into seven brady's story tonight robert craft 22 years of owning this team with the craft family his son jonathan the team president they have so much to be proud of of what this place has become with this organization's become his stadium and this entire patriot place area around the stadium which has really become a destination here between boston and providence the garrett blunt with a run to the right one will get the edge and get the first down take it out of bounds over by the 24 yard line good way to run out inside your own 10. here bill belichick talk about situational football well one of the situations you work out repeatedly as you're backed up offense number one goal is to get a first down get out of danger position and what better way to do it than hand the ball off for this big back i just want to reiterate it mike when you play blood in this weather no fun to see him at that size 24 here's toss left you'll get with from 30 and get pulled down at the 31-yard line the flag down corey graham was over there on the tackle this one coming back gonna be holding holding offense number 66 10 yard penalty replay first down you get brian stork there brian stork mike he's the center for the world champions last year he is not ready to go he's hurt he has a concussion so he doesn't play last week i'm watching him play the giants he's the right tackle right and david andrews the center hasn't missed a snap all year andrew struggled early in this game so now stork is back at his natural center position hopefully the patriots getting some healthy bodies they're already missing nate solder their left tackle for the year important these five men get in concert together first and 20. brady getting hit again as he throws that time chandler brady took a shot there yeah he is jerry hughes has hit brady a lot tonight marcus cannon has really struggled it left tackle in his first game back he's been out but tom brady's been hit a lot you see a foot on the ground as hughes goes up turns the head to try to make it in contact with the shoulder brady hands it here to brandon bolden comes up shy of the 20-yard line saw gene staritour long conversation and look over there with tom brady making very sure i think they're going to be even extra cautious after what happened with case keenum and st louis we were watching the game it's hard to believe that case keenum was not taken out of that game with all the people who were watching for concussions or other injuries and chris martin reported earlier today that there's going to be a call with all the leaks 32 head athletic trainers on tuesday and the players association leading it to try to review concussion protocols on the edge it is laphel after the catch let me pull down to the 28-yard line mike it's going to be leotis mckelvin back deep again he has had a very difficult time in this stadium as a return man fumbled earlier fumbled a few years ago let's see if he can redeem himself and set the table for the bills there's plenty of time left they just need somebody to make a play this kick by ryan allen is a good one into the wind mckelvin secures it to 21. and brought down to 25 by nate ebner 50 on the kick the former rugby player at ohio state then played football at the end effort [Applause] you can look at the good people of new england coverage tonight from spider cam brought to you by directv the thing the crafts is are so proud of is that this stadium was built without public financing no personal seat licenses a whole bunch of loyal fans here to fill this place up on a regular basis taylor the bills got to have something here they start from their own 25 and taylor's thrown out of bounds by hightower after a gain of five to the third hightower he has the speed to track you down he can read out of the pass rush and if you're a scrambling quarterback every once in a while he'll just spy on you and wait for you to take off and when you do you'll be sorry you did tyrod taylor's got to throw the ball better quick because buffalo's running out of time he's been off on most of his throws here in the second half mike a lot of that has to do with a patriot secondary but he's been off good opening drive to start this half mccoy can't catch that one the pass is incomplete by plays and touchdown on that first drive but the rest of the half hasn't been so good well he's had some opportunities to complete some passes the protection has been pretty good he's under thrown some deep passes he hasn't set his feet when he's had a chance to just bad route distribution in the middle of field it's a combination of problems but they're on the clock here and they need a first down right now from taylor [Applause] butler comes over to sammy watkins side taylor's rolling the other way high tower in his face watkins incredible grab that's my five-star grab that's why they traded up to get him mike they hurt his shoulder [Applause] crossing route by sammy watch his one-handed [Applause] so grab gets hit and they look at watkins on the sideline as well [Applause] here's what happened with taylor the right collarbone area mike he's holding that right shoulder right collarbone area and then john they stopped the play because watkins was kneeling down on the white of the sideline they're too close to the action as the training staff was assessing him so that's why they stopped to play for a moment and the clock now they both resume taylor's give inside carlos williams runs in to a wall and a loss of two look out there at allen branch number 97 you'll be hard