Ideal Patriots tackle Bills Monday Night

Like many raw starters, Taylor is limited by what he’s able to process in his progressions and relies largely on his impressive physical tools to compensate.

Williams is coming off of an illness that limited him to minimal snaps against the Jets in Week 10, so we’ll have to monitor his status in Week 11 against New England.

It was easy for HC Rex Ryan to admit New England will take the AFC East division-crown, but it doesn’t mean the Bills lack motivation the next couple of weeks. Instead, it appears the Patriots corners just flat-out won the majority of their one-on-one matchups, typically playing press coverage and forcing Taylor away from his primary read.

The Bills have an extra day of preparation for Monday Night’s game. Bowles decided not to go for two after the Jets cut the Buffalo lead to 22-9. A few late-game heroics from Tyrod Taylor almost helped Buffalo pull off an improbable 24-point fourth-quarter comeback, but New England held on for a 40-32 victory that Sunday afternoon.

But a critical decision to go for it on fourth-and-2 from the Buffalo 20 early in the fourth quarter loomed large.

It’s as automatic as Stephen Gostkowski drilling another field goal from another zip code. So, being the Bills, they released Drew Bledsoe after the near-miss, handing the veteran’s job to thoroughly untested J.P. Losman, who promptly lost it to journeyman Kelly Holcomb.

Pass rush prowessIn this matchup with Buffalo, most would expect the club with the better sack totals to be the Bills.

LeSean McCoy was only one of the stars of the game.

Buffalo is now on a two-game winning run to move up from 0.500 again since Week 6. But as analyst Matt Sabuda points out, as long as quarterback Tom Brady is healthy, the Patriots will remain a formidable foe.

“I know we have improved as a football team”, Ryan said.

In the OHL, the Windsor Spitfires got past the Sault St Marie Greyhounds 3-2 in a close game.

Bowles acknowledges the challenges of managing the what-if scenarios, although he isn’t particularly daunted by them.

How many times did we hear those great defenses on the Jets say they have solved the Patriots offense? Not only are they the best team in the National Football League, but the Bills have a hard road ahead, so stacking wins is going to be tough, starting Monday in a place where they’ve won just once in 13 years, and that came last year in the season finale when quarterback Tom Brady played barely a quarter, and several other Patriots were resting for the playoffs. In fact, he was so poor in both games against the Dolphins that his lone stat from those two games was a tackle.

Bowles takes a similar approach in his own practices. One hundred percent I say we have the talent to play better than that. “You have to practice different ones all the time”. He understands what we’re trying to do defensively and communicates well on the field the adjustments that we need to make. “That’s where we want to be”.