Archives for December 2014

‘The Bills are 4-3 on the road if you count the game against the Jets in Detroit as a road game. They finish up in Oakland and New England. The fun part is at least game 15 is relevant. To me it’s relevant thanks to the best defense in the National Football League.’

‘With those two factors in mind, regardless of how poorly the offense has played, Marrone has a solid enough case built for himself to return for a third season. There will need to be a vast amount of changes to the offensive side of the ball, but working with what he has had to in 2014, Marrone likely won’t have to go searching for an assistant coaching job elsewhere come January.’

‘How do you cool off the most torrid quarterback in football? Easy. You call on Rambo.’

‘This one goes out to Jordy Nelson for dropping a perfectly-thrown 95-yard touchdown pass. Telling you, if there was a “God of football”, he was all about his Bills today.’

‘It is an amazing, fell good, fun win for the fans of the Buffalo Bills. They are now 8-6 and still in the hunt with two games to play after playing very well against two of the league’s best the past two weeks. The playoffs are still going to be very hard to achieve but it is awesome that they are still alive and they now have a win over an elite team under their belt. Even if the playoffs don’t happen this year has absolutely been a big step forward.’

‘Jim Schwartz may be seeing a head coaching offer or two in the near future. His unit is just getting better and better as the year has progressed and they were pretty good to begin with.’

‘Facing the highest scoring team in the NFL, and a team with the best turnover margin in the league, Buffalo’s defense held Aaron Rodgers and the Packers to 10 points through three and a half quarters. Special teams added a 75-yard punt return for a score and a quartet of field goals from Dan Carpenter to lift the Bills to a surprising 21-13 win over Green Bay.’

‘”We talked about it all week and I think we talked about it Monday or Tuesday-we’re not going to get caught up in the hoopla of who we’re playing, or the gauntlet of quarterbacks. We’ve played great quarterbacks. We’ve played well against great quarterbacks,” said Williams, knowing their divisional rematch with Tom Brady looms in Week 17. “The only expectation we had was to play well and win that football game. We were able to do that.”‘

‘”We believed in each other all week. The coaches, the team, the players, everybody just believed in each other. We knew that we could come in here, do the right things, and do what the coaches ask us to do, and we could stop this team. We believe in each other, throughout this whole week. We still believe in each other. This is a huge confidence boost for the whole defense. To not allow not one quarterback, but two of the hottest quarterbacks in the NFL to no passing touchdowns, this is a huge, huge confidence boost for us.”‘

‘Well we believed in each other all week. The coaches, the team, the players, everybody just believed in each other. We knew that we could come in here, do the right things, and do what the coaches ask us to do, and we could stop this team. We believe in each other, throughout this whole week. We still believe in each other. This is just a huge confidence boost for the whole defense. To not allow not one quarterback, but two of the hottest quarterbacks in the NFL to no passing touchdowns, this is a huge, huge confidence boost for us.’

‘The Buffalo Bills already have been terrorized by Watt this year and will face Rodgers this afternoon in Ralph Wilson Stadium.’

‘Packers 27, Bills 20.’

‘Tiebreakers are a problem, and I can’t see them winning two of the last three. But a win would ensure their first .500 season in 10 years. I’ve given up trying to predict Pegula’s thinking, but that might be enough to save Marrone’s job in the eyes of a forgiving owner.’

‘The legal papers allege “that at the times Mr. Goodell affixed his rubber stamps to the contracts, he and the NFL knew that the Jills were employees rather than independent contractors following a 1995 decision of the National Labor Relations Board.”‘

‘”You turn on the film and he’s something special,” Matthews said. “He’s obviously in the running for MVP year in and year out, probably having a second MVP season this year. He’s smart, he knows what the defense is doing, he knows where the weaknesses are, he knows where to pick on. And he’s got a bunch of players who can complement him on the offensive side of the ball. It’s a hard offense to contain, and we know that from going up against him in practice.”‘