‘The offensive line is priority no. 1. Josh Allen was pressured 23 times on 56 passing plays in the game. Allen turned the ball over three times for the first time since Week 4 in 2019 and the line’s inability to hold up in pass protection led to dismal day for the offense. Dion Dawkins, Cody Ford, Daryl Williams, and Ike Boettger all surrendered five pressures each, per Pro Football Focus.’
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Bills Offensive Struggles Evident Before Dud At Jacksonville
‘What has also become apparent is how Buffalo’s offense has become far too quarterback dependent at the midway point of this season.’
Bills looking for answers on offensive line after loss
‘“It wasn’t good enough. They did some things that we should have seen. Some of them, maybe not all of them. We’ve got to do a better job,” McDermott said about stunts and blitzes the Jaguars ran that fooled the Bills. “That’s the bottom line and it’s got to continue to improve as we go through the season for us to continue to improve as a football team.”’
Bills offensive line struggles evident in Week 9 loss to Jaguars
‘”It’s hard to do anything without line play,” McDermott said. “Everything goes through the line on both sides of the ball and particularly on the offensive side of the ball. I would say, it’s never just one position as you’re saying, ‘Hey, what was the issue?’ It’s more than that, it’s more than one player. We have to do a better job overall offensively of putting our players in position and the players have to execute.”‘
Sean McDermott provided these injury updates on Spencer Brown and Dawson Knox
‘Bills head coach Sean McDermott said he expects both OL Spencer Brown and TE Dawson Knox back at practice on Wednesday in advance of this Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium against the New York Jets.’
Bills signed Nick McCloud to the practice squad
‘McCloud originally joined the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2021. He was released in September and picked up by the Cincinnati Bengals. He spent the first half of the 2021 season with the Cincinnati Bengals before being waived last week.’
Jason Wolf: Josh Allen’s frustration boils over, and it should after Bills’ loss to woeful Jaguars
‘Allen looked like he’d been crying when he finally emerged from the visitors’ locker room to address what went wrong. He sat red-faced behind a microphone, having committed three turnovers in the second half, and with a hoarse voice attempted to explain how the highest-scoring offense in the NFL failed to find the end zone, how shoddy protection from the offensive line, an inability to run the ball and a deluge of penalties, including five personal fouls, resulted in a presumptive Super Bowl contender falling to a one-win team starting a rookie quarterback.’
Observations: Bills’ offense suddenly finds itself in crisis mode
‘Still, that doesn’t absolve the five starters who played against the Jaguars. None of them – left tackle Dion Dawkins, left guard Ike Boettger, center Mitch Morse, right guard Cody Ford and right tackle Daryl Williams – played remotely well enough against an inferior Jacksonville defense that came into the game allowing 386 yards and 29.0 points per game, both in the bottom quarter of the NFL.’
Jacksonville cornerback on Bills’ sideline: ‘It’s like they don’t care. They don’t deserve this’
‘“So that’s one thing I kept preaching at everybody else. ‘Look on the sidelines, watching them walking around, it’s like they don’t care. They don’t deserve this. Let’s show them why.’ ”’
Plays that shaped the game: Bills’ one-dimensional offense implodes
‘Devin Singletary and Zack Moss combined for just 22 yards on nine carries, a 2.4-yard average.’
Quarter by quarter: Sputtering offense, Allen turnovers, penalties undo Bills in Jacksonville
‘A final attempt: The Bills got the ball back with one final chance. They started on their own 20 with less than three minutes to go. They went 32 yards, the bulk of that from a Sanders catch, before they were unable to convert on fourth-and-16, turning it over on downs and giving Jacksonville its first win at home of the season.’
Bills Q&A: This was the worst regular-season loss by a good Bills team ever
‘McDermott never has had a loss like this with the Bills. In fact, one of the credits on his resume before Sunday was that the Bills never had lost to a team they clearly should have beaten since he took over in 2017.’
Report card: Undisciplined penalties, unwatchable offense lead to ugly grades in Bills’ loss
‘Let’s not sugarcoat things: This was easily the worst loss of Sean McDermott’s career as the Bills’ coach in the regular season. The team wasn’t ready to play – and that falls directly at the feet of the head coach.’
Josh Allen looked like a rookie, Bills were abysmal in shocking loss to Jaguars
‘Instead, we watched that debacle, a game that could prove to be devastating later in the season when it comes time to decide homefield advantage in the playoffs.’
Maiorana: We’ve seen bad Bills losses but dreadful upset to Jags might be worst ever
‘Here’s where I’m coming from. Yes, there have been countless one-sided defeats; there have been heartbreaking failures including some on the biggest stages; and there have been endless strings of losses during the worst Bills seasons in history. But unless my mind is failing me – which is entirely possible – I can’t ever recall one quite like this.’