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Taking stock of up-and-down Bills offense
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 18, 2023
A single game could be written off as an aberration, but does a second make a trend? For the second consecutive week, the Bills did not look like the ...
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Bills get away with another rocky start
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 16, 2023
ORCHARD PARK — Well, you can’t blame this one on jet lag. But this time, unlike in last week’s loss to the Jaguars in London, the Bills did just enoug...
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Bills’ offense takes too long to arrive in London
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 08, 2023
We may have found the player the Buffalo Bills’ defense can least afford to play without. Over the last two years, various veteran Bills defenders hav...
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UK trip brings new challenge to Bills, McDermott
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 07, 2023
History suggests the Buffalo Bills don’t fare well outside of the United States, but they’ve never played an international game with Sean McDermott as...
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Following dad’s compass
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 07, 2023
The path behind me is longer now, perhaps the direction clearer. Destinations, it seems to me, are not merely a name or place, but a direction. To a v...
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White injury casts pall over Bills’ big win
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 04, 2023
It should have been a day for celebration for the Buffalo Bills and their fans. And for the most part, it was. Sunday afternoon’s 48-20 win over Miami...
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Allen, Diggs rule the day as Bills retake East lead
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Oct 02, 2023
ORCHARD PARK — With an offense capable of scoring 70 points in town, Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills issued a reminder to the Miami Dolphins and the ...
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Preparation and motivation for archery season
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 30, 2023
Realizing you have multiple tasks to perform and then making time to complete them can be most challenging. For instance, recent trail camera photos s...
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Red-hot ‘Fins may reignite Bills rivalry
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 30, 2023
I know it’s still a bit premature to call the rivalry back on. After all, can it really be a rivalry if one team has won nine of the last ten meetings...
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Bills’ ‘D’ rounds into form as Dolphins await
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 26, 2023
What a week to have your defense come into a terrorizing form for opposing quarterbacks. Sunday afternoon, as turnover after turnover compounded an al...
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The ups and downs of squirrel hunting
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 23, 2023
Black trees stretched their gnarled limbs toward the barely discernible dawn as I silently stole into the forest. Today was the first day of squirrel ...
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Bieniemy speaks highly of Milano, Buffalo defense
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 23, 2023
Count Eric Bieniemy among the members of the Matt Milano fan club. Bieniemy, the new Washington Commanders offensive coordinator, is no stranger to sc...
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‘Unfurl’ hopes to provide guidance for Bona players
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Sep 22, 2023
( Editor’s note: Following is the third in a three-part series on the creation of Team Unfurl, an NIL collective for St. Bonaventure men’s basketball ...
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Archery: get ready now
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WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 16, 2023
I guess I’ll never understand Mother Nature completely. This spring during gobbler season we didn’t have a frost, we had a hard freeze! Some areas wer...
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‘Unfurl’ aims to even the NIL field for Bonnies
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Sep 15, 2023
( Editor’s note: Following is the first in a three-part series on the creation of Team Unfurl, an NIL collective for St. Bonaventure men’s basketball,...
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Allen blames man in mirror after brutal loss
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SAM WILSON Olean Times Herald 
Sep 13, 2023
As for the good news, it probably can’t get any worse. If Josh Allen plays an uglier game this season than he did Monday night at MetLife Stadium, it’...
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