1983 Week 5 MNF NY Jets at Buffalo

[Applause] we are live from rich stadium in orchard park new york just outside buffalo abc's nfl monday night football the new york jets against the buffalo bills this abc sports exclusive is brought to you by bud light the best has a taste all its own a clean distinctive taste you'll find in bud light and by nissan builders of high mileage high quality cars and trucks for 50 years available at your datsun dealer and by eastern airlines serving more than 120 cities in 22 countries throughout the americas eastern america's favorite way to fly and by press stone to antifreeze prestone is specially formulated to lock out rust and corrosion from your car's cooling system america goes with presto a sold out rich stadium and appropriately so the house the juice belt referring of course to our colleague oj simpson you're looking at a jam-packed rich stadium 80 000 expected tonight not only to welcome home the juice but to welcome the bills because they are off to a tremendous start hello again everyone i'm frank gifford working along with howard cassell and oj and i'll tell you one thing it can destroy your ego to come to rich stadium with o.j simpson they're all over him like i didn't exist well it's really exciting for me to be back here you know and i feel that i had so many thrills and the experience these buffalo field bills fans and believe me howard they're in rare form tonight believe me you know you're very special to me and it's a great evening for frank and me to be here with you enjoying the comeback and i think we said it all one night when with dandy we said miami has the oranges but buffalo has the juice jets won the toss buffalo to kick off here's the gift the action begins and juice it is nice to be so ever close to greatness we'll have some fun because we've got an exciting crowd tonight set to get things underway joe donello bangs it for the bills dropping deep and moving outfield and a bible quickly out over the 20-yard line where we'll watch richard todd come in johnny hector bringing it back richard todd on the year really found himself last week against the rams when he had a tremendous game he looks into the huddle and these will be his skill players at the skilled positions a dangerous wide receiver in wesley walker tremendous speed of course they have johnny lamb jones with a sore ankle but if he can get in there they have as fast receivers as you will find in combination in the nfl today the first and ten is at the 22-yard line by the new york jets wayne crutchfield the single setback todd with a quick roll to the left looks out and finds wesley walker walker up over the 30-yard line short of a first down by perhaps two it'll be second down and eight we'll look at the three-four defense the big man of course in the middle the nose tackle a great one fred smirles multiple all-pro the linebackers they're strong in the middle against the run lucia sanford good against the pass defense not large a secondary that truly has not been tested this year mario park of course one veteran and charlie roans the other veteran cornerback second down and two ball just over the 30-yard line for the jets the jets two and two on this season the bill's off to a good start they're three and one schuler in motion the quick toss that goes to cutfield he breaks the tackle at the line of scrimmage and gets out for the first down up close to the 39-yard line it'll be first down jets nobody questions the caliber of personnel on this jets team the two surprising losses still hurt but dwayne crutchfield as you look at head coach joe walton should be watched carefully he is an absolute bull of a runner out of iowa state and his all-star potential not joe walton but dwayne crutchfield exactly although joe walton could wind up that way if everything goes for 29 yard line first down for the jets coming off an overtime victory over the rams last week at chase stadium chula in motion and crutchfield works over the right side a couple of yards and of course missing from the lineup if you follow this game you know the freeman mcneil the nfl's leading rusher of a year ago out for six to eight weeks with a separated shoulder he will not be in the lineup so joe walton will use a multiple usage of his backswing crutchfield scott dirk and bruce harper will see harper a lot on third down right now they're going fairly strong with crutchfield amanda howard told you in his second year big strong young back with a lot to learn but he has a great deal of power one thing i noticed that joel walton is doing he's playing three tight ends right now i think he feels that the team hasn't played with a lot of promotion in the past so he's telling them they're going to run the football so they'll come into this game thinking tough comb the schuler barking the tight ends and todd on second down and seven through the air finds crutchfield and cutsville over the 45 held short of the first down at the 47. defensively mario clark up there the veteran cornerback on the left side and it'll be about two and a half yards short of the first down for the jets richard todd may not be the greatest quarterback in the league but he is a fine quarterback and you can win a super bowl winner but as joe walton freely admitted at our production meeting this morning he started slowly this year but got into his rhythmic pattern against the rams money does that he is very difficult indeed to stop third along two into the lineup bruce harper good receiver out of the backfield for the jets he wears number 42. richard todd changing off and trips down he goes and he is covered quickly by smirles the ever so active nose tackle for buffalo in the jets we'll have to bring out the putting unit todd as he pulled away from the center was either stepped on by a pulling guard or his center or he just tripped on the artificial surface let's take a look let's take a look at it from the end zone you see number 14 in the middle of your screen he's coming out and it it just it looks like he stepped on he was stepped on by the center of joe fields it happened so often you have to get away from that center and your linemen have to be aware of the movement of the quarterback chuck ramsey that's rob riddick third-year man for millersville he's back deep chuck ramsey netting out 35.2 on his punch this far this season ramsey high wobbling kick gritty executes the fair catch inside the 15-yard line the bill will have their first occupancy possession of the game and final instructions going from the first year head coach gave stevenson to joe perkinson as he moves on to the field we'll be back with action in a moment i wasn't drafted till the seventh round [Music] they don't even know my name [Music] the best never comes easy that's why there's nothing else like it budweiser life [Music] the best creator huh it has a taste all its own enjoys red stadium just outside buffalo orchard park the suburb of buffalo and it is jumping and rocking tonight 80 000 bills fans are on hand they lost their opener to miami now they have won three straight coming in