Archives for November 27, 2006

‘Granted, the Bills haven’t been in position to win many games since Lindell’s arrival, but if this team is going to continue to grow and continue down the road to respectability and perhaps playoff contention, it needs to have a reliable kicker. Sunday’s game-winner would seem to indicate that maybe Lindell is that guy after all.’

‘It snowed two feet here in October and three days after Thanksgiving it was 60 degrees and sunny. Democrats control Congress, cats are playing with dogs and now the Bills have won back-to-back games on their final drive.’

‘”I don’t know what you can say about Roscoe,” said Bills coach Dick Jauron after his team improved to 5-6. “He is a special player and that was a huge play – certainly one of the best I’ve ever seen.”‘

‘J.P. Losman is protecting the football, playing with confidence and has led the Bills to victories on their final drives two weeks in a row. Meanwhile, the list of veteran QBs sidelined by shaky performance or injuries is growing.’

‘DT Marcus Stroud: “My hat’s off to Buffalo, but we didn’t play well.’

‘The Bills were 0-16 in games decided by four points or fewer the past six seasons. Now they’ve won two such games in a row.’

‘Now this is what the Buffalo Bills had in mind whey signed Larry Tripplett in the offseason: 1.5 sacks, a forced fumble and four tackles.’

‘But the sun didn’t just shine on the stadium. It was on the face of every Bills player afterward. Buffalo is 3-1 now since the bye week. The lone loss was by one point, on the road, against one of the league’s few great teams.’

‘The University of Miami product answered the bell, scoring on touchdown runs of 4 and 30 yards in the first half.’

‘J.P. Losman posted a 90.0 passer rating in the quarter. Coming into Sunday, Losman’s rating in the fourth quarter of close games was 113.7.’

‘”Yeah, we’re on a little win streak here,” Losman said with a grin. “You have to call it momentum. I don’t know what else you would call it, other than anything positive. We are a bunch of guys who know that there were still some plays that we left out there. It could have been better.”‘

Costly Bills: Jaguars suffer painful loss (Florida Times Union)

Jaguars unit has not-so-special day (Florida Times Union)

Nimble Garrard knows the drill (Florida Times Union)

Jaguars missing “fire” at the start (Florida Times Union)

Jags playing way out of postseason (Florida Times Union)

Jaguars report card (Florida Times Union)

Monday morning quarterback (Florida Times Union)

What went right? (Florida Times Union)

Game photos (Florida Times Union)

Kicked to the curb (Orlando Sentinel)

Jags’ defense comes up short in crucial situations (Orlando Sentinel)

Jaguars get burned again on a long punt return (Orlando Sentinel)

The Recap (Orlando Sentinel)

Game photos (Orlando Sentinel)

Jaguars have to get hot (Jaguars.com)

Garrard leads comeback (Jaguars.com)

‘”Last week was the start of it,” he said. “There’s a lot of people involved with making this thing right.”‘

‘That purpose is to make sure home games sell out. The Bills have three home games in December, including the Miami game that has sold out for 19 straight years. But there are still tickets left for all of them.’

‘On an average Sunday Bathtub Billy’s in Greece is usually full of Bills fans, but on Sunday owner, Jim Wilson, says he had many empty tables. Sunday’s game was the first time an NFL game was blacked out this year. Wilson says it’s not fair, because he pays more than $6,000 for cable and satellite television packages in order to show the games. “I understand trying to draw people to the stadiums and I support that, but you’ve got to remember I’ve paid a lot of money for the rights to broadcast every game and now I cant even show it to my customers,” said Wilson.’