In addition to Fitzpatrick, LB Calvin Pace (abdomen) and DE Muhammad Wilkerson (toe) were limited.
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Ryan denied he watched the end of the Jets game before coming to the podium. He was relatively muted during his final season in NY.
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The New York Jets are a hot item at the moment, on the verge of a playoff berth. “I feel bad that I didn’t deliver, that’s how I look at it. There’s no question about it”.
Buffalo can’t make the playoffs, but it can finish 8-8 and in the process spoil the Jets’ playoff hopes. Maybe the Bills can build on the longest playoff drought in North American sports-15 and counting-and we can look forward to another “wait-’til year” postseason, a ritual we know all too well.
“It’s just the next game on the schedule”, cornerback Darrelle Revis said, downplaying the matchup.
Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick is on his third team in three years since his release and though he faced his former Bills teammates last year as a member of the Texans, this will be the first time Fitzpatrick returns to Buffalo.
It’ll also be a lot more fun to see a Bills finale with a playoff spot on the line for either team – which hasn’t been the case since 2008.
The vultures circling western NY have taken aim at Rex Ryan less than a year after he followed a condescending curmudgeon who quit on their beloved Buffalo Bills. “This team is a complete football team”. He made IK Enemkpali a Bills captain against the Jets, when it was that former Jets linebacker who sucker punched then-teammate Geno Smith, breaking the quarterback’s jaw.
“I’d say disappointment, but not a disaster”, Whaley said.
“We do the same things we’ve been doing”, Bowles said. “There really is no pressure”.
“You realize that it’s just another game that we’ve got to go out, especially as an offensive player, you have to be composed at all times”, he said. There’s no pressure on us. We know that. But you have a head coach that’s been a defensive coordinator and a head coach for 11-plus years. “We been having something to play for – that’s our respect and our pride”. Fitzpatrick has combined 131 of 203 for 1,525 yards with 13 TDs and one interception in past five.
The Chiefs’ nine-game winning streak tied the club record that was established in the 1969 season by a Kansas City team that went on to win Super Bowl IV.
“He’s not a vocal guy, but when he speaks his message comes across and speaks volumes”, Pace said. Marshall, meanwhile, has broken the reception mark and is within spitting distance of the touchdown (one away) and receiving yardage records (needs 58 yards). People thought that the offense wouldn’t be terrific, but that the defense could help the team compete with the Patriots.
As expected, New England pushed back in the second half with tenacity.
“When I’m like hey, ‘We’re gonna be in the playoffs, ‘” Ryan said. I’d imagine that there’s going to be information regarding the game, but that information has no bearing on how, or what it is, that we need to do in terms of our play. I think you see the impact it has.
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Left tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson echoed that sentiment: “I think we knew we had a special team even at the beginning of the season”.
