Maybe the Buffalo Bills should play all of their games at MetLife Stadium from now on. The Bills moved to 2-0 on the year, and 2-0 at MetLife Stadium with a thunderous 28-14 victory over the listless Giants, Sunday afternoon.For the second consecutive week the Giants got off to a fast start, scoring on their opening possession, then falling into a complete malaise as the Bills steamrolled a Giants defense that has no idea what the concept of tackling is.
In a game where the Giants had to feed the football to running back Saquon Barkley, head coach Pat Shrmur tossed the game-plan out the window as soon as Buffalo scored on Josh Allen's six-yard caper into the corner of the end zone to tie it at seven with 3:43 to go in the first quarter.
In short it was a total disaster.
As for Allen and the Bills, they thrashed the Giants for 388 yards of offense, including 151 yards on the ground as Buffalo scored on three straight possessions to all but put the game on ice before halftime.
All three of Buffalo's scoring drives in the first half were longer than 75 yards, as Allen cut the Giants defense to shreds, and Frank Gore and Devin Singletary ate large chunks of yards. Perhaps the most impressive drive of the day for Buffalo came mid-way through the second quarter, when Allen guided the Bills on a 98 yard scoring drive to make it 21-7.
After a 17-yard scramble by Allen was erased on a holding penalty, the Bills quarterback connected with Cole Beasley on a 51-yard bomb down the sideline to move the ball to the Giants 14. On the ensuing play Buffalo hit pay dirt when Allen found Isaiah McKenzie in the back of the end zone for the score.
After a scoreless third quarter, Eli Manning and the Giants finally put together something offensively when the former Super Bowl MVP found TJ Jones in the back of the end zone for a score to cut the Bills lead to 21-14.
Unfortunately for Big Blue they would never get that close again.
The Bills answered almost immediately as Allen guided Buffalo on a 12-play, 75 yard scoring drive to put the game away for good. A 17-yard Allen completion to John Brown, combined with a 20-yard run by Singletary moved the ball to the Giants three. The Bills offense would eventually stall before settling for a field goal, however an unnecessary roughness penalty was called on the Giants during the field goal that gave the Bills renewed life at the two-yard line.Buffalo ran it up the gut twice with Gore, the second attempt proving enough for the touchdown as the Bills built a 28-14 advantage.
While Saquon Barkley ran for 107 yards on the afternoon, it wasn't nearly enough. Not when Manning was having extreme difficulty passing the football. Manning was under duress almost all afternoon, with a number of his passes getting batted down at the line of scrimmage. Overall, Manning finished 26 of 45 for 250 with two interceptions. The performance is not going to quiet the calls for Daniel Jones anytime soon.
At 0-2 you can feel that the 2019 season is turning into another lost year for the Giants. They have no help for the quarterback at wide receiver, and no answer on defense as the team can't generate any pass rush or cover any receiver in the secondary. The Giants are on the clock and its only September.
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