pressed to find a bigger man on this planet mike second year in this system and branch has been an inside run stuffer and you see ej manuel getting loose just in case [Applause] taylor's hurting manual two starts in cincinnati and against jacksonville that very poor performance in london against the jaguars watkins back on the field the pressure's picked up hogan is open and he's got it at the 20 and two good pass connections this one to hogan gets buffalo down to the 15-yard line as taylor is still in pain tyrod taylor threw a perfect pass that time straight go route chong who serves as a third corner in this sub defense at times has been run by a couple times by hogan tonight hogan who when he was in miami's cap a few years ago were in the nickname 7-11 during the hard knock series on hbo said i've got to prove i deserve that nickname so i've embraced it well he's been the open guy tonight five catches in 91 yards chris hogan [Applause] getting the five-minute mark mccoy to the left [Applause] nowhere sure it again john continuing his very solid performance after his four years with the browns first year at the patriots sure can do a lot of different things you see him number 93 on the right side of your screen he just runs this play down but i'm going to be looking for patrick chung if i'm the bills the patriots aren't using justin coleman their normal nickel corner rashaan melvin played the nickel position last week right now they're relying on chung who's really a safety and he's asked to cover some wide receivers in some difficult situations that's a match-up i'm looking for 20 to go hogan crossing underneath dropping back off the line shirt again for the tackle here comes the pass rush specialist for the patriots easley ninka you said the patriots don't have a lot of first rounders on offense it's because they're all on defense look out there hightower easley mccordy chandler jones they have a lot invested in this defense and defenses do win championships let's see if they're up to the task again tonight you need two scores down 10. it's third and ten here at the 15. new england rushes four taylor swings it and it is incomplete and taylor is still grimacing as he comes back towards the buffalo sideline continues to grab up to that shoulder collarbone area carpenter is going to come on for the field goal attempt [Music] nice play once again it's logan ryan's who's made a number of nice plays tonight nice job redeeming himself after an earlier miscue here's carpenter must make 33 extra point size field goal is not through so it's 20-13 buffalo remember how to use those timeouts earlier so they have one left with three and a half to go in the full athletic training staff was over there looking at tyrod taylor before we came back out of break and now he's over there talking with greg roman this goes back to this push by hightower at the back end of the play taylor remember with that knee injury couldn't gain his balance and came down with all of his weight on the right collarbone area has been grabbing at it since there's a ton of injuries both ways here tonight and before each snap here he kept looking up towards that right collarbone area and even grabbing it before the snap they've got three and a half left with one timeout if the patriots play it by the book and maximize the time they take off the clock buffalo wouldn't get the ball back on a three and out series until there's about a minute 54 left so the onside kick is very possible here that's why new england has 10 players up [Applause] it'll be a little pooch kick by gay to the voided area it's caught up 25 mccordy just goes down right there check in for a moment with lisa well mike you mentioned the patriots nate soldier being out for the season with injury but the bigger concern for his family right now is that their four-month-old son hudson has been diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer and has been undergoing chemotherapy once a week for the last several weeks i talked to nate today he told me that hudson had an mri today so they should know more tomorrow about whether the chemo is actually shrinking the tumor what the next course of action is right now he said hudson is very happy despite the chemo he's a very joyful kid and that's making it a little bit easier for the family to deal with this but nate says he appreciates all the attention and the well wishes from from folks all around the country but he also he wanted us on his behalf to acknowledge other families who are going through similar situations who may not have the same resources he says everyone needs support like that when they're dealing with something like this mike amen thoughts to the soldiers to nate handoff from brady and good right here by blunt for five yards to the 30-yard line rex ryan's gonna take a timeout with three 20 left uh you speak of that in other families lisa we're watching tom brady who played for lloyd carr at michigan and i just want to send my sympathies to lloyd carr and his family chad carr lloyd's grandson passed away today five years old brain cancer tumor it's uh my hometown you know the folks and coach carr and all those people very special to a lot of us i'm sure tom brady's got the same thoughts for his coach as well from michigan no doubt mike as we get close to this thanksgiving season so the balls at the 30-yard line second and five here for the patriots so buffalo out of timeouts it's all or nothing mike for buffalo they're in a sellout run stop mode they cannot let legarrette blunt get