{"id":204527,"date":"2025-10-06T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204527\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:27:08","slug":"bills-record-streak-comes-to-an-end-in-stunning-sunday-night-football-loss-to-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204527\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills&#8217; record streak comes to an end in stunning &#8216;Sunday Night Football&#8217; loss to Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"jaylinn-hawkins-patriots.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jaylinn-hawkins-patriots.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/BUF\/buffalo-bills\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bills<\/a> not only lost their undefeated season in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/patriots-vs-bills-live-updates-score-highlights-sunday-night-football\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">23-20 loss<\/a> to the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NE\/new-england-patriots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patriots<\/a> on &#8220;Sunday Night Football,&#8221; but they lost a historic streak, too. The Bills committed three turnovers and only forced one, ending their 26-game streak (including playoffs) of not losing the turnover battle. That was the longest streak in <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> history on record, dating to 1940.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time Buffalo has lost the turnover battle since Week 7, 2023 &#8212; coincidentally also a loss to the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>The miscues began at the very start: On Buffalo&#8217;s first drive of the night, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2181054\/josh-allen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Allen<\/a> and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2186345\/dawson-knox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dawson Knox<\/a> bungled what looked like a sweep play for the tight end, and New England&#8217;s <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/26701499\/joshua-farmer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Farmer<\/a> recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots defense got a second takeaway before the quarter was over, with <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2926962\/robert-spillane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Spillane<\/a> punching a ball out of <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/26717289\/keon-colemans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keon Coleman&#8217;s<\/a> hands and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2180267\/jaylinn-hawkins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylinn Hawkins<\/a> recovering.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2866110\/marcus-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Jones<\/a> got New England&#8217;s third takeaway of the night, jumping in front of an Allen pass intended for <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2969119\/khalil-shakir\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khalil Shakir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the ball away, of course, is only one half of the turnover battle. The Patriots&#8217; ability to avoid turnovers helped, though they certainly played with fire in that aspect. <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3125832\/rhamondre-stevenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamondre Stevenson<\/a> lost a fumble shortly after the Bills&#8217; first turnover, and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2960976\/antonio-gibson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Gibson<\/a> fumbled a kickoff return, though New England ended up recovering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Bills not only lost their undefeated season in their 23-20 loss to the Patriots on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[113793,1807,117621,77496,1817,117620,88438,46799,111248,1815,349,96363,32295,99],"class_list":["post-204527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-antonio-gibson","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-dawson-knox","tag-jaylinn-hawkins","tag-josh-allen","tag-joshua-farmer","tag-keon-coleman","tag-khalil-shakir","tag-marcus-jones","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-rhamondre-stevenson","tag-robert-spillane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}