Entries from The Fifth Quarter tagged with 'Buffalo Bills'
Starks gets the Steelers' franchise tag
Steelers -- Tackle Max Starks receives the franchise tag and a guaranteed 2009 salary of $8.4 million. This could mean Marvel Smith is on his way out. -- Running back Rashard Mendenhall's shoulder rehab is ahead of schedule. Also, Santonio...
Bills, Browns, Steelers turn focus to combine
The NFL combine is going on in Indianapolis, officially opening the gates to another season of offseason movement. Steelers -- Moving up from the last spot in the draft, as the Steelers did after their Super Bowl XL win to...
Today's list: Five football books I'm reading
Five football books I'm reading right now: 1. "'Then Levy Said to Kelly...': The Best Buffalo Bills Stories Ever Told:" by Jim Gehman. Favorite part so far -- Andre Reed recalling his first training camp practice as a rookie after...
So much for soccer being a global sport
Forget the Bills' potentially moving to Toronto. The NFL story of the week, as far as I'm concerned, is that there is a lifelong Dolphins fan born and raised in Nova Scotia. How does this happen? Here's a link to...
Things I'm thinking about this weekend
1. Do you think the Browns ever envisioned a scenario when they would have to start Ken Dorsey this season? The team essentially re-signed Dorsey before the season as a favor to second-year quarterback Brady Quinn, who became close friends...
Can you spare a little bail money, eh?
The image of the perpetually hammered Canadian notwithstanding, we probably should hesitate to make too much of this Buffalo news report that 64 percent of patrons arrested at Sunday's Bills game hail from the Great White North. Maybe our friends...
Week 11 picks recap
Last week Straight up: 12-4 Spread: 9-7 Season Straight up: 102-57 Spread: 91-68 The pick: Jets at Patriots (-3 ½): It just feels right to start drinking the Favre Kool-Aid again. Jets, 20-17 The reality: Jets, 34-31. Karma prevailed, as...
Browns-Bills: Third quarter update
Browns 16, Bills 13 -- Jabari Greer is out for the game with a knee injury. The Browns have lost Sean Jones and Shaun Smith for the game with injuries. -- Fred Jackson's fumble is the Bills' fourth turnover tonight....
Browns-Bills: Halftime update
Browns 13, Bills 10 -- There were questions about whether Quinn would throw deep after the Browns went conservative in his first start against Denver. But four of his first five attempts in the second quarter were longer than 15...
Browns-Bills: First quarter update
Browns 6, Bills 0 Notes: -- Another dropped pass by Braylon Edwards -- his league-leading 13th -- and it would have given the Browns first-and-goal on their second drive. Edwards made a nice leaping catch but simply lost the ball...
Browns-Bills: Pre-game and inactives
Checking in from Ralph Wilson Stadium, where folks in Erie will be delighted to know that...there...is...not...one...speck...of...snow...on...the...ground. But it is cold -- cold enough that a few of the players warming up right now on the field are wearing sleeves, including...
2008: A football odyssey
Maybe I'm a poor planner, but until a few days ago I didn't realize that this week I would be covering four NFL games in eight days, a career first. I'm calling it "The Mother of All NFL Trips," and...
Week 9 picks recap: It's good to have a backup plan
It's the time of the year when injuries leave contending teams shorthanded, and those that can scratch up enough quality depth from their cap-suppressed rosters usually wind up staying in the race. Last week's big backup winners were the Steelers,...
Week 8 picks recap: Killer start for the Titans
Remember "The Usual Suspects," where Kevin Spacey's character comes across early in the film as this meek, pathetic little man with a drop foot and zero self-confidence, and by the end of the movie we learn that he's a brilliant,...
News and notes: Savage says Browns didn't coach Winslow
Browns -- Browns general manager Phil Savage denies the team tried to hide Kellen Winslow's staph infection: "Not one time, never, ever, ever, ever has there been a situation where I tried to determine whether a player was going to...
News and notes: Weekend rewind
Steelers -- The Steelers' latest win in Cincinnati left Bengals fans in a foul mood, Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Paul Daugherty writes: "Nobody wearing a POLAMALU jersey had to worry about getting his face smashed in. The black-and-gold-clad visiting home crowd...
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