For veteran safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson, the struggles on Sunday aren’t indicative of how the rest of the season will pan out. There are still 14 more weeks left in the regular season, with plenty of time to improve.
“A lot of guys are like, ‘Oh, the Bills, there’s a lot of red flags,’ but it’s just one game,” Gardner-Johnson said. “… We have more than just this game… The ball just fell their way today. We’ve got to just play better as a team.”
Rookie CB Davison Igbinosun is learning how to stay even-keeled through the course of an NFL season. He’s taking advice from the veterans in the locker room and using the experience as motivation moving forward.
“It’s a humbling experience, but I’m a rookie, in my first career start,” Igbinosun said. “I’m just going to take this and learn from it. I’m just going to use this to fuel me and motivate me. It’s only week four. It’s a long season. I’m just going to use this moment and just keep it in the back of my mind and learn from it and grow.”
OLB Bradley Chubb has nine years of NFL experience in his career, understanding what it takes to bounce back after a loss. As one of the captains of the Bills, he’s keeping morale high and focusing as much as he can on the positives.
“Failure is going to happen, and that’s when you build the steadfastness,” Chubb said. “I say it every time we take the field, after a bad play or whatever it is, consider it pure joy when you face trials of many kinds because those trials produce the steadfastness.”