Archives for October 30, 2005

‘Asked to describe the Bills’ run defense, middle linebacker London Fletcher said, “Terrible, horrible, disappointing, disgusting. Anybody else want to help me out with it?”‘

‘Tonight, a Bills team that has lost its last four national night games by a combined score of 119-18 will meet a Pats team that is coming off a bye and desperate to get over the .500 mark.’

‘Trading three draft choices to get Losman and then have him turn out to be a run-of-the-mill quarterback or worse would be one too many poor decisions by Donahoe. The worst mistake was the hiring of Gregg Williams as his head coach upon his own arrival. Most GMs don’t get a second chance after making a hiring error the size of Williams.’

‘”I am going to have to struggle, and I’m going to have to fight through it,” Losman said. “Really, the last three weeks, I’ve been coming back to that person I was, whatever that is – a cocky, arrogant kid. It’s however you want to describe me. You know what? That’s what made me good. That’s what got me here. That’s what’s going to make our team go.”‘

‘The Patriots are 8-1 in the last nine meetings, winning both games last season by an average score of 30-11.’

‘One reason Bills haven’t won on road is RB Willis McGahee doesn’t get enough carries. He needs 25-30 touches to establish a rhythm and give Bills a chance to control time of possession.’

‘Brady can be forced into mistakes when pressured, but he’ll pick Bills apart if given time to throw.’

‘Patriots 27, Bills 17.’

‘”I live in Miami, and I’m not leaving Miami,” he said in a telephone interview after reading a Buffalo News article suggesting that he was interested in buying a home in Lockport.’

‘The Bills have reached the point in their season where it’s time to make a statement.’

‘Starting in 2001, New England is 60-19, which includes a 21-game win streak, a 9-0 mark in the playoffs, a 20-6 record against the AFC East and three Super Bowl titles.’

‘”Unanimously, every doctor and physician that’s seen me has given me clearance,” he told reporters. “I’m not doing this because ‘I just want to play. I just want to play. Forget it, I’m going for it.’ I’m not doing that. This isn’t something you just go for. This is something where you make sure everything’s right.”‘

‘”I’ve been through it a couple times,” Holcomb said when he came to Buffalo back in March. “You have to understand what the situation is. I know what the situation is. He (Losman) is a young guy and they brought him in here to be the guy.”‘

‘Do they bench quarterback Kelly Holcomb, 2-1 as a starter in relief of J.P. Losman, and put the youngster back in for the balance of the season to see what they have? Or do they continue the playoff ruse at least until a .500 record can’t be achieved?’

‘Buffalo has given up 14 touchdowns on 21 red-zone stands, a 66.7 percent failure rate that is better than only New England’s (78.9 percent) in the NFL. ”He’s disappointed,” Buffalo coach Mike Mularkey said of defensive coordinator Jerry Gray. ”Any of us that are competitors in this business take things like that very personal. They feel, ‘What didn’t I do?”