When you take the 14-point underdog to cover, you're signing up for misery if you watch the game. Because even when it goes exactly the way you thought and hoped, you're still hanging on until the very end. Sometimes the team pulls through and loses by 12, in which case the feeling is not so much winning but escaping a loss. Or, like last night, Derek Anderson could throw a pick six right after a would-be cover-clinching score is called back, and you really do lose. It's hard to say whether that's worse than the other likely scenario - being down by 30 in the second quarter.

Because I watch the 40-minute versions of the standalone games the next morning, I can't check my fantasy teams while they're going on - otherwise, it would give away the result. So a few minutes after the pick six sealed my ATS loss, I checked the league where, down 5.5 points, I had Kelvin Benjamin going against Jeff Erickson in half-point PPR:

And now I have to talk to that smug-ass on the radio later today.

• Tom Brady played a clean game - 324 yards, 7.2 YPA, no TDs, no picks and two sacks. He did what he had to, but the Bills are a terrible fantasy matchup because they don't score and they have a decent defense.

• The Patriots used Cordarrelle Patterson (10 carries) over Kenjon Barner (2). James White got his usual eight carries, a rushing TD and went 13-10-79 in the passing game.

• Julian Edelman was Tom Brady's other favorite target, going 10-9-104. For someone who was allegedly being punished for tardiness, Josh Gordon seemed to be on the field a lot, though he was a modest 8-4-42 and dropped a would-be downfield throw.

• Rob Gronkowski's run of meager production continued - he went 8-3-43 and failed to concuss anyone after the play.

• Aside from the pick-six, I thought Derek Anderson played well, throwing the ball accurately, avoiding a few sacks. He finished with 290 yards, 7.4 YPA, zero TDs, one pick, one fumble and three sacks. He left the game in the closing minute after being sacked twice on the final series, but it's unclear whether he was injured.

• LeSean McCoy did too much dancing and not enough straight-ahead running but still caught six of eight targets for 82 yards and had 95 YFS. Chris Ivory ran better and finished with 45 YFS.

• Zay Jones, Andre Holmes, Charles Clay and Benjamin split the rest of the receiving yards, with only Jones 8-6-55 making a modest impact.