‘“We’re building something special here,” fullback Patrick DiMarco said. “Watching Josh do what he did is super encouraging, and I think there’s great things ahead for this organization.”’
Archives for December 31, 2018
Bills’ LeSean McCoy vows he’ll be back with a ‘chip on my shoulder’
‘“This is not the type of production that I’m used to,” McCoy said. “But it is what it is. I’m tough. I’ll bounce back. I think they’ll make the right moves this offseason and get the right pieces. I’ll be back. This is good for me. This is good for a lot of reasons, one of them is that it puts a chip on my shoulder. I always try to have different goals. I think one of them is to prove myself that I still am who I am.”’
Bills will have top-10 draft pick, but exact spot is still unclear
‘The issue there is that opponents of both the Bills and Broncos went 133-121-2, an identical strength of schedule of .523 (this assumes the Sunday night game between Tennessee and Indianapolis did not end in a tie).’
Jason Wolf: Kyle Williams retires with emotional victory, calls Bills fans ‘kindred spirits’
‘“Kyle is just one of those guys that everybody loves him,” Allen said, “so for us to go out and know what’s at stake, put forth our best effort, really play our best game all year, and it happened to be this game, I’m sure it’s pretty special for him. And it’s special for this team and this city to see how we played and how we wanted to play for him and to send him out the way that we did.”‘
Jay Skurski’s 10 observations: Josh Allen runs wild in Bills’ season finale
‘“It just kind of unfolded,” Allen said of the scoring run. “Kind of got forced out of the pocket, had a decision to throw it or run it, and decided to keep it and got some blocks down field, made the guy miss and ended up in the end zone.”’
Plays that Shaped the Game: Dolphins learn danger of blitzing Josh Allen
‘Allen gives Bills fans hope that maybe the team has found that guy.’
Quarterly Report: Josh Allen looks dynamic; Ryan Tannehill does not
‘The Bills allowed 40 third-quarter points, fewest in the NFL.’
Bills-Dolphins Report Card: Rare ‘A’ grade for Buffalo’s passing game
‘Wide receiver Zay Jones had six catches for 93 yards and two touchdowns. He’d be a first-team All-Pro if he could play all his games against Miami. In two games against the Dolphins this year, Jones had 10 catches for 160 yards and four touchdowns. Rookie Robert Foster had four catches for 21 yards, and also scored a touchdown. McCoy added 18 yards on two catches. He looked like he had a spring in his step when he got in the open field. Ivory’s only catch went for 46 yards, most of it after the catch. Oh, and Kyle Williams got the first catch of his career. Awesome. The big slip up was Allen’s pick-six in the first half.’
Kyle Williams catches a pass and Bills send him into retirement a winner
‘Since he joined the Bills as a fifth-round draft choice in 2006, the team compiled a gruesome record of 76-120 and appeared in just one postseason game, which it lost last January in Jacksonville. Through all the losing, Williams just plugged away on every snap he played, always doing his job no matter what the scoreboard said.’
Maiorana: Josh Allen saves his best for last with 5 touchdowns to finish rookie season
‘In other words, he played the way most rookie quarterbacks play, especially those who wind up on sub-par teams that lack enough talent to enable the player to succeed. After all, not everyone gets to be Russell Wilson landing with the Seahawks, or Ben Roethlisberger going to the Steelers, and enjoying immediate individual and team success as rookies.’
Who are the players who may be playing their final games for the Bills Sunday?
‘Clay, who has one year left on his contract, has endured a miserable season and he finished with just 21 catches for 184 yards and no touchdowns. In his first three years with the Bills, Clay averaged 52 receptions with a high of 57 in 2016, and his best yardage season was 558 yards in 2017, even though he missed three games due to injury.’
Roth: Kyle Williams’ farewell lap was perfect tribute to football love affair in Buffalo
‘Williams’ years in Buffalo weren’t so much a career as a beautiful marriage between a hard-working, humble, tough-as-boot-leather kid from Louisiana and a blue-collar city in western New York.’
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‘It was a great way for the Bills to end their season. They scored a season-high 42 points, thanks in large part to a perfect 4-for-4 success rate in the red zone. On offense the Bills rolled up 381 yards while the defense held the listless Dolphins to 225 despite the time of possession being almost dead even. On an emotional day with Kyle Williams playing his last game of his 13-year career, the Bills could have stumbled in this one. Instead, other than a brief lapse in the second quarter, the Bills dominated the underachieving Dolphins across the board.’
Fish squished in emotional Bills season finale
‘The win made Allen 5-6 as a starter and the factor that stood out in the 12 games he played is his mobility, a weapon displayed again yesterday. He rushed 95 yards on nine carries and two of those were 1-yard-loss kneel-downs. Thus, he just missed logging a third 100-yard rushing game this season and had four starts in which he totaled at least 95.’
Pollock: Touching finale sent Williams into retirement
‘Afterward, McDermott said of his orchestrated effort to bring Williams out of the game, “I just thought you don’t have those opportunities a lot to be able to do that. It’s more of a basketball-type deal. But to be able to put the defense out there one more time … it was more important to me to honor Kyle’s career than it was potentially to score one more touchdown.’