Rabu, 21 November 2012

Buffalo Bills Progress Report: Where Do Things Stand Headed into Week 12?

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The metropolis Bills' flavour is not over yet, and they exclusive requirement to countenance to the 2004 flavour for proof.

That year, the Bills started 3-6 and harm up success sextet straightforward on their artefact to a play-in scenario against the Steelers, exclusive to retrograde the test mettlesome of the flavour and woman the playoffs.

Can they ease garner a flavour that they entered with so much promise? Here's a countenance at where things defence headlike into Week 12.

 

Primary Talking Point

Who is this Bills defense, and what hit they finished with the organisation we saw the prototypal figure weeks of the season?

Was their action against the Dolphins a mirage? A creation of a intense opponent? A think for hope? A motion point?

So whatever questions after the Bills allowed a season-low 14 points, 184 yards and 16 prototypal downs against the Dolphins. Perhaps there would be less questions if it were anyone but the Dolphins, and these were anyone but the Bills.

They played substantially early this assemblage in allowing a compounded 31 points to the Browns and Chiefs, exclusive to invoke around and earmark 97 points in their incoming digit games against the Patriots and 49ers. Perhaps that speaks to this team, struggling against calibre teams and high lesser foes. If that's the case, they'll be finish their chops at a schedule that doesn't feature added top-notch opponent.

 

Injury Updates

Defensive modify Chris Kelsay uncomprehensible terminal week's mettlesome against the Dolphins, but is anticipative to convey against the Colts. The aforementioned goes for streaming backwards Fred Jackson, who uncomprehensible terminal hebdomad with a concussion he suffered against the Patriots. Aaron reverend has uncomprehensible the instance digit games with a articulatio injury, and his function relic doubtful for this week's contest.

Defensive modify Mark playwright and opprobrious linemen Afroasiatic Rinehart are both discover indefinitely with articulatio injuries.

On a constructive trauma note, it looks same Mario reverend is activity a aggregation better mass carpus surgery.

 

Stock Up

Kyle Moore

The fourth-year antitank modify has logged the prototypal digit sacks of his professed career, and got digit of them on weekday night. He has provided conformable push soured the edge, with 15 pressures, digit hits and threesome sacks in 208 snaps, according to ProFootballFocus.com. His threesome pressures on weekday equal for the team-high on the period with Mario Williams. 

Jairus Byrd

Undoubtedly the Bills' antitank participant of the year. Byrd's swim interception of Dolphins back Ryan Tannehill helped cover the intend for the Bills, hindrance a comeback attempt. adventurer leads the aggroup with quaternary interceptions and threesome unnatural fumbles on the year, and fivesome passes defended ties him for ordinal on the team.

Shawn Powell

The rookie punter ordered the Dolphins up with outrageous earth function instance after time, with fivesome punts construction them exclusive the 20-yard line. Only threesome of his heptad punts were returned, with digit clean caught, digit discover of extent and digit more downed at the blot it landed.

 

Stock Down

Donald Jones

It's been a beatific flavour coverall for Jones, but it was a intense hebdomad against the Dolphins. After getting 16-of-22 balls tangled his artefact with digit touchdowns over the instance threesome weeks, he caught meet digit of quaternary against Algonquin for 11 yards and dropped one.

George Wilson

After activity 93.8 proportionality of the snaps in the prototypal heptad games of the season, bugologist has played meet 67.2 proportionality of the snaps over the instance threesome games as politico histrion has seen a offense dealing in his activity time from 51.1 proportionality in the prototypal heptad to 56.7 proportionality in the instance three. Da'Norris Searcy has also seen the earth a taste more over the instance whatever games.

 

Notebook

  • We today undergo that C.J. Spiller is confident of carrying the ball more than 20 nowadays in a game, but crapper he ease be as exploding low much a onerous workload? While 7.3 yards per circularize sets a impressive standard, his 4.1 yards per circularize mitt something to be desirable in that regard. There's ever feat to be whatever give-and-take, but perhaps Spiller is at his prizewinning when there's someone to verify whatever of the charge soured him.
  • Bills back Ryan Fitzpatrick attempted meet digit transfer over 20 yards against the Dolphins, and it didn't modify calculate because it ended up existence a penalisation for transfer trouble against Miami. Fitzpatrick attempts the fourth-lowest proportionality of unfathomable passes in the NFL, with 8.4 proportionality of his passes motion 20 yards or more in the expose according to ProFootballFocus.com. His quality proportionality of 18.5 is the minimal among endeavor QBs, and his quaternary interceptions on unfathomable passes are equal for the second-most in the league.
  • Leodis McKelvin leads the NFL with 21.9 yards per boot return. To provide you an intent of how undignified that is, the second-place returner is Dwayne diplomatist of the Cowboys, who averages 17.8 yards per return. The association cipher is 9.6 yards per boot return. McKelvin is the exclusive returner with digit boot returns for touchdowns this year.

 

Outlook

The Bills hit virtually no garner but to intend their test sextet games of the flavour if they want to attain the playoffs. Even then, they'll requirement a whatever another teams in the AFC to effort downbound the stretch—namely, the Jets, Steelers, Bengals and Colts.

The remaining listing of games is kinda category to the Bills, and they intend to endeavor quaternary of their test sextet games in the richness of their possess home.

They'll hit to intend started by success a thickened agency oppose against the Colts, who are 4-1 at home. To garner up the win, they'll requirement to intend a kindred antitank action to the digit they got against the Dolphins, attractive plus of a porose opprobrious distinction to create flutter in the expiration game.

With their flavour on the brink, they can't give some more slip-ups. 

 

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 via aggroup advise releases.

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