Archives for September 13, 2010

‘”Poz looks like it’s a couple to three weeks,” said head coach Chan Gailey. “Maybe not as serious as we thought it might have been, so that’s our positive. But I can’t give you anything better than a couple to three weeks.”‘

‘”We dodged a bullet there,” Bills general manager Buddy Nix told the team’s website. “It’s not a season-ending injury. He won’t need surgery. It’ll be about two weeks.”‘

‘State police issued 76 traffic tickets to local drivers following the Bills game Sunday, including four arrests for driving while intoxicated. Troopers also handed out 12 tickets for failure to wear seat belts, one for no child restraint, 17 for speeding and 42 for other violations, according to the state police.’

‘”We’ve got to get to a level of consistency throughout the ball game to get where we need to be,” said head coach Chan Gailey. “We have done it in preseason, but that was preseason and it doesn’t count. Now it counts and we’ve got to get to that level of consistency. That’s what we’ll be working on, this week and in the weeks to come.”‘

‘So much for the winds of change that have been blowing through Buffalo, because if anyone could detect something different about the Bills’ 15-10 loss to Miami compared to anything that has happened to this team in, oh, about the last 10 years, more power to you.’

‘”A day like this, it’s on our shoulders,” said linebacker Chris Kelsay, who in the 3-4 alignment has shifted off the line of scrimmage from his old position of defensive end. “(We need to) get some turnovers, get some sacks, kill some drives.”‘

‘What really needs explaining and never will be is why Gailey – in cooperation with new general manager Buddy Nix – did virtually nothing in the way of personnel hires to fix Buffalo’s 30th-ranked offense of a year ago?’

‘Looked pretty much like anything we’ve seen for the past four years under Dick Jauron.’

‘D – QUARTERBACK: The new Trent Edwards looked worse than the old Trent Edwards. Take away a nicely executed 80-yard drive in a desperation hurry-up mode in the fourth quarter, and he completed 11 of 27 passes for 48 yards. His final two possessions were downright awful: Six incomplete passes and no magic. It’s going to be a long year.’

‘"We’ve got to get better at running the football," Gailey said. "You can’t go out there and play two-minute offense the whole ballgame, we know that. We’ve got to find better ways to run the football, and that’s my responsibility to get that done."’

‘"It was tough out there," said Spiller, the ninth overall pick in the April draft. "We just have to go back and look at the film to see what it was. [The Dolphins] did a great job of making good tackles and making the plays. We just weren’t able to make enough."’

‘"Marshall’s a big, physical guy who is good at breaking tackles over the middle," said cornerback Leodis McKelvin, who had two pass breakups. "They got a few yards on us, but we didn’t give up any big plays. They tried to get Marshall behind us, but it was incomplete, so that’s a win for us."’

‘"It was definitely a good feeling," he said of his weekend. "I know my family was excited about me being in the city and they get to brag that you’re here a little bit. To go home with a win makes it extra special."’

‘The Detroit Lions have become positively electric by comparison, the Cleveland Browns utterly spellbinding.’