Two Bills Drive

‘”This was probably our worst game this year, collectively, when we needed it most.”‘

‘”How can you play with one of the best teams in the NFL and then go out here and play the way we did is hard to understand,” the defensive tackle said as he choked back the tears that eventually came, leaving him silent. “There’s so much at stake,” Evans whispered.’

‘”He played very physical and won his matchup,” Bills coach Gregg Williams said. “We were hoping, coming into this ballgame, that he would. It was a very key and integral park of what we were setting our defense to do.”’

‘Bledsoe’s and Chrebet’s supposed non-concussions must have been concussions. Still, the operative word from the “tests” in these cases actually seems to be “quacks.”‘

‘Carter was hurt when his left leg bent awkwardly beneath him as he was tackled by Pierson Prioleau and Angelo Crowell at the end of a 19-yard kickoff return early in the second quarter.’

‘Can you believe Kevin Gilbride’s offense ran the football 40 times and went back to pass just 17?’

‘The third-year back, who entered the game 30 yards shy of the mark, became just the fourth player in Bills history with multiple-1,000-yard campaigns (O.J. Simpson, Joe Cribbs and Thurman Thomas).’

‘”We want to be physical every week, week-in and week-out. Today our guys were able to win the line of scrimmage. That’s what we would hope we would be able to do all year long. Today was nice. It was nice to see our guys do that.”‘

‘”We know why it didn’t work, we watched the plays, we watched every game. The games where we lost four in a row there we just didn’t make the plays, whether it was the running game or whether it was the passing game, whatever it was we didn’t make the plays we had to to win those ball games. So we put ourselves behind the eight ball. I think you have seen a display of the character that this team has with the effort we have put on the field the last couple of weeks. We went through a really tough stretch but have come back and played well.”‘

‘”We came out we played great. The offensive line was unbelievable today. We ran the ball up the middle and there were a lot of lanes to run through. My hat goes off to the offensive line, they did a great job today.”‘

‘”Sam (Adams) is hard to stop when he gets going. Everyone is playing hard. Everybody is covering, we’re a team, that’s where it comes from. Sacks are a team stat. It was a fun game. Everyone played hard and we got after them.”‘

‘”We had to all play. We have to step up at this point in the season. We have to play every game, but our backs are against the wall. We’ll see who steps, and we all have to do that. We had a good game today, offensively, defensively and on special teams.”‘

‘”Whenever somebody kicks your butt like that you want to come back and redeem yourself. The Jets are a heck of a team, and have a heck of a quarterback, but we can’t control that. All we control is what we do, and what their defensive line does. We took that as a motivating factor.”‘

‘”When we play total defense, and when the offense puts points up, and the special teams are solid – we’re a dominant team. That’s what makes this situation we’re in, fighting to get back into the hunt, going one game at a time, makes it so disappointing. This team is a better team that what our record shows.”‘

‘”Well we had some fouls, you know we’re generally not a penalized team but our fouls hurt us and backed us way up. We were starting minus 10, minus 15 and its hard to drive against a good football team like this and for most of the first half. We were always backed up. They had the one big long drive in the first half but we were still in the football game. In the second half, we get a big turnover, we don’t get anything out of it and then they go on and make another long drive basically just running the ball.’