Archives for October 29, 2009

‘Houston enters the game averaging 23.9 points for but 22.6 against. The Bills shut down quarterbacks Derek Anderson, Mark Sanchez and Jake Delhomme but Matt Schaub is playing at a very high level and has just five interceptions to go with an NFL-leading 16 scoring passes. He isn’t easily rattled (114.5 rating on the road this year) but the Bills have to try. The Bills would get a break if WR Andre Johnson (16.7 yards per catch) can’t play or is slowed by a chest injury and for once an opponent doesn’t have an overpowering run game.’

‘”Stats can give you an idea but at the end of the day, you’ve got to line up across from the man in front of you and whup him,” SS George Wilson said. “We’re not worried about the stats. We have an opportunity to play Houston at home and even our record to 4-4 after a 1-4 start. It’s a great opportunity that we can’t allow to pass up.”‘

‘”I was kind of getting accustomed to it,” Neill said. “After I was released from Buffalo in the preseason, I had a work out with Tennessee, San Diego and Cincinnati and now down here in St. Louis. I was getting used to that three- or four-guy type of thing.”‘