Tag: bills chiefs

No ‘Sammy Watkins revenge game’ en route during Bills-Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Sammy Watkins was injured in Week 5 and won’t play in Week 6.

While the Buffalo Bills had the “Zay Jones revenge game” a few weeks ago, the “Sammy Watkins revenge game” will have to wait.

In Week 6, the Bills will host the Kansas City Chiefs. However, Watkins, 27, is currently not expected to play against his former team.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Watkins is going to miss a couple of games due to a hamstring injury he suffered on Sunday against the Raiders:

On the season, Watkins has 21 catches for 222 yards with two touchdowns, one of which came in the Chiefs’ loss to the Raiders.

Watkins was Buffalo’s first-round pick in 2014, but it never worked out during his time with the Bills. Injuries consistently hampered his time in Buffalo, and eventually he was traded. Watkins did briefly spend time in training under Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane, but before the 2017 regular season, Watkins was shipped out to the Los Angeles Rams with a sixth-round pick for cornerback EJ Gaines and a second-round pick.

Watkins has yet to face against the Bills in his career.

[lawrence-related id=71216,71279,71276,71269]

Bills-Chiefs Week 6 game moved to Monday

Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs Week 6 game has been moved to Monday Night Football.

The Buffalo Bills have had one change to their upcoming schedule made by the NFL on Sunday, but it’s the one that’s two games from now… not the one only a few hours away.

According to FOX Sports’ Jay Glazer, the Bills’ Week 6 game with the Kansas City Chiefs has been moved to Monday Night Football on Oct. 19. Previously the league already announced that the game would not be played this upcoming Thursday. Now it appears there’s a date and time for it, as ESPN’s Chris Mortensen adds the kickoff between the Bills and Chiefs will be at 5 p.m.

Currently the Bills are unsure of when they’ll play in Week 5 after the Titans’ outbreak with COVID-19 continued on Sunday, but we have a Week 6 update, at least.

As things currently stand, the Bills and Titans will still play on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to wrap up Week 5 in the NFL. At minimal, moving Thursday’s Bills-Chiefs to Monday gives the league some flexibility to possibly even push Titans-Bills back to Wednesday, if needed.

Stay tuned to Bills Wire for the latest schedule updates.

[lawrence-related id=71260,71248,71246,71244]

Bills-Titans Week 5 game moved to Tuesday

Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans Week 5 game was moved to Tuesday.

The NFL has finally made a decision on the Buffalo Bills’ upcoming game. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Bills’ meeting with the Titans was moved to Tuesday.

And because of that, the Bills’ ensuing matchup after that with the Kansas City Chiefs has also potentially been removed from Thursday Night Football.

Of course, all of this depends on whether or not the Titans finally stop the COVID-19 outbreak in their locker room which they’ve had trouble dealing with as of late:

Stay tuned to Bills Wire for the latest updates.

[lawrence-related id=71147,71213,71208,71205,71114]

Bills next few games could be moved after more Titans COVID positives

Buffalo Bills latest schedule updates with the Titans and Chiefs.

It’s Thursday and typically we’re in the heart of looking at the Buffalo Bills’ next upcoming opponent. Instead, because of the Tennessee Titans’ troubles with COVID-19, it’s not so clear what’s going on.

As of Thursday, the Titans had two more people in their organization test positive for coronavirus after two more confirmed positive reports on Wednesday. Sunday’s originally scheduled game is now certainly in doubt, and it’s hard to envision it taking place.

So what’s the NFL to do? ESPN’s Diana Russini reported on one possible solution which could move Buffalo’s next two games from their initially scheduled time. Instead of Buffalo visiting the Titans on Sunday, that game could be moved to this upcoming Monday or Tuesday to give Tennessee more time to rid their clubhouse of coronavirus.

But after that, the Bills were scheduled to work again on Thursday as the Kansas City Chiefs were slated to head to Buffalo for a Thursday Night Football meeting. Instead of that game happening on Oct. 15, it’d be moved to Oct. 18 on Saturday.

Stay tuned to Bills Wire for the latest news on what could happen to the team’s upcoming schedule.

