Archives for December 7, 2002

‘During a game, the back judge, who stands behind the secondary, is in charge of calling the delay of game penalty. The back judge looks at the clock and then looks to see if the ball has been snapped.’

‘In the first game in early November a combination of good execution by the Patriots and poor tackling by the Bills allowed New England to rack up over 186 yards of offense after the catch. Tom Brady and company transformed what has been referred to as a "dink and dunk" offense into big plays and touchdowns.’

‘Q: What do you think Buffalo did well in the first game that they might want to go back to and do this game? BB: Well, let’s just say what they think they did well. They said that they thought they moved the ball well, they just didn’t score in the red zone. They said that they thought that they played pretty good defense, they made good on the screen passes. So there are two things right there that I’m sure they feel like they were close on a couple of kickoff returns. Those are some things right there that they said that they thought went pretty well, I guess a couple of things that didn’t go well, they overrode them. Move the ball into the redzone, then you are not effective on offense.’

‘”I know that I still have a lot of fans out there and a lot of people appreciate what I did while I was there so it will probably be a mixed reaction (during the game). There will probably be some people that cheer for me. (But) during the course of the game I would expect the New England fans to do what they did the whole time I was there… which was to support their team.”‘

In his first year with Atlanta, former Bills HC & DC Wade Phillips has the Falcons ranked in the league’s top 10 in several defensive categories: Sacks (2nd), Interceptions (4th), Giveaway/Takeaway (6th), Forced fumbles (T8th)