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***Season Update (2-5)***

The Bills sent fans home with an early treat this Halloween, defeating the Arizona Cardinals, 38-14, at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday. Running back Willis McGahee ran for 102 yards and two touchdowns on 30 carries and Buffalo’s special teams racked up 204 return yards, including 87 on a kick off return for a touchdown by Terrence McGee in the second quarter.

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***The Ground Game Was Working***

The Buffalo Bills were off and running on Sunday and most of the time, it was right through the Arizona Cardinals. Terrence McGee returned a kickoff 87 yards in the second quarter to give the Bills a 17-7 halftime lead. And that was just the beginning. "My guys blocked for me," McGee said. "Each week it's a proven point for them to get me in the end zone. That's all they talk about is taking me to the Pro Bowl. Basically, they blocked and I hit a hole and nobody touched me."

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***Congrats***

Congrats to Willis McGahee who scored his first two NFL career touchdowns against a team that hasn't allowed one all year. Willis is now 2-0 career wise as a starter!

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***More about McGahee***

The Buffalo Bills are perfect with Willis McGahee as their starter.
McGahee provided the spark the Bills needed offensively, running for 102 yards and two touchdowns to lead Buffalo to a 38-14 win over Arizona on Sunday.

In two starts this season, McGahee has two 100-yard games and has led the Bills (2-5) to both of their victories.

The Cardinals (2-5) continue to struggle away from home, after a big 25-17 win over Seattle in Arizona last week. The loss was Arizona's 17th straight on the road, the worst current streak in the NFL, dating back to their win at Carolina on Oct. 6, 2002.

Terrence McGee had an 87-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, Eric Moulds an 8-yard scoring catch and rookie tight end Tim Euhus added a 12-yard touchdown reception, helping the Bills score their most points since a 38-17 win over Jacksonville in Week 2 of last season.

McGahee, a first-round pick in 2003, is having an impressive debut season after missing his entire rookie year recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee.

He had combined for 169 yards rushing in his previous two outings, including an 111-yard effort in Buffalo's 20-13 win over Miami on Oct. 17. That was enough for coach Mike Mularkey to name McGahee his starter this week ahead of four-year veteran Travis Henry.

McGahee delivered, helping ignite an offense that was averaging a league-worst 13 points a game.

Not much appears to have changed since the Cardinals last visited Buffalo, losing 45-14 on Nov. 11, 1990.

On Sunday, the Cardinals were undone by their own mistakes and plagued by the weather. Emmitt Smith had 64 yards rushing and Arizona managed just 213 yards of total offense in a game played in a persistent rain and 20-plus mph winds gusting in off of nearby Lake Erie.

The Cardinals also had 14 penalties for 101 yards.

Josh McCown finished 9-of-24 for 101 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown pass to Bryant Johnson with four minutes left.

Obafemi Ayanbadejo had a 4-yard scoring run that cut the Bills lead to 10-7 midway through the second quarter.

Buffalo responded immediately when McGee scored on the ensuing kickoff, his second touchdown return of the season.

The game was all but decided with six minutes left in the third quarter. Trailing 17-7, the Cardinals failed on fourth-and-7 at the Bills 43, when Anquan Boldin had a pass fall out of his hands.

Boldin, the NFL's rookie of the year last season, finished with 50 yards receiving in his season debut.

The Bills followed the failed drive with three touchdowns in the span of eight minutes in the fourth quarter, capped by McGahee's 1-yard plunge.

McGahee's first score came on a 4-yard run that put the Bills ahead 10-0. The touchdown capped a five-play, 55-yard drive in which McGahee accounted for 50 yards, and included 23- and 24-yard runs.

The Bills were down to three receivers after Josh Reed left the game after hyperextending his left knee returning a punt two minutes into the game.

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Originally posted by minew_m
The Bills were down to three receivers after Josh Reed left the game after hyperextending his left knee returning a punt two minutes into the game.

Not like that matters. Bledsoe can't throw the ball anyway.

Moulds got 40 yards yesterday and that was half of Bledsoe's total.....

This team has went down the crapper ever since they BENCHED Doug Flutie for Rob Johnson in that playoff game.

Johnson lost it for them and they have been downhill since.

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Have you watched most of thier games this season? Bledsoe is hitting his targets, it's just the receivers are missing the balls. Just last week vs. the Ravens, two intereceptions were credited to Bledsoe even though they weren't his fault. One went through Evans hands and another was off the fingers of Campbell I believe. It's pretty pathetic when NFL receivers can't catch a ball.

Another reason why Bledsoe only threw for 81 yards yesterday is because of field position. There was only about three times in the game when the Bills didn't get the ball inside their own fourty. There were a couple of times the ball was insider their own thirty! McGahee rushed for thirty times. The Bills really didn't get that much time of possession. Still Bledsoe threw for two touchdowns on a handful of passes.

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Originally posted by minew_m
Have you watched most of thier games this season? Bledsoe is hitting his targets, it's just the receivers are missing the balls. Just last week vs. the Ravens, two intereceptions were credited to Bledsoe even though they weren't his fault. One went through Evans hands and another was off the fingers of Campbell I believe. It's pretty pathetic when NFL receivers can't catch a ball.

Another reason why Bledsoe only threw for 81 yards yesterday is because of field position. There was only about three times in the game when the Bills didn't get the ball inside their own fourty. There were a couple of times the ball was insider their own thirty! McGahee rushed for thirty times. The Bills really didn't get that much time of possession. Still Bledsoe threw for two touchdowns on a handful of passes.

Sadly I don't get most of the games. I'd be lucky if I got 3 Bills games a year. I just get the Jets and Pats on CBS and the only game I saw with the Bills was where they played the Pats and that one was ugly.

That was the one where Bledsoe fumbled it and then the Pats ran it in for a TD....

I do like McGahee over Henry though and hopefully they can trade him for something because McGahee is going to be a star. They just needed to give him time to fully recover.

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Originally posted by pwaldo
That was the one where Bledsoe fumbled it and then the Pats ran it in for a TD....

I do like McGahee over Henry though and hopefully they can trade him for something because McGahee is going to be a star. They just needed to give him time to fully recover.

Don't forget that was also the game where Henry tripped on third and short to set up that Bledsoe fumble on the next play.


As for Henry, they really have to trade him. He will probably only get them a second round pick though. Look at Dillon last year. The Pats only gave up a mid-second round pick for him.

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****Bills vs. Jets****

was only four weeks ago when the Jets handed the Bills their fourth consecutive loss to start the season. The Bills led in that game 14-13 late in the fourth quarter, but surrendered a Doug Brien field goal with 58 seconds left to give the New York Jets a 16-14 victory. A lot has changed in those four short weeks with the Bills and Jets both posting a 2-1 record since that game. The Jets bring their overall 6-1 record to Orchard Park while the Bills stand at 2-5.

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***Injury Update***

BUFFALO POS INJURY STATUS
Josh Reed WR Knee Doubtful
Constantin Ritzmann DE Foot Doubtful
Coy Wire S Abdomen Doubtful
J.P. Losman QB Leg Questionable
Trey Teague C Knee Questionable
Troy Vincent CB Knee Questionable
Drew Haddad WR Hamstring Probable