Archives for October 24, 2001

Will see plenty of familiar faces across the field Sunday.

I like Gregg Williams, their coach, and I liked the fire they showed against Jacksonville, but when you’re sitting on a small lead and backed up on your four-yard line late in the game, you simply must squeeze out a first down. You don’t call three straight runs, lose three yards, punt 28 yards and hand the Jags the tying field goal. To their credit, though, they drove the field to win it at the end. But to me, this is a case of a coach almost undoing the hard work of his players.

‘"I’ve never had a problem with people who are passionate," said Donahoe, sipping coffee while discussing Flutie’s Svengali hold on some people. "You can love Doug Flutie, but it doesn’t mean that to love Doug you have to hate the Buffalo Bills. I don’t understand that, I just don’t."’

‘Wiley admits it will be strange lining up and seeing old friends like Bills guard Ruben Brown staring back at him Sunday. "It’s going to be like one of those backyard games in the neighborhood," Wiley says. "I’m sure some trash talking will be exchanged." The former Bill just hopes this isn’t a day where he’ll have to eat his words.’

‘Butler was a valued employee of the Buffalo Bills, and if Wilson didn’t think so he wouldn’t talk so passionately about an AFC West opponent. Until this year, San Diego was nothing more than a destination for Wilson; now it’s an obsession, and unless it has something to do with his suggestions of tampering I don’t get it. He made Butler an offer, and it was refused. He fired Butler, and Butler found somewhere else to work. End of story.’