GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NFL: NEW ENGLAND (9-0) at BUFFALO (5-4)

NFL: NEW ENGLAND at BUFFALO

<div class="pre">** CONFIRMED **
NFL
NEW ENGLAND 56
BUFFALO 10 FINAL</div>

 

NFL: NEW ENGLAND at BUFFALO

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
NEW ENGLAND 14 21 7 14 56
BUFFALO 7 0 3 0 10 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

2:43 NWE - TD, LAURENCE MARONEY 6 YD RUN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 2 plays, 13 yards in 0:34.
Key plays: Gay 21-yard interception return plus 14-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Bills' Walker to Buffalo 13. NEW ENGLAND 7-0.
6:56 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 43 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 6 plays, 63 yards in 2:18.
Key plays: T Brady 15-yard pass to Watson on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo
41. NEW ENGLAND 14-0.
11:22 BUF - TD, ROSCOE PARRISH 47 YD PASS FROM J.P. LOSMAN (RIAN LINDELL KICK).
Drive: 8 plays, 82 yards in 4:26.
Key plays: Losman 12-yard pass to Reed to Buffalo 30; Thomas 2-yard
run on 3rd-and-1 to Buffalo 41; Losman 13-yard pass to Gaines to New
England 46. NEW ENGLAND 14-7.

2ND QUARTER:

0:07 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 16 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 8 plays, 72 yards in 3:45.
Key plays: T Brady 14-yard pass to Stallworth to New England 30; T
Brady 31-yard pass to Gaffney on 3rd-and-8 to Buffalo 39. NEW ENGLAND
21-7.
8:27 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 6 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 84 yards in 6:12.
Key plays: T Brady 25-yard pass to Watson to New England 41; T Brady
15-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 40; T Brady 11-yard pass to Stallworth
on 3rd-and-2 to Buffalo 21; T Brady 11-yard pass to Faulk to Buffalo 11.
NEW ENGLAND 28-7.
14:50 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 17 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 12 plays, 72 yards in 2:39.
Key plays: T Brady 12-yard pass to Moss on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo 39;
T Brady 11-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 28; Evans 2-yard run on
3rd-and-1 to Buffalo 17. NEW ENGLAND 35-7.

3RD QUARTER:

6:11 NWE - TD, BENJAMIN WATSON 3 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 12 plays, 73 yards in 6:11.
Key plays: T Brady 20-yard pass to Stallworth to Buffalo 25; T Brady
6-yard pass to Gaffney on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo 12. NEW ENGLAND 42-7.
8:58 BUF - FG, RIAN LINDELL 52 YD.
Drive: 7 plays, 18 yards in 2:14.
Key plays: McGee 29-yard kickoff return to Buffalo 48; Losman 6-yard
run on 3rd-and-1 to New England 37. NEW ENGLAND 42-10.

4TH QUARTER:

0:05 NWE - TD, KYLE ECKEL 1 YD RUN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards in 6:07.
Key plays: T Brady 13-yard pass to Moss to New England 38; Eckel
14-yard run to Buffalo 43; T Brady 24-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 19; T
Brady 3-yard pass to Moss on 4th-and-1 to Buffalo 7. NEW ENGLAND 49-10.
1:01 NWE - TD, ELLIS HOBBS 35 YD FUMBLE RETURN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
NEW ENGLAND 56-10.

NEW ENGLAND - BUFFALO Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS NEW ENGLAND BUFFALO

