Archives for December 2009

‘”When you play a team like New England that has dominated us over the last 12 or 13 ballgames, you can’t make those types of mistakes and expect to win,” said Bills coach Perry Fewell. “When we do that, we kill ourselves. It’s tough to beat a good football team like New England, but when you kill yourself with those kinds of mistakes then you lessen the chance of your probability to win.”‘

‘Didn’t do enough with running game after Pats made halftime adjustments. Putting rookie Ramsey in cold on third-and-goal blew up in their faces. Grade: C.’

‘The Bills have the worst division record in the AFC East since 2001, at 19-37.’

‘Owens said it best when he spoke sincerely after Sunday’s humiliating loss. Humiliating mostly because the Patriots didn’t play well, yet never really had to worry about the outcome. “I think it’s just going to take some changes,” Owens said when asked what it will take for the Bills to beat the Patriots in a rivalry he’ll never have to worry about after two more weeks. Something has to be done, and again, those are not my decisions to make. I’m just trying to live up to my end of the bargain.”‘

‘Fewell had hoped inserting Edwards would be able to spark the offense. “We were not converting on the third downs,” Fewell said. “We needed something to give us some momentum so I made the decision.”‘

‘”The first drive was the game plan, and then the next few series that we had, we got ourselves into some trouble,” Fitzpatrick said. “When you’re going to play a game like that where you want to wear your opponent out, you have to play mistake free football.”‘

‘”They’re a good team and we can’t do what we did today with all the penalties and the mistakes that we had to help them,” said Fred Jackson, Buffalo running back. “We have to take advantage of every opportunity we have to beat them.”‘

‘Incognito’s contract is up at the end of the year. He will become a free agent this offseason and I don’t see why Buffalo wouldn’t give him a serious look. This could be a big pick up for a team which has a poor offensive line.’

‘”Very sick of the losses to the Patriots,” Whitner said. “They have a little swagger about themselves. They know they’ve beaten us so many times and it would just be good to go out there and beat them and stop that streak and take some of those smiles off their faces.”’

Power trip (Boston Globe)

Defense was hardly afraid to mix it up (Boston Globe)

Biggest story involved Moss (Boston Globe)

In the end, crumpled Bills (Boston Globe)

Brady concerned with just one statistic (Boston Globe)

Maroney warms to the task (Boston Globe)

He’s star of action picture (Boston Globe)

Photo gallery (Boston Globe)

Patriots get away with it (Boston Herald)

Walk works wonders to puzzle Bills (Boston Herald)

Tully Banta-Cain rushes in with hat trick of QB sacks (Boston Herald)

Patriots WR Randy Moss still onboard (Boston Herald)

These Patriots can no longer worry about just themselves (Boston Herald)

Just enough to get by (Boston Herald)

Best and worst of yesterday’s game (Boston Herald)

Play of the game (Boston Herald)

Patriots Player of the Game (Boston Herald)

The brothers Brady (Boston Herald)

Won for the road (Providence Journal)

Banta-Cain, Pats use ‘organized chaos’ to gain upper hand (Providence Journal)

Loud and clear, Moss is heard (Providence Journal)

Offense made running game a priority (Providence Journal)

Pats do enough to win (Providence Journal)

These Pats still tough to embrace (Lawrence Eagle Tribune)

Two-minute drill (Lawrence Eagle Tribune)

Maroney’s been Pats’ grinder (Manchester Union Leader)

Pats ‘good enough’ in Buffalo (Patriots.com)

Game Notes: Patriots at Bills (Patriots.com)

Patriots Postgame Quotes (Patriots.com)

Bill Belichick Postgame Presser (Patriots.com)

Tom Brady Postgame Presser (Patriots.com)

Tully Banta-Cain Press Conference (Patriots.com)

Randy Moss Postgame Presser (Patriots.com)

Photo gallery (Patriots.com)

Photo gallery (BuffaloBills.com)

Photo gallery (AP)

Photo gallery (Buffalo News)

‘I love his enthusiasm and the fact he isn’t afraid to make changes on the fly, and I also appreciate his outspoken manner. I get the feeling the players may not always like what he says or how he says it, but they respect his honesty and don’t have to guess what he means by reading between the lines. Fewell is now 2-3 as the “head coach”, and could easily be 4-1 or even 5-0 with ANY kind of offensive line and a halfway decent quarterback.’

‘Perry Fewell looked like Dick Jauron in this game.’

‘Right when I was convincing Alex Van Pelt wasn’t to blame all that much for the Bills woes, he spends another week ignoring the fact that his running backs were gashing the opposition. I feel like Fred Jackson’s stat line sat at 11 carries for 73 yards for almost a full quarter.’

‘It was the type of low scoring, ugly, boring game I expected to see. Unfortunately, the outcome was exactly what I expected as well another Bills loss. What was disheartning about it was that the Bills seemed to take many steps back with more penalties, sacks, poor execution, and lack of passion. They were never really in the game in the second half despite winning the battle in the stat game. This does drive the point even further that they do need a full house cleaning on January 4th.’

‘Trent Edwards took over for Buffalo early in the fourth quarter, but his relief stint was a brief one, lasting only four plays. To make matters worse, the former starting quarterback appeared to sustain an ankle injury while being wrapped up by Patriots linebacker Tully Banta-Cain.’