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Bills coach Rex Ryan said last week that the Cardinals might be exactly the team that the Bills needed to face after two losses to open the season and it certainly looked that way during a 33-18 victory on Sunday afternoon.

That moves the Bills to 1-2 ahead of their Week Four trip to New England to face a 3-0 Patriots team that will be playing its final game without Tom Brady. Who will be playing quarterback is an uncertain matter thanks to injuries to Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett, but Ryan said that the plan will be the same regardless of who gets the nod.

“I can sit back and say I don’t care who plays quarterback, because [Tom] Brady ain’t,” Ryan said, via CSNNE.com. “I don’t care who plays quarterback. Steve Grogan can play quarterback. If [Bill] Belichick’s playing quarterback, we’re coming after him, I promise you that.”

Belichick didn’t offer any hints about who would be at quarterback during a Sunday conference call, although it’s probably a good bet that neither he nor Grogan will be wearing Grogan’s old neck roll when the Bills roll into town.

Whether that quarterback leads the Pats to a win or not, they’ll be in first place in the AFC East when Brady comes back to work. The Bills’ ability to pressure that quarterback will go a long way toward determining how far behind they are heading into Week Five.