CBS Sports: Following their Sunday night opening-day loss, the Bills open up and discuss their current situation.
The Baltimore Ravens handed the Buffalo Bills their first setback of the season, 35-10, on Sunday Night Football. As of September, the Bills are presently 3-1.
Head coach of the Bills Sean McDermott remarked, “Give credit where credit is due, the Baltimore Ravens came out and they beat us.” “They performed better than we did. They outwitted us, therefore we need to figure out what’s wrong and correct it.
With quarterback Lamar Jackson, running back Derrick Henry, and running back Justice Hill of the Ravens, the Bills appeared to be facing an impossible task from the start on both sides of the ball. Henry finished the day with 209 yards from scrimmage, only 200 yards of rushing yards (199), one receiving touchdown, and one touchdown on the ground, while the Ravens gained 271 yards of total yardage by running. That sum exceeded the Bills’ overall offensive total.
“After we see the movie, we’ll know,” DT DaQuan Jones remarked. “They just kept getting them creases and Derrick is one of those backs, you give him a lane and he’ll take it to the crib and first play of the game, he did that, and I felt that got them in a rhythm and that kept them going after that.”
Henry led the Ravens on their first play from scrimmage 87 yards to the end zone, giving them an early lead after the Bills’ opening drive of the game faltered.
“I gotta do a better job communicating, getting everyone lined up, gotta read the keys,” LB Baylon Spector said.
“They executed and we really didn’t even touch the running back,” McDermott stated. “We must be in a more advantageous position. We’ve done that before, I know.”
Despite the offense’s 50-yard field goal in response, the Ravens never let up as they scored touchdowns on their following two drives.
Allen was under constant pressure from the Ravens defensive line, which put him in uncomfortable circumstances and made him uncomfortable all night.
“I think they had a good plan, a good pressure plan,” Allen stated. “It was immediately apparent that they were making more plays than we were. We’ll fix it since they were more urgent than we were.”
Even when the Bills seemed as if they were starting to gather momentum on offense in the second half, a trick play that culminated in an Allen fumble and Ravens recovery sent them plummeting back down to earth as they were never able to put the ball in the endzone again.
After the game, Bills wide receiver Curtis Samuel, who took the direct snap, spoke about the play call and the offense as a whole.
Samuel stated, “We just didn’t execute.” “Well, congratulations to them; they performed admirably outside, but the 11 of us need to work together as a team. Each of us had to play the greatest football we could.”