FIRST DOWNS 30 14
Rushing 9 5
Passing 21 8
Penalty 0 1
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 8-11-73% 4-10-40%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-2-100% 0-0-0%
TOTAL NET YARDS 510 229
Total offensive plays 70 49
Average gain per play 7.3 4.7
NET YARDS RUSHING 127 78
Rushing attempts 29 19
Average gain per rush 4.4 4.1
Tackles for loss-yards 2-3 2-4
NET YARDS PASSING 383 151
Times sacked: Number-Yards 0-0 4-22
Gross passing yards 383 173
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 41-33-0 26-15-1
Avg gain per pass play 9.3 5.0
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 9-1-0 3-0-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 1-36.0 4-36.5
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 32.0 36.5
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 25 0
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 1-4 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 3-47 9-163
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 1-21 0-0
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 4-37 5-34
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 1-0 2-1
TOUCHDOWNS 8 1
Rushing 2 0
Passing 5 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 1 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 8-8 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 8-8 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 0-0 1-1
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 6-6-100% 0-0-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 34:54 25:06


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

NEW ENGLAND BUFFALO

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H EVANS 10 56 5.6 11 0 A THOMAS 11 31 2.8 9 0
K ECKEL 10 40 4.0 14 1 J LOSMAN 4 31 7.8 13 0
L MARONEY 6 19 3.2 9 1 F JACKSON 3 15 5.0 8 0
T BRADY 2 9 4.5 5 0 D WRIGHT 1 1 1.0 1 0
W WELKER 1 3 3.0 3 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T BRADY 31-39-373 0 5 43 J LOSMAN 15-26-173 1 1 47
M CASSEL 2- 2- 10 0 0 6

Sacked-Yards Lost: None Sacked-Yards Lost: J LOSMAN 4-22.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R MOSS 10 128 12.8 43 4 L EVANS 4 40 10.0 16 0
W WELKER 7 78 11.1 24 0 J REED 3 44 14.7 19 0
D STALLWOR 5 56 11.2 20 0 A THOMAS 3 15 5.0 11 0
J GAFFNEY 3 44 14.7 31 0 F JACKSON 2 9 4.5 7 0
B WATSON 3 43 14.3 25 1 R PARRISH 1 47 47.0 47 1
K FAULK 2 18 9.0 10 0 M GAINES 1 13 13.0 13 0
H EVANS 2 10 5.0 6 0 D WRIGHT 1 5 5.0 5 0
K ECKEL 1 6 6.0 6 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R GAY 1 21 21.0 21 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C HANSON 1 36 36.0 1 0 36 B MOORMAN 4 146 36.5 0 1 43

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
W WELKER 1 4 4.0 4 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
E HOBBS 1 17 17.0 17 0 T MCGEE 8 147 18.4 29 0
W ANDREWS 1 15 15.0 15 0 F JACKSON 1 16 16.0 16 0
C JACKSON 1 15 15.0 15 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
S GOSTKOWS 8/8 0/0 R LINDELL 1/1 1/1
Dist.: 52

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K FAULK 1 0 0 0-0 D WRIGHT 1 1 0 0-0
J GREEN 0 0 1 0-0 J LOSMAN 1 0 0 1-0
J SANDERS 0 0 1 0-0 D WHITNER 0 0 1 0-0
E HOBBS 0 0 0 0-1
R MOSS 0 0 0 1-0

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
J SEAU 4 4 0 0-0 J DIGIORGIO 11 10 1 0-0
R HARRISON 4 4 0 0-0 A CROWELL 9 6 3 0-0
J SANDERS 4 4 0 0-0 J BUTLER 7 5 2 0-0
J GREEN 4 4 0 0-0 G WILSON 5 5 0 0-0
T BRUSCHI 4 1 3 .5-3.5 T MCGEE 4 4 0 0-0
A SAMUEL 3 3 0 0-0 A HARGROVE 4 3 1 0-0
E HOBBS 3 3 0 0-0 J GREER 3 3 0 0-0
A THOMAS 3 2 12.5-18. D WHITNER 3 3 0 0-0
M VRABEL 3 2 1 1-0 A SCHOBEL 3 2 1 0-0
T WARREN 3 2 1 0-0 R DENNEY 3 2 1 0-0
R COLVIN 2 2 0 0-0 K WILLIAMS 3 2 1 0-0
E JACKSON 2 2 0 0-0 K ELLISON 3 1 2 0-0
V WILFORK 1 1 0 0-0 C KELSAY 2 2 0 0-0
P WOODS 1 1 0 0-0 L TRIPPLETT 1 1 0 0-0
B MERIWEATHER 1 1 0 0-0

Att: 71,338</div>

 

By Dave Whalen
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer


ORCHARD PARK, New York (Ticker) -- The New England Patriotscontinued their dominance of the Buffalo Bills on Sunday,rolling to a 56-10 victory.


The Patriots have won nine straight in the series, but none ofthose previous victories were as impressive as this one.

New England scored on its first six possessions, four of thosescored being touchdown passes from Tom Brady to Randy Moss.

It didn't take the Patriots long to jump out on the Bills. Onthe fourth play of the game, cornerback Randall Gay intercepteda J.P. Losman pass and returned it 21 yards.


Bills right tackle Langston Walker received a 13 yard penaltyfor hitting Gay out of bounds, and New England started the drivefrom the Bills' 13. Two plays later Laurence Maroney ran it infrom six yards out to give the Pats the early 7-0 lead.

After forcing the Bills to go three and out, New England neededonly six plays to pad the lead to 14-0. Brady hit Moss from 43yards out, giving Moss his 13th TD reception of the year, a teamrecord for a season.


The Bills responded with a big play of their own as Losman hitRoscoe Parrish for a 47 yard TD pass, cutting the lead to 14-7with 4:26 left in the first quarter.


Brady and Moss again connected, this time from 16 yards on thefirst play of the second quarter.


On their next possession, the tandem again lit up thescoreboard, this time from six yards, giving New England a 28-7lead with 6:33 left in the first half. That gave Brady 183career TD passes, passing Steve Grogan as the team's all-timeleader in that category.


They weren't done as Moss made a pretty catch to the right ofthe end zone with just 10 seconds left in the half. Moss' fourthTD reception gave him a team record for most in a game and thePatriots led 35-7 at the half


Brady's first half numbers were 22-of-28 for 287 yards and a QBrating of 149.0 ,while Moss had eight catches for 112 yards andfour touchdowns.


New England continued the deluge, going for it on 4th-and-1 fromthe Buffalo 3. Brady found Ben Watson in the right corner ofthe end zone.


Kyle Eckel added a TD run and corner Ellis Hobbs returned afumble for a TD to cap the scoring.

 

NFL: NEW ENGLAND at BUFFALO

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
NEW ENGLAND 14 21 7 14 56
BUFFALO 7 0 3 0 10 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

2:43 NWE - TD, LAURENCE MARONEY 6 YD RUN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 2 plays, 13 yards in 0:34.
Key plays: Gay 21-yard interception return plus 14-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Bills' Walker to Buffalo 13. NEW ENGLAND 7-0.
6:56 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 43 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 6 plays, 63 yards in 2:18.
Key plays: T Brady 15-yard pass to Watson on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo
41. NEW ENGLAND 14-0.
11:22 BUF - TD, ROSCOE PARRISH 47 YD PASS FROM J.P. LOSMAN (RIAN LINDELL KICK).
Drive: 8 plays, 82 yards in 4:26.
Key plays: Losman 12-yard pass to Reed to Buffalo 30; Thomas 2-yard
run on 3rd-and-1 to Buffalo 41; Losman 13-yard pass to Gaines to New
England 46. NEW ENGLAND 14-7.

2ND QUARTER:

0:07 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 16 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 8 plays, 72 yards in 3:45.
Key plays: T Brady 14-yard pass to Stallworth to New England 30; T
Brady 31-yard pass to Gaffney on 3rd-and-8 to Buffalo 39. NEW ENGLAND
21-7.
8:27 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 6 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 84 yards in 6:12.
Key plays: T Brady 25-yard pass to Watson to New England 41; T Brady
15-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 40; T Brady 11-yard pass to Stallworth
on 3rd-and-2 to Buffalo 21; T Brady 11-yard pass to Faulk to Buffalo 11.
NEW ENGLAND 28-7.
14:50 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 17 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 12 plays, 72 yards in 2:39.
Key plays: T Brady 12-yard pass to Moss on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo 39;
T Brady 11-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 28; Evans 2-yard run on
3rd-and-1 to Buffalo 17. NEW ENGLAND 35-7.

