Buffalo defensive tackle Ed Oliver has one weird to describe the Bills’ two recent losses to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Weird.
Meeting with reporters Thursday before the Week 3, Monday Night Football matchup between the clubs, Oliver recounted Buffalo’s 9-6 loss at Jacksonville in 2021 and the Bills’ 25-20 defeat against the Jaguars in London last year, describing both contests as uncanny.
The last two #Bills vs. Jaguars games:
– 9-6 Jaguars win in Jacksonville in 2021
– 25-20 Jaguars win in London last year.Ed Oliver has one word that especially comes to mind to describe those games…#BillsMafia @WGRZ pic.twitter.com/LtWsOltsWn
— Jonathan Acosta (@_jacosta) September 19, 2024
Oliver, amid his fifth season starting for Buffalo following a 9.5 sack 2023 campaign, used the term “weird” 15 times to describe the results of both games, for valid reasoning.
The first was Urban Meyer’s second and final win as the Jaguars’ head coach, a defensive slugfest in which only field goals were scored and the teams combined for four turnovers, three by Buffalo and one by Jacksonville.
The second was far more appealing to fans of high-octane offense as the Jaguars and Bills combined for 862 yards, with Jacksonville generating 29 first downs including 10-of-18 third-down conversions.
Below is Oliver’s full quote as provided by Jonathan Acosta of WGRZ Buffalo.
“The London game was a weird game. Started very weird. It was just a very weird game. I addressed the team, well I addressed my D-line about that, just about how weird these games can be. I remember the game we played in Jacksonville. It was a sunny day, I mean, a great day. I remember it vividly. But it was just a weird aura. And then playing in London, it was just a weird — I can’t even explain it, it was just a weird game. I ain’t never beat these guys. It’s just weird man. I’m just letting the guys know, like, it’s a weird, I don’t know what it is, man. And I speak life into it so this game won’t be weird. But the past two times been weird, we just started slow. It was just very weird games. Y’all can go back and watch it. I think the first time we played them, what, the score was like, 9-6 or something like that? Something crazy. 9-6. Come on. Like, we’re playing an NFL game and it’s 9-6. Like, I think, I remember [Jaguars edge rusher] Josh [Hines]-Allen catching the pick on [Bills quarterback] Josh Allen. I remember that, like, it’s just a weird game. Like how [does] a defensive lineman catch a pick? It’s just a weird game. I remember that vividly. It was just weird, man.”
We will see on Monday if the Jaguars (0-2) can keep a “weird” thing going against the Bills (2-0).
