Archives for November 2012

‘After driving the Bills the length of the field in the final two minutes, giving his team the chance to pull off a monumental and perhaps season-altering victory over its most hated rival, Fitzpatrick failed at the absolute worst moment, which he has been known to do.’

‘Maddening, frustrating, in many ways sickening. Use whatever adjective you want, it was a loss, the sixth in nine games this season. Let the draft talk begin.’

‘After playing well in Houston, can Mario Williams keep it going? No. Did anyone even notice him out there?’

‘Wannstedt is doing a legendarily poor job of adjusting to what the other team is doing, and his guys do a lot of stupid things.’

‘The Bills fan corner of Twittersphere instantly went all torch-and-pitchfork on Fitzpatrick’s butt at game’s end. But we tweeted at the time that it didn’t appear to be Fitzpatrick’s fault. And it wasn’t.’

‘”It killed us,” said running back C.J. Spiller. “Third and 20, third and 15, chances of completing that are very slim to none. We inflicted ourselves with that stuff, and it’s something that we’ve got to straighten up.”‘

‘Center Eric Wood called Spikes a “headhunter,” and added, “I guess he was trying to take Fitz out of the game.”‘

‘”It was my mistake. I was supposed to run in front of (McCourty), rather than running behind him. As soon as I saw Ryan throw the ball, I knew I had made a mistake.”‘

‘The other hit that Fitzpatrick is referring to came in the Patriots’ Week 4 win over the Bills when Spikes laid a blindside hit on Chandler following a Devin McCourty interception. He was fined $21,000 for the play.’

‘”I don’t know. You can sit here and talk about them,” he said. “Should there be calls, shouldn’t there be calls. You’ve got to look at the film and decide. You always have questions about them.”‘

‘”I think that he’s a punk at times and took a cheap shot at (Bills tight end) Scott (Chandler) in the first game and was doing a lot of talking and hitting out there. He’s not one of my favorite players, not high on my list. I think that’s all just mentality, and I think it’s important that you don’t back down from anybody.”‘

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‘”The only thing you can ask for as a quarterback is a chance at the end to win the game,” Fitzpatrick said. “We were able to drive down and have a couple shots at the end zone, but we weren’t able to get it done.”‘

‘”We’ve been in position to beat them, like today, but we just don’t beat them,” said Lindell, who is in this 13th season and 10th with the Bills. “We’ve had our chances. But that isn’t enough. To beat the Patriots, you have to have your A-plus game. Really. They find ways to win. Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of them.”‘

‘”I guess it was nice to be out there, but I really wanted to be on the field,” Easley said. “To get to this point was a long time coming, to say the least, but I would have loved to have gotten out there, to try to help my team and try to make plays. Obviously I want more.”‘