Jerry Sullivan
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Independent journalist. Liberal Democrat. Women's sports advocate. Committed but mediocre golfer, avid reader. Strat-O-Matic baseball addict. Tom Waits fan.
Buffalo, N.Y.
Joined September 2011
Someone asked me if Aaron Rodgers was gaining on Tom Brady in the GOAT discussion. Rodgers just turned 38 and has 12 career playoff wins. Brady has 12 playoff wins and three Super Bowl titles since turning 38. It's not that close.
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The Bills have won at the Rams, at Baltimore and at Kansas City.
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What an incredible game. Bills lose, 21-19, but I'm even more convinced that they're the team to beat in the NFL. All those backups playing key roles, it's the sort of game that helps bond a team.
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The more I watch Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson, the more convinced I am that Josh Allen was the cream of the crop in the 2018 quarterback class.
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I've accepted a buyout today after the News took away my column. They felt my voice was becoming bad for business. It's been a privilege to cover Buffalo sports for 29 years. I wrote for the readers, who deserved a fair, objective and passionate perspective, even when it stung.
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The lack of supermarkets on Buffalo's East Side has long been an issue. That Tops might be the only major one there. Curious how some 18-year-old from halfway across the state would have known to target it.
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Regardless of what happens tonight, Bills fans have to believe that Josh Allen is going to win a Super Bowl at some point in his career.
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So in his last four games, all national TV games, Josh Allen is 100-for-131 passing for 1,251 yards, with 16 TDs and 2 interceptions. That's against four playoff teams from last year, including the Super Bowl champs, the top AFC seed, the AFC title game loser and the Patriots.
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Since Sean McDermott and Leslie Frazier arrived in 2017 (along with Poyer/Hyde), the Bills have allowed only 87 touchdown passes. No other NFL team has allowed fewer than 110 over that 5-plus year stretch.
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For the record, the last time the Bills played in the AFC title game they beat Kansas City.
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That interception was the classic gutless call that officials make when one team is far ahead and they sub-consciously try to keep the other team in the game.
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Le'Veon Bell had 92 scrimmage yards on 23 touches. Devin Singletary had 98 yards on nine touches. Discuss.
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Rousseau opted out of last season to help his mother retire early. She was a nurse working with COVID-19 patients. Sounds like a guy with his priorities in order.
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Thirty years ago today, the Bills beat the Raiders, 51-3, at Rich Stadium to qualify for the Super Bowl for the first time.
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Cam Newton can still play in the NFL, but there hasn't been a spot for Colin Kaepernick, right?.
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One current Buffalo Bill contacted me when I left the News last May to offer his kind wishes: Kyle Williams.
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That was the first time in more than a month that Poyer, Milano and Edmunds were on the field together. It makes a difference. So does having White.
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The Bills are now the only NFL team with two wide receivers who had 1,000 yards receiving last season (Diggs, Brown) and a third wideout who had 60-plus catches (Beasley).
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We might look back on RJ Night as the moment when the Sabres began to matter again.
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Allen has made some tremendous throws today. Win or not, this is a statement by the Bills. No fear of the Patriots, and fans should no longer have that fatalistic attitude.
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The Sabres and Bills both haven't lost since Nov. 4. It's the first time in history that they've gone unbeaten over three full weeks with both in season.
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Diggs: Didn't answer questions after the loss. Von Miller and Oliver: Gone before media arrived. This is what passes for leadership. I'm reminded of Norwood standing at his locker for a half hour after Super Bowl XXV, Talley and others standing there to take the heat. Culture?.
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The Bills are 17-1 in the regular season when Josh Allen has 10 or more carries. He hasn't run 10 times in a game this season.
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The last time the Bills started 4-0, they finished 7-9. Trent Edwards had 11 TD passes on the season. Josh Allen already has 12. I'm guessing they'll do a bit better this time. They're good enough to make the Super Bowl.
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Whatever happens here, the Bills have re-established themselves as a team that could make a Super Bowl run. They're maddening and hard to figure from game to game, or week to week, but they're never out of a game with Allen.
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Remind me again how Tyrod Taylor lacked weapons in Buffalo when he had Watkins, Woods, Hogan, McCoy and Clay on his side.
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Josh Allen would have shredded this Bengals pass defense. It's giving them the benefit of the doubt to call them average.
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The Bills have won seven in a row, averaging 36.6 points and 425 yards a game. The Ravens have won six in a row, averaging 34.3 points and 425 yards a game. Should be quite a contest on Saturday night in Buffalo.
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Bills are in the playoffs for the second time in 20 years. They have 10 wins for the first time since 2000. They're 6-1 on the road for the first time in their history.
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On this date in 1994, the Bills beat the Chiefs, 30-13, at Rich Stadium to reach their fourth straight Super Bowl. Thurman Thomas rushed for 186 yards, which is still an AFC title game record.
