You're giving Gilmore's play here more credit than he deserves. Gilmore gave partial effort, drew flags at bad times, didn't tackle, and pointed fingers at his teammates on the field.
Now that you bring it up, Gilmore seems to rarely (if ever) get called for anything. Not sure if it is the Pats advantage or Belichick really did improve Gilmore's play. Gilmore was decent to good in Buffalo, but excellent in NE.
I think it was about the money. Pats offered him more than the Bills were going to match. Gilmore wasn't anywhere near as good here as what he is doing in NE.
Seriously. What was Gase supposed to tell Darnold? "You suck, you're going on taco runs for me the rest of this week...and don't eff that up like you are this game"
Not now I wouldn't want Eli. Those Giants teams had great defenses. NO and SF has very good to great defenses, the Packers have a good defense. All three of those teams can score a lot, too.