Archives for September 17, 2023

‘The Bills should have been hellbent on making this A Learning Week … or else. Learn from the interceptions and the Bills will beat Las Vegas in Sunday’s home opener at Highmark Stadium. Learn from the mistakes defending the run and they will be 1-1. Learn from the special teams errors that led to allowing a punt return touchdown in overtime and they will avoid uh-oh-and-2.’

‘Bills 28, Raiders 14.’

‘Allen said this week that he’s in his sixth season and should know better about when to take those chances. At this point, talk is cheap. He needs to go out and actually do it. He has shown before in his career that he can, and one thing Allen has done well is bounce back. I think back to the lessons he learned from an ugly loss to New England early in his second season. Allen has frequently referenced that game as a turning point, when he realized he needed to change his play style. The hope for the Bills has to be he looks at this most recent loss to the Jets in the same way, because Allen cost the team a win Monday. I’m sure Allen realizes that, and I’m betting we see a much-improved performance starting Sunday against the Raiders.’

‘Today, Billy the Buffalo serves as a big blue mascot in a way controlled and sanctioned by the team. But there was no equivalent in the early 1970s, when Kell, his brother Ben and Millitello were co-operators of Mulligan’s Brick Bar on Allen Street – starting point for a tavern empire that soon included locations at Hertel Avenue and Sunset Bay.’

‘Mikulec runs Gameday Hospitality, his company that hosts all-inclusive tailgates in NFL markets such as Kansas City and Cincinnati – some of the Bills’ biggest rivals – and before and after events such as Taylor Swift concerts and the college football national championship game.’

‘Spencer Brown struggled. Bills fans were terrified that Brown would get killed and he did. Now he has to face Maxx Crosby, who is a bad, bad man, horrific matchup, and should have three xxx’s in his name. Brown is becoming Spencer Gifts to opposing pass-rushers. Several plays he went into his backpedal and the defender just kept on pushing him backward as if it was just a backpedaling drill.’