Archives for October 11, 2012

‘The way Ryan Fitzpatrick has played this season leads me to believe the Bills brain trust will finally realize he isn’t the answer and its time to make drafting a quarterback the number one priority.’

‘Nick Barnett shined early on in the game against San Francisco, serving as the main reason the Bills were able to keep the 49ers out of the end zone on their first scoring drive. Barnett made two consecutive plays to stop Frank Gore from breaking the plane. His other big play of the game came at the end of the first half when he forced Colin Kaepernick to fumble. He struggled a few times as the game wore on, getting swallowed up blockers once and getting blocked eight yards down the field another time. It was an improvement from last week, but not near the standard he set through the first three games.’

‘Well, I think that is all you can do. You cannot dwell on it. It is a long season, and the last two games we played have been ugly for us, but we still have a lot of work to do. We still have an opportunity to get to where we want to be this season and the only thing we can do is control what we do from here on out and not focus on the past.’

‘It’s a much better feeling today than it’s been the last few days, I think, just in terms of putting that loss behind us. Really getting to dive in and focus on Arizona and the things that we’re doing with our schemes, it’s definitely a new week for us. We’ve got our plays that we put in today; we’ve watched a lot of film in terms of what we think they’re going to do against some of our stuff. When you start focusing on football and get away from all of the negative media stuff, and all of the injuries, and just focus on your job I think it’s refreshing to get back into that.’

‘Well, we have to play better in the second half. To me we have played pretty well in the first half of both games, but we have just lost it in the second half. We just need to play better in the second half. Play in the second half like we did in the first half and we will be alright.’

‘The focus is this game in front of us. Going out and the biggest thing for us or any team is that it is all about where you go right now. Those games are behind us. There is nothing we can do about it. We can sit here and talk about it all day amongst the team, but that is not going to change a loss to a victory. I think the biggest thing for us we are focusing on right now is doing what we can do right now in the present.’

‘”Well he’s going to miss significant time,” Bills GM Buddy Nix told Buffalobills.com. “We don’t know exactly how long it’ll be yet. We should know by tonight or first thing in the morning how long it’ll be, but we do know that he’s out right now.”‘