Bills’ Dareus broke left foot in season-ending win over Jets

What’s interesting about the Bills’ 2015 performance is how they played at home and on the road in their first eight games compared to the last eight.

By beating their hated rivals, Cincinnati extended their AFC North championship record to 12-4 despite a late-season slump due in part to a thumb injury to quarterback Andy Dalton on 13 December.

After throwing just one interception in winning his previous five games, Fitzpatrick was picked off on each of the Jets final three drives.

Hard for some. Not for Ryan. He’s an unrestricted free agent, but it seems like there’s mutual interest for him to come back-albeit at a bigger salary. You don’t want to wait for the offensive line to be a problem before upgrading it. With the Jets having the 20th overall pick in an offensive linemen-heavy draft the team should look to get one in the first round to start the transition.

“You guys know me, I’ve got a frightful resume as a defensive coach”, he said. “You guys try to point it out all the time. But the facts don’t back you up a whole lot”. The Bills were already without starting RB LeSean McCoy (knee) for the second straight game…. Pittsburgh went ahead, 28-12. “I let our fan base down”. The Bills may have been setting up that play for weeks since every time before Sunday that Manuel was in they actually ran a play. I’ve got complete confidence in the defensive staff, our head coach. In the secondary, losing safety Aaron Williams for most of the season, and then cornerback Stephon Gilmore for the last quarter hurt.

■ He didn’t reach 4,000 passing yards, but he came extremely close, finishing with a career-best 3,905 yards, passing Vinny Testaverde (3,732 in 2000) and Ken O’Brien (3,888 in ’85) to register the second-most yards in a Jets season behind Joe Namath’s celebrated 4,007 yards in ’67.

“My gut told me to turn it over to him”, Kubiak told reporters. “I do (want to play), but that’s my mind talking and my heart”, Colon said. “It’s going to take everyone”.

“It was a great game today against a darn good opponent”, he said. “Of course, there’s a business side to it, but if something doesn’t happen with my contract, I’ll be a free agent”. Denver turned to Peyton Manning to take advantage of New England’s slip-up in the AFC. Once that’s all done, on to the Super Bowl. The early three quarters.

It sounds as if the players held their coach accountable.

Interim head coach Pat Shurmur got the win for the Eagles (7-9), who fired Chip Kelly on Tuesday after the team missed the playoffs for the second straight season. This season, those four are Kansas City, Minnesota, Houston and Washington. The Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, St. Louis Rams and San Francisco 49ers are on the schedule.

NY miscues contributed to the Bills’ scoring two early touchdowns. At the very least they won’t have to worry about erasing the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers’ mark for the worst season in National Basketball Association history. He began the day tied for the record with Marvin Harrison, who had 252 receptions for Indianapolis in 2001 and ’02.

“Obviously, it’s pretty high, ” Bowles said of the level of priority bringing back Fitzpatrick will be.

As Al Pacino said in “Any Given Sunday”, this is a game of inches. “I don’t want it at the expense of the Buffalo Bills in our stadium”.

“I just think I’m such a different quarterback now than I was even three or four years ago, just what I’ve been through, the lessons I’ve learned along the way, whether it’s about the game or myself, ” Fitzpatrick said.

So somehow, when their own clumsily obligatory Browns-pounding stopped, when the slot symbols were finally, fatefully locked into place, well, how does that saying go?

“Jimmy has been a valuable member of the 49ers organization for the last nine years”, York said.