Invoice Belichick shut down a contract query, however adopted up with a joke about his golf recreation

“Lot of excellent soccer,” Belichick continued. “Clearly Buffalo’s an excellent crew, high quality crew, very explosive crew, so it got here all the way down to the final handful of performs, and happily this week we have been in a position to make them.”

It was a day when quarterback Mac Jones and the New England offense put collectively a 75-yard game-winning landing drive (culminating with Mike Gesicki’s one-yard rating).

“Good offensive drive, good run there by Rhamondre [Stevenson],” Belichick mentioned of the offense’s fourth-quarter second.

“Mac made a superb test on the blitz, received it to the weak facet to [DeVante] Parker, and hit [Douglas] down there, after which a superb throw for a landing,” Belichick mentioned. “Plenty of good soccer go safety. They have been speeding, they have been blitzing, we picked it up, we threw it, we caught it. That was good execution.”

Jones completed the day finishing 25 of 30 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns.

“I feel it was one in all our most constant offensive performances of the 12 months,” Belichick defined.

“We moved the ball, we scored factors, we modified the sphere place,” he added. “Once more, that’s not one individual. One individual can’t do it. You must have 11 guys working collectively. [Bill O’Brien] did a superb job all week with the sport plan. Crew went in there and performed with good aggressive stage, higher fundamentals, and higher execution. So it’s a superb place to start out.”

Whereas it was the offense that needed to come to rescue late within the recreation, the Patriots protection additionally performed a major function within the win. Payments quarterback Josh Allen was restricted for a lot of the day, and he dedicated an early turnover when Patriots security Jabrill Peppers picked off his opening go.

“Pep’s had a superb 12 months. Very explosive participant, laborious tackler,” Belichick famous. “Made an enormous play with the interception.”

The interception was a callback to a play from a earlier Patriots-Payments matchup.

“We received on hit on that play in opposition to them final 12 months, and labored on it in follow and [Pep] performed it nicely, did a pleasant job to go up and high-point the ball,” Belichick mentioned. “Labored lots on Allen throwing the ball down-field. He had that one ultimately zone, appeared like he threw it about 70 yards.”

Given the latest struggles, there was hypothesis about Belichick’s future in New England. As well as, there was a pregame replace from NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport reporting that Belichick had agreed to a multi-year contract extension within the earlier offseason.

He was requested in regards to the standing of his contract past the present season.

“Yeah I by no means speak about my contract,” Belichick replied. “[I] give attention to the sport. Attempt to give attention to Buffalo, then I’ll give attention to Miami. Depend on that.”

“Thanks, although,” he added.

Turning to former Patriots quarterback and present 98.5 The Sports activities Hub radio host and coloration commentator Scott Zolak, he tried to lighten the ambiance.

“Might you lob a softball up there for me?” Belichick joked. “I can hit a single. I don’t must hit it out of the park, simply type of like softball me one?”

As an alternative, Zolak requested about what was really a troublesome second for the Patriots: The crew elected to make use of one in all its useful second half timeouts on a second within the third quarter previous to a 49-yard area aim try from kicker Chad Ryland (who finally made the kick).

Apparently, Belichick acknowledged that it had been an error.

“That might’ve been pricey, clearly,” he mentioned of the timeout utilization. “That was a mistake on our half. I’d say usually you in all probability simply take into consideration taking the delay penalty and kick it, however the way in which the wind was right this moment, these kicks have been laborious. I imply I do know it’s from the 15-yard line however you then again it up. It’s lots more durable kick.

“So we blew a timeout on that, however thanks, thanks for reminding me of that,” Belichick added, humorously. “Recognize that. You understand unhealthy teaching, unhealthy administration.”

However referencing Payments kicker Tyler Bass’s missed area aim from 42 yards, Belichick highlighted the affect of the wind with an unprecedented third press convention joke.

“You noticed what occurred on Bass’s area aim. I imply it appeared like one in all my five-irons,” Belichick deadpanned. “Straight to the suitable, but it surely was a troublesome wind on the market right this moment, so we determined to take the [timeout] and make it a bit of bit shorter of a kick.”