Inside One Bills Drive, the notion that the New England Patriots might have provided the rest of the NFL with some sort of blueprint for taming Buffalo’s pass rush is considered laughable.
“Blueprint?” defensive lineman Corbin Bryant said Wednesday with a chuckle about future Bills opponents using mostly a spread offense with an empty backfield and having the quarterback throw as frequently and quickly as Tom Brady did in New England’s 40-32 victory Sunday. “I don’t think that statement is valid.”
At first, Rex Ryan sounded as if he agreed with the whole blueprint premise, but that was only to allow him to add, with all of the sarcasm he could muster, “Gosh, I don’t know if we’ll have an answer.