After beating the New England Patriots, the Buffalo Bills will stay in the division for the remainder of the regular season, this weekend with a home matchup with the New York Jets and Aaron Rodgers.
For Buffalo, they seem to be on track to pick up a little help heading into the game from an injury standpoint, with the Jets' highly-touted rookie offensive lineman Olu Fashanu likely lost for the remainder of the season.
Fashanu's rookie season comes to a close before it really even got going, with the rookie offensive tackle starting seven games before going down to injury last weekend. This season, Fashanu has allowed only one sack, and that's with a quarterback that isn't exactly known for his mobility.
That quarterback clearly thinks very highly of Fashanu.
"Well, I think the kids are ready to play these days, a lot earlier, Rodgers said when asked about Fashanu. "I think he was ready to play. He was working as a swing guy, and then he played some guard, which was totally out of character. But all along, and like I said in training camp, I think he's a 10 year, he's a decade-plus, type of left tackle."
That's high praise from a future first-ballot Hall of Famer.
After Fashanu went down, it was Max Mitchell that filled in at left tackle, their third string option. The rest of the offensive line has been playing well, but down to their third left tackle, it poses a potential weakness for the Bills' pass rush to attack.
Defensive coordinator Bobby Babich should be planning to attack Rodgers' blind side often in their upcoming matchup, whether that's with the defensive front or on designed blitzes like he dialed up last weekend against the Patriots. Lining up a majority of time off the left side is pass rusher Greg Rousseau, who could be in line to exploit this opportunity the most.
