Bills QB Taylor not immune from blame after loss to Raiders

While still mathematically alive in the playoff race, Sunday was a reminder that the Bills are still just an average team.

But that’s nothing more than voodoo mathematics.

A post-game breakdown of the Oakland Raiders victory over the Buffalo Bills, handing out letter grades to each positional group.

The Bills now sit at 6-5, and are on the outside looking in when it comes to earning one of the two wild cards slots.

Derek Carr led his sixth fourth-quarter comeback against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

In other words, it’s 17 straight years without a postseason berth for Buffalo. “They do a great job of protecting the quarterback and when the rush does come, he gets rid of it”.

Taylor’s future in Buffalo isn’t secure beyond this season. Mack’s efforts kept Buffalo scoreless from the middle of the third quarter on.

The Raiders cut Buffalo’s lead to 24-16 on Carr’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Crabtree with 5:17 left in the third quarter.

The Bills showed some vulnerabilities on defense in the first half, giving up a few big running plays and leaving holes in the zone versus Oakland’s explosive offense, but some penalty luck and effective short yardage play helped the team to hold Oakland in check. Their last victory came in 1966, according to Fox Sports, when the teams were battling for position in the AFL playoffs.

And that wasn’t Mack’s only disruption. Mack then sealed the game with a sack and fumble recovery with Buffalo driving late. The Chiefs trail Oakland by one game in the division, but already beat the Raiders once this season and can control the tiebreaker with another win. KJ42 gets an int and we finally see a highlight hit from him. “Whether that’s me, Jerry [Hughes], or somebody on back end creating an interception”, Alexander said. Thing would only go from bad to worse for the Bills as the bleeding would continue as the Raiders offensive onslaught in the second half would continue.

“Sometimes you feel that momentum shift and it just snowballed on us”, Ryan said.

I think that’s going to be our quote from now on-by any means.

“We’re going to be excited to play”, coach Jack Del Rio said. “Man, I just got to keep balling out there and make plays”. The success out of Carr is not only a surprise because of his inexperience but because of the fact that he has to play the vaunted Denver and Kansas City defenses four times a year. But just as a football team, it was very similar. “That’s not what happened”.

The Buffalo defense is a tough decision this week. Carr was on the injury report, but has stated multiple times that his finger is perfectly fine. “Thank goodness we have the next three at home”.

“For some reason, (it’s) not getting done to where we need it to, ” he said, noting the Bills rank 31st in the National Football League in allowing a sack for every 11 pass attempts. Carr went 5-for-5 to get within field goal range before Sebastian Janikowski connected on his third field goal of the day, making it a 10-to-9 game at half. They have yet to finish above.500 in his tenure and haven’t made the playoffs since 2004.

Bills CB Ronald Darby (concussion) was inactive, and rookie Kevon Seymour started in his place.

“How did their run defense do against our offense?”