Devin McCourty Reveals What Made The Patriots Playoff Exit so Frustrating

Devin McCourty and the New England Patriots missed the chance to win the playoff game against the Buffalo Bills. It was a disappointing game for the team and players had to go home with a big loss on their backs. NFL analysts were really confident about head coach Bill Belichick’s wild-card round but New England lost it to the Buffalo Bills.

Patriots players are frustrated for obvious reasons. During his most recent episode of the Double Coverage podcast, McCourty talked about the terrible loss.

“Playing against a quarterback like that, the ability, right on the first drive to feel like you’re doing OK and then — Boom! — 26 yards later, he’s all the way down to me at the free safety because he makes one guy miss and then he can do,” McCourty said about Bills quarterback Josh Allen. “As the game went on, we just couldn’t answer and get a stop. A couple third downs, they were able to make plays and it was just like they got rolling. Him buying time in the pocket, moving, running when he had to, buying time to throw, them adjusting to see what kind of coverage we were in, attacking the weakness in the coverage…”

Devin McCourty knows when things went bad for the Patriots in the playoff run

McCourty admits that his team made some changes. These changes didn’t work for Allen’s team. The Bills were well prepared for the game. They lost one regular-season game to the Patriots and this loss motivated them to win.

“It was just a game, as a defender, that was very frustrating because you just felt like you did no right in the game no matter what,” he said. “The play calls, they kept changing. We kept trying something different. I mean, Steve [Belichick] called everything we had Saturday night, and just nothing went right for us.

“I would say the disappointing part about that is when that happens, I think everybody’s played in a game where you felt like, man, we just can’t get anything going. But for that to show up in a playoff game … Obviously not a great feeling.”