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Nice win for the Bills at Miami, 31-28. I see it as an historic pivot point -- like the 27-24 win in Miami when Kelly scored on the final play in the 1989 opener. Josh Allen is their best quarterback since Kelly.
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The Bills team I'm watching tonight is better than the one that started the season 4-0.
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Josh Allen through two games: 57 for 81 passing (70,4 percent), 729 yards, 6 touchdowns, 0 interceptions.
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Comments like this one make me think I was OK at my job.
Stung so much my names up on that wall. Worth one more tell. Jerry’s critique of me after a season pissed me enough to challenge me to be a better football player. He called me mediocre and I refused to ever be mediocre again. From the bottom of my heart thank you Jerry.
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Justin Herbert had the lowest passer rating of his rookie season against the Bills. They've been good against the top quarterbacks lately. Kyler Murray, Russell Wilson and Patrick Mahomes all had below-average ratings vs. Buffalo.
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The Bills outgained the Jets, 424-53. The Jets had 5 net yards passing. The yardage was a franchise low for a game. Amazing.
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Josh Allen has had a Pro Bowl season. Dion Dawkins has not.
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Twenty-eight years ago today: Bills 41, Oilers 38 in overtime.
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I'm tired of hearing about "Covid fatigue." Americans struggled through the Depression, World War II. I'm sure blacks got a little fatigued from more than a century of racism. Wear a damn mask.
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Just wondering, can't millionaire football players hire people to plow their driveways?.
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The Bills are finding out what it's like to play with sky-high expectations. They need to do a lot more to warrant comparisons to Super Bowl teams.
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After a siege of dumb play by Houston, the Bills and McDermott demonstrated the worst end-game coaching since 13 seconds to give the Texans a chance.
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I don't care how raw he is. This would be a lot more fun with Josh Allen playing for the Bills.
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The Bills had four touchdown drives today that took a combined 2:44 of clock, covering 263 yards in just eight total plays,.
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Jordan Poyer is the first Bill to have four interceptions in the first four games of a season since Kiki Alonso in his rookie season in 2013. Get this: Like Poyer, Alonso had two picks in the fourth game -- a 23-20 win over the Ravens.
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I have to think the Bills would have put up a better fight than this, and a more entertaining game.
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No team in the NFL is playing better defense than the Bills right now.
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Four teams today in NFL games, all four teams under .500. Maybe it's time for the league to end the Detroit-Dallas tradition.
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Once they fall out of first place, will it start to become an issue that their low vaccination rate has hurt their chances on the field?.
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The Bills' starting offense in the 2018 opener at Baltimore: QB-Nathan Peterman; RB-LeSean McCoy; WR-Kelvin Benjamin, Zay Jones, Jeremy Kerley; TE-Charles Clay; T-Dion Dawkins, Jordan Mills; G-John Miller, Vlad Ducasse; C-Ryan Groy.
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Sean McDermott is now 47-32 as a head coach in the regular season. If he wins Sunday, he'll have a .600 winning percentage. There are only 21 coaches in the Super Bowl era with a .600 win percentage in at least 80 games in the regular season.
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UB has 99 points in its last two games. The Bills have 96 all year.
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I'm not sure Matt Milano is a $11 million player, but it's a far better investment than overpaying for an aging J.J. Watt.
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If the Bills lose, it means no more than the early blowout losses to Miami in the first and third Super Bowl years. What matters is that the Bills are better.
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McDermott has himself to blame for this. His obstinate refusal to move on from Peterman and justify his fondness for him just cost him a game.
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According to Next Gen Stats, the Bills' Jerry Hughes had 15 pressures on Sunday, the most in an NFL game in the last three seasons.
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The media could do the culture a favor and ignore the sickening spectacle of competitive eating. It's revolting.
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Peyton Manning was 30 when he got to his first Super Bowl. So was Jim Kelly. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are both 24. They have lots of time.
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Josh Allen through three games: 81 of 114 passing (71 percent) for 1,038 yards with 10 TD passes and one interception. Today he became the first Bills QB since Jim Kelly with three straight 300-yard passing days. Kelly's 3-game streak of 300 games began on this date in 1992.
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It would be nice if people who thought it was so important and patriotic to stand for the anthem at a football game would stand up to the current assault on our democracy by Trump and his cronies.
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Tom Brady in five games against the Bills since Sean McDermott became head coach: 216 yards passing a game, 3 TDs, 5 interceptions, longest completion 32 yards.
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But look on the bright side. There won't be any columns from "negative' sports columnists in the paper tomorrow to harm the business model.
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Had tears in my eyes listening to Jim Kelly's speech at the ESPYs. His courage makes Buffalo proud.
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Sorry, I don't think NBC needed to give the entire hour of Meet The Press to Mike Pence. That's a lot of time for a snake oil salesman with basically nothing to say.
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The virus is spiking, but we're supposed to be nice and find middle ground with people who want to believe Trump over Science. No, no, sorry, you're stupid.
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My favorite quote from the Dion Dawkins letter: "The Super Bowl is our Super Bowl.".
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Over a five-week span in the middle of the season, we'll get: Allen vs. Patrick Mahomes; Allen-Cam Newton; Allen-Russell Wilson; Allen-Kyler Murray. Should be fun.
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I have a family member with Covid-19. I'm insulted and outraged to have the President telling me I shouldn't be afraid.
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We're often reminded that black Americans aren't a political monolith. But it light of the tragedy in Buffalo, it's hard to fathom how any African-American could support a political party whose radical elements pander to white supremacists.
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Douglas tackled Diggs well after he scored the TD in the end zone. Should have been a penalty.
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Allen, showing who he gets it, comes to the interview room and starts by praising Buffalo people who helped out during the storm.
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I asked Rob Gronkowski if he could understand what Tre'Davious White went through after he concussed him in Buffalo: "Uh, no. I don't understand what that question is related to.".
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The Bills can bring in quarterbacks who haven't played in the NFL in two years, but Colin Kaepernick can't get a job? I'd at least like to know if they reached out.
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I interviewed former Bills nose tackle Jeff Wright about the four AFC title games. When I mentioned Kent Hull, he started crying.
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No one will admit it, but this is another game in which the Buffalo defense wore down after the offense did nothing to hold up its own end.
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There were 181,000 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday. Only 10 days ago, the U.S. had 100,000 for the first time. More than 70 million Americans voted for a liar who says we're turning the corner.
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Sam Reinhart, the highest-paid Panther, has no goals and one assist in his last six games and his ice time is declining. Where are the Sabres fans who told me how much they would miss him? When I hear of all the positive qualities the team lacked in the past, I think of Reinhart.
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Suddenly, only two 1-loss teams remain in the AFC, and they played next week: Bills and Chiefs.
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Tre'Davious White, when I said the Bills would be underdogs in the playoffs: ."That little mouse exited the room, man. It's over. It's a new era. It's a new franchise, a new everything. It ain't no underdog no more.".
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A year ago, the Dolphins came to Buffalo at 0-5, being outscored by 30 points a game, and led the Bills in the fourth quarter. Look past the Jets at your peril.
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Gabe Davis now has 63 career receptions and 12 touchdowns. Did the Bills really need Emmanuel Sanders? Could have spent the money on an OL.
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Someone asked me if there are any Patriots backers bars in the Buffalo area. Would that even be allowed?.
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You ask a question about people's fears and that makes you a "bad reporter?" A man who called the virus a Democrat hoax two weeks ago accuses a reporter of sensationalism. It's demeaning to have this man leading the country.
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The Patriots have not throw a touchdown pass against the Bills in four meetings since Tom Brady left. In the last eight games against Buffalo, the Pats have two TD passes and five interceptions. And Brady played in the first four of those.
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Since halftime of the Tampa Bay game, the Bills are outscoring the opposition, 191-79.
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Marv Levy, who turned 97 last month, fires up the crowd before the opening kickoff. Where would you rather be than right here, right now?.
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The last time the Bills and Sabres made the playoffs in the same season was 1999-2000.
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The New York Times is doing a fabulous job of covering the war in Ukraine. I know it's not perfect, but we're lucky to have a free press and it's sickening in retrospect to think we had leaders who threw around the words "fake news" for their own political ends.
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I'm still staggered by the fact that the Bills had 263 yards of offense in 2:44 of clock over four drives against the Steelers on Sunday. To put that in perspective, their first four opponents this season AVERAGED 235 yards of offense over the full game.
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Nate Geary makes a great point. They miss Cole Beasley on third down. He was the king of the big catch on third-and-21. A disaster as a person, but a clutch receiver.
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Josh Allen is 74-for-93 passing in his last three games, including playoffs. That's 19 passes that weren't complete over three full games. The Bengals' Joe Burrow missed on 20 passes yesterday (including OT), four of them interceptions.
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The Republican candidate for President has won the popular vote once since 1988. Trump is currently trailing by more than 3 million. It's time to do away with the electoral college.
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UB is the first Buffalo-area college hoop team to win 25 or more games in consecutive seasons. In fact, no one else has won 23 back-to-back.
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The Sabres came back from a four-goal deficit for the fourth time in their history last night in Chicago. They're on a six-game point streak. I know people are wary of buying in, but I can sense fans starting to fall in love with this team and already looking forward to next year.
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Bill Clinton was President the last time I had this kind of confidence in a Bills team.
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If police behave this way when the world is watching and people have cameras, imagine what it was like when no one was recording.
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Nice to see the Bills opening at home at 1 p.m. on a Sunday, hopefully in great weather. Bills Mafia deserves to welcome the team back in the most conventional setting. Let's hope it can be full with a customary tailgate scene. There will be plenty of chances for prime-time games.
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He actually face-timed me in the press box. That's how fired up he was.
@ESPNNFL @SalSports @JeremyWGR @EWood70. The moment I caught on video Saturday night will be one of the greatest memories of my life. The passion! GO BILLS!
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