Archives for December 3, 2012

‘Boscarino tells 13WHAM News that not providing a game for fans means a 30% loss of business for the day.’

‘Sunday’s game was the blueprint they should have been following many weeks ago.’

‘The Bills remain a long shot for the playoffs at 5-7, but they kept their slim hopes alive with a victory. It’s possible that the Bills could go on a small run over their final month with winnable games against St. Louis, Seattle, Miami and the New York Jets. But they need to string two wins together before they can even think about that.’

‘The Bills ran wild over the jungle cats, with Fred Jackson going over 100 yards in getting the lion’s share of the work (in a week, oddly enough, where he told the media Chan Gailey told him he’d be the No. 2 back to C.J. Spiller). The Clemson back, playing in front of his former coach Dabo Swinney, also ripped off a number of good runs as Buffalo methodically pounded, inside and out, the Jaguars defense.’

‘232 Rushing Yards: They ran the ball 46 times today to 17 passes and got the win.’

‘Chan Gailey finally decided to run the ball and had success. Going with Jackson more than Spiller worked since he was having a better game. They went for it on fourth down and tried a 50 yard field goal. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.’

‘The Bills defense was impressive throughout as they made the league’s worst offense look that way for much of the afternoon. Jacksonville converted just one of their 10 third down opportunities, and had three turnovers on downs. For the third straight game the defense also held their opponent to fewer than 90 rushing yards. It’s the first time a Bills defense has done that since the 2003 season (11/30/03-12/14/03).’

‘You would like to, but there were some teams that did not let us do that as much as we would like to. You cannot just say let’s just go do that. You have to have success and you have to have a lead. There are a lot of things that go into that. It is not just saying, ‘OK we will just run it 40 times with these two backs and it is automatically going to equal a win.’ It does not happen that way so you still to strike a balance, but once we found out that was the way to attack these guys and that we could, we stuck with it. The conditions made it more so. We had the lead-which helps. All of those things help.’

‘This was maybe a bit extreme, but for us as a team to be successful at home in December, this is what we expected. We expected to be able to feed Fred (Jackson) the rock and to give it to C.J. (Spiller). Have those guys coming in — they are a tough one-two punch as everybody knows, but as we saw today especially. And the defense really stepped up and played great today.’

‘You know its going to be one of those games, you know it’s got to be ground and pound game. To come out and establish early and take some pressure off the offense and Fitz, is always a good thing. For me to get back out there and get established, it is a long time coming. You know it’s a big lift off my shoulders. I can keep building from there.’

‘No, not a full pull. That is why I ended up coming out.’

‘Like I said, whenever I had the procedure and everybody was freaking out about it, I knew it was going to progress and not be stagnant. With something like that and continuing playing, obviously it is not going to be healed all the way until after the season. But it is definitely getting better and that is making me feel better.’