The Bills came out of their bye with the kind of defensive performance Joe Brady wants to bottle up and hand out for the rest of the season.
Buffalo held the Ravens to 144 yards in Sunday’s 36-10 win, a sharp turnaround from the first six games of the 2026 season, when the Bills were giving up an average of 28.5 points per game. That had been a clear point of emphasis during the break, and Brady made it clear afterward that the standard should now be set.
“I think our defense should look at today and understand that that’s what the expectation is,” Brady said, via the team’s website. “And I’m not talking about the production.
I’m not talking about the takeaways and sacks. I’m talking about the style that they played, the way that they flew around.
Look, I’m just watching it out there, but I think the silent tape’s going to speak loudly in terms of the way that they played for one another, the way they ran around, the communication. Everything we challenged them with coming off the bye, I thought they responded to it, and they just kept going.”
The result pushed Buffalo to 6-1, but the conditions on the other side mattered too. Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley both exited with injuries, and undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano was forced into his first NFL action.
Fagnano was overmatched, and that’s part of why the numbers looked so dominant for Buffalo. The bigger test will come against opponents who aren’t so short-handed, which is why Brady’s message was less about the scoreboard and more about whether the defense can keep bringing that same pace, communication and effort no matter who lines up across from them.
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