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CHEEKTOWAGA White Eddie Yarbrough Jerseys , N.Y. (AP)Fathers brought daughters. Mothers brought sons. And everyone brought their voices. The Bills are going to the playoffs for the first time in 18 years, and a little early morning chill wasn¡¯t going to keep Buffalo from celebrating. With the temperature at 2 degrees in the first hours of 2018, fans gathered to sing the Bills¡¯ ¡±Shout!¡± song and chant ¡±Let¡¯s Go Buffalo!¡± as they greeted the postseason-bound Bills at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Some 400 die-hards gathered to cheer the team that on Sunday ended the longest active postseason drought in North America¡¯s four major professional sports. ¡±The cold is nothing. We do or die for the Bills. They work hard for us. We¡¯ll give anything for them,¡± Ian Lewis said amid the din of people gathering at a fence overlooking the tarmac shortly before the Bills touched down. They landed just before 1 a.m. following their flight from Miami. ¡±My daughter¡¯s 11 years old, and we¡¯re season-ticket holders,¡± he said of his, Layla, who was by his side. ¡±And we didn¡¯t want to miss an opportunity to greet the guys for all their hard work.¡± Happy New Year, indeed. The Bills (9-7) did their part to get into the playoffs with a 22-16 win over the Dolphins. Then they got the help they needed in dramatic fashion, with the Bengals scoring a last-minute touchdown to defeat Baltimore 31-27. Buffalo clinched the AFC¡¯s sixth and final playoff berth and will travel back to Florida to play South-champion Jacksonville (10-6) in a wild-card playoff Sunday. The Bills were stunned by the reception: from first-year coach Sean McDermott to 12-year veteran Kyle Williams, the team¡¯s longest serving active player and inspirational leader. And it was no surprise that it was Williams who drew the loudest cheers, while being greeted with chants of ¡±We Want Kyle!¡± ¡±What do I make of this? You know, I just think it¡¯s everything that we¡¯ve worked for http://www.thebillslockerroom.com/authentic-ryan-groy-jersey , everything that I¡¯ve worked for. It¡¯s everything that I thought it would be,¡± Williams told The Associated Press in near tears. ¡±These are the toughest damn people in the world, and I¡¯m so thankful to represent them.¡± The defensive tackle¡¯s stature as a fan favorite grew even further after scoring his first career touchdown on a 1-yard run against the Dolphins. The Bills¡¯ game against the Jaguars will be played one day short of the 18th anniversary of Buffalo¡¯s last playoff appearance, a 22-16 defeat at Tennessee. The game was dubbed ¡±The Music City Miracle,¡± after the Titans scored the go-ahead touchdown on Kevin Dyson¡¯s 75-yard kickoff return set up by a cross-field lateral from Frank Wycheck. The Bills¡¯ playoff drought spanned a generation, which was not lost on many who turned out at the airport. ¡±We were just excited. A perfect night to come out and support the team,¡± said Kristin Cahill, who was with her son, Joseph Kemp. ¡±This hasn¡¯t happened in his lifetime. He¡¯s 16.¡± Her son suggested greeting the Bills after the team tweeted its travel itinerary. ¡±He brought it up, and I said, `Let¡¯s go.¡±¡¯ Cahill said. ¡±We didn¡¯t have any plans.¡± Fans began showing up at 11 p.m., with the crowd growing as the Bills¡¯ arrival approached. Once Bills players got to their cars and dusted off the snow that had accumulated since Saturday, they had to make their way through a gauntlet of supporters forming two rows on their way to the exit. ¡±I wish I could thank everyone Eddie Yarbrough Jerseys 2019 , every man and woman that¡¯s come out,¡± McDermott said. ¡±This type of welcome home just speaks volumes about our city and our fans.¡± One fan held a sign that said ¡±Party Like It¡¯s 1999,¡± a reference to the team¡¯s last playoff appearance. Buffalo hasn¡¯t won a playoff game since 1995. ¡±Buffalo wouldn¡¯t be Buffalo if it wasn¡¯t for people coming out here in weather like this,¡± said Kyle Bower, a Bills fan who happened to be visiting from West Palm Beach, Florida. Bills guard Richie Incognito has never been to the playoffs in his previous 10 NFL seasons, and has never been on a team that finished a season with a winning record. ¡±It¡¯s amazing. I¡¯ve been waiting to come home to this my entire career,¡± Incognito said. ¡±We put a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears into what we do. And this is what it¡¯s for: to come home to a crowd of fans jumping around in 2-degree weather.¡± ¡ª INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ¡ª The Buffalo Bills thought Derek Anderson might be the solution to their offensive struggles. He wasn't.They tried putting offensive coordinator Brian Daboll on the field for the first time. It didn't help.Instead, the turnovers mounted, the scoring chances waned, and the Bills wound up talking about an all-too-familiar result Sunday: Indianapolis 37 White Jordan Mills Jerseys , Buffalo 5. "I'm not going to pout about it. Like I said, I expect more from myself," Anderson said after making his first start since December 2016. "I came here to help this team win football games in any way that I can. Obviously today I played and it wasn't good enough."While Anderson understandably blamed himself after throwing three interceptions and losing a fumble, which the Colts converted into 24 points, there was plenty of blame to go around.The short-handed Bills (2-5) couldn't sustain drives, were forced to throw out of desperation, and again failed to score a touchdown.It was that kind of day for a team that started the season with bigger goals than just reaching the playoffs this year.Now the Bills have lost two straight, three of four and are trying to figure out how in a high-scoring league they've managed to produce just two touchdowns and 31 points over their last four games. They have a league-low 81 points in seven games and showed no indication of breaking out of the funk against a defense that played without two starters and had allowed 117 points in its previous three games ¡ª against the Texans, Patriots and Jets."There were some moments out there where I thought he (Anderson) executed well, and then there were times out there where we didn't execute well and turned it over," coach Sean McDermott said. "We have to hit the reset button, look at the film and learn from it."And it could get worse.The Bills had only four active receivers available after leaving Ray-Ray McCloud III at home for a "non-injury reason."Josh Allen's injured right elbow gave McDermott only one other option at quarterback, turnover-prone Nathan Peterman Jordan Mills Jerseys 2019 , who was benched after last week's loss.Buffalo also lost LeSean McCoy to a head injury on the game's second play and McDermott said it was unclear whether McCoy would be cleared through the concussion protocol in time for next Monday's game against New England."It's so different playing with the lead, we've said that. We've talked about it this week. Andrew (Luck) and I talked about it," Colts coach Frank Reich said. "We don't want to be conservative. We want to still be aggressive, but let's not do anything early and kind of blow things up." Indy executed its game plan perfectly, ending a four-game losing streak with its most lopsided win in five years.And yet the Bills' offense couldn't even ding the Colts' defense.Buffalo never led Sunday and has rarely played with more than a one-score lead over the past month, prompting may to contemplate changes. Getting healthy might help. Consistency and reducing the turnovers certainly would.While Luck finished 17 of 23 with 156 yards and four touchdown passes on a day Indy's ground game churned out 220 yards, Anderson wound up 20 of 31 with 175 yards with no touchdowns and all those turnovers.Kelvin Benjamin caught four passes for 71 yards, getting 32 on one play. No other receiver topped 25 yards as Chris Ivory and Marcus Murphy tried valiantly to fill the void left by McCoy.It wasn't nearly enough."Those guys did a great job stepping in for LeSean," Anderson said. "But as a whole, to kind of summarize it, we can't turn the ball over. We have to execute. When we cross the 50, we have to get points."
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