The Buffalo Bills had 44 sacks as a team in 2019, good for 12th in the league. With most clubs, that means the defensive ends had a great year; however, with Buffalo, that doesn’t appear to be the case statistically. Their leader in sacks, Jordan Phillips, was a defensive tackle. Not one player on Buffalo’s defense reached ten sacks, as the whole was greater than the sum of its parts for Sean McDermott and Leslie Frazier’s defense.
The Bills needed youth and improvement at defensive end, and it seems like they were able to achieve that, but was it enough to help the pass rush?