Bills view Patriots game as barometer

On Wednesday, he came pretty close to saying, “Sacks are for losers”. The Bills and Jets are both 5-4, while the Patriots are 9-0.

Following the early-season explosion of dead ball penalties, Ryan led an initiative to crack down on unruly behavior from his team, and the mentality is taking hold in the locker room, as Sammy Watkins recently shared to The Associated Press.

LeSean McCoy, RB, Buffalo Bills: McCoy ran all over the normally stout Jets run defense in Week 10, logging 112 yards on 19 carries. I’m not kissing them.

Ryan’s defense is all about the exotic pressure packages. Those are respectable numbers that fall right around the middle of the pack in the NFL.

“It is going to be different because you know they like to give [Edelman] the ball”, Gilmore said. When you get older, you’re supposed to get worse.

The New England Patriots have solidified themselves as a dynasty over the past 15 years.

With the Bills set to take on the undefeated Patriots on Monday night, Ryan discussed New England briefly.

“Well, [the Giants] rattled them for over 200 passing yards in a quarter”, Ryan said. Let’s just put it that way. “We got to take a long, hard look at what we’re asking our guys to do”. I’m certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else. And the Patriots know it, too. “So what’s the difference?” He’s got all the rings, he’s got all this stuff. He loves Tom Brady. It was an utter humiliation for the Bills, who played soft and stupid and saw Brady break George Blanda’s record for passing yards by a Bills opponent.

It’s not likely that the Patriots are going to lose the division, so Rex is correct on that front. “There’s no question. It’s personal”. He’s probably got a little more strength and power on me.

That’s how you wind up with a fantasy football stat sheet that says Tom Brady threw for 334 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception, but New England still needed to convert on fourth down with less than 30 seconds left in the game to get Stephen Gostkowski in range to kick a 54-yard field goal to win the game by one point. “Anybody out there want to sign up for it?”

Rex was killing the Patriots with kindness on Tuesday handing out compliments left and right. I’m challenging the league.

Of course, Brady had the last laugh with the last possession, a classic game-winning drive in the final two minutes, but the point on defense wasn’t lost on the Bills.

November, 2011: “It was a stretch”. Do I respect the hell out of Bill? Absolutely. But if we think a player can help us, we don’t care how we get him. “They’ll be a lot of problems we’ll have to solve on Monday”. Trying, can we just move on?

The Patriots have already seen Ryan and the Bills this year, dismantling them, 40-32, in Buffalo in Week 2 in a game that was a 37-13 blowout until the Bills scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.

“The Giants did a good job in coverage”, Robey said. Guess we have to find out. In Week 11, Rex Ryan will look to notch a victory over Bill Belichick, who he referred to this week as “the best coach of all time”. I’m sure he’ll be working with that.

“No, I’m just telling you the facts”. That means Gronkowski is going to see a lot of targets from Brady, and he’ll need to make the majority.