Archives for September 12, 2016

'Perhaps the only bright spot for the Bills, the defense finished the day with four sacks. Jerry Hughes had two and Leger Douzable had 1.5.'

'If this offense wants to go to the places that they think he can, he needs to take far more chances down the field than he did on Sunday against the Ravens — namely, getting their star wide receiver Sammy Watkins involved way more than he was.'

'I’m sorry, but when you have a quarterback who was among the NFL’s best deep throwers last season and you have a go-up-and-get-the-ball receiver like Watkins, you need to take at least a few shots downfield. You might connect on a bomb or get a flag. And you might free up the running game a bit if you have the defense concerned about the deep ball.'

'Buffalo’s defense after giving up 10 points early really clamped down and forced punts and a turnover on downs in the second half on a big 4th-and-1 stop by Jerry Hughes, but in the end it wasn’t enough.'

'“The referees came into training camp and told us that once a quarterback establishes himself as a runner you can do what we call as defensive linemen, ‘a gazelle chop’, where you go for his feet, and you’re diving, in a last effort to get the quarterback down,” Hughes said about the play. “I thought he was running and the referee thought differently. I guess I have to be a smarter football player.”'