In a narrow 9-3 loss to the Carolina Panthers, the Buffalo Bills’ defense kept their team in the game with an outstanding start-to-finish performance. Despite playing 39 minutes of the game, Buffalo limited the damage to three field goals. In particular, the pass rush had a day, harassing Cam Newton all afternoon and preventing sustained drives.
I watched each of the 42 plays where Newton dropped back to pass. The Bills created six sacks, four additional hits, and seven additional hurries on those plays, pressuring Newton on 40.4 percent of his dropbacks.