One-half of one week past the halfway point of the NFL schedule—you’re complicated, 18-week (17-game) regular season!—the most confounding, see-sawing, what-are-they-comma-really team in professional football is painfully obvious. The Bills are that team, and in terms of moments that befuddle—in both directions—it’s not particularly close.
These Bills fell to the Jets in their opener, despite the injury that ended Aaron Rodgers’s latest season after all of four offensive snaps. These Bills also molly-whopped three consecutive opponents afterward, including the Dolphins the week after Miami put up 70 points. These Bills face-planted in London against the Jaguars, eked out a win over the lowly Giants and inexplicably fell to the just-as-lowly Patriots. These Bills also handled the Buccaneers and, last Sunday, played a rounding-into-form Bengals team close.
As far as consistent elements for success this season, Buffalo can point to only wideout Stefon Diggs and a striking lack of consistency everywhere else. The Bills are 1–2 in their past three games despite an easing of the schedule beyond the Cincinnati clash.
