Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

[Jeff1220]

We hate to see penalties, and this team actually had quite few:

Despite the fact that the Bills had one of the younger rosters in the league, and were instituting new offensive and defensive systems Buffalo did not commit many unforced errors. In fact Buffalo didn't draw many yellow flags at all. Over the 16 game the Bills were called for the fewest penalties in team history committing just 87 infractions. The old record was 89 set in 1995. In addition the team also set the record for fewest penalty yards with 629. That was one yard better than their previous best in a 16-game season (630 in 1993).

http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=4554

[MikeInRoch]

Re: Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

I don't know the numbers, but it seemed especially that way after the bye week.

[mchurchfie]

Re: Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

It seems with the change on the OL during the bye it really turned this team around. We seem to be getting a little more respect from the refs too, even though they don't call obvious pass interferences against the opposing teams when they happen.

[Saratoga Slim]

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I see the low penalties as annother feather in the coaching staff's cap. Nice work. It's been a long time since we were a low-penalty team.

[mchurchfie]

Re: Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

Increased mental awareness...another trademark of a Marv Levy team.

[The_Philster]

Re: Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

There were 2 weeks in a row there when we had 3 penalties each week

[mchurchfie]

Re: Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

That's good, really good.

[Gunzlingr]

Re: Interesting note about this Bills team's discipline

My thoughts were the penalties were killing us before the bye. Of course the only game I watched was against the bears, and it seemed every other play was a flag on the Bills.