Buffalo is buzzing as the Bills have hit their stride with the monumental victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Network media balked around the Bills greatness, instead pointing the narrative on the Chiefs weaknesses and excuses. Here on BLEU we predicted a great game from Greg Rousseau, and he was awarded with AFC Defensive Player of the Week. The challenge, as we talked about in the season preview, is still in front of the Bills to overcome a Titans team on back to back primetime games.

Let’s take a look at what the Bills are doing right, and what they’ll need to do to overcome Vrabel’s Titans.

Physicality & Fit

The Bills truly showed their teeth in Kansas City. They not only read their keys and stayed tight on pass coverage, but were able to stimy Patrick Mahomes to one of his most visually frustrating showings. No one on the Chiefs went off.. No one. Why?

I am a huge fan of anyone out there who breaks down film and spends hours looking at the all 22, but I don’t need to do much film study to tell you why the Bills won the game on Sunday Night Football.

They won because they PHYSICALLY KICKED THEIR ASS. All over the field. Every play the Chiefs ran included a final killshot, and also a gang of men behind the first tackler. Rarely did you see a solo tackle, though those were often made by Defensive lineman like Greg Rousseau. The Bills gangbanged the Chiefs repetitively and made the game NO FUN for anyone who decided to hold the Hot potato.

Jordan Poyer’s absolutely TEXTBOOK hit on Travis Kelce was not only the nail in the coffin, it was a tone setter for the next time these teams meet. It came at a time that truly crushed the Chiefs spirit.

The Bills were able to fit to everything that the Chiefs ran on the ground, and the Safeties were both aggressive to come down and fly around the field. Jordan Poyer’s instincts are truly underrated.

King’s Quarters

The Bills enter a place that Bills fans frequent, but is one of the worst places in Bills history. The Music City Miracle made a fan out of me, but was truly grim for a team with a 13-3 record and a chance to go to a Super Bowl. Last season a short term Josh Norman made a mockery of the Bills uniform, cementing the Bills in Derrick Henry’s history reel.

The Bills won’t be fighting a featherweight on Monday Night Football.

The Titans are oddly good, and I personally find them to be a bigger test for the Bills than the Chiefs at this juncture. Henry is obviously hard to stop, though the Bills did hold him to 3.0 yards per carry last year. It was Ryan Tannehill who really crushed the Bills, with 42 big yards on 4 carries that helped the Titans bully the Bills to a big W. It was a wakeup call for Buffalo, and I don’t think they will be getting pushed around, but they’re in for a fight. It was the Titans last year who dismantled Buffalo in a similar fashion on primetime, though it was in an odd year and coming off of a weird delay in operations caused by COVID.

They Played on a Tuesday Night and the Titans had a bye breakout.

Staying the Course

One thing that does really make me feel confident in this team is the overall collective forward momentum and perspective. Everyone on the team seems to understand they are part of something bigger, and each leader on both sides of the ball seems to like one another. I’m sure there are some in house drama once in a while, but the way that the team seems to stay together and fight for one another is something to behold. Josh Allen was STOIC in his postgame pressers, showing a ROBOCOP laser focus on the ultimate prize at the end of the 2021 ZUBAZ brick road..

Stay tuned for Saturday where I’ll shoot the weekly BLEUMAFIA Pregame Show and break down Monday’s Matchup, along with my Top 5 QB Matchups around the NFL. GOBILLS!