Bills scrape out improbable road win over Jets

Great Game!!!!!!!

It may have been ugly, but a W is a W! Plus, when you can (1) win over a Division rival and (2) win over the JETS! It’s a great day!

Plus, the Jets are imploding….both the teams and the fans!

Great job, Bills!

never, ever forget Rex Ryan’s sad face

ahahaha. byrd looks like the real thing. fitzy will probably start next week because of the concussion, so we will see how he handles a full game. and i still hate dick! ha! not so much as a “good” win, but i will def take it.

I love the look on Sanchez’s face and the one on Ryan’s face. I hate both those guys.

Congratulations Jauron. It’s great to break the o-fer against the AFC East. I think i’m in the minority here wanting to see Jauron do well. I have to be, right?

I think we drafted very well this year. While Maybin has yet to contribute much, Wood and Levitre are not terribad even though Edwards will probably be dead at the end of the season, Nelson made a nice grab today and Byrd is awesome.

wow, is our LB corps horrendous or what. I hope they can figure something out there. How bout Meredith?! Looked like he outplayed D. Bell. O-line was actually not that bad. Maybin, not ready for prime time. Fitz, the good bad and ugly all rolled into one. W feels good.

it’s still fun too see Rex Ryan’s sad face.

Despite being only half-heartedly into this game, this sight at the end was the one time I yelled out loud at the television.

Doesn’t matter how you get it – those are the hardest ones.

should be a fine coming for the hit on Trent.

It’s difficult to believe Buffalo pulled off a victory in this game when considering the fact that Trent Edwards left the game in the second quarter with a concussion

Actually, this is how I pictured us winning all along, GO FITZ!

The Phinsider applauds you for a tough win. We were all cheering for you the whole time. Way to stick it to the Jets!

Also, be prepared for Rex Ryan to say in the press conference that your field goals are “gimmicky and nonsense” and that such plays shouldn’t be allowed in the NFL.

Again, congrats!

be happier regardless of how ugly it was. Jauron, the organization, the players….they desperately needed this win. And one thing you CAN never say about a Dick Jauron football team, is that they mail it in. Cuz they came ready to play, just too bad Edwards got hurt. I thought he was poised for a big day

anyone catch Rex yelling “take that mother f’ing a$$holes”? class act the fat man is.

His second concussion will reverse the effects of the first one?

The Evans TD on the slant stands out to me because I’d like to know whether Buffalo rarely calls slants or whether Edwards is too gunshy to throw them.

I didn’t think the run D could actually get worse and I never would have imagined Buffalo winning a game if it did, especially without Edwards or any semblence of a passing game.

Those five picks (I’m gonna go ahead and not count Wendling’s) were awesome. Turns out, Byrd really is a playmaker, although he still has a long way to go in run support. But, for a guy who was a cornerback not too long ago, he’s off to a good start.

actually cares if we win, i was watching him a couple of times, despite the fact he doesn’t get any balls, he still roots for the team.

What a game of who sucks less.

hey a win is a win…not pretty by any stretch but a W still counts at the end of the day. Lots of mistakes and still too many penalties but I am going to enjoy this today and then turn the attention to Carolina

We needed your win and I’m assuming as fans you needed it too.

i’m glad i get the SNY channel. can’t wait to hear Rex and Dirty whine. Last week was Sanchez: “I’ve never lost 2 games in a row in my entire life, never” so how’s 3 feel?

for walking away from the BIGGEST cheap shot of the season.

Is Byrd. Many Rumblers complained that we should not have used a 2nd rd pick on him but I think he is more than proving his worth. He already has as many INTs as Whitner has in his 3.5 seasons.

I really like this kid!

He may have confidence, which Edwards lacks…we need to keep him starting. Also keep Roscoe out, no give aways on returns helped us as well. Change the chemistry, change the result.

Can it be that Poz makes that big of a difference to the defense? I’m struggling to find another explanation.

Byrd looks like a ballhawk…….but a horrable tackler !

Is Trent going to be back? How bad was it? Sanchez in the post game quotes looked like he was going to throw up. Good job. We don’t need confidence in a young Jets QB.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, I don’t care if the Bills go 2-14 on the year as long as they beat the JETS!

I’m still rooting for the season to tank so they can get a REAL QB next year in the draft, but damn if that wasn’t an awesome night.

