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The Bills looked like “The New York Sack Exchange” on Sunday in Toronto against the Washington Redskins. Don’t get too caught up in that . . .
The Redskins gave up 10 sacks to the Bills in Toronto on Sunday.
Don’t expect anything like that on Sunday.
The Washington offensive line is a disaster – their left tackle Trent Williams was out, and their center Kory Lichtensteiger is out for the year. They are playing with a patchwork line right now, and the Bills took advantage of it – bigtime.
The Jets offensive line is healthy and has played well in recent weeks. After a rough start due to injuries and new starters, they now have their act together. They are playing on a high level.
Bills nose tackle Marcel Dareus is a talented rookie, but it’s highly unlikely that he is going to beat up on Nick Mangold they way he did backup center Kyle Cook last week.
The Bills pass rush was almost non-existent prior to the Washington game, perhaps the worst in the league, and expect it to go back to that form this week . . .
If you look at the Bills injury report, their first, second and third string left tackles are all hurt.
I’m not kidding.
The starter, Demetrius Bell, has been out a while, his backup, Chris Hairston, was hurt against the Giants, so against Washington, they used guard Andy Levitre at left tackle, and now he’s hurt.
Bell and Levitre, both dealing with shoulder injuries, didn’t practice on Wednesday. Hairston was limited with an ankle injury.
It’s unclear who is going to play, but this left tackle situation in Buffalo is a mess, and expect D-Rex to take advantage of it . . .
The Bills have a quick strike passing attack with Ryan Fitzpatrick getting rid of the ball quickly. So Washington came out last week and pressed the Bills at the line, to throw off their timing, and had some success. Expect the Jets to do the same thing . . .
The Jets have not picked tight Shawn Nelson’s brain at all about the Bills, the newest Jet told JC.
The 2009 fourth round pick of the Bills signed with the Jets earlier this week.
They are handling him with kid gloves – he been through a lot over the last month. They don’t want to overwhelm him.
After getting cut by the Bills at the end of training camp, he was out of football the last two months. There was interest in his services, but he was attending to his mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. She passed a few weeks ago.
In a way, Nelson is happy the Bills cut him, so he would have the time to spend with his mother in her final months. If he was with a team, he would not have been able to do that.
But then after she passed aways, he was thinking of not playing this year, but felt his mother would want him to stop feeling sorry for himself, and get back to work.
It’s going to take Nelson a while to learn the Jets system, so he will likely be inactive for a while.
The one wrap on Nelson coming out of Southern Mississippi was his blocking. He was 6-5, 240, and a little on the skinny side. But now he’s up to 265. He was actually up to 280 this summer, but realized that was too much.
Nelson’s issues as a blocker weren’t a lack of willingness, but more size and technique. Now he has the size, but still needs some work on technique.
Nelson couldn’t stop raving about the Jets brass today, and how well they have treated him through his tragedy, and is thrilled to be a member of the team now.