Bills 

Bills RB James Cook fumbled in overtime of Monday’s 37-34 win over the Rams. When asked about his message to the running back, QB Josh Allen said he has nothing to say. 

“We don’t gotta say nothing to him,” Allen said, via BillsWire. 

Cook has now fumbled five times through the first five games of the season. Buffalo HC Joe Brady admitted they can’t afford turnovers. 

“Like obviously you don’t want to fumble,” Brady said. “Like that can’t happen, but we just keep playing man and make them earn everything.”

Brady added that Cook must improve his ball security or “the carries are gonna decrease.” 

“We’re putting the ball in harm’s way.. It’s negating all the positive.. I have confidence in him.. At some point there has to be consequences..It’s gotta improve or the carries are gonna decrease,” Brady said, via Alex Brasky. 

Dolphins 

The Dolphins are still seeking their first win, 0-5, after a 31-24 loss to the Bengals in Week 5. Miami QB Malik Willis said the team needs to hold itself accountable despite being a young, rebuilding franchise. 

“All we can do is put it out the best we can, and continue to try to keep that better than it was the week before,” Willis said, via Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN. “And it is too much and too hard to keep saying, ‘Oh, we’re just young. Oh, we’re trying to build this and build that.’ At the same time, we’ve got to hold each other accountable because we can’t keep doing this to ourselves. If we’re going to be in games versus good teams, we’ve got to be able to take advantage of it and go and win those games — because there’s no point to be in the game if you can’t go and win.”

Dolphins HC Jeff Hafley wants better consistency and execution going forward. 

“I want to see more consistency. I want to see better execution,” Hafley said. “I want to see the same fight. I want to see the same energy. I want to see the same connection.”

Heading into their Week 6 bye, Willis wants the team to study film and get on the same page. 

“I think we just got to watch the tape and figure it out,” Willis said. “And that’s the thing that I think Coach Haf does great. He holds everybody accountable and he’s honest with us. If we need to do better, we need to do better. And if we got to execute, we need to execute. We got to figure out a way to get guys on the same page because there’s just a lot left out on the field that could be better than what it is. We try to find a way at the end, but that’s just too hard to continue to try to fight back at the end.”

Jets

Beating the Browns might not seem like a big deal, but it was a sneaky big game for the Jets in Week 5. The win was necessary to validate some of the optimism creeping in around New York despite three straight losses, two of them close games to solid opponents. Jets QB Geno Smith, who has been exactly what the team hoped for as a steadying veteran presence under center, compared what he’s seen in New York to his years starting for the Seahawks as they rebuild in the post-Russell Wilson era. Seattle eventually won a Super Bowl even if Smith wasn’t under center by then. 

“It really feels like that, which is why I was so happy to be here,” Smith said via Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. “Once I got here, it felt like how it felt in Seattle, where we were building towards something. And I wasn’t on the team last year and they eventually got to the Super Bowl, but I felt like a part of what we did, the guys in that locker room that built that momentum and that belief to where every game we play, we can go out there and dominate. And I think that’s something we’re building here.

“We had some games early on that we didn’t finish. And I feel like it was self-inflicted wounds, the reason why we didn’t finish. So if we can eliminate those and continue to build on the positives, we have the coaches and we have the roster to do some special things.”