‘“They’re both good teams, but I mean, we won 13 games. I think we have a good team,” Beane said. “We didn’t show it the other night, the team we are, but I think we played a lot of good programs this year. We lost three games by eight points. Listen, I’m going to own all the things we can do better – no doubt.”’
Archives for January 25, 2023
Analysis: It’s time for Brandon Beane to go all in on stockpiling weapons for Bills’ offense
‘Who the Bills are is a team that has failed its franchise quarterback. Josh Allen is a unicorn – capable of running over or through defenders while having the ability to make every throw on the field. But he needs more help than General Manager Brandon Beane gave him during the 2022 season.’
Position grades: Finding more efficiency vs. blitz will be a goal for Bills’ offense
‘Cincinnati sent five or more pass rushers on only eight plays, just 17% of Allen’s dropbacks. But the Bengals also sent defensive backs at Allen five more times as part of four-man rushes. Allen didn’t do much against the pressure, managing only 46 yards on those 13 plays, just 3.5 per play, according to Buffalo News charting.’
Sean Kirst: The year Bills’ fans learned the hard way that football is not life and death
‘This is life in a town with a tumultuous love for its football team, a community whose hunger to experience a can-it-ever-happen-championship is built on the fierce longing of generations. One element of that passion we annually share, almost as therapy, is the burning days-after analysis – the point by point, how-did-this-happen-yet-again review – when seasons of seemingly high promise come apart, which in Buffalo take up whole shelves in our mental libraries.’
Jim Kubiak: Josh Allen runs out of the magic that helped cover Bills’ deficienies
‘Allen is an extraordinary quarterback with the talent, the processing ability, the strength and size to accomplish most any task. However, he is only one man. Championship teams are composed of superior elements in all three phases of the game and offensive strengths beyond the quarterback. The Bengals possessed these strengths beyond their own quarterback, and the Bills did not.’
‘We all have to improve.’ Disappointing ending points to offseason upgrades for Bills
‘Twelve months later, in the aftermath of the Bills’ non-competitive 27-10 obvious step backward loss to the Bengals, the conversation is much different. This time, the Bills don’t look at all like a team on the rise but instead one that is headed in the wrong direction.;
Stefon Diggs’ emotional reaction draws criticism on Twitter but his play speaks for itself
‘Personally, I didn’t have a problem with Diggs storming out of the room because honestly, I never expected him to be in there in the first place. Diggs has rarely spoken after games since he arrived in Buffalo in 2020. There have been a few occasions, some of those this season, and I’m pretty sure those were all after Bills victories. Any reporter who thought he would speak Sunday was mistaken.’
Bengals CB Eli Apple mocks Bills’ Damar Hamlin, Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen on social media
‘While Apple was enjoying himself on social media, it’s clear that someone in the Bengals organization did not. The cornerback backpedaled on his initial tweet that featured the hand heart emoji and Cancun on 3 saying he would never make light of Hamlin’s situation.’
Bills GM Beane reflects on turbulent 2022 season, provides look at future
‘“The one thing I would say about last year is we went through a stretch, win a game, lose a game, win a game, lose a game, till we went up to New England and won that game, whether we got in the playoffs was a real question. That game catapulted our team, it was something that got us going, and we got hot. And that’s the key,” said Beane. “You got to win enough games to put yourself in position to make a run, but you got to be playing your best football when you’re going to run into a good team like we did the other day. I would say at the end of the season that we never put together – I don’t have the answer for you – we never put together a complete game. If you look back at some of the games we had early in the year, we had stretches in games, but we never from kickoff to the final buzzer, we were finding a way.”’
Brandon Beane looks to creatively sift through salary cap woes to keep Bills a contender
‘The salary cap was $208.2 million this season and the Bills are projected to have nearly $242 million in contracts for 2023, not including players like Tremaine Edmunds and Jordan Poyer, whose contracts expire in the spring.’
Adamczyk: It felt like New Year’s Eve again
‘The Buffalo Bills achieved championships in the middle 1960s, and played in Super Bowls in the early 1990s, so roughly once every 30 years does the team work at an elite level, enough so that everything around here stops to appreciate it. If this pattern keeps up, the ones in the third grade drawing portraits of football players will have children of their own, listening to stories about the Bills of the early 2020s.’
Bills QB Josh Allen’s gal pal calls star ‘true leader’ despite Bengal blowout
‘Brittany Williams — who got together with Allen in 2015 — took to Instagram late Monday to proclaim how proud she is of the slinger.’
Bills’ Damar Hamlin responds to Twitter body double rumours
‘“One would think that ‘Damar’s’ return to the stadium in any capacity would illicit great smiles, high 5s and jubilation,” another speculated. “Not a single smile, not from any of them. That is not a normal reaction to such a ‘momentous’ happy moment.”’
Eli Apple on Buffalo tweets: ‘Never would I make light of (Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest)’
‘Apple explained in a tweet he sent Tuesday afternoon that that’s not what he intended, adding that his love, thoughts, prayers and concerns are with Hamlin as his recovery continues…’.
Eli Apple’s Stefon Diggs tweetstorm spirals into Damar Hamlin drama
‘Apple clarified the tweet on Tuesday amid the internet outcry, explaining he would never “make light of that scary unfortunate scene.”’