The Buffalo Bills… didn’t exactly look like the Bills against the Miami Dolphins.
In Week 8, the Bills (5-2) did pull away and beat the Dolphins (1-7), 26-11, but it was not smooth sailing.
Buffalo struggled early. So much so that the two teams were tied at the halftime, 3-3.
But as the score indicates, things turned around for the Bills and that was what stood out to Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott. His team turned it around.
“That’s the biggest takeaway from this game. You’re not going to always come out and score, score score, in games,” McDermott said via video conference. “This game, like most games in the NFL, came down to the fourth quarter. I thought that was good for us as a team.”
Leading the turnaround for the Bills offense was quarterback Josh Allen and wide receiver Cole Beasley.
The playmaker led Buffalo with 10 catches and 110 yards. Those were both team highs.
Allen only had 80 yards passing at the half. He ended the game with 249, and had 55 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
“We went into halftime, you could tell that we weren’t happy,” Allen admitted. “We found a spot where we could get in groove in the second half.”
After reflecting, Beasley took a bit of a look at the long term. He said the Bills will improve because of the way the game went.
“You don’t wanna have games like this, but I think you need them to grow,” he said.
Naturally, the best analysis from the halftime adjustments came from offensive lineman Dion Dawkins.
To his credit, the O-line was amongst the improvements in the second half for Buffalo. That group had an ugly first half, but the later stages saw less pressure on Allen in the pocket.
Dawkins put it into a candid view.
“Playing [in the second half] with a little more energy, passion, and just showing that we’re not lax. Honestly, we call this having our piss hot. Playing with that energy,” Dawkins said.
Hot piss it was, Dion…
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