Two Bills Drive

‘"The ability to get Drew Bledsoe speeded everything up for us," Donahoe admits. "We’re very young and we’d like to think our team will grow and get better. Our scouts have done a good job of getting the roster turned over. We’ve had three good drafts in a row. You need free agency and you have to sprinkle guys in, but the draft is still the life blood of your team. The young guys fit better under the salary cap."’

‘This Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills will become the first home-opener in Jaguars history not to be shown on local television.’

‘The Jaguars fell about 8,000 tickets short of the ticket sales needed by Thursday to air the game live within a 75-mile area of Jacksonville.’

‘"They have a tremendous defensive front and it’s going to be a tremendous challenge and entirely different challenge that we had going into the Patriots game. These guys don’t really try to fool you, they just line up and say here we are see if you can handle us, they are a load."’

Woody said he will never forget the block by linebacker London Fletcher that laid him out in Buffalo. “I’ve never been hit like that before,” said Woody. “And I don’t ever want to be again. I told him I’d get him the next time.” . . .

‘The Bills’ takeaway total stood at four last year – after the sixth game of the season.’

‘Weather could be a big factor for the Buffalo Bills in Sunday’s game at Jacksonville. The forecast calls for a temperature of 89 degrees.’

‘Bills President and General Manager Tom Donahoe reports the Bills are willing to host a Monday night game. I was surprised they didn’t get one this year, after their improvement last season.’

‘” He has taken a shell of a football team and in a relatively short period of time turned it into a contender,” Wilson said. ” He is as hard a worker as I’ve ever seen and he is as good a judge of talent as we’ve ever had. Every move in this business is a gamble and he’s pretty much hit on all of them. He’s done a remarkable job.”‘

‘” Definitely, I want to go down there and get a victory,” Shaw said. ” You never want to go play against your old team and not come out on top. It will be a big thing where I’m hoping we can get down there and produce a big win.”‘

‘”The crowd was big, man, very big,” Spikes said. “Myself, I am a very emotional guy when I’m out there on the field. I love to talk and see the fans get into it. I don’t think a lot of people know that it helps defensively. It is big.”‘

‘Although the Bills have Drew Bledsoe at quarterback and like to throw, the Jaguars won’t be surprised if the Bills call the toss sweep several times with Travis Henry, who gained 86 yards last week in a 31-0 victory against New England.’

‘The Jaguars home opener is Sunday. Unless the four people I saw in line outside Alltel Stadium on Wednesday bought about 2,000 tickets each, the Jags came up about 9,000 tickets short of averting a TV blackout for their first home game.’

‘Reich, who started his new job July 1, has more than some incredible comeback stories to inspire his students and faculty members. He is fond of reminding listeners that he followed the Houston thriller by setting an inauspicious NFL record just weeks later, losing three fumbles in the Bills’ humiliating 52-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVII. “(God) was with me that day, too,” Reich said as he led a visitor down one of the seminary’s tree-lined paths on a summer morning. “Both games were tremendous experiences and I love to talk about them. But you need to talk about the whole package.”‘