Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

‘Sal’s prediction: Buffalo Bills 27, Indianapolis Colts 20.’

‘“It felt good,” Davis said. “I was kind of in a slump for the past couple weeks because I wasn’t getting a lot of playing time. But then I had opportunities show up and I was able to execute and do what I do. I was just looking at the ball in the air and I said, ‘You only get so much of an opportunity, you got to make this play.’ I definitely knew it was gonna be contested and I was gonna have to watch the ball the whole time and luckily it bounced the right way and I was able to grab onto it and get two feet in.”‘

‘Henry may still be the best back in the league, but Taylor is in the early stages of building his resume to be included in the conversation for that title along with Henry, Nick Chubb, Ezekiel Elliott and Dalvin Cook.’

‘Indianapolis is two overtime losses away from being on a seven-game winning streak, and those losses came to first-place teams, Baltimore and Tennessee, so there’s no doubt this is a good team coming to town to challenge the AFC East-leading Bills.’

‘“I sensed an intensity and an energy from him,” coach Sean McDermott said when asked what Brown’s return meant. “He’s a young player, let’s not put him in the Hall of Fame yet, OK. Please, help me with that. He’s a young player that has to continue to learn what it takes to play in this league and he knows that and that humble and hungry approach is real and we need to carry that forward next week.”’

‘The Buffalo defense made Jets QB Mike White look like the career practice squad player he had been until a month ago, intercepting him four times, and the offense – after a little stumbling in the second quarter – lit up a terrible New York defense both on the ground and through the air.’

‘“We needed a win,” said safety Micah Hyde. “It doesn’t matter how we get it. We want to win, and our backs were against the wall, I guess, after last week. It was a tough loss, and we wanted to go out there and get a win today. Whether it was a 9-6 game, us winning, or the final outcome of today. We wanted to get a win and help get the ball rolling.”’

‘The Bills needed to regain some mojo. The loss to Jacksonville was simply absurd, and a lesser team would have let it creep into this week, but that was clearly not the case. McDermott was stern during the week in his dealings with the media, and you know the message was even clearer to his players. He demanded performance, and he got it.’

‘Sal’s prediction: Buffalo Bills 27, New York Jets 16.’

‘As we expected given that he has a hamstring injury, LB Tremaine Edmunds won’t play in New York, McDermott confirmed Friday morning.’

‘So again, a little down from a year ago, nothing too alarming, but that doesn’t change the fact that it just feels like Diggs isn’t the same weapon he was a year ago.’

‘When Allen hands off to Devin Singletary or Zack Moss, the results have generally been less than inspiring. The Bills have 22 runs of at least 10 yards this season, and Singletary and Moss have just nine combined, while Allen has 12 and Mitchell Trubisky one.’

‘“Look, a loss is never easy,” coach Sean McDermott said. “We have to learn from it. It’s important that we handle it the right way. There’s a lot of things we could have done differently in that game. And I think you’ll learn a lot from those situations if handled the right way. And that’s the only piece of that that we can control at this point.”‘

‘I think the time has come to proclaim that Cody Ford is a bust. The Bills used a second-round pick on him in 2019 – traded up in that round, in fact, to make sure they could get him – and he’s been nothing but a disappointment for two-plus years running.’

‘Don’t do any of the following things unless you want to cast serious doubt on your legitimacy as a championship contender.’