For the second straight week, the Buffalo Bills are going to be playing in a game that could determine their fate in the race for second in the AFC East. The team moved to 4-4 on the season thanks to a win last week against the Miami Dolphins, and they are looking poised for a second-half surge.
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“I guarantee he’s gonna be 100 percent on Sunday”, Williams said, via ESPN.com.
But Campbell defended his decision not to take a timeout Monday.
Buffalo built an early 9-0 advantage and led 19-7 at halftime.
Offensively, the Bills relied on these big plays in the passing games but also got plenty of big plays from the running game.
The Dolphins probably aren’t as bad as they looked in that humbling defeat last week, but also aren’t as strong as they appeared to be during their mini-hot streak in the prior two games – the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. If we can stop the run and get to the quarterback, Bradford will throw interceptions. Watkins is well on his way to becoming an elite receiver, but to get torched by the only wide receiver who caught passes for Buffalo is very inexcusable. The Dolphins obviously decided against running the ball. Campbell said part of the problem was Buffalo installing a new playbook. “And I have great trust in Dion to make that play. It was a sound play”. After securing a one-year contract with the Bills during the offseason, his future with the team is now uncertain.
Instead, Campbell accepted the penalty, giving Buffalo a third-and-14 at Miami’s 44.
There were many on both sides of the ball during an outing in which Buffalo’s Sammy Watkins had 168 yards receiving and broke the game open with a 44-yard touchdown late in the third quarter. “I’m optimistic. This isn’t going to break me, or this team”. They had a few false keys, you could say. It’d be a 52-yard kick. That was the season coach Tony Sparano was sacked and the Dolphins finished 6-10.
The sloppy Dolphins had a botched snap on their first offensive play of the game that went for a safety, and poor clock management prompted a fail-fourth and goal attempt on the final play of the first half.
Notes: Backup quarterback Matt Moore is recovering from minor surgery to fix a broken nose he suffered during a practice two weeks ago and did not practice, but is expected to return to practice Wednesday.
I have not been doing a Stock Up/Stock Down post lately, but wanted to give my (stock) loser of the week, and this appeared to be a good place to do it. The Dolphins need to generate a pass rush to replace Cameron Wake, who missed his first game of the season this weekend after tearing his Achilles tendon against the New England Patriots last week.
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A win by either team separates them from being a pretender into a probable playoff squad. The combined record of the five teams that visit Sun Life Stadium is 21-21 (.500). After sitting on the Injured Reserve – Designated to Return list all year, Ajayi, widely considered a first round running back talent that fell to the fifth round due to concers over a knee injury, ran hard and looked good.