3RD QUARTER:

6:11 NWE - TD, BENJAMIN WATSON 3 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 12 plays, 73 yards in 6:11.
Key plays: T Brady 20-yard pass to Stallworth to Buffalo 25; T Brady
6-yard pass to Gaffney on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo 12. NEW ENGLAND 42-7.
8:58 BUF - FG, RIAN LINDELL 52 YD.
Drive: 7 plays, 18 yards in 2:14.
Key plays: McGee 29-yard kickoff return to Buffalo 48; Losman 6-yard
run on 3rd-and-1 to New England 37. NEW ENGLAND 42-10.

4TH QUARTER:

0:05 NWE - TD, KYLE ECKEL 1 YD RUN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards in 6:07.
Key plays: T Brady 13-yard pass to Moss to New England 38; Eckel
14-yard run to Buffalo 43; T Brady 24-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 19; T
Brady 3-yard pass to Moss on 4th-and-1 to Buffalo 7. NEW ENGLAND 49-10.
1:01 NWE - TD, ELLIS HOBBS 35 YD FUMBLE RETURN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
NEW ENGLAND 56-10.

NEW ENGLAND - BUFFALO Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS NEW ENGLAND BUFFALO

FIRST DOWNS 30 14
Rushing 9 5
Passing 21 8
Penalty 0 1
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 8-11-73% 4-10-40%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-2-100% 0-0-0%
TOTAL NET YARDS 510 229
Total offensive plays 70 49
Average gain per play 7.3 4.7
NET YARDS RUSHING 127 78
Rushing attempts 29 19
Average gain per rush 4.4 4.1
Tackles for loss-yards 2-3 2-4
NET YARDS PASSING 383 151
Times sacked: Number-Yards 0-0 4-22
Gross passing yards 383 173
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 41-33-0 26-15-1
Avg gain per pass play 9.3 5.0
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 9-1-0 3-0-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 1-36.0 4-36.5
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 32.0 36.5
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 25 0
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 1-4 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 3-47 9-163
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 1-21 0-0
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 4-37 5-34
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 1-0 2-1
TOUCHDOWNS 8 1
Rushing 2 0
Passing 5 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 1 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 8-8 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 8-8 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 0-0 1-1
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 6-6-100% 0-0-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 34:54 25:06


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

NEW ENGLAND BUFFALO

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H EVANS 10 56 5.6 11 0 A THOMAS 11 31 2.8 9 0
K ECKEL 10 40 4.0 14 1 J LOSMAN 4 31 7.8 13 0
L MARONEY 6 19 3.2 9 1 F JACKSON 3 15 5.0 8 0
T BRADY 2 9 4.5 5 0 D WRIGHT 1 1 1.0 1 0
W WELKER 1 3 3.0 3 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T BRADY 31-39-373 0 5 43 J LOSMAN 15-26-173 1 1 47
M CASSEL 2- 2- 10 0 0 6

Sacked-Yards Lost: None Sacked-Yards Lost: J LOSMAN 4-22.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R MOSS 10 128 12.8 43 4 L EVANS 4 40 10.0 16 0
W WELKER 7 78 11.1 24 0 J REED 3 44 14.7 19 0
D STALLWOR 5 56 11.2 20 0 A THOMAS 3 15 5.0 11 0
J GAFFNEY 3 44 14.7 31 0 F JACKSON 2 9 4.5 7 0
B WATSON 3 43 14.3 25 1 R PARRISH 1 47 47.0 47 1
K FAULK 2 18 9.0 10 0 M GAINES 1 13 13.0 13 0
H EVANS 2 10 5.0 6 0 D WRIGHT 1 5 5.0 5 0
K ECKEL 1 6 6.0 6 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R GAY 1 21 21.0 21 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C HANSON 1 36 36.0 1 0 36 B MOORMAN 4 146 36.5 0 1 43

