The Bills may have entered the 2022 NFL season with high aspirations, maybehigher than in previous years. But in the end, nothing changed. Buffalo didnāt even come close to the Super Bowl, losing to Cincinnati in the divisional round.
That home defeat to Joe Burrow and the Bengals made a lot of noiseinside the building, with head coach Sean McDermott claiming everyone at the organization needed to improve. The season hadnāt been bad until then, butthat didnāt matter.
Stefon Diggs looked like the most frustrated player by the end of the year, especially in the Bengals loss. Nearlya month later, the star wideout explained what went wrong for his team.
Stefon Diggs says Bills lost their winning formula during the season
āI feel like the first nine weeks we had kind of like a formula, like a recipe for winning, and we kind of got away from it on the back end,ā Diggs said on The Dan Patrick Show, via Syracuse.com. āWe were creating ways to win but, just how we were winning wasnāt as smooth as the first nine weeks.
āIt was just some crucial moments in the year that late in the season, late in the fourth quarter, it was opportunities that we didnāt take advantage of. So I felt like that last series or that last play (against the Bengals) when you saw frustration. It wasnāt necessarily just that play, but those moments built up to it.ā
The Bills seem to have the pieces to dream big, but so far, theyāve failed to step up when it mattered the most. Now itās time to clear their heads, hoping to leave these frustrations behind to come back stronger next season.
