While GM Brandon Beane freed up about $4 million in salary cap space last week by restructuring left tackle Dion Dawkins’ contract, the move was made more out of necessity than opportunity. What's unlikely is counting on major reinforcements to arrive before the NFL’s trade deadline on Tuesday. The bright side is the Bills appeared collectively and cohesively better as a team than the one that lost to New England a week earlier and barely pulled out a 14-9 win over the New York Giants two weeks ago.īuffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott walks on the sidelines in the second half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Thursday, Oct. The Bills were far more efficient in their first four outings with 24 of 38 possessions ending with scores. That extends Buffalo’s recent trend in which the team has combined for 17 scoring drives on 37 possessions over its past four outings. Of their 10 possessions against Tampa Bay, they crossed midfield eight times but only came away with four scores. The Bills are still having difficulty finishing drives. Yet there remain worrying signs as McDermott alluded to how the game nearly unraveled in fourth quarter with Buffalo having to withstand a Hail Mary incompletion as time ran out. “But, yeah, the rhythm, the energy, the offense feeding defense, defense feeding offense and special teams baked into that, that was evident through the better of three quarters.”īuffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) gestures in the first half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Thursday, Oct. “That’s what we want to do, but obviously it’s hard to do that every week,” coach Sean McDermott said on Friday. Just as important, the two-score lead built through three quarters was enough to take the pressure off a defense missing three key starters, by forcing the Buccaneers to become one-dimensional in having to play catch-up. The 17 points scored in the first half were seven more than Buffalo produced in its three previous first halves combined. The offense found a rhythm early with an up-tempo approach in which the quarterback spread the ball - rather than locking in on Stefon Diggs - and showed no hesitation in running when the opportunities presented themselves. It was an outing in which Allen and the offense shed the lethargy of its previous three games.
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