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
W WELKER 1 4 4.0 4 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
E HOBBS 1 17 17.0 17 0 T MCGEE 8 147 18.4 29 0
W ANDREWS 1 15 15.0 15 0 F JACKSON 1 16 16.0 16 0
C JACKSON 1 15 15.0 15 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
S GOSTKOWS 8/8 0/0 R LINDELL 1/1 1/1
Dist.: 52

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K FAULK 1 0 0 0-0 D WRIGHT 1 1 0 0-0
J GREEN 0 0 1 0-0 J LOSMAN 1 0 0 1-0
J SANDERS 0 0 1 0-0 D WHITNER 0 0 1 0-0
E HOBBS 0 0 0 0-1
R MOSS 0 0 0 1-0

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
J SEAU 4 4 0 0-0 J DIGIORGIO 11 10 1 0-0
R HARRISON 4 4 0 0-0 A CROWELL 9 6 3 0-0
J SANDERS 4 4 0 0-0 J BUTLER 7 5 2 0-0
J GREEN 4 4 0 0-0 G WILSON 5 5 0 0-0
T BRUSCHI 4 1 3 .5-3.5 T MCGEE 4 4 0 0-0
A SAMUEL 3 3 0 0-0 A HARGROVE 4 3 1 0-0
E HOBBS 3 3 0 0-0 J GREER 3 3 0 0-0
A THOMAS 3 2 12.5-18. D WHITNER 3 3 0 0-0
M VRABEL 3 2 1 1-0 A SCHOBEL 3 2 1 0-0
T WARREN 3 2 1 0-0 R DENNEY 3 2 1 0-0
R COLVIN 2 2 0 0-0 K WILLIAMS 3 2 1 0-0
E JACKSON 2 2 0 0-0 K ELLISON 3 1 2 0-0
V WILFORK 1 1 0 0-0 C KELSAY 2 2 0 0-0
P WOODS 1 1 0 0-0 L TRIPPLETT 1 1 0 0-0
B MERIWEATHER 1 1 0 0-0

Officials: Referee-Bill Carollo, Umpire-Bill Schuster, Head
Linesman-John Schleyer, Line Judge-Gary Arthur, Field Judge-Bill
Lovett, Side Judge-James Coleman, Back Judge-Phil Luckett.

Att: 71,338 Time of Game: 2:59</div>

 

By Dave Whalen
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer


ORCHARD PARK, New York (Ticker) -- The New England Patriotscontinued their dominance of the Buffalo Bills on Sunday,rolling to a 56-10 victory.


The Patriots have won nine straight in the series, but none ofthose previous victories were as impressive as this one.

New England scored on its first six possessions, four of thosescored being touchdown passes from Tom Brady to Randy Moss.

It didn't take the Patriots long to jump out on the Bills. Onthe fourth play of the game, cornerback Randall Gay intercepteda J.P. Losman pass and returned it 21 yards.


Bills right tackle Langston Walker received a 13 yard penaltyfor hitting Gay out of bounds, and New England started the drivefrom the Bills' 13. Two plays later Laurence Maroney ran it infrom six yards out to give the Pats the early 7-0 lead.

After forcing the Bills to go three and out, New England neededonly six plays to pad the lead to 14-0. Brady hit Moss from 43yards out, giving Moss his 13th TD reception of the year, a teamrecord for a season.


The Bills responded with a big play of their own as Losman hitRoscoe Parrish for a 47 yard TD pass, cutting the lead to 14-7with 4:26 left in the first quarter.


Brady and Moss again connected, this time from 16 yards on thefirst play of the second quarter.


On their next possession, the tandem again lit up thescoreboard, this time from six yards, giving New England a 28-7lead with 6:33 left in the first half. That gave Brady 183career TD passes, passing Steve Grogan as the team's all-timeleader in that category.


