Bills Matic | A Buffalo Bills Podcast with Damon Amendolara
Oct 5, 2026 · 25 min · 8 segments
The Bills just turned in one of their worst efforts in a long time, and they did it at home against the hated New England Patriots. Bills Matic picks through the rubble of Buffalo's 29-26 loss in Week…
Damon AmendolaraHost
[upbeat music] I also just want to start with the decision to go for two, and I hate it.
And I, I had a pit in my stomach when Joe Brady decided to do it, and at the end of the day, it may get washed away because you lose by three and Josh throws the terrible INT, but just hear me out.
This is the first time I really question a game management decision by Joe Brady because in that instance, okay, you can go up by six points and it's okay.
If you kick the extra point there at 27-21, there's four and a half to play.
And I know why you go for two, 'cause this freaking ridiculous chart that tells you mathematically, "Well, instead of going up by six, you should be up by seven because then a touchdown can't beat you.
And if you're up by five, what's really the value? Because you're forcing the opponent to have to go for six anyway." But that's not actually the way that the world works.
Being up 27-21 would've meant when the Patriots went down the field to score, they would've decided to kick the extra point, I would imagine, to go up 28-27.
Just mathematically speaking, you get the ball back down one instead of down three, right? Secondarily, though, think about...
Touchdown, you take the lead, the crowd's feeling it, you got the Patriots on the ropes, there's four and a half to play.
And now, I don't know if you caught this on TV, maybe it was different in the stadium, but it sounded dead.
After a go-ahead touchdown against the Patriots, it was dead in the fourth quarter.
So now you kinda gotta gin up the energy again, and the Patriots then take the field without the crowd really popping because the last play they saw was an incomplete two-point conversion.
[upbeat music] I also just want to start with the decision to go for two, and I hate it.
And I, I had a pit in my stomach when Joe Brady decided to do it, and at the end of the day, it may get washed away because you lose by three and Josh throws the terrible INT, but just hear me out.
This is the first time I really question a game management decision by Joe Brady because in that instance, okay, you can go up by six points and it's okay.
If you kick the extra point there at 27-21, there's four and a half to play.
And I know why you go for two, 'cause this freaking ridiculous chart that tells you mathematically, "Well, instead of going up by six, you should be up by seven because then a touchdown can't beat you.
And if you're up by five, what's really the value? Because you're forcing the opponent to have to go for six anyway." But that's not actually the way that the world works.
Being up 27-21 would've meant when the Patriots went down the field to score, they would've decided to kick the extra point, I would imagine, to go up 28-27.
Just mathematically speaking, you get the ball back down one instead of down three, right? Secondarily, though, think about...
Touchdown, you take the lead, the crowd's feeling it, you got the Patriots on the ropes, there's four and a half to play.
And now, I don't know if you caught this on TV, maybe it was different in the stadium, but it sounded dead.
After a go-ahead touchdown against the Patriots, it was dead in the fourth quarter.
So now you kinda gotta gin up the energy again, and the Patriots then take the field without the crowd really popping because the last play they saw was an incomplete two-point conversion.
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