The Bills have three games to get it right. Once Buffalo wins one more game this season, they’ll clinch a second playoff berth in three seasons.
Veteran linebacker Lorenzo Alexander says the waiting game could be a deadly game, though.
The Bills (9-4) start their final three-game slate against the Pittsburgh Steelers (8-5) on Sunday Night Football. Then there’s the Patriots, then there’s the Jets.
But the focus is on the Steelers, who are also in a Wild Card spot with tthe Bills, and nothing more, Alexander says.
The team captain said in his 13 years in the NFL, he’s seen this same scenario not turn out right for teams.
“Anytime you have this opportunity, you really don’t want to take it for granted,” Alexander told reporters. “You want to take hold of it and grab it and really try to achieve it as soon as possible.
“I’ve seen some crazy things where a team was supposed to go [to the playoffs] and they find their way out of it because they kind of relax and think have three games.”
Alexander wasn’t referencing his own organization, but the Bills’ history shows a team that has done just that before. A win would’ve gotten them in late in a season, but Buffalo loses. While Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott recognized that team history this week, he says his team is preparing to face the Steelers and that’s it. The past is the past and that’s the mentality he’s passing onto his team.
“Those past failures, not many of us were here. We certainly respect the past, but our eyes are set on the future,” McDermott said.
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