As most expected, it wasn’t the prettiest of affairs, but the Buffalo Bills improved to 3-10 on the season with a 13-6 victory over the Cleveland Browns Sunday afternoon in front of a far-less than capacity crowd at Ralph Wilson Stadium.
Buffalo entered the game ranked dead-last in stopping the run, but it was the ground game of the Bills that keyed their third victory of the season. The Bills ran for a season-high 192 yards, including 112 from Fred Jackson on 29 carries as Chan Gailey heavily committed to pounding the ball on the ground.
The Bills took advantage of three Cleveland turnovers, including a late interception by Leodis McKelvin to hamper the Browns (5-8) chances of beating Buffalo for the fourth straight season.
The Browns gained 105 yards on the ground, 108 from Peyton Hillis (21 carries), but Hillis also fumbled three times. As a whole, the Browns put the ball on the ground five times, losing two of them.
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At first glance, the Cleveland Browns may not seem like a team best suited to give the Buffalo Bills fits. Although improved from recent years, the Browns still have a losing record at 5-7, are ranked 22nd in the NFL defense, 27th on offense and will have journeyman veteran Jake Delhomme under center when the teams square off at Ralph Wilson Stadium Sunday afternoon.
Discovering a silver lining in the Buffalo Bills 2009 season thus far is about as effortless as convincing the American public George W. Bush was the most popular president since JFK. The Bills were within a play of pulling a monumental opening night upset at New England and handled an atrocious Tampa Bay at home the following week. With this year’s campaign seemingly on the hot trail the Bills promptly went out and laid consecutive eggs against New Orleans and Miami.
