WGR

‘The fact that the Bills have allowed 81 points their last two games is disturbing. Is it a sign of things to come? Maybe, which is different than yes.’

‘From the very beginning, I questioned the fit in this offense. Taylor simply doesn’t have the trigger to play in a tempo-based passing attack built on timing and ball placement. Just the basic principles of this scheme suggest there isn’t a fit. Yet, I look back at the 2016 season and see how vital Taylor was to the league’s best-running attack and look at this offense through 10 weeks and just don’t see the same willingness or effectiveness.’

‘McDermott acknowledged that he understands why some fans would be calling for Taylor’s benching and for the team to play rookie Nathan Peterman, but added “I know what Tyrod’s done and I also know what Nate’s done, and Tyrod’s our starter.”’

‘”You don’t want to kill the patient. You want to attack the problem. Until we show we’re better than that, like we did in the 5 wins, we have some work to do. Biggest thing is we need to play better fundamentally.”‘

‘”It’s frustrating. I have confidence in our guys, that hasn’t changed. We can’t go in the tank at this point, a lot of football ahead of us. Still 5-4. Focus needs to be on getting back to fundamentals, and beating the Chargers.”‘

‘As Buffalo fans know, the crowds at Bills games are totally different than the crowd that goes to a Sabres game. Antipin noticed the difference, “The atmosphere was interesting and I liked the passes. The fans were a little bit different, fans of the Bills are more noisy.”’

‘The rushing attack was the story for New Orleans. They finished with 301 yards and 6 touchdowns, just on the ground.’

‘The offense was absolutely putrid. I don’t know how they managed to pull this one off, but they got Charles Clay back, added Kelvin Benjamin and got worse! Tyrod Taylor was flat out awful. He played like a quarterback who lived in fear of turning the ball over. It didn’t start out badly thought. The Bills actually moved the ball on their very first drive, going 57-yards in nine plays before settling for a field goal. Who knew that would be the high-point of the afternoon.’

‘This is the first time Sean McDermott and his staff has faced adversity. As I said after the last two wins, McDermott had convinced his team to play above their talent level. The last two weeks, it’s been more of what I expected when the season started, although I didn’t expect them to be as bad as they were against the Saints.’

‘Concerned that everything so many people worried and talked about is coming to fruition. That this team was living on borrowed time at 5-2, doing it mostly with a turnover formula that couldn’t be sustained. Or that it was only a matter of time before a roster made up of mostly non-big-name players who came from somewhere else after other teams didn’t want them would finally start to catch up to them.’

‘“We got one game each week,” DiMarco said with Howard Simon and Jeremy White Friday morning on WGR. “We try not to let the outside noise and distractions really take a hold of us so we try to focus on the task at hand and then let the rest of the stuff take care of itself.”’

‘If Henderson can’t go Sunday, that leaves the 5-3 Bills with rookies Dion Dawkins and Conor McDermott, along with Jordan Mills as the only healthy tackles on the active roster. McDermott has suited up twice this season, playing on some special teams, but he has yet to play an offensive snap in an NFL game.’

‘”First day of free agency the Bills called and I had to make a decision that day. And I’m glad I came here to Buffalo. We love it.”‘

‘Glenn missed multiple weeks of training camp and preseason action with soreness in the same foot and ankle area. He received a shot as part of his recovery and was able to start in the team’s opening game back in September. However, Glenn missed games in weeks three and four against the Broncos and Falcons, respectively, due to the same injury. In Week 5 at Cincinnati, he suited up but did not play any offensive snaps. Rookie Dion Dawkins started in his place in all three contests.’

‘“I didn’t know a lot about it,” Benjamin said Monday after practice. “But as soon as I got traded, I hit Joe Webb up, and Joe Webb was like ‘man, you’re going to love it man, you’re going to love it, the people, the fans, the college-based atmosphere.’ You watch the games, don’t matter how cold it is or what their record was in the past. The stadium was packed. That has to tell you something. That history, that passion, and that’s what I am.”’