Archives for October 6, 2020

‘Wallace injured his ankle on the Raiders’ first offensive series and was replaced by Josh Norman, who made his Bills’ debut after being on injured reserve for the first three weeks of the season with an injured hamstring.’

‘“Absolutely,” NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport said Monday on The DA Show. “Absolutely I [think they are]. Yesterday was good. I thought that was a nice, tough win yesterday. I don’t quite know what the Raiders are yet. They feel kind of like a 7-9, maybe 8-8 team. We’ll see, but that’s kind of what they feel like. So it was a totally fine, good win.”’

‘Thanks, in large part, to the guy pulling the trigger, the Bills now have an offense that will give opposing defensive coordinators nightmares. The Bills are now the team where the opponent talks about needing to shorten the game against them, keep their offense off the field, and how field goals won’t be enough to beat them. Basically all the things we would say about other explosive offenses over the years.’

‘There are a few other new realities going on that everyone needs to get used to. Not just in Buffalo, but around the country. Heck, those outside of Buffalo probably need to get used to them even moreso because they either didn’t believe the change, weren’t paying attention enough, or flat out resisted it.’

‘I don’t know how hard it might have been for McDermott to choose this path. Remember, how we all may have felt about the style points, the Bills coach has been in the playoffs two years out of three. I have no idea if McDermott was resistant at all to turning the Bills into a passing machine, but continuing to favor a conservative approach certainly wouldn’t have been indefensible, especially to a defensive minded head coach.’