Entries from The Fifth Quarter tagged with 'Bills'
Chargers at Bills: Fourth quarter update
What happened: The Bills held off a San Diego scoring chance when Kawika Mitchell intercepted Philip Rivers in the Buffalo end zone and returned it 32 yards. That led to Rian Lindell's 44-yard field goal and a 23-14 lead with...
Chargers at Bills: Third quarter update
What happened: The teams traded touchdowns and the Bills led 20-14 at the end of the quarter. The Chargers took the lead with a 12-play, 80-yard drive ending on Philip Rivers' 12-yard pass to Vincent Jackson on third-and-goal. The Bills...
Chargers at Bills: Third quarter update
What happened: The teams traded touchdowns and the Bills led 20-14 at the end of the quarter. The Chargers took the lead with a 12-play, 80-yard drive ending on Philip Rivers' 12-yard pass to Vincent Jackson on third-and-goal. The Bills...
Power's back on in Buffalo
The power has started to come back on in Buffalo, although the main scoreboard and ribbon boards around the stadium remain out. The Bills are driving, with a first down at the San Diego 41. -- John Dudley...
Chargers take the lead
The Chargers just went up 7-3 with 21 seconds left in the first quarter. Philip Rivers hit Malcolm Floyd on a 12-yard post pattern for the score. Floyd beat rookie corner Leodis McElvin and made a nice catch, going up...
Chargers at Bills: Bills take 3-0 lead
At power-less Ralph Wilson Stadium, the Bills just took a 3-0 lead on a 38-yard Rian Lindell field goal with 6:46 remaining in the first quarter. -- John Dudley...
Chargers at Bills: Play resumes
Play has resumed in Buffalo, with the officials keeping time on the field. Power is out throughout Ralph Wilson Stadium, including the scoreboards and the network television feed. The Bills are currently driving, with a first down at the San...
Outage could last longer than expected
Someone just radioed NFL observer Art McNally to say the outage at Ralph Wilson Stadium "is more complicated than they thought," and that power could be out longer than the five minutes they initially expected. Bills officials have offered to...
Outage could last longer than expected
Someone just radioed NFL observer Art McNally to say the outage at Ralph Wilson Stadium "is more complicated than they thought," and that power could be out longer than the five minutes they initially expected. Bills officials have offered to...
Chargers at Bills: Pre-game inactives
Here is the first report from Ralph Wilson Stadium, where the power has gone out twice in the past 30 minutes but is back on at this point. (No word on whether the Bills forgot to pay their electric bill.)...
Week 6 recap: Upset about upsets? Get used to it
The room is spinning. Your lips feel funny. The Browns suddenly are starting to resemble a real NFL team. No, you're not hallucinating and you haven't been smoking. (You haven't, right?) You're just a little upset drunk. It's a common...
Week 5 picks recap: Defense is carrying the day -- er, season -- so far
Okay, so after five weeks it appears no team is poised to make a Patriots-like run at 16-0 this season. And, really, that's no surprise. Even the two remaining unbeaten teams -- the 5-0 Titans and the 4-0 Giants --...
View from Sunday's games: Bills can recover from Arizona meltdown
It might have been ugly – especially the four turnovers – but the Bills’ 41-17 loss to the Cardinals probably won’t be all that costly. Quarterback Trent Edwards has the bye week to recover from the concussion he sustained on...
Week 4 recap: It's good to be the king
It doesn't happen often, so I'm going to seize the opportunity to gloat a little after a weekend in which I went 11-2 straight up and against the spread. The crown jewel of a good pickin' day came when my...
Week 3 picks recap: Some things are a little clearer now
This much seems certain through three weeks of the NFL season: -- The NFC East appears to be the league's strongest division. Its teams have only lost to each other, and even the 2-1 Redskins appear to be playoff-caliber behind...
Weekend rewind: Good teams looked baffled on Sunday
It's amazing that two teams that were unbeatable over the first two weeks of the season were thoroughly confounded Sunday by a couple of old football tricks. The Steelers and their big, bad offensive line got abused by an Eagles...
Raiders at Bills: Fourth quarter update
What happened: The Bills had possession to start the quarter and moved to their 40, where on second-and-7 Oakland's Kirk Morrison was called for pass interference. After a delay and an officials' time out, Raiders coach Lane Kiffin challenged the...
Raiders at Bills: Third quarter update
What happened: The Bills took the kickoff and drove to the Oakland 27, with Trent Edwards hitting Lee Evans for 34 yards on the biggest play. Marshawn Lynch was stopped for no gain on third-and-short and Rian Lindell's 46-yard field...
Raiders at Bills: Halftime update
What happened: The Bills' first series of the quarter fizzled when Trent Edwards was forced to throw away a third-down pass under heavy pressure. Brian Moorman punted and Oakland took over at its 13. ... The Raiders drove to the...
Raiders at Bills: First quarter update
What happened: Oakland's Johnnie Lee Higgins returned the opening kickoff 69 yards to set up a Sebastian Janikowski field goal for a 3-0 Raiders lead. ... Gerard Warren sacked Trent Edwards to snuff out the Bills' first drive. ... The...
Week 2 picks recap: Road 'dogs were a kind play this week
The NFL is supposed to have sports' greatest home field advantage, but in Week 2 five road underdogs won straight up and a sixth, the Eagles, kept the host Cowboys (-7) from covering. That I had four of the five...
NFC game-by-game projections for the season
Yesterday I listed my game-by-game projections for the AFC, which I use to do preseason division and playoff predictions. Here is the raw data for the NFC. Enjoy, scrutinize, poke fun, etc....
The Big, Giant list of AFC game-by-game predictions
I'm in the process of doing my division and playoff picks for our upcoming NFL preview section. I arrive at projected records the old-fashioned way, by going through every game on the schedule and picking a winner and a loser....
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