
I’ve got to say this right at the top: I fully embraced the likelihood that I’d be writing about the inevitability of Dick Jauron being fired as head coach of the Buffalo Bills at some point this season. After perhaps the second-worst loss of Jauron’s 52-games-and-counting tenure as Bills head coach (nothing will ever top their 56-10 home loss to New England in ‘07), that likelihood has essentially become reality. Buffalo’s 38-10 drubbing at the hands of the Miami Dolphins was that bad.
But I’d be lying if I said I thought I’d be writing this post after Week 4. I didn’t want to address this hot-button issue until I felt that Jauron’s firing was more eventuality than possibility. We, and the Bills, are now at that point.
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After posting two goals and an assist in the last two games, senior Sam Maheu earned Co-Player of the Week, as announced by the Atlantic 10 on Monday afternoon.
This is the first men’s soccer weekly award since Maheu won a Rookie of the Week honor in 2006. The forward has been on fire since the middle of September when he racked up two goals against Canisius.
On Wednesday, the Ottawa, Ontario, native netted a quick shot past Buffalo’s keeper for his fifth goal of the season in the 2-1 win. Maheu then tossed in the second goal of the 3-1 win against Niagara on Sunday. He also passed out a helper in the first goal of the game.
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Thurman Thomas is a Buffalo icon. The Hall of Fame running back still lives, breathes and sleeps Buffalo Bills Football. When he’s not talking about goats and trash with former teammate Darryl Talley on his twitter, he’s heavily engaged in the happenings of the team he once helped build into a NFL powerhouse.
Thomas appeared this morning on his weekly WGR-550 radio talk show alongside host Mike Schoop, and was less than enthusiastic about this year’s version of the Bills. He minced no opinion when it comes to their current seemingly hopeless state.
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It was an all around terrible weekend to be a Buffalo Sports fan. One nauseatingly poor performance after another… Enough to give any fan a case of the Monday morning hangover (or in my case, the mid-afternoon).
Case(s) in point:
* If you ask me, and you’re probably not– the hideous performance by our offensive tackles is not their fault, but rather an indictment on this entire front office from top to bottom. No competent coaching staff or football personnel staffer in their right mind would entrust the health of their quarterback and well being of an offense in Jonathan Scott and Kirk Chambers.
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Former Buffalo State men’s hockey player Travis Whitehead (Cambridge, ON/Galt Collegiate) has signed a contract with the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League (AHL). Norfolk is the AHL affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Whitehead played three seasons at Buffalo State from 2006-09 after transferring from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. A strong skating two-way forward, he played in 76 games for the Bengals and recorded 10 goals and 25 points with 81 penalty minutes.
Whitehead completed his bachelor’s degree in business from Buffalo State last spring. He is the first former Bengal to make a regular season roster in the AHL.