Referee in Patriots-Bills game confused college, National Football League rules

“That’s one of the craziest I’ve ever seen”, said LeSean McCoy, who ran 20 times for 82 yards and a 27-yard touchdown and caught six passes for 41 yards to surpass 100 yards from scrimmage for the fourth straight game.

Add coach Rex Ryan to the mix of people wondering why receiver Sammy Watkins isn’t more involved in the Buffalo Bills’ offense. Instead, head linesman Ed Walker said that Watkins had given himself up and kept the clock moving, ending the game without giving Buffalo one last shot at a hail Mary play from their own 47. How do the officials miss a Patriots player running on the field to fake a substitution, then running off the field once the Bills tried to match up. The fourth overall pick in the 2014 draft is having a hard season, partially because of injuries, and also because quarterback Tyrod Taylor has not been able to get him the ball. Taylor injured his right shoulder late and stayed in the game. As the receiver broke for the end zone, the play was whistled dead – apparently because the official thought Brady stepped out of bounds.

“If you don’€™t really nail it to a ‘€˜T’€™ then they get a lot of free plays and I think there were a lot of free plays that I basically took the ball and tried to throw it away as fast as I could”, Brady said on Dennis & Callahan Tuesday.

The Patriots proceeded to go three and out, and Stephen Gostkowski had his long consecutive field goal streak snapped by missing a 54-yard field goal wide right.

Collins has not practiced or played in a games since landing on the team’s injury report with an illness on the day before its Week 9 game against Washington. He was helped off the field and carted to the locker room.

“I think with what they had, they pieced it together and they did the best they could by saying, ‘OK, the whistle didn’t affect the pass. It did affect this action at the end”. “[We] talk to them about, “Here’s what we need you to do this week, these are the most important things that we need you to do'”. Taylor missed what should have been an open Hogan, throwing the ball behind him to allow safety Patrick Chung to disrupt the pass, and Carpenter connected from 52 yards. However, Bills have only put opposing quarterback down only 14 times this season.

NOTES: Game time temperature was 29 degrees with a wind chill of 21….

This week, the Patriots draw the NFL’s top-ranked defense and the Denver Broncos on Sunday night. He sustained the injury after making a tackle on a punt early in the game. On the other side of the field is the Patriot’s offensive line that is starting to grate. QB EJ Manuel was Buffalo’s backup with Josh Johnson inactive….

The Bills return to practice on Wednesday with a short week to contend with and a big challenge ahead at Kansas City in a game between two 5-5 teams in the thick of the AFC playoff race.