Pats Mayo, Bills Posluszny Both Expected to Miss at Least Six Weeks

Here’s Derrick Brooks making his ESPN debut, talking about his desire to return to the football field this year:

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Brian Galliford at SB Nation’s Buffalo Rumblings had immediate reaction to the loss last night, which surprisingly involved less tears that we would have imagined:

And express their grief they have. In fact, it seems they’ve gone through all five stages:

Ouch: Two last-minute touchdown drives, one of them caused by a bad decision on a kick return, rob the Bills of a win they deserved for three quarters. Such is life when you’re the Buffalo Bills.

There are bright sides, though. For a team no one expects anything from, faced with what many believe to be the prohibitive Super Bowl favorite, a last-minute loss is nothing to feel bad about. The Patriots face the opposite conclusion: Perhaps they’re not as good as they thought.

After a disastrous play by Bills kick returner Leodis McKelvan, who fumbled the ball on the ensuing kick return, the Patriots got a short field and drove 31 yards in 3 plays. Brady found Watson again for a 16-yard touchdown which gave the Patriots a one point lead. It’s an utterly disastrous end for the Bills, provided they can’t drive and score a field goal in the remaining :45 seconds.

The Patriots were in two-minute mode as they drove down the field quickly on an 11-play, 81 yard drive in 1:54. The Bills defense looked winded as the Brady looked like the Brady of old; he topped the drive with an 18-yard pass to tight end Benjamin Watson.

The Bills came back and drove 14 plays for 62 yards, capped off by a 10-yard screen pass from Trent Edwards to Fred Jackson. Jackson has 57 yards rushing and 80 yards receiving. Jackson is proving a more-than-capable substitute for Marshawn Lynch, whose three-game suspension isn’t looking so dire anymore.