Archives for December 15, 2016

'Over 5,000 tickets are available on the website, and one could sit in the lower level in the end zone for as little as $10.'

'I raise your question, with a question. Why couldn’t Ryan just answer the simple question?'

'"I hate that guy, I'm going to kill him,'' he said with a laugh. "That's great. The mindset we're going to have is just the same way. We're going to make them the team we break the streak on so I think that's, as a football player, our competitive nature. That's the way we train ourselves to think every single week because you want to go in on that Sunday expecting to win."'

'"I wish Mike would have had one more year," Ryan said. "Owners have the opportunity to do whatever they see fit. I'm a big fan of Mike Pettine."'

'“See ya!” Pegula said to a reporter, indicating that he was in a hurry to board his private jet at nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.'

'"I don't want to keep going through all this craziness," Watkins said at his locker following practice Wednesday. "That kills a player and a team and an organization. I'm trying to move forward and trying to work on what I need to work on. I feel like with the coaches that we got, we can do it."'

'"When a team loses almost every game, it comes that question, who will be the team that they will beat," Bills running back LeSean McCoy said. "You never want to be that team."'

'"I think that (saying the effort wasn't there) discredits the team that beat us and also discredits the men I have in that locker room. We might not have played well, but I think the players gave effort. I think it's wrong to say our players didn't give effort, I think they did. This team didn't lay down."'

'"That's just a guarantee," Dareus told The Buffalo News on Wednesday. "We ain't gonna be that team. We're not going to be the team that busts [the Browns' losing streak] on them, no. Nobody in the league wants that to happen [to them] no."'

'“I want to move forward,” Watkins said Wednesday as reporters crowded around his locker. “I don’t want to go through this craziness and switching OCs and….. that kills a player and a team and an organization. I’m trying to move forward and trying to work on what I need to work on and I feel like the coaches that we got we can do it. It’s all the mentality. We as a team, culture, everything, have to tap into whatever we need to do to win. That’s what this is.”'

'Before practice, the Bills head coach also gave an update on other players not expected to practice. They included LB Lorenzo Alexander (rest day), TE Charles Clay (knee), WR Sammy Watkins (foot), LB Lerentee McCray (concussion), and OT Cordy Glenn (back).'

'“Everybody wants to be successful. You want the wins and the numbers and all that, but you know if everybody leaves here, then most likely it’s going to be a new start,” he said. “You don’t want to start over.”'

'The Bills sit just two rushing scores away from the team record of 26 set by the 1975 Bills who featured O.J. Simpson. It’s the first time since 1990 the Bills produced a 2,000-yard rushing season along with at least 20 rushing touchdowns.'

'The Browns are trying to avoid becoming the first team to go 0-16 since the 2008 Detroit Lions. Years ago, I spoke with several Lions personnel about that season, and about what it felt like on the way to 0-16. To a man, they maintained they never believed they could lose every game that season, right down to the final minutes of their season finale in Green Bay. They talked about looking up at the clock at the two-minute warning in Lambeau, and coming to the realization that they would not win a game that season.'

'“You can’t overlook them. This is the NFL,” Brown said. “People say they’d get beat by Alabama. That’s not going to happen. You’ve got to go out there and play each game hard. We haven’t beat a team with a winning record. This is a team we’re supposed to beat, but it doesn’t matter now. You have to go into each and every play with all your effort.”'