Archives for December 7, 2012

‘”It’s always a good trait to have as a player,” Levitre said. “Obviously the coaches want to have you out there as a player as much as you can be out there. Being as lucky as I have been to not be injured, it kinda adds to my value.”‘

‘Zuerlein has seven field goals of 50 or more yards this season, one short of the NFL season record shared by Morten Andersen and Jason Hanson. ‘

‘”I’d be a firefighter. They do it for the right reasons: to be able to rescue people. It’s a job basically where you’re helping people out every day. I’d like to be a person who helped disaster from happening.”‘

‘People will watch the Bills game on television Sunday at nursing homes, in bars and in countless living rooms because of Russ Salvatore. The upscale restaurant/hotel owner spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy enough tickets to lift the local TV blackout. He did the same thing two years ago, donating the tickets to military and youth groups. Last month, he bought 350 TVs for patients’ rooms at ECMC.’

‘”Once they found him they were trying to test him and he held up,” Byrd said. “He did a good job. Everybody goes through it, the evolution of being a rookie. He’s only going to get better.”‘

‘”It is not something that I relate to very well,” Bills coach Chan Gailey said of his brainy QB. “I say all the time, ‘He knows a lot more than I do.’ I ask his opinion and we have a good give-and-take about what we need to do. He sees his picture extremely well, and I try to add the big picture thought process to it. Between the two of us, hopefully, we come up with something that is good enough to win with.”‘

Fitzpatrick uses his smarts in Buffalo (Saint Louis Post Dispatch)

Bradford going deep, and using his feet (Saint Louis Post Dispatch)

Rams enjoying deepest defensive unit in years (AP)

Do the Rams have a shot at the playoffs? (KMOV-TV)

Rams stay focused on Bills, not playoffs (KMOV-TV)

String of top rushers continue for Rams this week (KMOV-TV)

Bradford Adding Run to Repertoire (StLouisRams.com)

Rams Players Brighten Days During Love Light Festival (StLouisRams.com)

Rams Gear Up for Physical Final Month (StLouisRams.com)

‘Coach Chan Gailey will shuffle his line, and use rookie David Snow and also veteran Sam Young at times to replace Hairston, 23, a 6-foot-6, 330-pound right tackle out of Clemson.’

‘”Without a doubt, especially when you’ve got a team coming in that plays in a dome,” running back Fred Jackson said. “There’s teams that can come in and play in any condition. We know that. But some teams aren’t ready for it. They don’t play in it like we do.”‘

‘The Clemson product is the second Bills player to land on IR in two days, following defensive end Chris Kelsay.’

‘Bills 23, Rams 17.’

‘”For whatever reason the last two years, it’s something we’ve had to deal with on more than one occasion, just plugging new guys in,” QB Ryan Fitzpatrick said. “We’ll see on Sunday. I know that they’re willing to do it, but we’ll see if they’ll be able to go out there and do it.”‘

‘”It was one of those where they said it was a situation where he’s going to probably need surgery,” Gailey said. “They could have done something and maybe got him back for the last game or the next week, but it probably wouldn’t have happened that way.”‘

‘At 5-7 going into the final quarter of the season, the record is exactly where it was last season at this point of the schedule. But there are a number of areas in which the team has improved in terms of personnel on the field.’

‘Now, I totally understand that it’s unrealistic to expect the Bills to run the ball 46 times every game. Game situations will dictate different things, but they still have to insist on it.’