The NFL Wire is still high on the Buffalo Bills with the preseason right around the corner.
As exhibition games inch closer, Touchdown Wire slotted the Bills as the No. 3 team in the league in their recent power rankings.
Here’s how analyst Doug Farrar breaks it down:
Outside of Cole Beasley’s anti-vax rants, the Bills are kind of boring these days. They have an absolute franchise quarterback in Josh Allen, who made one of the biggest third-year leaps in NFL history. They have the receiver group to take advantage of OC Brian Daboll’s stretch and spread concepts, and Daboll — who was a HUGE part of Allen’s ascent — is back for another season. The run game was a bit of a disappointment last season, but one hopes that second-year man Zach Moss can turn that around.
On defense, Buffalo sought to address its one glaring weakness — the lack of a consistent edge presence — with their first two draft picks. Gregory Rousseau projects well as a multi-gap disruptor especially good at crashing in from between the guards, and Carlos “Boogie” Basham can bring it from the edge.
Linebackers? Check. Secondary? All good. This Bills team has as complete a roster as you’ll find in franchise history since the Marv Levy teams that went to four straight Super Bowls from 1990 through 1993. And there’s no reason to exclude this version from doing the one thing those Bills teams couldn’t do.
In the immortal words of Jake Taylor, “Win the whole [expletive] thing.”
The Bills… once again… only sit behind the Chiefs and Buccaneers in this power ranking. Thus has been the tradition of most polls this summer. In NFL Wire’s, the Chiefs are in the top-spot.
But at least Buffalo is held in much higher regard to the AFC East, although, it is tight. The Patriots barely edge out the Dolphins. Those two at are 11 and 12, respectively.
No such thing for the Jets… they finish at No. 27.
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