One week after the Patriots were bullied by the Jaguars, New England roared into Buffalo\u2019s next stadium and gave the Bills their first loss there.<\/p>\n
Appearing Tuesday on NBC Sports Boston, Patriots safety Kevin Byard explained coach Mike Vrabel\u2019s strategy for giving the team a spark.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe showed a video<\/a> of the famous Allen Iverson, NBA Finals, making the three-point shot, stepping over Tyronn Lue<\/a>,\u201d Byard said. \u201cSo, at first, you don\u2019t really know where he\u2019s going with it. . . . I think the overall messaging was, \u2018It\u2019s time to start stepping over people.\u2019 You know what I mean? It\u2019s time to get back to where we\u2019re stepping over people and making sure that we\u2019re not about to be the team that\u2019s gonna let people bully them. . . .<\/p>\n \u201cSo yeah, I think that was kind of the overarching message to, hey, we are physical. We are a tough team. Let\u2019s, let\u2019s start stepping over people kind of like how A.I. did in that video.\u201d<\/p>\n It worked. The Pats were far more physical than they had been in Jacksonville, and in turn far more effective. The Patriots avoided a 1-3 start and a three-game hole in the AFC East. Instead, they\u2019re only one game behind Buffalo \u2014 and they\u2019ll have a chance to complete the sweep when the two teams meet again in Week 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One week after the Patriots were bullied by the Jaguars, New England roared into Buffalo\u2019s next stadium and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-874289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874289","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=874289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}