An 18-week season is an extremely long season. For the Buffalo Bills' defense, that could still be a good thing or a bad thing.
The Bills beat the New Orleans Saints rather handily on Sunday afternoon, at least on paper. But the journey to a 31-19 victory was not exactly the cleanest, especially defensively.
Bobby Babich's crew struggled on the ground against the Saints, allowing 14 rushing first downs and giving up 22 first downs on the afternoon overall. They were lucky to escape a clutch touchdown throw by Spencer Rattler, whose timing was slightly off on a wide-open play to Brandin Cooks.