Two Bills Drive

‘”We’re still a confident group,” linebacker London Fletcher said. Nobody is quite sure why.’

‘Hasn’t anybody heard that the best defense is a ball-hogging offense? It wouldn’t have hurt for Kevin Gilbride to slow Sunday’s game down and attempt to change the tempo, especially when it was clear Jerry Gray’s defense couldn’t plug a wine bottle with a cork.’

‘So, while the Bills are in no position to get cocky, it seems like a remote possibility that Buffalo won’t take a 3-3 record into the showdown against AFC East leader Miami on Oct. 20.’

‘But Moore broke his left hand in the third quarter of Sunday’s loss to the Oakland Raiders and is questionable for Sunday’s game at Houston. Moore could play with a soft cast and perform as a blocker.’

‘"Let’s just say I set a new sack record this year. I’m not going to become a free agent and all of sudden want to go play for Buffalo again. That’s not going to happen. I don’t have a desire to go up there and play for them. It just didn’t work out. So be it. I’m just going out there to do the best for me and my family. I couldn’t care less what they think."’

‘Will Wofford, Hull’s teammate for seven years, said he wouldn’t have missed Hull’s induction for anything. “Kent was the first friend I made in Buffalo. There is nowhere I’d rather be,” said Wofford. “He was the leader of the offense, even though Jim Kelly got all the publicity. Kent was the one who pulled it all together.”‘

”’Right now it’s very discouraging because we’re not getting the job done as a defense,” linebacker Keith Newman said on Monday. ”(The offense is) putting us in a position to win. In my opinion, the worst we should be as a team right now is 4-1."’

‘Bills tight end Dave Moore broke his left hand and is questionable for Buffalo’s game at Houston this weekend.’

‘Buffalo’s defense surrendered six of the seven Oakland touchdowns and yielded 495 yards, most of it coming in large chunks (10 Oakland plays covered 20 yards or more).’

‘Those 80 points – scored in a span of 41 minutes – were the most in a non-overtime Bills’ game since a 47-34 Buffalo victory at Miami in 1993.’

‘”We kind of struggled a bit, I know I kind of struggled a bit,” Buchanon said. “But in the end, we came out with a victory. If you go out and just hold your poise, good things happen.”‘

‘The crowd of 73,038 featured only 929 no-shows on a perfect afternoon (64 degrees).’

Some people think it’s really cool to walk into an NFL locker room. Try walking into the visitor’s quarters. Imagine taking an elementary school classroom, lining the walls and the middle of the room with locker stalls, and filling it with 53 extra-large sweaty men.

Peter King in his MMQB column: "I think I wonder how long it's going to take before the NFL world figures out Drew Bledsoe. It's amazing. The Raiders picked him three times, but that defense had been playing pretty well, and the Bills rolled up 479 yards on Oakland, 417 from Bledsoe's right arm. Bledsoe has played five very-good-to-excellent games, and his deep arm looks like Dan Fouts' in his prime."

Head coach Willie Burnett of Turner-Carroll High School has been named the Buffalo Bills' high school football "Coach of the Week" for the fifth weekend of the 2002 season (Oct. 4-5). Burnett led his team to an impressive 26-6 victory over arch-rival St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute last Friday night at Johnny B. Wiley Pavilion in Buffalo.