Archives for November 3, 2009

‘”The fake punt was huge, obviously … that left our defense with a short field to defend and they were tired out. They got tired out because we struggled offensively … (we were) just looking for some kind of spark and it didn’t work. They went from 17 (points) to 24 and it snowballed from there.”‘

‘”If you’re going to grow up in this league and you want to be a good football team, you have to understand that you’re going to go through adversity,” coach Gary Kubiak said afterward. “Through adversity, teams get stronger or they go the other way. This tells you the character of the group. They didn’t make excuses.”‘

‘With two more interceptions, rookie free safety Jairus Byrd became only the second player in NFL history to have three consecutive multiple interception games, the first being San Francisco’s Dave Baker in 1960. In picking off Houston’s Matt Schaub twice in the first quarter, Byrd also has interceptions in four straight games, tying the franchise record held by seven others, most recently safety Jeff Nixon in 1980.’

‘”We’re glad that there’s a bye week, because we’ve got a lot of stuff to figure out,” Fitzpatrick said Monday, a day after the Bills stumbled through a 31-10 loss to Houston. “It was a tough one to sleep on.”‘