The Buffalo Bills, fighting to keep their AFC East championship hopes alive, were sluggish offensively and out of sorts defensively. They looked lost, out of position and unprepared as the upstart New England Patriots smacked them in the mouth in taking a 21-0 lead with 5:53 left in the second quarter.

The Bears were upended by the Packers in one of several NFL Week 14 matchups that proved highly consequential to the evolving NFC playoff picture.

The Buffalo Bills season — at 7-4 and holding the seventh and final playoff spot in the AFC heading into Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, has obviously not gone as expected so far. Coming into the season, the Bills — who have never won ...