On this Christmas eve episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is going over his biggest Buffalo Bills takeaways after watching back the film from their too-close-for-comfort 24-21 victory over the New England Patriots to improve to 12-3 on the season.

Let's be honest---the Patriots are pretty much hopeless for the time being, came into the game at just 3-11 and lack the talent to play with the better teams in the league. The expectation was the Bills would win this game with ease and as things turn out, that was anything but the case. Truth is it's hard to win in the NFL any week and good teams sometimes struggle with and even lose to bad teams. The Bills were able to narrowly escape with a victory and Patrick goes over several reasons why.

On the positive side Patrick talks about James Cook being the best player on the field for Buffalo on Sunday him coming up big yet again. Also, Dorian Williams was fantastic and Greg Rousseau made the big plays that big time edge rushers make.

Fortunately that was enough to carry them to a victory because there was a lot that went wrong. Among that discussed is Kaiir Elam and Baylon Spector's woeful days, part of a defense that is without question overly relying on turnovers to make up for a lot of deficiencies. Things weren't all that much better with the passing game on offense either--just an all around sloppy game.

Patrick also has thoughts on how Sean McDermott should and probably will handle the roster if they're locked into the second seed before taking the field next Sunday against the Jets. That and plenty more!

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