Archives for October 2, 2012

‘This beating felt a bit different, however, since the Bills were on their way to rolling through the Patriots before the roof caved in. Leading 21-7, the crowd was as loud as ever and the Patriots were reeling. Except, the Patriots were not reeling at all. In fact, they were just getting warmed up.’

‘Pretty simple–especially when New England can use Pro Bowl Tight End Rob Gronkowski as an extra blocker.’

‘”I was just trying to squeeze it in. I was just careless with the ball. It was a big momentum swing, with our defense having just gotten a turnover. For us to walk away with nothing, you can’t do that and win games.”‘

‘”It hasn’t been a concern, but you can’t be ahead 21-7 in the third quarter, if we’re mentally tough like we need to be that game doesn’t end up the way it ended up,” said Gailey in reference to Sunday’s loss to New England. “That’s my responsibility, to work on the mental toughness and the mindset of this football team.”‘

‘It’s hard not to see Buffalo as the team totally debunked in the losses to the Jets and Pats, rather than the one that beat NFL also-rans Kansas City and Cleveland.’

‘The timing is less than ideal. The 49ers are ranked fifth against the run this season, allowing just 79.5 yards per game. That’s actually slightly more than they allowed last season, when their 77.2 yards per game led the NFL.’

‘Rather than heap more abuse on the Bills after Sunday’s debacle, I decided to lighten up a bit and compile of a list of those infamous backs, some of them whose names you’d long forgotten. My “Coming of Age against Buffalo” Dirty Dozen backs from the last eight years.’

‘But for Cuomo, whose administration was recently criticized for being slow to get into the increasingly urgent talks over a new Bills stadium lease agreement, these negotiations also present potential political pitfalls.’

‘I know it’s only a month into the season, but if water was pouring into your house, would you say the roof didn’t leak?’

‘”Well it’s not your ideal situation, obviously, but we have guys that we have a comfort level with that we’ve had play in games,” Gailey said referring to Chad Rinehart and Chris Hairston.’

‘”The most discouraging thing about it is that they literally ran three running plays,” Williams said. “They ran the same thing over and over and over.” And it worked, over and over and over.’

‘”We were high-fiving each other like we were going to win,” Ritcher said. “Then Emmitt Smith just came out in the second half, and he wasn’t going to be stopped.”‘

‘Placing the blame on everyone, including himself, Gailey called it his responsibility on Monday to address how Buffalo squandered a 14-point lead, allowing the Patriots to score 45 second-half points in rallying to a 52-28 win.’

‘As inept as the game plan against New England was because it featured Bryan Scott playing most of the game and Kelvin Sheppard and Arthur Moats on the bench, Chan Gailey had no problem with it, “That was fine. I’m fine with it. I’ve got complete confidence in Dave and what they’re trying to do and where we’ve got our people situated. That’s the majority of it, is where do you have your people situated? We’ve got our people in the right spots. We’re sound. We just have to continue to get better. We have to be able to stop the run which we did for two games and we didn’t for two games. I think we’re capable of doing that.”‘