SB Nation Reacts: What Should the Bills Do With Tyler Bass Based on Results?

At 2-0 and in first place in the AFC East, the Buffalo Bills are off to a strong start to their 2024 NFL season. Scoring 65 points in two winning efforts has pleased most of the Bills Mafia, and fans have turned out in droves — ready to see what Buffalo really has in store come the end of the season.

To get where Buffalo hopes to be in January and beyond, they’ll have to keep winning, starting in Week 3. The people of FanDuel Sports Betting opened the week with the Bills as 5.5-point favorites over the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the line remains unchanged. That speaks to the confidence in Buffalo despite their recent struggles against Jacksonville.

Largely cast as an afterthought in the Super Bowl race thanks to a massive roster shakeup, the Bills have played complementary football to near perfection against both the Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins. Suddenly, many analysts have woken up to the idea that the Buffalo Bills could still pose a serious threat for league supremacy in 2024. It’s as if many doubters have forgotten that Josh Allen is playing quarterback in Buffalo.

Bills fans haven’t forgotten this important fact, however, and most will tell you that even the loss of wide receiver Stefon Diggs won’t completely stop the team’s top scoring offense.

In this week’s SB Nation Reacts poll, we asked Buffalo Rumblers two questions:

1. Do you have confidence in the current direction of the Buffalo Bills?
2. Do you think it’s time to say goodbye to Tyler Bass?

And in this week’s results, voters are making it clear just how much they support the Bills’ current trajectory. After hovering around 75% for the past two weeks, the Bills Mafia’s approval rating for the team shot up to 93% ahead of their Week 3 showdown.

We also wanted to know what voters think is true about kicker Tyler Bass — whether or not it’s time to move on from him. Bass has missed one field goal this season (and made three others), and it happened on a wet field in humid South Florida. The Bills were in no position to lose the game at the time, but the miss has continued to fuel speculation about Bass’s job security.

After the win, word spread that One Bills Drive had acquired a pair of free-agent kickers in the past week. Had the Bills lost faith in Tyler Bass based on that miss and his kickoff struggles in Week 1 in a blowout fourth-quarter win? Were those recent misses simply the breaking point for what has been an inconsistent offseason of practices?

While we don’t yet know what will happen with those workouts involving Anders Carlson and Cade York, it’s clear that our voters are less convinced that a change is needed at kicker. You only have to look at Carlson and York’s work and their lack of experience to question the effectiveness of Bass’ retirement.

Currently, only 38% of voters are convinced it is time to replace Tyler Bass with another candidate.

Jaguars fans got to vote on the outcome of this week’s MNF game. The results at Big Cat Country may surprise you.

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