‘The offensive line struggled to keep Allen clean, and center Mitch Morse said the team “has a sense of urgency now,” and they will all need to do some “soul searching” in the coming week as they prepare for a road game against the New York Jets next Sunday.’
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Carucci Take2: Let’s slam the brakes on Super Bowl-bound Bills talk
‘For the second week in a row, the Bills faced a one-win opponent and played as if a victory would be granted simply for showing up. They did come out of their slumber in the second half of last week’s game against Miami. On Sunday, they napped all the way to a third loss. That’s three defeats in the AFC, which does nothing to help the old home-field-advantage discussion for the playoffs – if that’s even worth talking about now.’
Bills offense fails to score a touchdown in loss to Jags
‘The offensive line struggled mightily, allowing four sacks and putting Allen under pressure all day long. With Spencer Brown and Jon Feliciano both inactive with injuries, Ike Boettger and Cody Ford did not perform well in the starting lineup. The usual starters of Dion Dawkins, Mitch Morse, and Daryl Williams didn’t play much better.’
Bills suffer embarrassing loss to Jaguars
‘The Bills were able to get field goals on their first two drives of the game but followed that up with three punts, two interceptions, a fumble, and a turnover on downs.’
Bills loss to Jags is no aberration
‘The Jags really should have won by more. Jamal Agnew dropped a sure touchdown. Jacksonville had one of the weirdest hat tricks in sports when kicker Matthew Wright missed three consecutive tries on essentially the same field goal. The Jags were even the team with the most important player sitting out injured in running back James Robinson.’
Bills lose in stunning fashion to Jaguars
‘The first half was some of the worst football we have seen from the Bills in the Sean McDermott era. The offense was a mess, beginning with an early drive in the red zone that once against resulted in failure and a field goal.’
Bills search for answers after tough loss in Jacksonville
‘On offense, the Bills had 83 more total net yards than the Jaguars but struggled throughout the game to end their drives with a kick. It was the first time since Week 8 of the 2020 season that Josh Allen finished the game without throwing a touchdown pass. It was also the first multi-interception game for Allen this season.’
Top 3 things we learned for Bills at Jaguars | Week 9
‘Time and again Josh Allen was forced to leave the pocket just to have enough time to deliver the ball downfield and was often pursued on the edges by pass rushers. For the third time in the last four games, Allen was the team’s leading rusher as his scrambles were responsible for keeping drives alive.’
Q&A: Bills GM Brandon Beane breaks down why no trades happened at the deadline
‘”Yeah, definitely made calls, and I didn’t just pick up the phone Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. We’ve had calls with teams. The deadline is the deadline, and maybe it puts some urgency on it, but we’ve gotten calls all season and we’ve made calls at certain times to check in and say, ‘Hey, if your situation changes’ … like, you might call a team, knowing it’s three weeks before the deadline, ‘Would you guys ever move anyone off this position?’ Maybe they tell you, they wouldn’t do player A, but we’ll do player B or C. Or we would consider it. Or, you tell them, ‘This is the player I’d like. If anything changes on your end, let me know.’ And we track them. That’s a lot of the conversations. Some of that was follow up Monday and Tuesday, of, ‘All right, I know we talked a few weeks ago, is this a player you’d be willing to part with?’ Either it was, but it was too premium of a price, or it was ‘No, we’re fighting our butts off for our own team.’ “‘
Bills place Mitchell Trubisky on Covid-19 list; Jon Feliciano on injured reserve
‘The rules on when players can return from the reserve/Covid-19 list differ for players depending on vaccination status. For those who have been vaccinated, two negative Covid tests, conducted at least 24 hours apart, are required. For those who are unvaccinated, players must quarantine for 10 days, regardless of the presence of symptoms.’
Scouting Report: Josh Allen’s output has propped up Bills’ slumping run game
‘Prediction: Bills 37, Jaguars 14.’
Bills Mailbag: What can be done to spark the running game?
‘The statistics, however, speak for themselves. Singletary hasn’t topped 30 yards rushing in the past three games. Moss had 19 yards on eight carries last week. The Bills have to get more out of both of them. If they don’t, the thought of going to Williams isn’t a bad one.’
Alan Pergament: Josh Allen already is an all-time Bills great in his handling of the media
‘However, Allen has some things that Fitzpatrick never had here that help him be an all-time great in handling the media: youthful exuberance, an instant connection to the community and the ability to get unconditional love from Bills fans who expect him to eventually lead the team to a Super Bowl.’
As Bills stadium talks ramp up, here are three points to watch
‘Achieving a framework by late December or early January also positions Hochul to negotiate with state legislators to get the stadium into the budget. “This will be a budgetary issue and therefore will show up in the New York state budget as an item once I’ve had a chance to speak to the legislators and garner support for that,” she said.’
Erik Brady: Mark Maddox on recovery in Comeback Game, ‘You’ve got to go get this’
‘He has memory issues, which he believes are related to CTE. His recovered memory of his recovery comes from watching replays of it – and talking about it often. Otherwise, he says, he forgets large swaths of his life.’