Archives for September 2009

‘”Any given day, anybody in the National Football League can be beaten, and it just takes us to go out there and execute, play our game and just put our best foot forward,” said Bills safety Donte Whitner. “And that’s what we plan to do.”‘

‘So you never know, especially when the season hasn’t even begun yet. If I keep this up, I might even convince myself that they’ll actually pull it off.’

‘Patriots, 34- 17.’

‘If coming to this venue where they have never won in seven visits, to play in front of a national cable TV audience on ESPN against a team they’ve beaten once in the last 17 tries, was all that was confronting the Bills, they’d be undeniable underdogs.’

‘Are the Patriots as good as everyone seems to think they are? New England is the overwhelming choice by experts to win the AFC East. Seems reasonable with Brady returning, and offensive weapons such as Randy Moss, Wes Welker (who may not play tonight), and Laurence Maroney, plus coach Bill Belichick. But the defense is missing five starters from a year ago including leaders such as Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel and Rodney Harrison. So there are a few questions, just not enough to make them worry about the Bills.’

‘Away from the field, Moss wants to be left alone. Away from the field, Owens has his own reality show on VH1 ensuring fans get enough T.O. in their diet, whether they want it or not. Yet, these two men do share one trait. Both likely are bound for the hall of fame. And hall-of-shame bound.’

‘You can’t win in the NFL when the wolves are at the door, or even when you act as if they are.’

‘The man who has crowned himself “the eighth wonder of the world” dared to envision the unfathomable. Preparing for his first trip to Foxborough since 1998, Owens embraced the possibility of leading Buffalo to victory over a Patriots team that has thwacked the Bills 11 straight times by an average margin of 20 1/2 points.’

‘Patriots 38, Bills 9.’

‘Springs downplayed things a bit, particularly when he was called the “T.O. Stopper.” “I don’t know about that,” he said. “All that’s in the past; each year is different with him. You play a guy like that, you see where you’re at because he’s going to try and dominate any opponent and he comes out and he works really hard so you have to be ready for him. The good thing about him is, either you’re going to be the bug or the windshield. One of the two. And you have to like playing against guys like that.”‘

‘How bad are the Bills? Really bad. Terrible, really. Horrible, actually. So bad that they make the Detroit Lions seem like a Super Bowl team in comparison.’

‘Patriots win, 35-7.’

‘”He’s all about the circus show and the cameras, and it’s all about that. But you best believe he’ll have Shawn Springs in his grill and Brandon Meriweather will be putting his helmet down his throat,” Harrison said. “He’s just so, so miserable. He wants to seek so much attention. I don’t know. Something happened a long, long (time) ago, before we even knew T.O., that just made him like this. The guy is such a phenomenal talent, but his clown antics and his tactics just take away, year after year.”‘