Bills head into Bye week after losing two Straight
By Pat Freeman, The Mighty O’Ba
The Buffalo Bills head into the bye week after losing to the Atlanta Falcons 24- 14 on Monday Night football on October 13th, 2025. There are several factors that contributed to this latest defeat on both offense and defense.
The offense has a problem utilizing the talent they have properly and that falls on Joe Brady’s poor play selection and how he utilizes the personnel that he has beginning with James Cook. Your best offensive weapon needs to be involved early, and you build off him by play action; why is he not a main part of your passing game? The last two losses the offense seems to have gone away from the success they had in opening the season with four straight wins.
The constant substitution of James Cook in favor of making sure everybody eats philosophy is playing in the hands of defensive coordinators. My point being is that play calling allows the opposition to come after Josh Allen with strategic pressure packages and Atlanta came with the heat. The Buffalo Bills failed to properly answer the competition from the coaching perspective. Offensively, Joe Brady has become too predictable with his personnel packages and defensive coordinators are winning the chess match.
Defensively the franchise is struggling to be efficient early with what they are working with during the last two games and has failed to play complimentary football. The worst problems early have been our failure to add just our run defense and the lack of play makers on the back end, a former strength of a McDermott coached team. We must note the defense has properly adjusted as the game went on holding Atlanta to 3 second half points. The job of the defense is to not allow points. If the game plan is executed the opposing team does not score.
The coaching staff has a few extra days with the bye week to utilize what you have as far as personnel. Coach McDermott will welcome back two free agent signings that could spell huge dividends for the hometown team in Larry Ogunjobi and Michael Hoecht. Hopefully when they achieve game shape these two free agents should help a lot. This will spell the end to some people that are weak roster spots.