Archives for November 28, 2017

‘“He’s had a terrific rookie year, although there’s a lot more football to be played, but I can’t recall a rookie coming in and having this type of impact at corner when he’s been put in the fire as quickly as he was. It’s different than when you’re just a left corner or just a right corner and you just line up in your spot and you learn your responsibilities. We’ve asked him to match up on some big time guys and he’s held his own.”’

‘If you’re pining for a nice, juicy migraine, Brady has a 26-3 career record with 66 touchdown passes against the Bills, by far his best record and most TDs against one team. Only the Jets have allowed more yards passing to Brady, who played in two more games against New York than he did against Buffalo.’

‘Last Tuesday, New England signed defensive end Eric Lee off the Bills’ taxi squad. Yes, Lee wasn’t good enough to play for a defense that had just finished the worst three-game stretch in franchise history, but he was good enough to play for Belichick five days later.’

‘”Day to day” has been rendered largely meaningless as a classification — that’s the same time frame McDermott has used on left tackle Cordy Glenn, who hasn’t practiced or played in three weeks.’

‘On early downs, the Chiefs couldn’t run or stretch the field. The Bills protected deep against super tight end Travis Kelce. The Chiefs seemed scared to expose their suspect pass protection and kept quarterback Alex Smith working quick-game throws.’

‘As long as the Bills are “in the hunt,” there’s also the haunting possibility McDermott’s QB switch will be among the vital reasons they miss the postseason an 18th straight season.’

‘TE Charles Clay: His four catches and 60 receiving yards both led the team. Clay also earned a positive grade for his run blocking from PFF. He played 64 percent of the offensive snaps as he continues to fight through a knee injury that has made him a limited practice participant.’

‘The announcers were as solid and efficient as Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor in the Bills’ 16-10 win over the Chiefs Sunday so I’d be fine if we’d hear them call another game or two this season.’

‘You know, you start with the run defense. Mindset, number one, and then the run defense. Gap integrity, technique, good assignment, being 1/11th of the defense – that’s really where it starts. You guys have heard me talk about that when you’ve asked me where have the problems been in the run defense. That’s really where it started up front.’

‘Yeah, they did a good job. There’s a few things, obviously, when you come out of a game, you want to see some – we need to sharpen up some techniques, but they did a good job. [We] used a lot of different schemes early and had to switch. They were running through some gaps so we had to change some things up but I think they did a great job adjusting. Battling in [protection], pass pro, kept them off Tyrod [Taylor]. He went down three times but I think they could’ve been avoided.’