Buffalo Bills come from behind to beat Tennessee Titans. News Source
The Buffalo Bills ground game is averaging 128 yards per contest, and Karlos Williams leads the way with 226 yards and three touchdowns. Rex Ryan, prior to the start of this season, stated that he wanted to “build a bully”.
Regardless of who the team starts on Sunday, Ryan said the quarterbacks will support each other, as they have done all season.
But the Titans couldn’t put the Bills away.
After the teams exchanged punts, the Titans got the ball back on their 31 with no time outs left and 1:41 to go.
The Titans are running out of time. While Manuel has appeared in two games this year, he has not attempted a regular season pass since September 28, 2014. Rather, they were interested in establishing themselves as dominant forces.
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Buffalo’s last 8 games at home.
The Bills are concerned enough about Taylor’s status to the extent that they signed veteran free agent quarterback Josh Johnson on Tuesday. The Titans answered with a Ryan Succop field goal to extend their lead to six points with 9:36 to go. According to the Buffalo News, Watkins is on track to play Week 6 after dealing with numerous injuries.
“You can’t keep everybody happy, so you just have to do what you think is best to move the ball and score points”.
Well, not unless your offense decides to fall victim to the bullying that was taking place. You know what is worse for Marcus Mariota? Remember that game? It seemed so long ago, that 42-14 thrashing of Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Should there be optimism?
Titans offensive lineman Taylor Lewan was penalized three times just by himself.
Though Casey has also been a force against the run, Tennessee run defense as a whole has been a weakness for this team through four weeks. Quarterback Marcus Mariota had another rough outing against one of the top defenses in the National Football League on Sunday afternoon in Nashville. The Titans, after being the beneficiaries of an enormous amount of hype, got clobbered by the Cleveland Browns.
They again blew a double-digit lead in the second half to lose a game they should have won. Except for a play here, or a play there, they could be 4-0. Now it sounds like Tyrod Taylor might be in a few trouble. Manuel presents the same dual-threat challenge Taylor would in the run game, but he is far less efficient as a passer.
The Bills will face the Cincinnati Bengals this Sunday.
The most significant ingredient comes with Mariota himself.
The rookie quarterback had the best answer. Let’s look at Mariota’s game-by-game stats.
“I would not rule out Tyrod Taylor as starting this week, although it’s widely reported that that’s the case”.
The quarterback position has been unsettled since Jim Kelly retired following the 1996 season, and a revolving door since Manuel arrived. I think we talk about those issues, those situations.
The Colts then added Johnson on October 2 after Luck suffered a shoulder injury, only to release him on October 5 before bringing him back on October 7 before Indianapolis’ Week 5 matchup against the Houston Texans. He ran for a 22-yard TD, he threw for 109 yards and a 2-yard TD and also caught a 4-yard pass from Chris Hogan setting up that TD pass. Taylor became the fourth Bills quarterback to catch a pass from a non-quarterback.