Archives for January 2010

‘Bills owner Ralph Wilson says the team has spoken to Bill Cowher about its coaching vacancy, but Wilson isn’t sure whether the former Steelers coach is interested. “You’d have to ask him,” Wilson told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday from his home in suburban Detroit.’

‘Lindell finished the 2009 season with 108 points, the sixth 100-point season of his career. Only Lindell and Bills all-time leading scorer Steve Christie have five or more seasons with at least 100 points in their Bills career.’

‘Former Buffalo Bills wide receiver Eric Moulds on Thursday was spared further criminal proceedings on a harassment complaint lodged months ago by his former live-in lover. Moulds was accused of striking the woman in the Amherst home they had shared.’

‘Michael J. O’Connor, a repeat drunken driver, tearfully said Thursday he hopes his jail sentence for second-degree vehicular manslaughter after a Buffalo Bills game will send a message to others not to drink and drive.’

‘”We feel like we had the players to do it,” said Posluszny, who led the Bills in tackles with 114. “For whatever reason in those zone schemes where they cut the ball back, if one guy is wrong out of 11, it’s a big play. We should have been a lot better against the run because we had the personnel to do it. We just didn’t get the job done.”

‘Frazier, 50, has run the Vikings’ defense for the past three years and is one of the more highly regarded assistant coaches in the league. Thursday marked his sixth interview for an NFL head coaching job in the last three years.’

‘Organizer Patrick Moran said Thursday an Internet campaign has raised more than the $1,125 needed to rent an electronic billboard for a week, starting Monday. It would feature the words, “Dear Mr. Wilson, we want this guy,” superimposed over a picture of Cowher.’

‘It appears both the Giants and Bears are aggressively pursuing Fewell, even though he remains a candidate to be the Bills head coach. The Bills were reportedly in Minnesota today to interview Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier.’

‘U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has been reassured by Bills owner Ralph Wilson that he has no intention of entertaining offers to relocate the team to Los Angeles.’

‘However, as Bills fans oft do at season’s end, the “what if” game is a common theme. What if the Bills beat the Patriots on Monday night in Week 1 instead of letting a 24-13 lead erode? What if they beat Cleveland, a horrible game that ended 6-3? What if the team stayed relatively healthy and didn’t end with a record 18 players on Injured Reserve? Sadly, though, for Bills fans, the “what if” questions come again after a non-playoff season, the 10th straight for a franchise that played one playoff game in the last decade – Jan. 8, 2000 at Tennessee – a 22-16 loss more commonly called “The Music City Miracle.”‘

‘The introduction of Nix as GM certainly brings in a new era, a breath of fresh air, but also brings some speculation that may leave fans wondering for seasons to come.’

‘When the regular season came to a close last Sunday there was no defensive unit in the NFL that had been on the field for more plays in 2009 than the Bills, 1,086 to be exact. Part of the reason why was Buffalo’s offense, which was last in the league in third down conversion percentage (26%) and last in first downs per game (14.6). They were also last in total offensive plays for the season with just 911.’

‘This is the seventh season in a row the Bills ranked in the bottom quarter of the league in yards, and the fifth straight year they haven’t been able to be better than 23rd in points. This was the third time in the four years since Dick Jauron became head coach in 2006 that the Bills ranked 30th or worst in both first downs and third-down conversions.’

‘Frazier has been on the cusp of landing an NFL head coaching job the previous two years. He interviewed for the jobs in Miami and Atlanta two years ago and in St. Louis, Detroit and Denver last year. He reportedly was the runner-up choice for the Denver job and was a finalist in St. Louis. Frazier’s meeting with the Bills was confirmed by Vikings head coach Brad Childress on Wednesday in an e-mail to the Associated Press.’

‘Fewell took a banged-up, demoralized lot and got three wins out of them. That’s more than I thought they’d get. And where’d it land him? Right out on the street with the rest of the Bills coaching staff. He gets to interview for the heading coach job, though. Whoo hoo.’