"I try to throw it to the open guy", Brady said. "If (Moss) isthe open guy then he gets it. I thought we spread it aroundpretty good tonight. They have to account for everybody. I knowthe play, I know the protection, I know the routes we got calledand I try to go to the guy who I think is going to be mostopen." They weren't done as Moss made a pretty catch to theright of the end zone with just 10 seconds left in the half.Moss' fourth TD reception gave him a team record for most in agame and the Patriots led 35-7 at the half


"I don't consider myself as selfish", Moss said. "Tommy hasalways said he's going to the open receiver but sometimes thecoach does call plays for individuals. The whole offenseexecuted and it started with the offensive line. They gave Tommysome time to throw and we had to catch the ball."


Brady's first half numbers were 22-of-28 for 287 yards and a QBrating of 149.0, while Moss had eight catches for 112 yards andfour touchdowns. New England continued the deluge, going for iton 4th-and-1 from the Buffalo 3. Brady found Ben Watson in theright corner of the end zone. Kyle Eckel added a TD run andcorner Ellis Hobbs returned a fumble for a TD to cap thescoring.


"I thought the team was ready to go early", Coach Bill Belicheksaid. "We had to get on top, get off to a good start.Offensively of course we scored on those possessions and threwthe ball pretty well. We put our defense in a good spot,turnovers helped as well there. We had pretty solid play all theway around."


The Bills suffered their worse loss in team history, surpassinga 43-0 defeat to the Baltimore Colts on October 10, 1971.

"We have to put it behind us to move on", Bills S Donte Whitnersaid. "We play Jacksonville next week. We're 5-5 right now. Wehave an opportunity to go up to Jacksonville and win a footballgame, now that's our focus. We're going to put this game behindus. We're going to go in and watch this game tomorrow, it'sgoing to be painful."

 

NFL: NEW ENGLAND at BUFFALO

<div class="pre">NFL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
NEW ENGLAND 14 21 7 14 56
BUFFALO 7 0 3 0 10 FINAL

SCORING SUMMARY

1ST QUARTER:

2:43 NWE - TD, LAURENCE MARONEY 6 YD RUN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 2 plays, 13 yards in 0:34.
Key plays: Gay 21-yard interception return plus 14-yard unnecessary
roughness penalty on Bills' Walker to Buffalo 13. NEW ENGLAND 7-0.
6:56 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 43 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 6 plays, 63 yards in 2:18.
Key plays: T Brady 15-yard pass to Watson on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo
41. NEW ENGLAND 14-0.
11:22 BUF - TD, ROSCOE PARRISH 47 YD PASS FROM J.P. LOSMAN (RIAN LINDELL KICK).
Drive: 8 plays, 82 yards in 4:26.
Key plays: Losman 12-yard pass to Reed to Buffalo 30; Thomas 2-yard
run on 3rd-and-1 to Buffalo 41; Losman 13-yard pass to Gaines to New
England 46. NEW ENGLAND 14-7.

2ND QUARTER:

0:07 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 16 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 8 plays, 72 yards in 3:45.
Key plays: T Brady 14-yard pass to Stallworth to New England 30; T
Brady 31-yard pass to Gaffney on 3rd-and-8 to Buffalo 39. NEW ENGLAND
21-7.
8:27 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 6 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 84 yards in 6:12.
Key plays: T Brady 25-yard pass to Watson to New England 41; T Brady
15-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 40; T Brady 11-yard pass to Stallworth
on 3rd-and-2 to Buffalo 21; T Brady 11-yard pass to Faulk to Buffalo 11.
NEW ENGLAND 28-7.
14:50 NWE - TD, RANDY MOSS 17 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 12 plays, 72 yards in 2:39.
Key plays: T Brady 12-yard pass to Moss on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo 39;
T Brady 11-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 28; Evans 2-yard run on
3rd-and-1 to Buffalo 17. NEW ENGLAND 35-7.

