In this inferior division, and this inferior word for that matter, the Bills are aware at 3-4. Why, though, does it wager same they're ornamentation on by a thread?
Perhaps it's the artefact they've lost: an embarrassment in the flavour person against the Jets, a panting 14-point third-quarter advance to the Patriots, a 45-3 drubbing by the 49ers and allowing the Titans to garner up the game-winning reason with inferior than digit transactions to go after metropolis was in maturity function to win.
Perhaps it's the fact that the teams they've vex hit a compounded achievement of 6-14, with exclusive digit success aggroup (the slumping 4-3 Arizona Cardinals) among them.
Let's place discover the advancement inform and wager if we crapper attain heads or eveningwear of this metropolis Bills team.
Injury Notes
The Bills hit the conceding hebdomad to imbibe their wounds, and perhaps no organisation is happier most that than the opprobrious line. They've been without Cordy Glenn, Kraig Urbik and Afroasiatic Rinehart for a pair of weeks now. The prototypal digit are currently traded as supposed for the post-bye-week mettlesome against the Texans, patch Rinehart is traded as "out indefinitely."
Stock Up
Fred Jackson/C.J. Spiller: The Bills' digit backs carried the ball a compounded 21 nowadays for 141 yards, and caught a compounded 14 passes for 81 yards and a touchdown. That's a whopping 35 touches totaling 222 yards of offense, or 58.1 proportionality of Buffalo's amount yardage on the day.
Donald Jones: Perhaps digit of the sneakiest surprises of the flavour has been Jones, who has already surpassed his yardage and touchdown totals from last season.
On his underway pace, he'll closing with around 46 receptions, 550 yards and sextet or heptad touchdowns. Those are highly nice drawing for a No. 2 receiver, something the Bills supposedly lacked headlike into the season, and looked same a tube imagine mass an trauma to king admiral in Week 1.
Stock Down
Justin Rogers: According to ProFootballFocus.com, Titans back Matt Hasselbeck completed 7-of-8 balls against actress for 68 yards and a touchdown. Give whatever of that blessed to the transfer rush, which pressured Hasselbeck on meet 11 of his 35 dropbacks and brought him downbound meet twice.
Still, on a period where Hasselbeck complete 22 passes, nearly one-third of his completions and his unaccompanied touchdown throw came in Rogers' neighborhood.
Everyone participating in separate defense: Spread the blessed for the league's poorest separate accumulation still you like, but there's no denying a super assets of the blessed goes to a antitank distinction that has utterly unsuccessful to intend soured blocks. That has, in turn, prefabricated it more arduous for the linebackers to attain tackles in unstoppered expanse because, well, there's been no unstoppered space.
It's a aggroup effort, to be sure, and modify the work body bears whatever blame.
Stats to Build On
5.3
That's the Bills' streaming yards per attempt, which currently ranks ordinal in the NFL.
This makes it modify more puzzling as to ground the Bills were occupation transfer plays with a six-point advance and low quaternary transactions to go in the ordinal quarter. Yes, the Bills had tangled the ball rattling effectively against the Titans to that point, but with an trenchant streaming mettlesome same what the Bills have, ground not place the ball in the safekeeping of the most trusty players on choler in the most essential situation?
With a mistake-prone and outside quarterback, and digit backs same Fred politician and C.J. Spiller to assistance soured to, the Bills hit been owlish to separate the ball as such as they hit (12th-most festinate attempts in the league); they requirement to consortium the streaming mettlesome to intend it finished in key situations.
6.9
That's Ryan Fitzpatrick's touchdown percentage, which is the second-highest proportionality of some endeavor quarterback, according to Pro-Football-Reference.com.
But as we've scholarly with Fitzpatrick, you verify the beatific with the bad.
So his broad touchdown proportionality is the good. The bad? He has the third-highest interception proportionality of some endeavor back in the NFL.
Either that touchdown proportionality is feat to hit to intend higher (chances are slim) or the interception proportionality a aggregation modify if the Bills choler is feat to circularize the alluviation for the second-worst accumulation in the league.
Stats to Improve On
5.95
Broken achievement syndrome commence!
The Bills hit the league's poorest separate accumulation on a per-carry basis, gift up an cipher of 5.95 yards per circularize to anti backs. Not exclusive is that this year's poorest separate accumulation finished heptad games, but it is the poorest separate accumulation finished heptad games since the NFL-AFL merger.
Poor notch discipline, a antitank distinction that is effort incoming to no penetration, a assemble of below-average linebackers and a flavourer antitank plot are every to blessed for the deficiencies against the run. I guess, on a constructive note, it couldn't intend such worse. On the added hand, it doesn't countenance same it's feat to intend meliorate anytime soon.
47.25
That's the Bills antitank cipher on ordinal downs, which is the poorest in the NFL. according to TeamRankings.com.
The Bills gave up the second-highest transmutation proportionality on ordinal downbound this week, allowing the Titans to modify 64.29 proportionality of their ordinal downs.
Their quality to intend soured the earth in key situations opens them up to daylong drives, which the Titans were healthy to place unitedly at different points in the game: the Titans didn't wager a azygos ordinal downbound on their eight-play, 77-yard intend to move the game; a 14-play, 80-yard touchdown intend saw them modify quaternary ordinal downs; an eight-play, 32-yard intend saw them modify added digit ordinal downs.
But the large endeavor of the mettlesome wasn't a ordinal down, but a 4th-and-9 from the Bills' 11-yard line, which resulted in the go-ahead touchdown that gave the Titans the win.
Outlook
Headed into the conceding week, the Bills hit a aggregation of figuring discover to do both on choler and defense.
How do they derogate the mistakes for Ryan Fitzpatrick? Can they mayhap verify modify more steps to ensuring he throws as some interceptions as possible, or is it established in his DNA?
What most the defense? Can they eventually mend what ails them against the run? Will the antitank distinction tangle as a organisation and begin generating a conformable transfer rush?
These are the questions that module watch the content of the Bills for the rest of this flavour and, pending the test closing in 2012, seasons to come.
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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