Most impactful takeaway from Bills vs. Bears might not be quality of play

I wrote an article after the Buffalo Bills played the New York Giants in the first week of the preseason. In it, I said the following:

“The biggest takeaways from preseason games usually revolves around how a specific player plays. It’s a qualitative conversation. The focus is on the quality of the passes they threw, the quality of the routes they ran, the quality of the reads they made, or the quality of the reps they took. And that’s awesome. It’s great to have actual (kind of) football to analyze again.

But the most predictive observations from preseason games doesn’t lie in the quality of the play on the field. Instead, it lies in where, when, and with whom the individual players play. The ‘official’ depth charts released by the team are largely PR items and essentially serve no purp