Archives for January 4, 2003

‘WGR-AM General Manager Greg Ried announced a move that Dickerson has openly discussed – his impending departure until the Bills’ regular season starts up again in September.’

‘”The expectations within the team and everywhere should be for us to make the playoffs,” he said. “We won’t back off of that one bit. This year, for this team to go from 3-13 to 8-8 is a step forward. We feel like we should’ve been better, been in the playoffs, but next year definitely. This team should be a playoff team and anything less will be unacceptable.”‘

‘Of the 60 players currently on Buffalo’s squad, including injured reserve and non-football-related injury, a total of 14 – less than a quarter – were with the team when Donahoe became president/general manager in January of 2001. And that number will shrink.’

‘”Anytime you have an offense where you have two 1,000-yard receivers [Peerless Price and Eric Moulds] and a 1,400-yard rusher [Travis Henry], it’s a reflection of the guys up front who allow that to happen,” Bledsoe said. “They don’t get as much recognition, so I thought it was the right thing to do to bring them along.”‘

It was ten years ago on January 3, 1993. The AFC Wild Card game between the Houston Oilers and Buffalo Bills.

‘A year ago, Grant Irons was sitting in a South Bend, Ind. classroom, pursuing graduate courses at the University of Notre Dame.

This year, he’s mulling a suddenly bright future as a defensive end in the National Football League.’