By Roy J. Akers- www.skyviewsports.net
My suspicion was Buffalo would walk out of Ford Field with a win and break up the Lions 11 game winning streak. Buffalo and Josh Allen are playing at a high level. The Lions would have few answers for this MVP level quarterback and injuries would plague the Lions. This is especially true on the defensive side of the ball.
Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott on the Bills belonging
“It’s not easy, winning in the NFL,” McDermott said. “When you’re talking about today’s game and some of those other games, you’re talking about rare air up there with the best teams that are around right now.”
Dan Campbell on Buffalo’s 14-0 lead early
“We knew they’d be ready to go, they came out with a level of intensity and we couldn’t quite match it,” Campbell said. “I didn’t have those guys ready to go, not like that. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but at least we know where we stack up against one of the AFC’s best teams, and it’s not good enough. But nothing really changes whether we won or lost.”
Bills QB Josh Allen
“The mindset we had this week was win every play, whatever the play was, find a way to execute at the highest level,” said Allen, who was 23-of-34 passing for 362 yards and two touchdowns, with 68 rushing yards and two rushing scores. “This is going to help us in the long run. Too many plays we left out there. To nitpick a game like that sounds kind of dumb. But I still felt like we left some out there.”
Lions QB Jared Goff
“For whatever reason, they came out and kind of punched us in the mouth,” Goff said. “Against a team like that, you try to claw your way back, but it’s too hard. That’s the game we’re gonna be playing from here on out, so yeah, it’s a good wakeup call for us, a nice little recalibration. Now we go on the road and it’s us against everybody again.”
Sean McDermott on watching Josh Allen improvise on big throws
“That, and blacking out, a little bit of both,” McDermott said of his response to those plays. “He’s incredible. He’s not doing that if the offensive line is not doing their job. It takes a real unselfish approach, week after week, to get that type of performance.”
Roy J Akers is an NFL writer for www.skyviewsports.net.
