That’s Better As Buffalo Bills Shelve Flubs

Anthony Bialy
4 min readSep 20, 2023

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You can still order Bills gear. Nobody needs to know after which game you shopped. Look for apparel that appears to have been antiqued for a week. If you order something from Fanatics, it’ll fall apart in no time. Fans might be again panicking after the next outcome, but at least there will be a precedent of competence this season to encourage levelheadedness. Brace for surprises like Matt Milano being Buffalo’s best cornerback.

Getting infuriating drives out of the way is efficient in retrospect. The second outing’s opening felt like enduring a rough 2018 in order to shed unwanted contracts. Anyone who feared a sequel of the opener experienced the dread of spotting patterns. But the perspective of characters changed as gradually as in a Whit Stillman film.

Hulking Ken Dorsey is now raging out of happiness. He’s passionate about outsiders noticing suspect play-calling, which also coincidentally has taken place during a dip in the quarterback’s decision-making. Whether he’s motivated by fury or adapting to the job, improvement in action beats inaction.

If you can’t start off good, at least learn from what goes badly. Dawson Knox’s touchdown was as clever as the earlier fourth-down throw in double coverage to him was not. The second half’s first score reflected an ability to improve both the call and execution after seeing what doesn’t work. The Bills learned from what failed like they were Run Lola Run’s titular character.

Some incompletions bring hope. You’d get it if you cheered for a team with Josh Allen. It’s heartening to see him take acceptable risks such as the throw he tried to fit in to Dalton Kincaid near the half’s end. An incompletion knocked down by the defender was nonetheless worth the shot. The ball hitting the turf means the down didn’t even end in disaster.

Seeing the youngest of the group’s options integrated so soon is itself heartening. The Bills are beginning to enjoy the benefits of doubling up on tight ends, which should assuage those who were nervous about drafting a player at a spot where they already had someone good.

Waiting for Jimmy Garoppolo to screw up is an okay plan. An active scheme aided the passive concept. Greg Rousseau has been finding enlightened ways to disrupt passing attempts. His emergence doesn’t make up for missing on Boogie Basham, but a the roster featuring a sufficient quality of talented edge players seems like a nearly adequate excuse. By contrast, the inactive Kaiir Elam is a Naked Gun 2 1/2-style kind of bust.

It’s nice having numerous options in multiple groups. Running backs with complementary skills aren’t just more thrilling than having three guys who play similarly. Deploying the James Cook/Damien Harris/Latavius Murray triumvirate didn’t just mean Allen only had to dash three times himself. The alliance of players with different powers resembles a Marvel superhero team. Their story is more character-driven like the Defenders rather than some garish special effects-laden production involving that other group.

Buffalo’s most prominent resident took what the Raiders gave him, which is way more fun than giving the Jets what they desired. Allen didn’t need to attempt foolish throws that weren’t heroic, either. Our scolding shamed him into behaving, so keep up the fine social media work. Remind him that it’s ultimately helpful to not make regrettable decisions.

Take comfort in having more examples by percentage. This is the one occasion per year when there are twice as more. The second game balanced out rough opener like a yin-yang symbol a spring break drunkard regrettably chooses as a first tattoo. Was your astrological sign unavailable?

Mid-September is the strange time of year when we’re stuck with a quite limited sample where each has dramatically less of an effect. We get one comfortably sweet result to accompany that rather bitter one. The example poll will be down to one-third during the next game and so forth.

An upward trend brings value even if the wins are worth the same. Students hope professors recognize progress over the semester’s course and weighs recent grades more heavily than when you were clueless at the semester’s opening.

There’s a tradeoff to time advancing that it turns out is unavoidable by current understandings of physics. Each game played of course means fewer chances left to influence the overall makeup. Followers are trying not to fret too much after experiencing two tries. At the same time, you may have heard how few teams have made the playoffs after starting 0–2 during the 14-team tournament era, namely one team.

An infinitely more welcome result offers distractions from other hassles, including getting to the stadium itself. The short-term aggravation of having nowhere to store cars is part of the tradeoff with forcing taxpayers forced to fund another stadium in a remote location. Well, that’s not a super deal.

Realizing in reality what a horrid decision repeating the stadium mistake has become was just the week’s unpleasant start. A Bills-employed reporter thought this would be the perfect week to criticize the team’s best and most sensitive receiver. The team worker has disappeared like Kelvin Benjamin. But at least there was a good result on the field to cancel out off-the-field drama. Football is about the people within the stadium, whether they’re competing or enjoying. It’d be nice to have a closer place paid for by the owner. But methodical domination after a shaky start is welcome occurrence no matter what’s around.

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Anthony Bialy
Anthony Bialy

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