a first down and blood gets two gets pulled down there [Applause] this snap come with 235 to go buffalo can run it if they stop it here can get the ball back on the other side with about a minute 54 left here comes an extra offensive lineman number 60 david andrews into the game be surprised if tom brady threw the football a number of back up receivers even brandon lafell hasn't played mike they're going to match the clock here and take the time out on their own [Applause] 236 to go john you said it before with buffalo and that one player they had to call a timeout because they only had 10 players on the field before a drive started marcel darius was not on the field as we looked at it in break and that's such a crushing play because there's a timeout that can save you 40 seconds right now on the clock this can never happen you have 10 players on the field the start of possession we have coaches communicating the personnel jerry hughes is looking for marcel darius looking for their base defense and they can't even get 11 guys on the field and it could cost them a football game you need to have these timeouts for these types of situations to win these types of games 69 is eligible jack mason who's done that very often this year before the patriots lining up in the fullback position and he's eligible i don't think they'll throw him the ball third and three a patriot conversion here should close the deal for the night they run it with blunt who is stopped so it'll run down to the two minute warning and buffalo's defense did what they had to do forced the three and out and the bills will get it back with a chance when the kick comes on the other side of the two minute warning nowhere to go for legarrette blount they have to credit rex ryan in this game plan that he's had tonight normally tom brady's a 70 close to 70 passer tonight he's had to work for every single completion [Music] back in fox 402 minutes to play in week 11 of the nfl hi everybody i'm steve levy make sure you stick around after the game the gmc post game report coming up on sportscenter at night i'll be joined by all the fellas ray lewis steve young and tripp dilbert will break it all down for you svp goes one on one with cam newton plus is one big thing he'll take a look at the crazy college coaching carousel sports center at night immediately following the game we'll see you then mike and john take us home okay steve thank you caroline the 16th team in the super bowl here at open 10-0 10 of those teams making the super bowl new england's trying to be the 17th team leotis mckelvin is back deep to receive this punt the bills are out of timeouts and charles clather tight end has a neck injury and he's questionable to be on this final drop ball kicked away by ryan allen mckelvin backpedaling great kick and he bear catches it and he mops that two but he gets on it at the 15-yard line to keep any hope of the game alive for buffalo mckeldin will be hard-pressed to return many more kicks in foxborough very fortunate to get on this football and give tyrod taylor a chance he's got to do it on his own in a hurry mike sammy watkins a big catch in the previous series look for taylor to scramble in these situations that's what he does best chris hogan has been the man taking advantage of his matchups throughout the night number 15 for buffalo in the slot at the top no timeouts here we go it is woods for forward progress mark just shy though they're going to move them forward let's say first down and a gain of 10 for woods and taylor still with that injury and now they're having headset communication issues he's having trouble hearing the sidelight which has happened a lot to buffalo this year it happened to them in london it happened to them a couple of weeks ago and here they are in that situation again now we're getting a place stoppage here previous play is under review i wonder if we're gonna check the spot on that ball they gave him a first down at the 26. a lot of time ran off mike [Applause] but they had no timeouts that was the right thing to do we'll let that time run out first before his top of the game [Music] also looking to see if the knee was down for the receiver and i believe it was so it's going to be second down and one on that replay review they've given the first down to the receiver it's going to be second and one instead you see they have it marked off in that spot already oh boy and here's chief after review it has been determined that the runner was down by contact short of the line to gain the second down and one buffalo i can't remember seeing a second in one play reviewed in a two-minute drill buffalo's got to hurry regardless of the headsets they got to get plays called and up and adam faster can't waste another second like we said that's been multiple weeks in different locations that buffalo's had those headset communication issues [Music] second and one three-man rush pressure taylor has to get out get the first down to get out of bounds and he will take it to the 29-yard line with a minute nine remaining in regulation second time jabal sheard had a chance to get the sack these buffalo bill receivers have to be alert to uncover when taylor scrambles he hurt new england in buffalo the first time these two teams played almost brought him back from a 37-13 deficit see despite the shoulder injury charles clay 85 the tight end is playing find up right on the one in first and ten four-man rush now taylor in trouble escapes shovels forward to mccoy mccoy gets out of bounds after he gets as much