It’s officially Super Bowl week, and Super Bowl 50, the golden anniversary of the NFL’s championship game, will be played this Sunday between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos. I usually post some Super Bowl stories or memories of past games during the week preceding the game, and for starters, this post will be a … Read More
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NFL – Bills’ 2015 Season Review – Part 4
So, what exactly do the Buffalo Bills have to do in the off-season to finally end their long playoff drought in 2016? General manager Doug Whaley has already said the team won’t be active in free agency this year, instead focusing on re-signing their own players who are eligible for free agency. Here are my … Read More
NFL – Bills’ 2015 Season Review – Part 3
Part 3 of my Buffalo Bills’ 2015 season review looks at the special teams and the unit that was, by far, the most disappointing facet of the team, the defense. Coach Rex Ryan, a supposed defensive guru, took a top ranked unit and turned it into a dumpster fire that struggled all year. Players openly … Read More
NFL – Bills’ 2015 Season Review – Part 2
Part 2 of the 2015 Buffalo Bills’ season review deals with the team’s offense. While the unit wasn’t explosive by any means, they were competent. Rex Ryan, although he failed the team miserably overall, did a couple of things that helped. He hired Greg Roman to coordinate the offense, and he lobbied to get Tyrod … Read More
NFL – Bills’ 2015 Season Review – Part 1
This is the first section of a four part series reviewing the 2015 Buffalo Bills’ season. This post will cover the team’s front office and coaching, with three other segments reviewing the team’s offense, defense, special teams and a final one speculating on what the team needs to do to improve in 2016. In my opinion, … Read More
NFL – Bills’ Game Review
If your team’s final game of a season in which they underachieved and missed the playoffs needed some storylines to add incentive for the players, then Sunday’s Buffalo Bills’ matchup with the New York Jets certainly had that. The Bills faced their head coach’s former team, the New York Jets, quarterbacked by the Bills’ former quarterback, Ryan … Read More
NFL – Throwback Thursday: O.J. Runs for 2,000 Yards
The New York Jets will attempt to qualify for the NFL playoffs this weekend by defeating their AFC East rivals, the Buffalo Bills. This week’s Throwback Thursday post harkens back to another season finale played between these two franchises, on December 16, 1973. Neither team had any postseason hopes, but the Bills had their eye on … Read More
NFL – Bills’ Game Review
After the Buffalo Bills’ postseason hopes came crashing down last week in the team’s meltdown performance in Washington, all hell broke loose, in the locker room with players openly questioning the defensive scheme and the effort of their teammates, and in the local media with heavy criticism of head coach Rex Ryan and reports that … Read More
NFL – Throwback Thursday: The Playoff Bowl
The NFL season is winding down, with only 2 more weeks of games to be played. On this week’s schedule, the Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals meet, which takes this week’s Throwback Thursday post back to January of 1965, when these two franchises met in what was then a postseason game played annually known … Read More
NFL – Bills’ Game Review
Sunday’s 35-25 defeat by the Buffalo Bills at the hands of the Washington Redskins , which officially eliminated the Bills from the playoffs, may have been the most disheartening loss for coach Rex Ryan’s team in what has been a completely disappointing season. As has been the pattern in most of their losses this year, … Read More