[lawrence-related id=71199,71191,71193,71189]

Bills’ Week 6 opponent, the Chiefs, now have COVID positive player

Buffalo Bills Week 6 opponent, the Kansas City Chiefs, have COVID-19 positive test in QB Jordan Ta’amu.

The Buffalo Bills will play the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. After that, their next two opponents are now teams that have players who have tested positive for COVID-19.

According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Chiefs practice squad quarterback Jordan Ta’amu has tested positive for the virus on Saturday. Ta’amu’s positive result comes just a short time after the Patriots’ positive test via quarterback Cam Newton. The Pats announced that one earlier in the day on Saturday

The Chiefs and Patriots were actually scheduled to play on Sunday, but that game has since been postponed. Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, that game will be played on either Monday or Tuesday.

Prior to facing the Chiefs on Oct. 15 on Thursday Night Football in the NFL’s Week 6 of action, the Bills are slated to play the Titans. That game is in serious jeopardy, though. The Titans have had a massive outbreak of COVID-19 over the past few days.

On Saturday, the total number of members in the Titans organization to test positive for the virus grew to 16, half of which are players.

In the grand scheme: the Bills play the Titans in Week 5, the Chiefs in Week 6 and the Patriots in Week 8 and all three of those teams have COVID-19 positive players on their roster.

Check back to Bills Wire as we’ll continue to provide the latest updates on all NFL COVID-19 related news.

[lawrence-related id=70917,70906,70894,70885]

Bills use Dolphins trip to gather intel for return of fans in Buffalo

Buffalo Bills team officials used their trip to Miami Dolphins to help gather information bout fans in Bills Stadium.

The first home game of the 2020 NFL season looked much different for the Buffalo Bills without fans in the stands. Many teams in the league are playing in front of empty seats as a safety precaution due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the United States. However, a few teams are allowing limited seating.

Among those? Buffalo’s most-recent opponent, the Miami Dolphins. Prior to the Bills heading to Miami last weekend, the Dolphins announced 13,000 tickets would be sold in the 65,000-seat venue, Hard Rock Stadium for that game.

As of now, the Bills will not allow fans at home games in September as they work with New York State officials towards finding a safe resolution to the situation. That means this coming Sunday’s Week 3 meeting with the Rams won’t have fans involved. But Buffalo’s Week 5 meeting with the Chiefs on Thursday Night Football on Oct. 15 is still on the table, and the Bills, according to the Buffalo News, used their Week 2 trip to South Beach to gather intel on the safety measures the Dolphins undertook in order to allow limited seating. 

The Bills previously said in a July statement to season ticket holders they planned for limited attendance… when permitted. The State and the Bills have not yet settled on a time when any amount of fans could be allowed in their venue, only so far saying it won’t happen in September. Season ticket holders were also given the choice to opt-out of the 2020 season and return for 2021 with the same seats and seniority.

The Bills also previously confirmed that they already had some limited-seating charts created for Bills Stadium. Those plans include scenarios of 15, 33 and 50 percent capacities of fans. It remains to be seen if the team dusts off any of these in the coming weeks. 

After not playing in front of any fans in Week 2, Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott felt positive about having people in attendance in Miami last weekend, at least. 

“Miami allowed a certain percentage of fans, and I’m happy to say a significant percentage were Bills fans, so that was awesome to see, and I just was fired up,” said McDermott on Monday via video conference. “We ran out of the tunnel to that ovation and that cheer and you could hear the crowd, and that gave me chills. Just hearing that when we ran out of somebody else’s tunnel, that was awesome.”

Current in the NFL, the Dolphins are joined by the Jaguars, Cowboys, Chiefs, Broncos, Colts, Browns, and Bengals as teams that are allowing a limited number of fans in their stadium during home games. 

[lawrence-related id=70425,70421,70419,70416]

Mitch Morse on Chiefs’ Super Bowl: ‘I’m in the place I’m meant to be’

Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Mitch Morse on his former team, the Chiefs, winning the Super Bowl.

