Two Bills Drive

‘Hey, fans and media can’t feel foolish for believing this team was playoff worthy. Some of the biggest names in the national media picked them to win the Super Bowl. I mean, three years into the Tom Donahoe-Gregg Williams Era, and the dots were starting to connect. How did we know that once you connected all those dots, the image formed would be of a guy wrapping his fingers around his throat?’

‘Never mind Dallas’ suspect record. Ponder this: The coaching matchup is Bill Parcells vs. Gregg Williams.’

‘”The main thing was that it was nice to know that the organization had confidence in me and that they wanted me to be their guy for a number of years to come,” he said. “To be able to come into a season that way was a plus as opposed to the first two seasons not knowing what my future would be.”‘

‘The Bills have come unglued in every phase, especially on the road where they have now been outscored 85-15 in their last three games away from Ralph Wilson Stadium – at Miami, at the Jets and at Kansas City.’

‘As for head coach Gregg Williams, he did not have this team ready to play, plain and simple.’

‘LT Jonas Jennings left the Kansas City game with a hip injury. X-rays taken at Arrowhead Stadium were negative and it is believed that Jennings will be OK to play in Dallas Nov. 9, Buffalo’s next game.’

‘Here’s another stat to chew on: Bledsoe is 2-15 on the road against teams that finished the season with a winning record since 1998. It may not be all his fault, but Bledsoe certainly doesn’t lead his team to many big victories on the road.’

‘”I coach every day as hard as I can and as I said earlier in the year, I will not comment on those things.”‘

‘15% now say his contract should be extended.

75% say it should not.

9% aren’t sure.’

‘”We played the best team in the AFC record wise and we weren’t precise enough, especially in the first half or really in any part of the ballgame to beat a team like that on the road. We had our opportunities early in the ballgame. We had very good field position in the first half offensively. We weren’t able to match any plays that they made and we gave up too many big plays in the first half. Our defense has been pretty solid on not giving up big plays but we gave up big plays in this ballgame. In the second half, defensively, we came out pretty strong forcing five punts out of seven possessions in the second half but we turned the ball over. Special teams played solid in both halves but we didn’t get the offense or the defense clicking.”‘

‘In his last six games, Bledsoe has averaged just over 200 yards passing, and combined for three touchdowns and seven interceptions.’

‘Scoring three touchdowns against the Bills, Holmes looked sharper and quicker than he had all year.’

‘Luck has nothing to do with this team’s success. It’s hard work and dedication that has them savoring a perfect start.’

‘It may seem difficult to imagine after witnessing Buffalo’s abject loss in Kansas City on Sunday night, but the Bills have played as feebly and with as little life several times in their 44-season history. There was the time in 1968 that the Oakland Raiders obliterated Buffalo 48-6 — on the Bills home field, no less. There was the time the Seattle Seahawks, in just their second season of existence, routed Buffalo 56-17 in O.J. Simpson’s last game with the Bills. There was the Sunday afternoon in Foxboro, Mass., in 1997 when Billy Joe Hobert forgot his playbook, helping New England to a 33-6 pulverizing of the Bills. There was the 44-20 loss on a Monday night in Indianapolis in the waning weeks of the 2000 season that wasn’t nearly that close. And let’s travel all the way back to Oct. 10, when the Bills staged an equally pathetic performance while watching the previously winless New York Jets prance to a 30-3 victory. There’s a theme to the first four hideous defeats mentioned above — none of the head coaches responsible — Joe Collier, Jim Ringo, Marv Levy or Wade Phillips — kept their jobs the next season.’

‘On Sunday, they either sacked Bills quarterback Drew Bledsoe or intercepted his passes until the Bills fell so far behind that Buffalo coach Gregg Williams gave the universal signal of surrender by pulling his starting quarterback to avoid seeing him end up in traction.’