Archives for November 2009

‘”He’ll be able to buy time with that experience,” Owens said. “There will be some times where he can assess the defense and really take some shots downfield. We’re looking forward to the opportunity with Ryan. He was 2-1 before the bye week. Personally, I feel like it was his job to lose.”‘

‘”I think that when you’re losing, everybody is looking for answers and it’s hard to say that everything is falling on one guy because as the offense, I think everybody can look in the mirror and say, ‘I can play better,'” said Fitzpatrick. “That being said, I’m very excited to get out there and play, and try to get the team some wins.”‘

‘Bills interim head coach Perry Fewell on Wednesday listed Bell as week to week, which is an upgrade after the team previously feared the player’s injury might be season-ending. Fewell said Bell will not require surgery after he was hurt in a 41-17 loss at Tennessee last weekend.’

‘The offensive line did two on ones and Andy Levitre lined up as a tackle next to Seth McKinney. Bryan Scott was still practicing as a linebacker.’

‘Shanahan, a two-time Super Bowl winner with the Broncos, is said to be willing to listen to the Bills. He has said in the past that he is determined to return to the NFL next season.’

‘”We are who we are,” said Fewell, in his 12th NFL season and fourth with Buffalo as a coordinator. “We have that identity. We’re going to try to give a little spark, but we are who we are.”‘

‘The decision to go with Fitzpatrick over Trent Edwards was announced shortly after the team’s practice Wednesday as the Bills (3-6) prepare to play at Jacksonville (5-4) this weekend.’

‘Fine had nine catches for 64 yards over eight games in his second season in the NFL before suffering a torn meniscus in his knee.’

‘Buffalo shuffled its practice squad by signing offensive lineman Christian Gaddis and placing receiver C.J. Hawthorne on Practice Squad, Injured.’

‘Klopfenstein (6’5″, 262) is now in his fourth NFL season, and is a former second-round pick of the St. Louis Rams. He has 37 career NFL starts on his resume. The tight end had worked out for the Bills earlier this season.’

‘Firing Jauron isn’t a cure for all of the team’s problems. The list of problems goes well beyond the coaching staff – They still don’t have a legitimate No. 1 quarterback; their offensive struggles limit their defense’s productivity late in games; they have no one on either side of the ball that teams have to game plan for. Still, it’s a good first step in what will be the team’s long journey back towards respectability.’

‘”Just being in the Wildcat I had never thrown a ball so we knew defenses weren’t going to be keying on my being able to throw the ball down the field. It was something that we had worked on,” said Jackson. “Lee (Evans) is good at getting downfield on the safeties. The way we had been running the Wildcat I had been keeping every ball and we knew that they would be aggressive. We were able to go out and execute it and get some points out of it.”‘

‘Prior to joining Jauron’s staff, Fewell was defensive backs coach in Chicago in 2005. He was a secondary coach in St. Louis in 2003 and ’04 and in Jacksonville from 1998 to 2002.’

‘People are tired of accepting a lower standard. Why should Bills fans be resigned to having coaches who are compensated near the bottom of the league pay scale? They support their team at an elite level. They’ve demonstrated far more loyalty to Wilson over the last decade than he deserves. Why can’t he shoot for the moon for once?’