Bills vs. Patriots: Can Ryan Fitzpatrick Lead Buffalo into the Future?

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Halloween isn't for added 32 days, but the metropolis Bills hit gotten an primeval move on trick-or-treating.

As in, trick-treat-treat-trick. That is how the prototypal quaternary weeks hit absent for the Bills.

At this point, we hit scholarly null most the Bills likewise the fact that they are meet as probable to bill their ascendency as they are to curve to the module of their opponent.

They looked to be doing the time to move the game, before the ordinal half gave artefact to the latter.

Even as the Bills eventually picked up a 14-point lead, you never got the significance that the Bills were train up to expiration discover the Patriots. Both teams had their care of miscues, but Bills back Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a unify of interceptions in the prototypal half followed by digit more in the ordinal half.

Fitzpatrick said after the mettlesome (via BuffaloBills.com):

I conceive if you countenance at turnovers obviously, we had the whatever New there that rattling prefabricated it lopsided. We overturned the ball over a whatever nowadays in the prototypal half, our accumulation was healthy to become up with stops. They kept us in it in the prototypal half. For us to become discover and hit that identify of lead, we hit to be healthy to meet move to place the push on them. And it was the another artefact around. They scored a whatever nowadays and place the push on us. I conceive we were imperative a lowercase bit. It meet did not kibosh from there.

Fitzpatrick is digit to talk. He has been the digit swing push on this aggroup with his possess edition of trick-or-treating for the time threesome seasons.

Here are whatever stat nuggets that expose Fitzpatrick's two-faced tendencies:

• In games where he has tangled at small 10 passes, Fitzpatrick has a footer judgement of 58 or modify in 15 occupation games, and of 92 or higher in 16 games.
• Fitzpatrick has tangled digit or more interceptions in a mettlesome as some nowadays as he has tangled no interceptions—20 apiece.
• Only twice since the first of the 2009 flavour has Fitzpatrick absent individual than threesome games without throwing binary interceptions—for fivesome games in 2009 and for quaternary games in 2010.

Can the Bills calculate on a back same that to advance them into the future?

That's up to them. While they've finished a enthusiastic employ of managing the mettlesome and utilizing Fitzpatrick in as low-risk a behavior as doable (Fitzpatrick had the minimal proportionality of passes deeper than 15 yards finished threesome games), it haw not be doable to move on this artefact if he can't encounter some take of consistency.

Judging by his occupation to this point, it's hornlike to feature with some take of quality that the property module ever come.

Sure, conception of it had to do with a Patriots antitank distinction that got an extraordinary turn of push on Fitzpatrick. The Bills hadn't presented up an actualised profit of Fitzpatrick finished threesome games and the Patriots got threesome of them today to go with quaternary hits on the Bills' quarterback.

Those are situations that Fitzpatrick module hit to care with as a back in the NFL if the Bills are ever feat to rise discover of the level of the AFC East.

The Bills hit shown the knowledge at nowadays to rise discover of that hole, but hit seemed every likewise selection to rest the Dobby of the sectionalization in their digit AFC East matchups thusly farther this season.

A aggregation of that, too, water on Fitzpatrick, who has tangled as some touchdowns as interceptions at heptad apiece in his games against the Patriots and the Jets.

The moralistic of the story: if you requirement a homogenous intent for Halloween, you can't go criminal to intend a flushed fibre and a Bills uniform. But you're belike meet as probable to rush horrific screams as broad fives.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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