‘"Somebody’s going to have to come in…and take hold pretty quickly."
Archives for December 25, 2000
Season recap
‘”It’s just frustrating that I get these little injuries,” Johnson said.’
Bills’ offensive staff has got to go
‘Memo to Ralph Wilson: Just as you did to John Butler last week, it is time to send Joe Pendry, Max Bowman, Charlie Joiner, Turk Schonert, Carl Mauck, James Saxon and Ronnie Jones in search of other business opportunities.’
Quarterback controversy wore on Bills
‘”It wears on you when you guys just keep going over it and over it and over it,” defensive end Phil Hansen said Sunday, referring to constant media questions regarding Doug Flutie and Rob Johnson. “I guess, toward the end, you guys finally got what you wanted – a little controversy.”‘
BILLS’ FUTURE POSES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
‘The Bills’ organization needs to find a new general manger, decide on the future of head coach Wade Phillips and his staff of assistants, settle a sticky quarterback situation, and make hard decisions that will allow them to get under the NFL salary cap in 2001.’
PLAYERS REFLECT ON SEASON OF TUMULT
‘”I think we stayed together for the most part, the best that we could,” running back Antowain Smith said. This year was kind of a rocky situation for the whole team. As soon as things started going wrong, they started blaming a lot of people instead of the team coming together. I think we still continued to fight, but we were still kind of falling apart a little bit.”‘
FLUTIE SHOWS HE’S BETTER SUITED TO BE BILLS’ QB
‘Instead, Johnson regressed. He got battered, and he got worse. By the end of the year, he was a beaten man, both physically and emotionally, sidelined with a minor concussion that his coach termed a “headache” while Doug Flutie turned in the performance of his NFL career in the finale in Seattle.’