49ers notes: Bills shook off 1-5 start
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Bee Staff Writer. SANTA CLARA - Once upon a time this season, the 49ers and Buffalo Bills found themselves with 1-5 records. Since then, the Bills have turned into a swan.
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The Buffalo Bills can become the second team in league history to clinch a playoff berth after an 0-4 start - but they still need help.
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FOXBOROUGH -- San Francisco 49ers players characterize their season as filled with bad bounces and bad breaks. The Niners won twice in overtime but were winless 14 times in regulation, including a 21-7 loss yesterday to the Patriots.
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There are many ways to break down a football game, figure out why one team won and another lost. Last night, they all led back to the simpliest of facts - the New England Patriots are way better than the Buffalo Bills.
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Just another confusing day in the world of the stumbling bumbling Buffalo Bills, who can&#39;t even pass the torch between running backs without fumbling the darn thing.
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Buffalo running back Willis McGahee made the first start of his career in the Bills' game against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
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Terrence McGee set the tone for a wild afternoon by returning the opening kickoff 104 yards as the resurgent Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins, 42-32, in an unexpected shootout.
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Tim Rattay returned to the starting lineup for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, but it did not matter, as they found themselves on the wrong end of a 24-14 loss to the St.
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ORCHARD PARK, NY -- The wind and Willis McGahee are providing a formidable one-two punch for the Buffalo Bills. Negating the effects of 25-plus mph winds blowing off Lake Erie, McGahee led Buffalo&#39;s ball-control
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The Buffalo Bills capitalized on four turnovers and a blocked punt yesterday en route to a 33-17 victory that officially knocked the Bengals out of playoff contention.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Coach Mike Mularkey shut off every television in the locker room yesterday morning, ordering his Buffalo Bills to focus on the only game with playoff implications they could control.
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The Mike Mularkey era in Buffalo began with an 0-4 record. But eight weeks and six victories later, the Bills suddenly find themselves in the playoff hunt.
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Bee Staff Writer. SANTA CLARA - Despite their youth, injuries and lousy 1-6 record, the one thing the 49ers have managed to avoid this season is locker-room dissension.
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-- SF: FG T. Peterson 48, 0:40. Drive: 5 plays, 16 yards, 2:31. Key plays: Heard 14 interception return to Bears&#39; 46; Dorsey 13 pass to Lloyd to Bears&#39; 33.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The end came, for all intents and purposes, at 11:20 last night. It was at that moment, in another losing effort against the Patriots, that Drew Bledsoe was yanked from the game in favor of rookie J.P. Losman, who is still recovering from a broken leg. Bills coach Mike Mularkey's decision to risk his still-healing No. 1 pick ...
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The NFL season has ended almost as soon as it began for several players who suffered serious injuries on opening day, in particular Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett.
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Drew Bledsoe went all the way home to Washington state to help the Buffalo Bills collect a rare road win. Willis McGahee had 116 yards rushing and four touchdowns, leading Buffalo to a 38-9 win over Seattle