By A to Z Sports,Kyle Crabbs

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Bills defensive tackle Ed Oliver is currently down with an ankle injury — and he did not practice again on Tuesday with the team. It’s a development that could spare Tagovailoa from a great deal of hardship amid the other worries that the Bills defense invokes. Current right guard Kion Smith struggled with the speed, power, and compact frame of Milton Williams on Sunday. So did rookie left guard Jonah Savaiinaea. No Oliver leaves the Bills without their most disruptive interior player and could potentially change Miami’s math amid their effort to block things up for Tagovailoa and, hopefully, get some work going in the ground game. Miami currently ranks last in the NFL with 27 rush attempts through two games. When they’ve had their best offensive success against Buffalo in the past, those games featured heavy doses of running the football. Oliver’s absence can only help the Dolphins in that regard as well — although getting all the pieces to fall into place has been nearly impossible for Miami in recent years to do enough to win the game. They’ll get their next chance on Thursday with a lot more than just a September divisional game on the line.

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