Two Bills Drive

‘The outcome of tonight’s game between the Bills and Jaguars will go a long way toward determining which team has a chance to salvage its season and which one can start thinking about its holiday travel plans.’

Moulds now ranks 4th on the Bills all-time receiving yardage list after passing Thurman Thomas last week. He needs 10 receptions to tie Bob Chandler in 5th place on Buffalo’s all-time receptions list and 11 to tie Elbert Dubenion in 4th. He’s currently tied with Frank Lewis for 6th all-time in receiving touchdowns and his next one will tie Pete Metzelaars for 5th best. With a catch against the Jaguars, he’ll also extend his club record of games with a reception to 54.

"He said, ‘No, I don’t want you to go back in,’" Johnson said afterwards. "If you can’t move, you can’t go back in. … I just wanted to make sure my ankle wasn’t broken because it hurt like it was broken. Once I found out it wasn’t broken, I knew I had to suck it up. It’s just something you have to do. My team needed me."

‘"I think (Johnson has) had stretches of playing well, but he has had some unlucky situations," Bills coach Gregg Williams said this week. "He has had stretches where he has executed the offence very well. The breakdowns on offence have not just been the quarterback."’

‘So tonight before a national television audience, Johnson’s goal isn’t to settle an old score. It’s to merely prove the Bills didn’t get fleeced for first- and fourth-round draft picks, something he hasn’t been able to do during his three-plus disappointing seasons in Buffalo.’

‘By coach Gregg Williams’ count, the secondary has dropped seven interceptions so far. Are you guys wearing oven mitts?’

‘Life is good for the young man from Victor who starred at Cornell University and is now carving out a nice little career for himself in the NFL.’

‘This is the Bills’ first visit to Jacksonville for a regular-season game. It is the only NFL city they hadn’t played in.’

‘Donahue drafted 12 players and the Bills kept 11, a stark contrast to the Jaguars, who drafted 10 and kept five. The Bills, though, are paying a price for their youth. They’re 0-4. That is why rebuilding is not popular in Jacksonville.’

Survey selects five Bills players: two current (Phil Hansen and Antoine Winfield) and three former ones (Sam Gash, Marvcus Patton, John Parrella)as the best "blue-collar" players at their positions.

4. Travis Henry, RB, Buffalo Bills

Season Stats: 70-240-1 Sunday: Bye

Stock: STEADY

Henry rushed for 113 yards his last time out and has a chance to duplicate that performance Thursday against a Jacksonville defense that allowed 176 yards rushing its last time out.

Henry has been solid considering the offensive line?s poor job of opening holes, though he is averaging only one catch per game. That?s poor for the starting RB in a West Coast offense.

4. Pat Williams / Bills ? "There was no drop-off when Washington went out last year and Williams came in."

[Ex-Buffalo Bill Ted Washington is #1]

Some would say that Johnson is what’s in the water, while other Bills fans would say that’s where they’d like to throw him. They claim that Flutie would have this Bills team with a better record than 0-4.

That’s why I call this a mania. There is absolutely no guarantee that the diminutive miracle worker from Boston College would have done a better job had he been kept by the Bills instead of Johnson. But these cries from Flutie fans are nothing new.

The mayor of Jacksonville, John Delaney, has written letters to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Florida legislators in an effort to get the league to revise its blackout policy. The Jaguars experienced their first-ever TV blackout this season and expect that the game versus the Bills in Week 6 will also be banned from being shown on television in Jacksonville because it won’t be a sellout.

Jimmy Williams, 22, was a sixth-round draft choice of the Bills this spring, the 196th player selected overall. He was the only player drafted by the Bills who did not make the roster, but the club attempted to retain his rights by signing him to the practice squad.

He declined the Bills’ offer to sign instead with the 49ers PS, in part because of the presence of former Vanderbilt teammate Jamie Winborn, a LB with the 49ers. The two, both represented by agent Terry Bolar, now are roommates.