Tom Brady Addresses Patriots’ Offensive Struggles Vs. Bills In Postgame Interview

The New England Patriots defeated the Buffalo Bills thanks to the defense. Quarterback Tom Brady talked about the offensive struggles his team had. Brady completed 42.6 percent of his passes for 150 yards with an interception. He threw for 3.8 yards per attempt and finished with a 45.9 passer rating. In other words, this was his worst career passer rating in a win.

TB12 didn’t make any excuses. Julian Edelman played with an injury and Rex Burkhead played with a bum foot. The offense played with backups at left tackle.

“I think we’re all just trying to improve,” Brady said. “We did the best we can do and today was, you know, we can do better than that. So, try to do better next week, figure out all the things that they did well. They did a lot of things well, and I’m glad we won. Glad we’re 4-0.

“You know, I don’t think field position to me, doesn’t matter that much,” he added. “Wherever we start, we start. We still have to move the ball for points. So, we just didn’t do a very good job, I would say, of consistently doing the right thing against a really good defense, that certainly plays well at home, but it’s good to win. Whether we win 45-40, or 45-3 or whatever it was, say 16-10, they all count the same. We just have to figure out how to do a better job on offense. Defense, I know they’re going to play great. They’re playing great all season long, and try to score more points than we did today.”

In the second quarter, he let the Pats on a 93-yard drive but finished it with an interception.

“Yeah, he made a really good play, and I just can’t let that happen,” Brady said. “Just be smarter. You know, that’s — they do actually make a lot of those types of plays. This defense, they’re just, they have some secondary players that intercept the ball. And you know, you’re a little careless and you think you got someone, and windows close pretty quick.

“You know, Julian beat his guy, and then he fell off and made a good play, and that was a bad play by me, so can’t afford to give away points like that, but our defense made up for it.”

Brady is aware of the struggle.

“I don’t think we did —  in any area of the game — offensively, we struggled,” Brady said. “They force a lot of teams to struggle, and if we’re going to score more points, then we have to do a lot better job than we did today. We didn’t, so that’s just the way it goes.”