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The Buffalo Bills defense clearly has some glaring issues, and it’s almost shocking to see the unit held the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs to only 26 points. There was potential for many more.
But perhaps because of that, Bills quarterback Josh Allen was not blaming anyone else but himself and the offense for his team’s 26-17 loss to the Chiefs on Monday.
“We weren’t good enough, I was not good enough,” Allen said. “I’ve got to do a better job, it’s plain and simple.”
Overall, Allen’s stat line was not pretty. Heading into Week 6 leading the NFL in passing yards aside from the Cowboys’ Dak Prescott who’s now out for the year… Allen’s not there anymore. The Bills QB only had 122 passing yards with two touchdowns and albeit an impressive play defensively, he did throw an interception as well.
While perhaps not Joe Namath at Super Bowl III, following his worst game of the 2020 season to date, Allen did make a guarantee of sorts. He said this game will be just that… the worst one of the season for him. Allen said it will only go up from here and he will improve.
And why does he think so? Simply because there’s no other option for Allen’s team in his mind.
“I can’t afford… this team can’t afford for me to play poorly,” Allen said via video conference. “It didn’t matter who we played tonight, if that’s how we play, we’re going to struggle to win games… it is what it is right now, we’ll learn from this, I’m obviously super frustrated with myself with how I preformed tonight. I can’t do that to this team. I’ve got to be better, I will be better.”
Some poor weather didn’t help, but Allen had a lack of accuracy throughout the loss to the Chiefs. Eventually it did turn around momentarily. On Buffalo’s final scoring drive, every yard gained was due to either Allen’s arm or legs. But Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott pointed to one thing in particular that his offense might need to focus on improving at: Starting quicker.
Against the Chiefs, a three-and-out to start the game. In Week 5 against the Titans, it was an opening-drive interception.
“We didn’t get off to a good start offensively,” McDermott said. “We’ve got to get off to a better start and that’s two weeks in a row, and so, I think that affected our rhythm offensively in the first half.”
Granted yes, those aren’t great starts, but in both contests, the Bills did put points up in their second offensive drives. The problem could just simply be a lack of consistency overall because in each game, Allen & Co. just eventually go silent… or in the case of the running game, don’t show up much at all.
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