Devin McCourty Offers Blunt Assessment After Patriots’ Loss Vs. Bills

The New England Patriots lost the second straight game. Head coach Bill Belichick was a bit frustrated, and so were his players. Devin McCourty couldn’t hide his frustration following the loss to the Buffalo Bills.

“I wish I knew,” the veteran said. “It’s too late in the season not to play your best football and I would say these last two weeks have come down to that. We’re playing against teams that are playing the way you’re supposed to be playing in late December. We got to play better. There’s not, I would say both games it’s not one thing that needs to be fixed, it’s overall everybody just playing a little bit better — units playing better. And we’re not doing that.

“It’s not like it’s just all bad we’re getting killed, but when we need to make a play we’re not making those plays. It’s just not good enough,” McCourty continued. “We’re starting slow, falling behind, now we’re playing catch up and now you got to play perfect basically. When you play a game like that, it just hasn’t been good. And it’s up to us as a team for what’s left for the season. We’re guaranteed two more games and that’s it. That’s how we got to approach it. That’s the mentality and a mindset we need to have, and if not, this season won’t end the way we want.”

Devin McCourty to get the best of the loss to the Bills

Well, it was a bad loss. Patriots players won seven straight games but the Indianapolis Colts put an end to it. The loss to the Bills added salt to the injury. New England claimed the throne of the AFC but the Buffalo Bills sit on top of the division right now. Buffalo plays against the Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets and we all know what that means.

If you ask McCourty, he will say that the team didn’t do “anything well enough.”

“It just felt like nothing was really good enough,” McCourty said. He didn’t place the blame on the front, linebackers, or the secondary. He knows that the team didn’t do well at all.