Buffalo Bills: The ironic way to get over loss to Ravens with home debut next

To say the Buffalo Bills got manhandled by the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday would be putting it nicely. In zero ways did the Bills do anything to show us they have potential. However, they are lucky to be back home next week.

The Buffalo Bills lost 47-3 on Sunday in Week 1. To give a game recap would be a waste of time right now. The score is the recap. The Bills did nothing right whatsoever. The only thing they did right is not getting shutout.

However, there is some irony at the end of all this. With Week 1 officially behind us, it time for Week 2. Up next for the Buffalo Bills is the Los Angeles Chargers at home. The key to that game is to well, to show up, but more importantly be mentally tough.

The only thing the Bills can do as a team to get over a pathetic loss that badly is to be mentally tough. Understand the loss happened, learn from it, but move past it.

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A big reason the Bills lost to the Ravens is the lackluster play from Nathan Peterman. He missed a lot of throws but his helpers dropped a lot of passes and the offensive line took the day off basically.

So, it was a total team effort (or their lack of).

The irony is all of this is that in order to beat the Chargers, the Bills need to be mentally tough and recover quickly from a bad loss.

Mental toughness is, you guessed it, one of the, if not the main reason Nathan Peterman won the starting job in the first place.

What did he need to be mentally tough from?

Again, you guessed it, throwing five interceptions in a half against, that’s right, the Los Angeles Chargers.

Peterman proved to at least enough people that he is way more than that five INT day last year in LA.

Now, the Bills need to prove they are way more than a 47-3 loss in Baltimore. The middleman in all of this is the Los Angeles Chargers. Their fellow AFL brethren.

The Bills and Chargers go way back to the 1960s where the Bills beat them for their only two championships in their team history in the 1964 and 1965 AFL Championship game respectively.

Ironically again, the Bills need to beat the Chargers in order to have a chance to win another championship this year.

If the Bills do not recover mentally and play like the team we saw in Baltimore they will be looking at 0-2 on the year. This is all before going to Green Bay and Minnesota their next two games after that. The path to playoffs closes at a 0-4 start.

It is almost a good thing that mental toughness is becoming a big theme with this team. It is how Peterman got the chance in the first place.

But, the fact that the Bills need to use a game against the Chargers to recover from something that the Chargers also forced to begin with, makes this otherwise lackluster game interesting.

The Chargers made Peterman mentally tough so he can eventually start the next year against the Ravens. The Bills now need to use those same Chargers to recover from a loss to the Ravens.

The Bills need to be more than mentally tough to win in Week 2. They also need to do a lot more because that is not why they lost to the Ravens.

However, there is a great sense of irony in all of this. And if Josh Allen does get the start and Peterman gets benched against the team he got his first start again, that will make this all the crazier and borderline spooky.

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However, none of this matters because a loss to the Chargers would mean the Bills are just flat-out bad. There would be nothing ironic about that.

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