Colorado Springs isn’t the easiest trip from Buffalo, and Bills GM Brandon Beane happened to be there with top lieutenant Joe Schoen for a night game on Veterans Day 2017, with their 5–3 team set for a 1 p.m. MT kickoff against the Saints the next day.
So if they were a little frustrated by what they were getting out of this particular trip, when the quarterback they came to see, Josh Allen, exited that Wyoming–Air Force game on the first series of the third quarter, that would be completely understandable. Long flight. Quick turnaround. Not the payoff they’d expected.