Last offseason the Buffalo Bills started their efforts to revamp their offensive line. The marque addition of them all was former Chiefs center Mitch Morse.

You know, the same Kansas City Chiefs who went on to win the Super Bowl one season after he left them via free agency to sign a big contract with the Bills? Ouch.

Months after watching his former team take home the Lombardi Trophy over the 49ers, Morse discussed how it felt watching that go down over the weekend while talking to reporters via video conference from Bills training camp. Even though things went down the way they did, there’s no hard feelings and more importantly, no regrets.

“You know, I have some really good friends on that team and I was happy for them. But like you said, I’m in the place I’m meant to be. I couldn’t be happier where I’m at,” Morse said. “Watching that game, I was happy for my friends, I know all the work they had put in… couldn’t be happier for them, but I couldn’t care less at the same time because I know where I was and I’m happy to be there.”

One thing Morse will care about his getting his shot at a title with the Bills. Moving forward, he could be a big part of the team doing exactly that. Morse,the leader of the offensive line, knows he has places he can improve in his second season in Buffalo. He said even though Jon Feliciano was injured recently, returning four of five starters on the O-line should go a long way. Morse even cited multiple backup players that are returners, too.

But facts are facts and Morse knows that. Much of the Bills’ future successes or failures reside on the shoulders of quarterback Josh Allen. He’s the key player in getting the Bills to those levels the Chiefs reached in 2019. So far heading into 2020, Morse see positive steps from Allen early on in the process this offseason.

“Josh has really come into his own coming into Year 3. It’s very good to see the way he’s taking command, the communication is crisp, it’s clean, it’s exciting,” Morse said.

 

[lawrence-related id=67979,68080,67284,67913]

COVID-19 took Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes throwing challenge from us

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen says COVID-19 cancelled a throwing contest between him and Patrick Mahomes.

The Josh Allen vs. Patrick Mahomes throwing contest is a fire that had more fuel tossed on it again recently.

On Wednesday, Bills quarterback Josh Allen joined NFL Network’s Good Morning Football. Buffalo’s signal caller talked all things Bills training camp, but the ol’ debate topic between him and the reigning Super Bowl MVP was was thrown out there once again.

Allen didn’t back down, but while discussing potentially finally getting together with Mahomes to faceoff, head-to-head in a throwing challenge to see who has the stronger arm, Allen actually revealed that we should have already gotten the answer to this question.

But like many circumstances over the past few months… the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled it.

“One… yes, I’m game. We’re working on it. We had something in place actually, supposed to be going this summer but obviously some COVID restrictions had that kind of shut down. But yes, I’m game,” Allen said.

“I’d love to finally settle and figure it out, but we’ll have to figure out, whatever the case may be, it’s going to a good cause,” Allen added.

On the bright side, at least we’ll get an answer to this question, eventually. Not only because Allen wants to settle it, so does Mahomes. Following the release of player ratings in EA Sports’ Madden 21 video game, which revealed Allen has a stronger arm in the game, Mahomes was none to happy.

“Obviously Josh has an extremely strong arm but I’ve yet to see someone have a stronger arm than me,” Mahomes said on ESPN.

Originally this challenge goes back to an episode of the Barstool Sports podcast, Pardon My Take. Allen said on the show he would be in for the challenge first and Mahomes took to Twitter to accept. That was all the way back in February, but still… here we are… waiting.

And for what it’s worth, Allen and Mahomes to face each other for the first time in 2020. The Chiefs travel to the Bills for Thursday Night Footbal in Week 6. That one is likely happening first.

 

[lawrence-related id=67770,67755,67745,67737]

Report: Brandon Beane refutes Sammy Watkins interest

Bills GM Brandon Beane denies interest in Chiefs wide receiver Sammy Watkins.

The Buffalo Bills did not have interesting in adding wide receiver Sammy Watkins, according to general manager Brandon Beane in a bit of an abrasive way.

Bleacher Report published a head-turning article on Watkins on Tuesday morning. In that piece, there’s a slight mention of a possible reunion between the two sides, sprinkled in between a story that is a winding tale about Watkins and his beliefs in entities, energy forces of good and evil nature and even teleportation.

