‘Milano is expected to make a full recovery and be ready for next season. McDermott compared it to the break suffered by Russell Bodine last week against Miami.’
Archives for December 2018
Quick Hits: Making up for the loss of Matt Milano
‘The Bills lost one of their top playmakers on defense Sunday when Matt Milano suffered a broken fibula that required surgery on Monday. Replacing him as a three-down player won’t be easy for the team’s final three games.’
Where Buffalo’s offensive efficiency needs to improve plus 4 observations from Week 14
‘Buffalo’s offensive line also had trouble establishing the line of scrimmage in the run game. On a day where Josh Allen was the team’s leading rusher for the third straight game (9 carries, 101 yards), his teammates in the backfield combined for 75 yards on 22 carries for an average of 3.4 per rush.’
Bills Today: How Kyle Williams is prepping Tremaine Edmunds for leadership
‘“Kyle approached me toward the end of practice last week,” defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier said. “Usually, on Thursdays, he brings the entire defense in and they watch a segment of practice together. He runs it. He’s in control of it. He makes the calls. He talks to everybody about what they should be doing and shouldn’t be doing. Players only, no coaches involved. He told me, ‘Coach, I want to talk to you for a minute. Today, I’m going to put Tremaine in charge of the defense in the meetings’ . . . I said ‘I think that’s a great idea.’’
Vic Carucci: Bills’ Josh Allen takes rookie showdown loss to Jets’ Sam Darnold extra hard
‘That winning feeling, however, belonged to 2018 Year of the Quarterback draft classmate Sam Darnold as the Jets snapped a six-game losing streak. It was Darnold who did a better job of showing why the Jets traded up to make him the third overall choice than Allen did of demonstrating why the Bills moved up twice to grab him seventh overall.’
Jets’ Jordan Jenkins: Bills’ Dion Dawkins ‘classless,’ could have ended my career
‘“During the next play. I said, ‘Don’t do that,’ ” Jenkins said. “At the time, I said, ‘I’ll kill you if you do that again. That’s literally like you could have ended my career.’ I was enraged. And then the next couple of plays, I knew I couldn’t really go. I wasn’t feeling right. And I said, ‘I don’t want to go out there and not being able to play to my full extent.’ So I needed to come get checked or do something, get a new tape job or something to help out.”‘
Jason Wolf: Despite Josh Allen’s heroics, Bills’ running game is broken
‘McCoy has managed 479 yards and two touchdowns on 144 carries through 12 games. His yardage ranked 27th among NFL players this season entering the game, and he’s managed a paltry 3.3 yards per rush, by far the lowest of his career.’
Jay Skurski’s observations: Injuries pile up on both sides in Bills’ loss
‘On seemingly every play, someone else was either limping off or being attended to by trainers. Bills receivers Isaiah McKenzie and Robert Foster were both slow to get up after plays in the second quarter, but each player was able to return after sitting out a play.’
Plays that Shaped the Game: Bad kickoff coverage sinks Bills
‘Those were the two biggest negative plays in a rotten day for the Bills’ special teams. The Bills’ special teams also saw a field goal blocked, missed a field goal and had an illegal formation penalty on a key kickoff.’
Quarterly Report: Bills squander big yardage edge – again
‘The middle of the Bills’ offensive line struggled to get push against the Jets’ defensive front. The Bills managed just 12 yards on seven first-down runs in the second half, a 1.7-yard average. That left QB Josh Allen fighting bad down-and-distance passing situations. The Jets’ best defensive lineman, Leonard Williams, caused problems. His pressure caused an incompletion to force a Bills punt.’
Bills-Jets Report Card: Passing offense, abysmal special teams lead to loss
‘The two interceptions thrown by Allen were ugly. The first should absolutely never happen. He has to throw that ball away. The second, which closed out the game, never had a chance, either. Allen had to bail out of the pocket far too frequently, which is on his offensive line. Zay Jones had a killer drop. He finished with just three catches for 22 yards. Undrafted rookie Robert Foster had his second 100-yard receiving game. He’s developing into a really nice player. McKenzie chipped in four catches for 47 yards. Charles Clay had just one catch for 6 yards and had another ball that he probably should have caught go through his hands.’
Vintage Buffalo Bills blow lead, find many ways to lose to Jets
‘The Bills had taken a 23-20 lead with 2:31 to go on a 36-yard field goal by Stephen Hauschka, but the defense failed in the biggest spot, allowing the Jets to drive 61 yards to the winning touchdown.’
Maiorana: Josh Allen took a step back in Bills loss that sucks life out of fan base
‘Unlike the preseason, the Bills do want to win these games, yet they did everything in their power Sunday to make sure they lost to this bad Jets team, and that’s what made it so mortifying to watch unfold.’
Roth: Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen can run but there’s nowhere to hide after 3 turnovers
‘When a young quarterback finding his way offsets the good with this much bad and ugly, when a 14-3 lead is blown at home against a division rival riding a six-game losing streak, he finds out quickly he can run but he can’t hide.’
Report card
‘Just a bad, bad loss for the Bills. While they didn’t outgain the Jets as much as they did the Dolphins last week, the difference was a sizable 120 yards and nine first downs, and Buffalo had the ball more than 7½ minutes longer, yet found a way to lose. The Bills couldn’t hold a 14-3 first-quarter lead, a 17-13 halftime lead, or a 20-13 lead early in the fourth, and all three phases played a role in the collapse at the end that left both Buffalo and New York with 4-9 record in the race for last place in the AFC East. Just when you thought the Bills were making progress, they lose two in a row to the Dolphins and Jets.’