Archives for August 24, 2003

‘Jennings did not return, and the Bills did not disclose the extent of the injury.’

‘St. Louis Rams safety Kim Herring will miss up to eight weeks after breaking a bone in his left forearm covering the opening kickoff against the Buffalo Bills on Saturday night.’

‘Joe Burns, a second-year-player from Georgia Tech, scored on a 13-yard run with 2:03 remaining to lift the Buffalo Bills to a come-from-behind 28-24 victory over the St. Louis Rams. Burns is the fifth back in the Bills backfield behind Travis Henry, Olandis Gary, Sammy Morris and Sam Gash. First-round pick Willis McGahee is expected to start the regular season on the physically-unable-to-perform list.’

‘"We got off to a good start. I think that we came out and we were efficient, hit some short passes, early on we executed very well offensively at the start of the game. We were able to take those first two drives down for scores. I think we showed what we are capable of when we don’t make mistakes is what I took out of that game. If we play clean football, and we don’t have the penalties, eliminate some of the turnovers, I think we can be a very good football team. We still made to many mistakes. The bone-headed interception by me in the third possession where I had a guy fall down and I just threw it back into the middle and didn’t see the linebacker. Those kinds of things we can’t do, but if we are efficient and if we execute like we did tonight I think that we are going to be a very good offense."’

‘"Travis Henry has a foot sprain. He could have played. But we only had him slated to play in the first quarter. In fact, if we could have gotten the ball back one more time in the first quarter, we would have finished the first quarter. But that’s all we had him up for going into the game."’

‘”I thought it went well,” Warner said. “We hurt ourselves with some penalties and some things early on, but I thought we moved the ball well and did a lot of good things. I think that was the best thing about this game, they threw everything but the kitchen sink at us. We had to see things and react quickly.”‘

‘Defensive line/LB: The defense did absolutely nothing but watch the Bills go up 14-0 the first two drives. There was no pass rush AT ALL, so Drew Bledsoe got all day to throw and picked apart the Rams’ young secondary.’