I like Rex Ryan. I like that he (like a Ryan) speaks his mind, that he acts authentically, and that he is not above taking responsibility for his mistakes. Recently, he had made some big disrespectful comments not giving the other team credit for beating his Jets. This week after the game, he went out of his way to give the Bills credit for winning the game. I love that. I don’t mind that. That is something to respect. I don’t mind the guy doing a duchebaggy thing, and then coming back and correcting the thing he did. When he speaks, he speaks frankly, concisely, even crudely, but also intelligently. He is not a stooge or a fat emotion-crazed dummy of a coach.

I love his Jets. They are not intimidated, but they do not seem too impressed with themselves every time they walk into a room like the Patriots do. They look like they have fun when they win. The Jets are the one AFC East opponent of ours I can root for without a guilty conscience. They do not stir old hatred like the Dolphins or new hatred like the Patriots. Mark Sanchez is a hell of a rookie. His grace at his post game press conference drew memories of Earnest Byner’s class after literally fumbling away the 1989 AFC Championship. Sanchez was given repeated outs by the various media to blame the weather or make excuses, and he not only refused them, he pointedly rejected those excuses.

If and when the Bills drop out of contention, I will not feel bad rooting for this Jets team to take the division.

So who else other than me is buying a Jairus Byrd jersey!!!!!

Byrd is the word.

Wow. I fortunately missed all of the previous two games (@Miami and vsCleveland). Today I saw the 4th Q and OT. It was the most boring football game I’ve ever watched. The Miami and Cleveland games must have been REALLY bad.

Is it just me? But when you are up 45-0 at the half, I for one would have sat some of my key players. Especially since it was a snow storm and my QB is coming back from a major injury, why chance it? And ramping up the score against a guy like Jeff Fisher is just a low class thing to do.

That’s all we’re asking for at this point, right?

Glad to see the team play hard and win in spite of the coaching blunder down the stretch. Usually, they just fall apart there.

They did match the Jets’ toughness, just like I figured they’d need to do to have a chance. There were some hard hits and the Bills got into Sanchez’s head all day.

Byrd really does look like a good playmaker back there. When was the last time we had a safety that could play center field and go up and pluck an INT? Ever? Too bad he’s quite bad in run support right now. He takes terrible angles and is out of position too often. He is a bigger hitter than expected, but he needs to be in better position to make plays in the run game. And it’s also too bad he’s not more athletic and quicker. He looks like he’s in slow motion when he runs sometimes.

Gotta give big props to the pass defense. Playing with their entire second team secondary for most of the game, they again were extremely stout against the pass. It helps playing against Mark Sanchez and the terrible Jets receivers, but they still did their job quite well today. What happened with Whitner? He didn’t play much at all.

What’s up with going to a 2 back offense with McIntyre in midway through the game out of nowhere? That was odd, and wasn’t particularly effective either.

Will Maybin have any impact this year? His pass rush “moves” are worse than anything Kelsay every tried. Seriously, he runs straight into the backfield. He doesn’t even angle towards the QB, just goes straight back completely taking himself out of the play. That dude has a LONG way to go if he’s ever going to be an impactful player in Buffalo. We need to start rushing him from an upright position. Maybe that’ll help.

Fitzpatrick is such a terrible QB. I still can’t believe this is the guy the franchise saw as a quality backup. Yikes. I will say though, it is nice to have a QB in there willing to take shots over the middle and down the field some. If he was a better player, that might actually result is some more big plays. I wish we could take Fitz’s positives….running ability, guts to throw it down the field more and giant cranium and implant them in Trent. I’m just happy he tried to give the receivers a chance to make some plays. That pass to Nelson for 25 was something this team should be utilizing every week.

The OL stepped up today and played better. I wouldn’t say they played well, but they were definitely better. Run blocking is still an issue and the pocket collapses way too often, but they gave Fitzpatrick some time today and gave him enough time and a window to throw some slants. Even though TO dropped them all, Evans caught a few and the rest were terrible throws, the fact that he had the ability to make those throws was a positive. Meredith was quietly solid. That was about the best we could hope for out of him in a tough spot. 4 “rookie” starters on an OL and “win” shouldn’t go together.

I don’t care about the Jets that much either way. They haven’t won consistently enough over the years like the Pats have to generate any hatred or jealousy. But Rex Ryan has been annoying this year, especially with “The Sanchize” comment. eye roll

This game probably won’t turn Buffalo’s season around but at least they stuck it to the Jets on this day and showed that Sanchez is still a rookie who hasn’t won anything yet, not a Super Bowl MVP.

I followed the game with some friends (including a VERY loud Steelers fan), and it was really late (about 2AM, local time) so the volume was low, but..
…did I REALLY hear one of the commentators say something like “Namath threw 5 picks too”? lol