shelby
12-28-2003, 06:05 AM
From the Rochester D & C: (http://www.democratandchronicle.com/sports/bills/1228NR2PE8T_sports.shtml)
If you had to script the way the Bills’ season should have ended Saturday afternoon, losing 31-0 to the Patriots— the same Patriots team they beat 31-0 to start the year — would have sufficed.
But in a year when the offensive performance of this Buffalo team brought back bleak memories of the darkest period in franchise history — the back-to-back 2-14 seasons of 1984 and ‘85 — the 31-0 finale wasn’t quite perfect enough.
Nope, it took offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride to make it fool-proof perfect.
There the Bills were, first-and-goal at the Patriots 1-yard line with 17 seconds left to play, desperate to score a touchdown and break New England’s shutout.
With third-string quarterback Travis Brown in the game and one timeout left, the situation screamed for a running play, and if it didn’t work, you call time and draw up another play.
Take a guess what Gilbride did? You guessed it. A pass play to tight end Dave Moore. Predictably, Larry Izzo intercepted for New England to preserve the shutout and very likely end Gilbride’s tenure in Buffalo.
Good riddance.
:wave:
If you had to script the way the Bills’ season should have ended Saturday afternoon, losing 31-0 to the Patriots— the same Patriots team they beat 31-0 to start the year — would have sufficed.
But in a year when the offensive performance of this Buffalo team brought back bleak memories of the darkest period in franchise history — the back-to-back 2-14 seasons of 1984 and ‘85 — the 31-0 finale wasn’t quite perfect enough.
Nope, it took offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride to make it fool-proof perfect.
There the Bills were, first-and-goal at the Patriots 1-yard line with 17 seconds left to play, desperate to score a touchdown and break New England’s shutout.
With third-string quarterback Travis Brown in the game and one timeout left, the situation screamed for a running play, and if it didn’t work, you call time and draw up another play.
Take a guess what Gilbride did? You guessed it. A pass play to tight end Dave Moore. Predictably, Larry Izzo intercepted for New England to preserve the shutout and very likely end Gilbride’s tenure in Buffalo.
Good riddance.
:wave: