The Buffalo Bills had their sixth win of the 2023 season in the bag on Monday night. After a lucky bounce helped James Cook set up a late Josh Allen touchdown run, all the Buffalo defense had to do was hold serve against Russell Wilson’s Denver Broncos.
They could not accomplish this meager task.
In the final moments, a Taron Johnson pass interference penalty set the Broncos and Will Lutz up with a chip shot 41-yard field goal attempt. A Denver win seemed perfunctory. It was anything but. Lutz would miss the kick wide right … but the Bills had 12 players on the field trying to block the kick. Oh. Oh, no. Josh Allen was rightfully stunned.
Who is coaching Buffalo’s special teams? Why couldn’t they get the substitutions right???
Bills lose the game because they have 12 men on the field. #DENvsBUF pic.twitter.com/GX3ePMQUW5
— Rate the Refs App (@Rate_the_Refs) November 14, 2023
Phew. On a second attempt, because that’s how the cookie crumbles, Lutz cruised the ball right through the uprights for the 24-22 Denver victory. In turn, he drove a dagger into what is starting to feel like a lost Bills season. I’m not sure how a middling 5-5 Bills team could possibly recover from a disastrous loss in this fashion.
NFL fans on Twitter were astonished by the Bills' awful 12th man on defense penalty
12th man on the Bills had Wil Lutz on his fantasy team 🤌
— Yahoo Fantasy Sports (@YahooFantasy) November 14, 2023
The #Bills player who was the 12th man on defense trying to get into the facility tomorrow:
pic.twitter.com/HtQmw8q01m— Johnny (@jrptigers) November 14, 2023
The bills literally got beat by the 12th man
— Brian (@nerdicus_) November 14, 2023
THE BILLS DIDN'T HAVE THE SUBSTITUTIONS RIGHT??????
Buffalo is a travesty. A mess. Don't let this team anywhere near the postseason
— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) November 14, 2023
Will Lutz when he realized the Bills had 12 men on the field pic.twitter.com/CRYRoZCS62
— Justin Adams (@justinadamsTV) November 14, 2023
Elevator doors should be the Bills’ 12th man tomorrow.
— The Phinsider (@thephinsider) November 14, 2023
Buffalo sports talk radio “ Our 12th caller will win a visit to Bills special team practice. Why 12? You know why…”
— Steve Clark (@SteveClarkMedia) November 14, 2023
Hey fun fact someone once lost the Grey Cup in the exact way the Bills just lost that game pic.twitter.com/Z4pui2jQTn
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) November 14, 2023
Back to back zero blitz then 12 men? Oh boy the discourse on coaching tomorrow is gonna be SPICY
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) November 14, 2023
