Pucko’s Perspective: Consistency eludes Buffalo Bills

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“It’s wide open”, Beason said Monday, via the New York Post.

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Daily Messenger sports editor Bob Chavez joins long-time columnist Bill Pucko to discuss the Bills loss to New York, and look ahead to Tennessee. Meanwhile, the offensive line kept Eli Manning upright for most of the game as the quarterback threw three touchdowns.

The Giants are allowing almost 91.75 yards per game to opposing tight ends.

McCoy was inactive due to his sore hamstring and reports indicate he may miss three or four more weeks due to a new tear in the muscle, although head coach Rex Ryan denied knowledge of that.

Bills GM Doug Whaley did not provide a specific timetable for Sammy Watkins calf injury, but he did express hope that Buffalo’s top wideout could return this week. If it wasn’t cornerback Prince Amukamara stripping wideout Robert Woods of the ball, it was defensive lineman Kerri Wynn wreaking havoc with two tackles for loss and seven solo tackles. “So that was a huge play by Rashad”. It’s possible we don’t see a full-strength Cruz at all this year, and football as a sport is worse off for it. Flowers even got the best of Hughes, one of the league’s fiercest pass rushers.

It’s a little hard to not start with the most impressive stat of the weekend and that would be the culmination of Odell Beckham Jr. Afterward, Bradham lamented, “I’ve got to make that play”.

With the struggles the Giants have in the run game, keeping Manning upright with a clean pocket is imperative and it is exactly what has been delivered. He cited the Seattle Seahawks, who have led the National Football League in penalties the past two seasons while advancing to the past two Super Bowls. Once it finally began moving, it came away with no points on two consecutive drives into the red zone.

The Bills had two touchdowns negated in a game they were flagged 17 times for 135 yards – four of them personal fouls.

Known to be just as effective with his feet, Taylor also had a 31-yard touchdown run called back in the third quarter because of a holding penalty.

In the final minute of the game, Charles Clay’s 32-yard touchdown catch was nullified when Richie Incognito and Cordy Glenn were flagged for a chop block. The penalties hurt us, too, so we have to be smarter there.

“I do know that it puts a fire in our belly without a doubt to be 0-2 and I didn’t think we were an 0-2 team”.

“It’s awful”, safety Corey Graham added. “It’s one of those situations where somebody said something or somebody was doing something, then you react and you get called for it. And when you’re a team that’s known to push the edge, you tend to get a lot more of those penalties”. “Sometimes we’re communicating well, sometimes we’re not, at different spots in the game”.

Giants defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins got a kick out of seeing the Bills implode.

“I would say he’s come in with more energy, more enthusiasm, and a guy who’s 69 years old”, Beason said. Rueben had done an outstanding job with the slant route and he let it go. “For the first time out of the box, he went out there and handled it well”. The Giants are being forced to use defensive tackles, such as Cullen Jenkins, as defensive end because of a lack of depth.

On the Giants’ next possession, Manning engineered a 10-play, 76-yard drive which he capped with an 11-yard pass over the middle to Randle. Rather than settle for a field goal on fourth-and-2 at Buffalo’s 25, the Giants picked up a first down when the Bills were penalized for an illegal formation.