yardage as he can and taylor continues to deal with the pain this time is rob nikovich on the right side of your screen compressing the pocket can't wrap up taylor tyrod is hurt he's having a hard time calling the plays that right collar bone shoulder areas you always talk about job fourth quarter pass rush most championship teams have it nikovich and jones trying to compress the pocket here taylor's throw should have been intercepted right through the hands of chung zhang is the nickel foreigner tonight we said it justin coleman not here haven't seen rashaan melvin at time he should intercept this pass and score but he gives the bills new life he sees this the whole way this is like pre-game warm-up for chum [Applause] third and six buffalo's got to take advantage when you get a gift like that capitalize taylor firing sideline and it's incomplete great attempt by butler to go up and get it and we'll have one play to keep it alive for buffalo fourth and six i think guy rods hurt mike oh yeah john you can just see every time he reaches up towards that collarbone area and we saw ej manuel warming up and after the training staff looked at him on the bench it was greg roman and the offensive staff talking to him these last two throws there's been nothing on either one of them have to get to the 38. who else the patriots are 10-0 taylor's throw sideline watkins rule no catch and that's ball game [Applause] gotta make these plays that's just an outside breaking route not really contested i think it's expensive all the way through one knee is down another replay tonight that's a previous play it's being reviewed catch there elbow down five down yeah that's that's all good jerry austin's over my shoulder here twice super bowl referee jerry well it appears to me that the knees down and then the elbows down either one of them constitutes to catch inbounds and then he rolls out of bounds and maintains control of the wall i believe this will be reversed to a completion and a runner out of bounds yeah jerry that is a key part of this too to continue to watch the ball at the back end of the play to make sure that he holds on to it it's secured there gotta be a kid you just gotta watch this part of it right there too as the point of the but ball maintains control with his hand and fully underneath the underneath it controlling the ball he never loses control of the ball elbow knees down inbounds this should be a completion i'm sorry jerry what's interesting here too is taylor's got the jacket on ej manuel is warming up on the sideline right now for the bills so buffalo's offenses stayed out on the field new england's defense is out there and e.j manuel is warming up on the sideline with 46 seconds to go well the last three throws that taylor has made there's been nothing after review the ruling has been changed to a completed ball the receiver maintains possession with a knee down with buffalo's ball first and ten on the 40-yard line and this is the all-time throwing the cape off and coming in the game john [Music] but manuel does not come in and taylor stays in the game so taylor had the cape on manual did all the warming up over here on the sideline and they still decided to send taylor back in with 46 seconds to go nothing wrong with his legs if you're new england make sure you keep him in the pocket make him do it with his arm not his legs so from the 40 with a three-man rush taylor goes underneath and that may be the best thing for buffalo because that wasn't going to get a lot of yardage and mccoy might not have gotten to the sideline you can see new england is using a mush rush they're not trying as much to get to taylor as much as they are to keep him in the pocket with 40 seconds left no timeouts left watkins the home run threat at the top of the screen and their leading receiver charles clay is in the slot they got to push it now no more check down second intent look out nikovich hits taylor the ball comes out let's see who's got it looks like buffalo's recovered top naked the ball was placed at the 32-yard line at the spot of the fumble and the clock would be at the 32 and not [Applause] available watkins knows that and gets throwing he's got to get out of out of bed no he stays in bounds they rule and the game will come to an end buffalo's got work to do clearly gotta respect their effort rob thank a the patriots they make the signature plays mike at the end of games that's why they're 10-0 in the defending world champions they have a kicker a quarterback and a fourth quarter pass rush that's why they are where they are and bill belichick of the patriots have improved to 10 and oh with the victory i'm trying to find where rex ryan is as they meet again and it's advantage belichick in the regular season one more time he improves to 11-3 let's go back to this final play here watkins is not touched down by contact by butler so i would assume the clock is stopped that's the same thing as going out of bounds and he got a body part down but he rolls himself out of bounds and it was an interesting stop there of the clock non-stop of the clock i should say in the game expiring and rex ryan of the bills dropping to five and five what a screwed up night of plays and officiating this was wow again on a monday 2013 gmc post game is coming up we've got the gruden grinder in a moment so it'll go away for that our final score here is everybody heads off to the traffic on route 1 foxborough 2013 new england one foxboro 2013 new england

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