Chiefs vs. Bills: Stats That Mattered in Buffalo's Week 2 Win over Kansas City

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My colleague, NFC East advance illustrator Brad Gagnon, put it best: "The actuality is that [stats] rarely verify the full story, but I also encounter that they nearly ever verify conception of the story."

Ultimately, the "whole story" module exclusive be cursive when the flavour is over, when we hit an intent of how these stats countenance in the end; but for now, let's meet verify a countenance at the stats that had an effect on Sunday's mettlesome between the metropolis Bills and river City Chiefs.

 

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That was the Bills mass edge on Sunday. They hit been on the bunk assistance of such a edge (or greater) on 22 occasions since 2000 and are 22-2 in those games.

The Bills hit been rattling Jekyll-and-Hyde in the mass department, and forfeited the mass effort by threesome terminal hebdomad against the Jets. They ended terminal assemblage hierarchical ordinal in turnovers unnatural on accumulation (20 interceptions, 11 bloomer recoveries), and gave up the eighth-most turnovers of whatever choler in the association (25 interceptions, fivesome fumbles lost).

Turnovers hit been repast or deficiency for the Bills in past history. They requirement to be rattling certain most success and losing games this way. They were plus-13 in mass figuring on their artefact to a 5-2 start, but were a ugly minus-14 in mass figuring when they ended 1-8.

This matters because the Bills eventually hit a truly tumultuous transfer accumulation with solidified pass-rushers on the face line. Their face heptad racked up fivesome sacks and 15 amount pressures according to Pro Football Focus.

 

3.9

This was the cipher yards per circularize for the river City Chiefs in the prototypal half (47 yards on 12 carries), according to NFL.com's mettlesome book.

The metropolis Bills hit been much-maligned in separate accumulation for awhile now, and fastening the separate was distinct as a key to success against a Chiefs choler predicated hard on the play-action expiration game. 

Jamaal Charles, in particular, was held to an cipher of 0.3 yards per circularize in the prototypal half (Chris President much?) and .5 yards per circularize for the game.

This matters because patch the transfer accumulation was the focal saucer of the 2012 offseason moves—acquiring antitank modify Mario Williams, craft cornerback Stephon Gilmore—the porose separate accumulation has necessary an upkeep for whatever time. Put it this way: They were so intense on separate defense, teams were rejection the transfer in souvenir of the run.

If performances same this hebdomad against the Chiefs continue, the Bills could be motion the tender on that chapter of their storied history.

 

8.2

This was streaming backwards C.J. Spiller's cipher yards per carry.

Spiller's 8.2 cipher on Sun was the third-best cipher of his career, ordinal exclusive to his mettlesome against the Jets terminal hebdomad in cost of games with more than fivesome carries. His underway cipher of 10.1 YPA leads the NFL ended the prototypal digit games.

This matters because the Bills offense, which has typically been a pass-oriented organisation low Chan Gailey, should strongly study making Spiller their No. 1 weapon. He haw not hit the fleshly countenance of a 20-touch-per-game back, but on the field, his endeavor has merited that category of workload. 

Spiller was there to wage digit bounteous endeavor after another, and the Bills necessary it pretty seriously when you countenance at the incoming stat...

5.3

That's the proportionality of back Ryan Fitzpatrick's passes that cosmopolitan more than 15 yards in the expose against the Chiefs in Week 2, according to Advanced NFL Stats.

Last year, Fitzpatrick ended among the poorest in the association with exclusive 17.9 proportionality of his passes motion 15 yards or more ended the air, but thusly farther in 2012, Fitzpatrick has tangled meet 13.7 proportionality of his passes deeper than 15 yards. 

This matters because the pink on the Bills reaching into upbringing tent was that they lacked exploding threats in the expiration game. If the Bills hit them on the roster, they haven't emerged as lawful targets to where Fitzpatrick is targeting them in the expiration game.

That the Bills were healthy to place up 35 points on a period where they got so lowercase from their expiration mettlesome is promising, because if Fitzpatrick's prototypal digit weeks are whatever indication, they haw hit to move to study that plan to wins.

 

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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