Maybe We All Had This Team Wrong

Maybe We All Had This Team Wrong

- Mark Ludwiczak

LeSean McCoy was in a jovial mood after the Bills’ Week 4 game against the Atlanta Falcons. 

Could you blame him? 

“Y’all picked us to lose, so y’all come talk to the winners,” McCoy shouted as reporters entered Buffalo’s locker room. “We were supposed to lose today, so come talk to the winners!”

My oh my, how quickly things can change in the NFL. Six weeks ago, the Bills were considered down and out for the 2017 season following the departures of Sammy Watkins, Ronald Darby and Anquan Boldin. It was all supposed to be about the future, not the present. Trusting the process.

Yet here we are, one month into the season, and ... the Bills are good? 

It certainly looks that way. 

The Bills moved to 3-1 on the season and are in sole possession of first place in the AFC East following a 23- 17 win over the Atlanta Falcons — the same Falcons team who came within minutes of topping the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl last year. This was probably Buffalo’s best road victory in at least a decade — I would argue since blowing out the Seattle Seahawks on the road in 2004 — and perhaps even longer than that.

This was a statement victory by a team that is on the rise and seems to have completed much of its process far sooner than anyone could have anticipated.