3RD QUARTER:

6:11 NWE - TD, BENJAMIN WATSON 3 YD PASS FROM TOM BRADY (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 12 plays, 73 yards in 6:11.
Key plays: T Brady 20-yard pass to Stallworth to Buffalo 25; T Brady
6-yard pass to Gaffney on 3rd-and-3 to Buffalo 12. NEW ENGLAND 42-7.
8:58 BUF - FG, RIAN LINDELL 52 YD.
Drive: 7 plays, 18 yards in 2:14.
Key plays: McGee 29-yard kickoff return to Buffalo 48; Losman 6-yard
run on 3rd-and-1 to New England 37. NEW ENGLAND 42-10.

4TH QUARTER:

0:05 NWE - TD, KYLE ECKEL 1 YD RUN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards in 6:07.
Key plays: T Brady 13-yard pass to Moss to New England 38; Eckel
14-yard run to Buffalo 43; T Brady 24-yard pass to Welker to Buffalo 19; T
Brady 3-yard pass to Moss on 4th-and-1 to Buffalo 7. NEW ENGLAND 49-10.
1:01 NWE - TD, ELLIS HOBBS 35 YD FUMBLE RETURN (STEPHEN GOSTKOWSKI KICK).
NEW ENGLAND 56-10.

NEW ENGLAND - BUFFALO Final Statistics

TEAM STATISTICS NEW ENGLAND BUFFALO

FIRST DOWNS 30 14
Rushing 9 5
Passing 21 8
Penalty 0 1
THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 8-11-73% 4-10-40%
FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 2-2-100% 0-0-0%
TOTAL NET YARDS 510 229
Total offensive plays 70 49
Average gain per play 7.3 4.7
NET YARDS RUSHING 127 78
Rushing attempts 29 19
Average gain per rush 4.4 4.1
Tackles for loss-yards 2-3 2-4
NET YARDS PASSING 383 151
Times sacked: Number-Yards 0-0 4-22
Gross passing yards 383 173
PASS ATTEMPTS-COMPLETIONS-HAD INTERCEPTED 41-33-0 26-15-1
Avg gain per pass play 9.3 5.0
KICKOFFS: Number-In End Zone-Touchbacks 9-1-0 3-0-0
PUNTS: Number and Average 1-36.0 4-36.5
Had blocked 0 0
Net punting average 32.0 36.5
TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE (Not including kickoffs) 25 0
Number-Yards: Punt Returns 1-4 0-0
Number-Yards: Kickoff Returns 3-47 9-163
Number-Yards: Interception Returns 1-21 0-0
PENALTIES: Number-Yards 4-37 5-34
FUMBLES: Number-Lost 1-0 2-1
TOUCHDOWNS 8 1
Rushing 2 0
Passing 5 1
Interceptions 0 0
Other (blocked kicks, etc.) 1 0
EXTRA POINTS: Made-Attempts 8-8 1-1
Kicking: Made-Attempts 8-8 1-1
Passing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
Rushing: Made-Attempts 0-0 0-0
FIELD GOALS: Made-Attempts 0-0 1-1
FGs - PATs had blocked 0-0 0-0
RED ZONE EFFICIENCY 6-6-100% 0-0-0%
GOAL TO GO EFFICIENCY 1-1-100% 0-0-0%
SAFETIES 0 0
TIME OF POSSESSION 34:54 25:06


INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

NEW ENGLAND BUFFALO

RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD RUSHING ATT YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
H EVANS 10 56 5.6 11 0 A THOMAS 11 31 2.8 9 0
K ECKEL 10 40 4.0 14 1 J LOSMAN 4 31 7.8 13 0
L MARONEY 6 19 3.2 9 1 F JACKSON 3 15 5.0 8 0
T BRADY 2 9 4.5 5 0 D WRIGHT 1 1 1.0 1 0
W WELKER 1 3 3.0 3 0

PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG PASSING CM-AT-YDS IN TD LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
T BRADY 31-39-373 0 5 43 J LOSMAN 15-26-173 1 1 47
M CASSEL 2- 2- 10 0 0 6

Sacked-Yards Lost: None Sacked-Yards Lost: J LOSMAN 4-22.

RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD RECEIVING NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R MOSS 10 128 12.8 43 4 L EVANS 4 40 10.0 16 0
W WELKER 7 78 11.1 24 0 J REED 3 44 14.7 19 0
D STALLWOR 5 56 11.2 20 0 A THOMAS 3 15 5.0 11 0
J GAFFNEY 3 44 14.7 31 0 F JACKSON 2 9 4.5 7 0
B WATSON 3 43 14.3 25 1 R PARRISH 1 47 47.0 47 1
K FAULK 2 18 9.0 10 0 M GAINES 1 13 13.0 13 0
H EVANS 2 10 5.0 6 0 D WRIGHT 1 5 5.0 5 0
K ECKEL 1 6 6.0 6 0

INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD INTERCEPTIONS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
R GAY 1 21 21.0 21 0

PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG PUNTING NO YDS AVG T I LG
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
C HANSON 1 36 36.0 1 0 36 B MOORMAN 4 146 36.5 0 1 43

T = Touchbacks, I = Inside 20

PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD PUNT RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
W WELKER 1 4 4.0 4 0

KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD KICKOFF RETURNS NO YDS AVG LG TD
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
E HOBBS 1 17 17.0 17 0 T MCGEE 8 147 18.4 29 0
W ANDREWS 1 15 15.0 15 0 F JACKSON 1 16 16.0 16 0
C JACKSON 1 15 15.0 15 0

KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA KICKING XP/XPA FG/FGA
---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
S GOSTKOWS 8/8 0/0 R LINDELL 1/1 1/1
Dist.: 52

O-D O-D
FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC FUMBLES NO LOST FF REC
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
K FAULK 1 0 0 0-0 D WRIGHT 1 1 0 0-0
J GREEN 0 0 1 0-0 J LOSMAN 1 0 0 1-0
J SANDERS 0 0 1 0-0 D WHITNER 0 0 1 0-0
E HOBBS 0 0 0 0-1
R MOSS 0 0 0 1-0

DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD DEFENSE TK SO AS SK-YD
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
J SEAU 4 4 0 0-0 J DIGIORGIO 11 10 1 0-0
R HARRISON 4 4 0 0-0 A CROWELL 9 6 3 0-0
J SANDERS 4 4 0 0-0 J BUTLER 7 5 2 0-0
J GREEN 4 4 0 0-0 G WILSON 5 5 0 0-0
T WARREN 4 2 2 .5-3.5 T MCGEE 4 4 0 0-0
A SAMUEL 3 3 0 0-0 A HARGROVE 4 3 1 0-0
E HOBBS 3 3 0 0-0 J GREER 3 3 0 0-0
A THOMAS 3 2 12.5-18. D WHITNER 3 3 0 0-0
M VRABEL 3 2 1 1-0 A SCHOBEL 3 2 1 0-0
T BRUSCHI 3 1 2 0-0 R DENNEY 3 2 1 0-0
R COLVIN 2 2 0 0-0 K WILLIAMS 3 2 1 0-0
E JACKSON 2 2 0 0-0 K ELLISON 3 1 2 0-0
V WILFORK 1 1 0 0-0 C KELSAY 2 2 0 0-0
P WOODS 1 1 0 0-0 L TRIPPLETT 1 1 0 0-0
B MERIWEATHER 1 1 0 0-0

Officials: Referee-Bill Carollo, Umpire-Bill Schuster, Head
Linesman-John Schleyer, Line Judge-Gary Arthur, Field Judge-Bill
Lovett, Side Judge-James Coleman, Back Judge-Phil Luckett.

Att: 71,338 Time of Game: 2:59</div>

 

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