Archives for November 11, 2005

‘Bills defensive tackle Sam Adams has a knee injury and is questionable for Buffalo’s home game Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs.’

‘Chiefs win 30-20.’

‘”You’ve got two guys who are absolutely outstanding,” said Bills special teams coach Bobby April. “It’s a real challenge for us to stop him, and I’m sure they feel the same way about Terrence.”‘

‘The award is presented annually to a former player for outstanding service to the team. Reich will be honored in a pregame ceremony at the Bills game against the Carolina Panthers on Nov. 27 and will formally receive the honor at the Quarterback Club luncheon on Nov. 28 at the HSBC Arena Harbour Club Restaurant.’

‘Don’t teams – like the Bills – use the issue of continuity on the offensive line to gloss over the fact they just aren’t good enough?’

‘The Bills’ ineptitude in the red zone has turned kicker Rian Lindell into something of a fantasy stud.’

‘Buffalo has given up 13 rushing touchdowns, almost as many as the past two seasons combined.’

‘”I felt if I kicked the field goal and tied that the Raiders had already scored twice in the fourth quarter and maintained ball control,” Vermeil explained the other day on a conference call with western New York media. “And if we lose the toss in overtime and they get the ball, they move the ball, they have a great field goal kicker, I may not even get a chance. If we win the toss, it’s going to take me 10 or 11 plays to get down to where we were sitting at a foot-and-a-half to go. So I said, ‘Why waste the time?'”‘

‘”That’s regardless of who the first back taken was. It just happens that it was McGahee. In Larry’s mind, he rushed for 2,000 yards (as a senior). He thought he might be the first back taken. That didn’t happen. Now it’s ironic we just happen to be playing Buffalo this week. So there’s two great backs facing each other this week.”‘

Dad: Priest isn’t retiring (Kansas City Star)

Johnson may have something to prove against Bills’ McGahee (Kansas City Star)

Johnson takes center stage (Topeka Capital Journal)

Q&A with Trent Green (KCChiefs.com)

Who’s a diehard? (KCChiefs.com)

Chiefs must speed up to keep pace (KCChiefs.com)

A thirty years war (KCChiefs.com)

‘Levy knows what Reid went through after the Super Bowl loss in Jacksonville. Levy still recalls his first Super Bowl with the Bills, the 20-19 loss to the New York Giants, which ended with Scott Norwood’s missed field-goal attempt. Levy recalls lying in bed that night, staring at the ceiling, listening to his wife Frannie cry. The pain is that real, the loss is that traumatic. It is not something you get over quickly.’

‘The challenge for Buffalo is putting the skids on a Chiefs team that averages 4.3 yards per carry, runs the ball 10 more times a game than it passes, and has produced 13 touchdowns rushing. It’s a dicey matchup for a suddenly porous and banged-up defense that’s given up 1,206 yards rushing, 398 short of what it allowed all last season. And it’s a unit that in its last three games has given up eight touchdowns rushing, two more than all last year.’

‘”If we go out and win football games and see what happens at the end of the season, that’s what we want to do,” said linebacker London Fletcher. “As far as being a game behind which is good for us right now, we still got to go out and win football games.”‘

‘Bills 24, Chiefs 20.’

‘Tasker went to seven Pro Bowls and was the MVP once. He was a dominant player on kicking downs – and dominant players belong in the Hall of Fame, don’t they? That said, does Tasker belong in Canton? Frankly, I don’t know.’