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Buffalo gets lost in shuffle: Bills can’t find groove

FOXBORO - It’s fair to say the Buffalo Bills have seen better days.
They opened the season with promise, dominating the Patriots for more than a half before succumbing, 19-17. They beat the Miami Dolphins a week later and appeared to be darkhorses in the AFC East.
But they’ve won just once since, a 17-12 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, and last week suffered the ignominy of being on the wrong end of the Detroit Lions’ first victory of the season.
“We’ve just got to find ways to win and we haven’t done it,” said coach Dick Jauron, whose team hosts the Pats for a rematch on Sunday. “It really doesn’t help us to be close. That’s not what our game is about.”

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While many of his teammates took advantage of their four-day mini-vacation during the bye week to fly far away from the daily grind of the NFL, Patriots defensive end Ty Warren didn't go anywhere.

While Richard Seymour went home to South Carolina, Warren, a native Texan, came to Gillette Stadium each day to run and lift weights. He sat in a meeting room with defensive line coach Pepper Johnson, studying videotape of the Patriots' first five games, studying his mistakes. No wonder Patriots coach Bill Belichick frequently cites Warren's work ethic and attitude when explaining his steady annual improvement.

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The intention hardly was to play offense.
In fact, in 2001, Mike Vrabel was still new to the Patriots, the former Steeler had his hands full with a new defensive scheme in his first-year as a full-time NFL starter.
So going out and catching passes on the practice field before the team even came out to stretch, was simply a way to limber up. But the quarterback at the time, Drew Bledsoe, saw something else.
Namely, a tight end. Five years later, it’s still part of Vrabel’s contribution to the Patriots.

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The first offensive play of the Patriots' season is one quarterback Tom Brady would like to forget, but it keeps popping up in the team's film sessions. The results were disastrous.

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Tom Brady was the only quarterback in the league to receive a vote in the “Dirtiest Player” category of the Sports Illustrated player poll.

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Safety Rodney Harrison has been down this road before. The topic of discussion was dirty play, a result of him once again being voted the league's dirtiest player in a Sports Illustrated survey of 361 players.

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patriotspride

ill take rodney on my team anyday.