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Bills owner places trust in HC Ryan, GM Whaley

There was no sign of the Clemson helmet, such as the one Ryan wore at the podium days before the Bills traveled to play the Jets in November. The score took momentum back from the Jets who had been controlling the game until that point.

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His future in Buffalo had been in question only because of his salary. In the past five games – all NY wins – Fitzpatrick has 1,525 passing yards, more than Cam Newton, Russell Wilson, Tom Brady and Carson Palmer.


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The New York Jets blew opportunity after opportunity on offense against the Buffalo Bills in their first meeting last month. He became the first National Football League receiver to have six seasons with 100 or more catches.

Marshall also secured a pivotal 20-yard reception in overtime to lead the Jets into the red zone.

“The past couple weeks have been playoff games”, Bowles said. Not coincidentally, they’re 4-0-1 ATS over that span. That means just like last week, when players like Mike Gillislee and A.J. Tarpley were able to make strong impressions, some other young Bills will get a chance to show their stuff.

When asked about what he learned in his first year as head coach of the Bills, Ryan referenced his promises on how his team would perform. Bowles’ team has followed suit, choosing to keep the bulletin board material to a minimum and focus on the task at hand. But both those teams are in.

While the playoffs aren’t in sight for Buffalo, they have a lot of fight for. With starting running back LeSean McCoy likely out for the final game of the season, Gillislee should see an increased workload. In Sunday’s win over Dallas, he played 54 snaps and did not make the stat sheet. The Jets travel to Buffalo on Sunday with their fate in their hands, armed with the knowledge that a win over Ryan’s Bills earns a wild-card invitation to the tournament. That’s why when he talked about going to the playoffs he genuinely believed it. Now in hindsight, seeing how his words led to criticism for his team which did not meet those expectations, Ryan will be changing his approach. Had he not missed a few games in October with his own MCL injury, it’s possible that Rex’s crew would be fighting for its own postseason slot on Sunday. Williams is a good – often great – football player, but that’s a lot of cheddar for a guy coming off a down year and who has openly questioned the coaching staff.

In Whaley’s case, he is the one who put the talent on this team. Fitzpatrick threw for 296 yards and three touchdowns against the Patriots, posting a passer rating of 109.4. Quincy (Enunwa) never played. “I think he’s a good guy and I think some of the things he does, his forward thinking, you know, the way he handles practices and things like that; I’ve tried to incorporate some of it, maybe not all of it, but some of the things, some of his ideas”.

Second, he was obviously making sure to bite his tongue because the opponent is the Jets, the team he coached the last six years. On Sunday against the Patriots he was 26 of 41 for 296 yards and three touchdowns. Two plays later, Fitzpatrick completed a pass to Marshall for 20 yards.

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No this is not recycled content from last week! “We can still use the things we kept-be that players or early draft picks-to continue to build the team…but it does make you feel some type of way”. Collins turned the tide of the game late in the third quarter when he strip-sacked Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (see above) and returned the fumble for a touchdown. What better scenario for Ryan to swing his verbal door wide open once again and shout from the snow-capped upstate mountaintops about getting revenge on a team that gave up on him just in time to restock its bare-bones roster to a level of offensive talent he never had?

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