Archives for October 2015

'Consistency is the mark of a true championship contender. This football team just hasn't learned how to win yet. That sounds so vague, but it's true. It takes time for the team and patience from the fans. I know the latter is in pretty short supply in Orchard Park these days.'

'Instead of hammering his players with negative reinforcement at 0-2, Coughlin kept them positive in the face of the negativity surrounding the poor start, reminding them about the good things they were doing and pointing out the “little things’’ that were keeping them from winning.'

'"So sometimes penalties don't tell the whole story," Ryan said. "But sometimes they do."'

'Without needing to worry about those two dynamic players, the Giants effectively clamped down on wide receivers Percy Harvin and Robert Woods, and New York often had eight men in the box to handle rookie running back Karlos Williams. And that was the name of a tune that ended with New York winning 24-10. '

'"I mean, it's embarrassing," Graham said. "It's embarrassing to go out there and get all those penalties. I mean, it's one after another. Dumb penalties, situations you just have to shut up sometimes. Let's not sit here and act like it doesn't factor in. I mean, if it's close, they're going to throw the flag on us. As players, you have to know that you can't be borderline."'

'“I don’t know how significant that is, we will see,” Ryan said of Rambo’s quad injury. “And then [MarQueis" target="_blank"> Gray he might have broken a forearm. He might have broken a bone in his forearm. So those are the two guys that, out of the game, I think those are the only two guys."'

'“Make no mistake, we’re trying to get it fixed,” Ryan said, before adding that he and his staff will do some things with his players that he wouldn’t divulge. “I’m not going to share with you some of the things we’re going to do, physically, and everything else, until I have a chance to address my team.”'

'Ryan said he has some ideas and first wants to discuss it with his players. He also didn’t rule out the idea of benching players for it as well. Either way, the Bills are acknowledging all the calls against them were an internal problem, and one they have to sort out immediately.'

'“I think he’s playing extremely well,” said head coach Rex Ryan of Gilmore. “He’s made several great plays so you know he’s playing like we envisioned him. He’s one of the top guys certainly at that position so he’s playing extremely well.”'

'I never thought I’d say this, but I wish Rex Ryan were more like Doug Marrone.'

'Those penalties, besides costing the Buffalo two TDs, also extended a New York drive in which it disdained a made field goal and went in for a touchdown. That’s an 18-point swing, if you’re counting.'

'“New England was definitely the low point,” he said. “Those penalties were all on us (Buffalo’s fault) not them. But there were a lot of things going on out there today, from a lot of different perspectives … a lot of things you get in trouble for talking about. So we’ll just leave it at that. Obviously, we have to be better, but a lot of people have to be better.”'

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'They lost for multiple reasons – with shortcomings in all phases – but the most glaring was a defense that not only failed to live up to its price tag and Ryan’s boasting, but managed to reach a whole new level of embarrassment.'

'Yet Taylor rarely went deep at all and Williams, who starred the first three games, was bottled up. A non-factor. The Bills didn’t even have a 20-yard play until the 8:13 mark of the third quarter. For one game, anyway, this resembled Bills offenses of Edwards and Losman and Fitzpatrick.'