Archives for October 31, 2011

‘What more can anyone say about Fred Jackson?’

‘”We’ve been getting pressure, we’ve just not been getting the sacks,” said Spencer Johnson, who stepped in at outside linebacker in place of the injured Shawne Merriman. “Sacks come in bunches and if we just keep plugging along going in that right direction, keep working hard in practice and focusing on what we can do, you can see what we can do.”‘

‘”I kind of took it personally, myself,” Dareus said. “We just hadn’t been doing a good job of getting after the quarterback and bringing as much pressure as we could.”‘

‘Chan Gailey’s offense and George Edwards’ defense made Washington look silly. John Beck turned in a decent game a week ago, but he looked helpless today. Edwards has faced a lot of scrutiny for how many yards his defense has allowed, but he deserves a lot of credit tonight. We’ll see how the coaches handle the New York Jets who will be coming off their bye week.’

‘”Any time we get our defence playing the way they did today, we’re going to be a hard team to beat,” said Jackson, whose 120 yards rushing and 74 receiving more than carried the day. “We could have won with a field goal with the way they played. A shutout is never easy in this league.”‘

‘Part of it may have been the fact that the Bills were well rested, coming off a bye week. Part of it may have been how poorly the Redskins played.’

‘”I have a whole new respect for Toronto,” said George Wilson, the Bills defensive back who has been so critical of his team giving up a home game for what has previously been a lukewarm response. “That’s the loudest it’s been in the games we’ve played here. It was night and day different from the other games.”‘

‘”This year was the best,” said Torontonian Randy DiFonzo. “Way better than last year.”‘

‘”Winning” doesn’t quite cover what happened Sunday – Buffalo dominated in every aspect of the game from start to finish.’

‘What’s interesting is how prosperity can change perspective. Reading the Buffalo media leading up to the weekend, a game in dreaded Toronto now feels like a bump in the road for the suddenly high-flying Bills. It’s hard not to feel like we’re the rich kid the Bills are hanging out with just for his money.’

‘”You’re not in your routine, and you don’t know if your guys are back into it or not,” Gailey said. “We had a couple guys late for meetings because they weren’t back into the routine, so it makes you nervous as a coach.”‘

‘”You never want to come off the bye week slow,” Chandler said afterwards. “And to be able to come off like we did, defence playing with their hair on fire all day, pitching a shutout, that’s real exciting for us.”‘

‘The Rogers Centre is not going to be Ralph Wilson Stadium; it won’t be snowing or blowing and the only time you’ll find a 12th Man up here is when the Argonauts are playing. But since both sides seem to think there’s something of value in the deal, the guess here is the Bills Toronto Series isn’t going to go away. The suits won’t let it.’

‘Fitzpatrick had plenty of help, though, with Jackson adding 194 all-purpose yards. But the win was more notable for the defence.’

‘”At one point they were doing the wave when we were on offence, and it was really loud, and we couldn’t hear anything, and we got a false start,” said Bills receiver David Nelson, who caught four passes for 47 yards. “Usually, that’s to your advantage – when you’re home it’s real quiet on offence and you can hear the cadences, you can hear the changes – and a couple times here we had some issues, not being able to hear. But we’d rather have it like that than not at all.”‘