The B/R article was authored by Tyler Dunne, formerly of the Buffalo News. The Bills’ radio show on WGR-550 radio chatted with Dunne after the article was published on Tuesday and another shocking idea came out of that more definitively: Could the Bills have really had interest in bringing Watkins back? Per Watkins via Dunne, yes. 

But now Beane via the same station, in a very bold set of words, that Watkins saying the Bills talked to him is “100 percent false” and then some:

Up and down, left and right and all around with Watkins on Tuesday. Beane sounded very strongly in this written reply, but what do we really know? Watkins ended up re-signing with the Chiefs this offseason, but Beane felt he needed to voice this anyway. Perhaps he thought the Bills needed to reaffirm that Stefon Diggs was their first choice? But Watkins also was under contract with the Chiefs for the 2020 season already, so perhaps there was some sort of tampering aspect Beane was afraid of coming the Bills’ way.

Regardless, things probably worked out well for both sides in what eventually happened. The Bills got the more consistent and proven option in Diggs, while Watkins goes back to defend a Super Bowl title on a restructured one-year deal.

For what it’s worth, Beane was only a few months in his current role when he decided to send Watkins and a late-round pick to the Rams for cornerback EJ Gaines and a second-round pick.

 

[lawrence-related id=61380,61354,61315,61282]

 

Report: Sammy Watkins, Bills talked about reunion this offseason

Former Buffalo Bills, currently Chiefs WR Sammy Watkins said he talked to the Bills this offseason about signing.

Bleacher Report dropped a bombshell of a story about former Buffalo Bills first-round pick Sammy Watkins on Tuesday. Aside from admitting to using drugs and alcohol too much early in his career with the Bills, the story did not bring anything negative to light about Watkins.

Much of the piece was about Watkins and some beliefs he has about life in general that would consider to be… unique. Things the article highlighted was some out-of-body experiences he’s had on the football field and claiming to having seen teleportation happen.

Aside from talking about his early career in Buffalo, Watkins highlights he didn’t mesh well with current Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott. It eventually led to his departure from the team prior to the 2017 season. But author of the B/R article, Tyler Dunne, formerly of the Buffalo News, added another interesting tidbit of information to his Watkins feature on Tuesday. Chatting with the Bills’ radio show on WGR-550 radio, Dunne said that Watkins told him he had conversations with the Bills about a reunion in Buffalo.

“As we talked through March, (Watkins) said that the Bills were interested [in bringing him back] and he had been talking to the Bills about coming back here before they traded for Stefon Diggs,” Dunne said.

Bringing Watkins back would have been McDermott and Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane showing they trusted their “process” mightily. Watkins lives in Bills lore a bit, as many other underwhelming draft picks of the team’s past do as well.

Instead, Watkins is fresh off a Super Bowl title with the Chiefs and he’ll be back there in 2020.

But with that early-mismatch with McDermott in mind, did Watkins really think it would workout in western New York this time around? Watkins said he felt McDermott was playing a game of “mental warfare” with him before trading him.

But yup, Watkins reportedly said he is a changed man and he trusted it would or could have worked out.

“He said absolutely,” Dunne said. “The place that he’s at in life, in his words, dealing with all the energy and entities, that he would have made it work.”

Had the Bills signed Watkins to be their No. 1 option instead of Diggs, it would have been a bit of a roll of the dice. Diggs is a proven commodity while Watkins hasn’t exactly shown consistency during his career. If Watkins has corrected his ways and could have mixed with the Bills’ current locker room, his skills certainly would have made for a powerful No. 2 or No. 3 option along with Diggs, John Brown and Cole Beasley.

Instead, all parties might have had a good thing work out for all. Watkins is back with the Chiefs and their title-defending squad. The Bills have their No. 1, and a formidable top-four targets with rookie Gabriel Davis in mind.

At minimal, it appears Watkins at least doesn’t have any hard feelings toward Buffalo, as he also had accepted responsibility for his actions off the field during his prior mentioned B/R chat.

 

[lawrence-related id=61391,61354,61315,61248]