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ORCHARD PARK — Making the playoffs is the goal of every NFL team … and the sooner the better. There’s no personnel strategy when it comes to the seaso...

As this season has gone on, Bills coach Sean McDermott and his team have tried to re-educate the fan base. Buffalo’s faithful, having previously enjoy...

Buffalo got the job done. The Bills beat the Steelers last Sunday night in Pittsburgh, 17-10, and clinched a playoff berth in doing so. No Week 17 mir...

ORCHARD PARK — Virtually every coach has one … a go-to phrase to sprinkle into most every press conference as the finale to an uninformative answer. F...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are sticking with rookie quarterback Devlin “Duck” Hodges. Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that Hodges will m...

Where’s the anxiety … where’s the quantum math? Isn’t that what always happens when the Bills get within sniffing distance of a playoff berth? Instead...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Buffalo Bills didn't have many playoff experiences during a recent two-decade stretch. Bills coach Sean McDermott and his quarte...

It’s always an electric dynamic in the Twin Tiers when the Bills play the Steelers … especially with something major at stake. Most of it has to do wi...

Don’t expect this one to be a shootout. As befitting a pair of NFL Rust Belt cities, tomorrow night’s meeting between the Bills and Steelers at Pittsb...

Mark Heindl was curious. A couple of days after one of his players, Greg Simon, was named the E.B. Fitzpatrick-James Russell Award winner as the Big 3...

Win. That’s all Buffalo needs to do. Once more in one of its remaining three games. The Bills control their own destiny for a playoff spot. Just win o...

Every now and then the question is raised … why is Buffalo in the AFC East? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have that division composed of the four tea...

The Bills’ path to the playoffs is simple … win one of their last three games and they’re in. Unfortunately, the most vulnerable opponent comes in the...

ORCHARD PARK — Well, it’s not as if the sky is falling … but Bills fans are suddenly wondering if it might. Sunday’s 24-17 loss to the Ravens at New E...

ORCHARD PARK — On a cold, windy December day in Western New York, Lamar Jackson said he felt warm wearing long sleeves. So he took them off at halftim...

ORCHARD PARK — It played out pretty much as expected. On an afternoon when the Bills “could” have clinched their second playoff berth in the past 20 s...

ORCHARD PARK — Notes from the Bills’ 24-17 loss to the Ravens on Sunday afternoon at New Era Field before 69,134 wind-blown witnesses: — Before the ga...

ORCHARD PARK — This is the game where the Bills can convince the doubters. Buffalo (9-3) comes into Sunday’s meeting with Baltimore (10-2) at New Era ...