‘“Spandex layer, Carhartt overalls, probably about four or five shirts blows, hand warmers, hats,” listed Michael Drezek, a Bills season ticket holder on his way into the Bills Store on Tuesday night.’
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‘Too cold for them, just right for us’: Bills fans prepare for frigid game day temps
‘“It could be minus 30 and I think you would still have 73 thousand people there cheering on,” said lifelong Bills fan Jason Poch. “I think it’s one of those things where the cold has not stopped fans before, and as long as [the team] show up, they play, and we’re all there to cheer on the victory, no one’s going to remember in a couple weeks whether it was zero degrees or 30 degrees.”’
Heartbreak leads to grit: What the Bills learned from an up and down season
‘”We’ve been through the good and the bad, coming out on the back end, trying to get hot late, trending in the right direction, and we did that. So now we gotta take the next step and be consistent.”‘
Saturday’s Bills game could be one of the coldest games ever in Orchard Park
‘An air mass that is currently sitting over the Yukon Territory in northern Canada will move south over the eastern Great Lakes and Western New York on Friday and Saturday. Temperatures on Saturday are expected to only reach the mid teens with numbers falling into the single digits after sunset. ‘
Bills Backers of Boston ready for Saturday night
‘Since there will be a lot of Patriots fans looking for a place to watch the game, we asked Salemi what happens if a Patriots fan wanders into the Bills Backers watch party. “We have that happen all the time. They’re always confused because, you know, initially they walk in, they see the red, the blue, and they just make a beeline to look for a spot, and then they kind of, you can see them look around and they’re like wait a minute, and they kind of do a circle and then head back out,” says Salemi.’
Bills prepare for extreme cold ahead of playoff matchup with Patriots
‘“My toes get really cold and they go numb a little bit,” Allen said. “So it’s keeping those suckers as warm and as dry as possible. As well as the hands. Obviously, that’s a big emphasis for quarterbacks. You need your hands to throw. Keeping those extremities as warm as possible.”’
Have Bills tickets? Saturday’s game could be one of the coldest home games in history
‘While much of WNY will climb at or above freezing Wednesday and Thursday, an arctic cold front will drop southward late day Thursday. This will spark a shift to a northerly wind, ushering in a fresh and potent bitterly cold air mass that will ooze southward Friday into Saturday.’
Bills fan doesn’t let anything hold him back from attending game vs Jets
‘Bills fan Chris Wood lost four of his fingers in a workplace accident back a few weeks ago. But that didn’t stop him from heading to Orchard Park to watch Buffalo clinch the AFC East last Sunday against the New York Jets.’
Relying on this has helped the Bills offense develop heading into the playoffs
‘”I think when you’re able to put the ball on the ground and be productive, especially on first and second downs, it helps your offense,” Bills’ center Mitch Morse said. “And then if you’re being one-dimensional or you can’t really run the ball, it just opens the playbook for these coordinators to bring all sorts of stuff that offense linemen hate to see. So do quarterbacks. So even the threat of run helps.”‘
What they’re saying | National analysts handicap Bills vs. Pats in the Wild Card Round
‘While they had two signature wins this season — in Week 5 over the Chiefs and in Week 16 over the Patriots — the Bills largely feasted this season on inferior quarterbacks. If anything, as FiveThirtyEight.com pointed out, they underperformed based on their schedule this season. Six of their victories came against teams that were using a backup quarterback; and against the five best quarterbacks they faced in 2021, the Bills went 2-3. It stands to reason that you’re much more likely to face the latter than the former in the playoffs. In other words, the Bills won the AFC East and they will host a home playoff game without us really understanding how good they are (or aren’t).’
Bills, Patriots prepare for a third meeting
‘“We played them toward the end of the season (barely two weeks ago) in a short time frame,” Buffalo’s offensive coordinator Brian Daboll said. “Obviously we’re going to be matched up against them Saturday night so there’s some familiarity with the players and the matchups, but schemes change and each game is its own game particularly against a team like (the Patriots).”’
Upon Further Review: Secondary’s show of solidarity after division-clinching win speaks volumes
‘”I grind out for these guys on and off the field any day of the week and even No. 27 right here. So it just goes to show, Micah and I’ve been here five years, Levi, four, Taron four, Dane two. We’ve just been putting the work in ever since we stepped foot in this building, so it’s extremely special to win this thing at home, win the AFC East at home, and we definitely wish 27 was here. But you know, we know he’s going to bounce back.”’
Thanks to third-down defensive prowess by Bills, Jets ran just 46 offensive plays Sunday
‘That’s the second-fewest amount of plays the Bills’ defense faced in a single game during the 2021 regular season, trailing only the 42 ran by the Houston Texans in Week 4. A big reason the Bills faced so few plays is because the defense held the Jets to just 1 of 14 on third downs, forcing 11 punts, one of which was blocked.’
Analysis: Extra offensive lineman giving Bills running game some added punch
‘The Bills used a sixth offensive lineman to help overpower New York on the line of scrimmage in springing Singletary. Rookie Tommy Doyle lined up at right tackle. Spencer Brown moved to the other side of the line and set up outside of left tackle Dion Dawkins. The Bills used a sixth offensive lineman on 15 plays against the Jets, their most in any game this season.’
Observations: ‘Nothing official yet’ in regards to Leslie Frazier interviewing for Bears’ coaching job
‘“I really don’t know anything about it,” Frazier said Monday, a day after the Bills wrapped up the regular season with a 27-10 victory over the New York Jets at Highmark Stadium, a win that secured a second straight AFC East title. “We’ve been in meetings all day and you can imagine on a short week, just finished a ballgame yesterday. It’s almost like you’re in a cave working as hard as you can to get up to speed on whatever changes you want to make, and with the team that we’re facing. I have not really followed any news reports or really don’t know a whole lot about what’s going on around the league right now.”’