Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton are joined by ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky to discuss Buffalo’s 31-21 win over Miami on Thursday Night Football.
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We’re gonna bring in superstar Dan Orlovsky, our buddy joining us right now from ESPN.
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You know him, you watch him all over the place.
Dan, appreciate your time, brother.
Thanks for hanging out with us this morning.
All right, so what are we supposed to make of the Bills last night?
Who beat the Dolphins, but now we’re sitting here trying to figure out if that’s really good enough considering the expectations in Buffalo.
Yeah, nitpicking the elite of the NFL, and that’s kind of the reality of what we have to do for that group.
Of teams that we know is going to be there.
Uh, look, I think the thing that you could take away, and I heard you guys talk about the defensive performance, and it’s fair, 2 stars not playing, and those are two impactful stars.
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Ed is one of the better defensive tackles in football, and Matt is one of the best linebackers in football.
So, factor that in.
I think the second thing is, this defense has been trending on one, being very turnover dependent for about 2 or 3 years now.
And then, if you do, if you value the ball versus this defense, and that’s like your number one priority, you can’t be efficient moving the football against them.
They’re not overly complicated.
They do not throw a lot of different looks at you.
They don’t have a dominant superstar on their defense.
They don’t have a game wrecker on their defense.
So you can have success against them, um, and that’s kind of what they’re always going to be, at least under Sean, if you, I mean, we’ve seen that in the playoffs, uh, with Baltimore in them.
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So if you value the football, you can kind of do what you want, efficiency wise against them.
They’re not really gonna allow you to put the ball over their heads.
Offensively, they’re gonna score 30+ points a game when they want to.
It’s just how they are, how, how are they, how they are constructed.
So, I’m not in the least bit concerned.
I know who the Bills are.
They’ll be in, at worst, a divisional round at worst.