As if the start of the season hadn’t been harrowing enough for the Bills, new concerns regarding Sammy Watkins’s availability for Week 3 have the team looking especially shorthanded. Per WGR’s Sal Capaccio, Rex Ryan is “concerned” that, without practice, Watkins would be unavailable this weekend.
Obviously, Sammy’s participation is crucial to righting the ship on offense. Without him, it stands to reason that new offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn will be limited in what he can do. Even though Lynn preached a philosophy of spreading the ball around in order to win when interviewed by John Murphy earlier this week, he noted in that same interview that Sammy “needs his touches.