This is absolutely the right take on this game. McD tried to play Billy’s game through the first half and beyond and that did not work offensively because that is not their strength and it was exactly the game Belichick was trying to sucker him into playing. Once he let Josh be the superior athlete he is, for the most part, they started to move the ball. The bills should have won this game. I believe they would have had McD gotten his head out of his behind sooner.
He corrected this in the second game, instead dictating to the Patriots how the game would be played.