FOXBORO — Wind whipping. Snow falling.

A scene fit for December football in Foxboro.

What more could you have asked for Sunday?

Uh, how about a fourth-down stop?

One fewer flag, maybe.

A win instead of a frozen nightmare.

By failing to kill off Buffalo when they had the chance, the Patriots committed the cardinal sin of surviving any horror movie, which is exactly what Sunday’s game became once they staked a 21-0 lead. The Bills first clawed on Josh Allen’s touchdown pass late in the second quarter, a score the Pats could only answer with a field goal; dirt thrown on a coffin that hadn’t been lowered deep enough.

Because a 17-point halftime deficit might be enough to bury most teams. But not the Bills. Not Allen.

“That’s his superpower. That’s who Josh Allen is,” Christian Gonzalez

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