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Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott believes his own team’s “sloppy football” more than any brilliant coaching strategy from Bill Belichick cost his team Monday’s game against the New England Patriots.
“Let’s not give more credit than we need to give credit to Bill Belichick in this one,” McDermott told reporters after the game. “Whether it was Bill or anybody else, they beat us, right? But you sit here and you tell me when we start with an average starting field position of the 40-yard line and he starts with the 23-yard line—I’m rounding up in both cases—and we were 1-for-4 in the red zone and they were 0-for-1 in the red zone? You give me that ahead of time, I’d say I like my chances. I like my chances.
“I don’t think, with all due respect, it’s not a Bill Belichick-type thing. It’s, what are you doing with the opportunities you got? What are you doing with the opportunities you got? We turned the ball over on the plus-30-something yard line. Sloppy football. Sloppy football. I’m very comfortable in that situation.”
The Patriots earned a 14-10 win over the Bills in a hard-fought contest that was significantly impacted by inclement weather in Buffalo. New England attempted only three passes the entire game, relying on a ground game that picked up 222 yards.
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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