Archives for December 14, 2015

'Eleven of Buffalo’s 15 assessed penalties were against Bills offensive or defensive linemen Sunday. Defensive linemen Marcell Dareus, Jerry Hughes (twice) and Mario Williams were all cited for neutral zone infractions prior to the snap handing the Eagles five free yards each time. All four of those penalties came on 3rd-and-long situations and gave Philadelphia 3rd-and-medium or 3rd-and-short plays.'

'“We kept shooting ourselves in the foot. We had penalty after penalty,” said Ryan. “[We’d" target="_blank"> get a first down. Penalty . . . Penalty. Penalty. Penalty. That was the difference. We were moving the ball up and down the field on them. [Penalties were" target="_blank"> the difference. We never let ourselves get in any kind of rhythm because we’re backed up. It’s now first-and-20 or third-and-15 or whatever it is, and when you’re behind the sticks, it’s tough to do anything.'

'“All right, this one’s tough because I thought we were the better team today, but obviously we got beat. And you know, that is a good football team. Penalties – we’ve got ourselves to blame. You can’t have that many penalties obviously and it’s a no-brainer when you jump offsides a zillion times and we got – I don’t know how many holding calls, but it looked like it was a record out there. We fumbled a punt. We played field position, make them go three-and-out again and think we’re going to get good field position and we fumble a punt. So we’ve got ourselves to blame on this one. How it affects us – we’re going to be sick, I can tell you that much, if this costs us, which it probably will.”'