Archives for November 2005

‘I don’t want to say I don’t like Mike Mularkey’s coaching and some of the decisions that GM Tom Donahoe has made, but let’s just say that these Bills could have either John Fox or Marvin Lewis on the sidelines now. But, noooooo, Gregg Williams was great in the interview process! Eek.’

‘The facts are right there to see for anyone who is paying attention. The Bills are 0-5 on the road, and if you’re trying to figure out when was the last time a team made the playoffs having not won a road game, don’t bother. It has never happened.’

‘The Bills flew an awfully long way to play that awful.’

‘Not only did the Chargers, who went 14-2 last season, beat Buffalo to the playoffs, on Sunday they showed just how much farther ahead their program has surged under the Bills’ previous brain trust, drubbing Buffalo 48-10 at Qualcomm Stadium. Somewhere, Butler was smiling.’

‘The Bills, who had allowed a league-low 10 points in the first quarter all season, gave up 14 in the first quarter to the NFL’s No. 3-scoring team.’

‘Mike Mularkey and his staff were taken to school by Marty Schottenheimer, Wade Phillips and friends.’

‘For instance, San Diego ran 68 offensive plays and scored touchdowns on just six of those plays. That means that the Buffalo defense successfully prevented the Chargers from entering the end zone 91.2 percent of the time.’

‘Once, matters did go right for the Bills, excitingly so. But to judge from its effort yesterday, a team that was so attractive has gone completely, utterly blah.’

‘So what was the Chargers’ reaction after making McGahee’s hubris come back and bite him? Try, “ho hum.”‘

‘”I was hoping he would get a chance to play in this blowout,” Ray Preston said. “But those first-string guys don’t want to come out.”’

‘To be fair, the Bills have plenty of problems. They’re next-to-last in the NFL in rushing defense, they have an offensive line that provides less resistance than the Polish army, and they’re still waiting for their first win on the road. “Terrible, terrible, terrible,” was the way Bills safety Troy Vincent described their performance Sunday. And yet in the NFL, you only go as far as your quarterback can take you, which may have been asking a lot of Losman, who was given the keys to what was supposed to be a playoff-ready team.’

‘The pass defense was awful…’.

‘Buffalo (4-6) remains winless in five road games.’

After allowing only 10 points in the 1st quarter all year, they gave up two long touchdown drives in the opening stanza against the Chargers and things went downhill from there. San Diego rolled to a 48-10 rout that dashes the Bills fading playoff hopes.