The Buffalo Bills will be off from work throughout the upcoming long Labor Day weekend, which is fitting for a team that rested 28 players during its 31-0 preseason-finale loss Thursday night to the Detroit Lions and has recently been as quiet and calm as the late-summer Lake Erie breeze.
A season-ending knee injury to second-round pick Reggie Ragland and news of a four-game suspension for star defensive tackle Marcell Dareus were among the unsettling developments around training camp, but since the Bills returned to their practice facility Aug. 23, there has been a palpable peace around the building.