tonight they beat cincinnati they beat baltimore and they beat houston they beat houston last week with a running offense their quarterback joe ferguson on the air 71 118 60 six touchdowns he doesn't throw away a lot of interceptions he doesn't get sacked a lot because he'll get rid of it but last week it was a running game a spectacular day for joe cripps and he's in there right now number 20 with 166 yards against houston first down at 10 14 yard line for the bills booker moore is back there with joe cribbs the setbacks and immediately ferguson to the air and he looks out and he finds bill cribs not only a good rushing back but he's a nifty receiver he told you about the backfield set there is joe ferguson now in his 11th year out of arkansas good quarterback is a good quick release they don't catch him that often the skill positions frank lewis 36 years old rolling on he just doesn't age and there is an offensive line that perhaps the weakness on the right side we don't know it'll be justin cross who has replaced the ninja joe devlin he'll be up against mark gaston over the night cribs got five yards the second down at five the ball just inside the 20 of the bills ferguson again fires for tony hunter the rookie first round draft pick and former all-american from notre dame out over the 40-yard line first down and for those fans who follow notre dame football to know he's one of the greats ever to come out of that institution let's take a look at it from the end zone i think they're just a little surprised teams have been running against them so well they expected the bills to come out running the ball and as you can see tony hunter ran a little flag pattern there he was wide open and brought it in and did a good job well when you look at tony hunter frank you're looking at a future all-pro for many years to come i can tell you that he would have been the jets number one draft choice of the jet sedan crackdown under with the first down 42-yard line cribs looks left slides right gets about three perhaps fours he's out over the 45-yard line and let's beat the 4-3 defense one that is really taking a hammering in the early going of the season but it has been injury riddled you saw quickly joe pleco once again back of the tackle neil is out of the end where he should be in the first place those are your linebackers the big hitter there is bundle the cornerbacks they're good cornerbacks bobby jackson and jerry holmes and unless you get a pass rush and the jets have not provided that this season well the best gets in trouble in the secondary the second down long six and ferguson will go on top again as the flag goes down goes out to the tight end this is mark bremer veteran out of michigan state he'll have the first down yardage but flags are down at the line of scrimmage flag referee tonight is jerry markbright frank the flag was against the jets clearly but i think they'll decline the penalty obviously they've got the first down and the jets are not as you noted getting the bathroom well one of the reasons they're not getting a good pass for us is i'm sure the last two weeks they've been emphasizing stopping the run i think number 93 defense declined first down i think the jets have gotten so much publicity about being the second change over the years they came into training camp this year thinking about stacking quarterbacks and not stopping the run and teams have been running on them and it's it's absurd for a team with their personnel suddenly not to stop the run when they were about as good as there was a year ago the personnel is that the bill's inside the 44-yard line first down and 10. you saw marty lyons complaining that he was drawn off inside handoff in the works of booker moore a first-round draft pick of a couple of years ago unable was unable to play as a rookie suffered from guillain-barre syndrome a serious nervous disorder but he has fought it off and he's back in the lineup tonight right there you saw kenny neal a rookie sensation a year ago he was used to tackle on the inside early on doesn't have really the full upper body strength necessary for the inside but outside a year ago he was sensational when kleco was hurt and back then now he is an outstanding player loss of almost three yards second down 13 for the bills draw play red and red quickly as booker moore will lose even more yardage back close to midfield he'll bring up a long third downfall quickly i'd like to tell everyone tonight's game is the first sports event to be transmitted via the armed forces satellite network to armed forces personnel stationed in korea and they're getting it live right now the program is being broadcast over the american forces korea network which is celebrating its 33rd anniversary today tonight's game is also being transmitted to armed forces members stationed in iceland panama puerto rico guantanamo bay in cuba and diego garcia in the indian ocean welcome guys we're glad to have you aboard we're proud of that frank now let's see what pressure they put on the passer on this obvious passage shotgun showing glitch third down 16. read quickly by ferguson he tried to get it to lewis and it was a safety blitz ken troy pressuring ferguson fourth down and the bills will have to punt good call frank that's what it was troy was all over ferguson he released the ball too soon he had no other choice so the jets have helped i wish frank lewis would have turned around right there he would have been in the end zone but he was probably running a deep hook pattern and fred ferguson read the blitz and just hoped he'd turn around and look for the ball and if he have either scored you and your buffalo cater to kick you had a quick look at mike harmon the rookie out of mississippi in 11th round draft pick for the jets he's positioned himself at the 10. peter not having a big year planning thus far this season and this one goes up high and cater is looking for a man who will down it and the bills are all over they'll get on it at the one-yard line and rookie mike harmon will probably have to talk that over with special teams coach because he should have been up there for the fair catch he was not and the jets will start at their own one-yard line their second possession he's only three and already he's reaching out seeking and looking to you to point the way now is when a texas instrument's home computer can give him a real head start with more educational cartridges than any other computer they challenge encourage make learning fun the home computer from texas instruments don't put it off [Music] the nissan sentra has climbed to the top you made it the best selling import because you need this car room for five superb performance built solid to last the sentra major value major motion as only nissan can build it [Music] at your dots and dealer saturday see jerry cotesy is stunning upset of michael doakes for the wba world heavyweight championship plus the holland globetrotters visit the big apple in an encore presentation abc's wide world of sports saturday [Applause] neither team has been spectacular on monday night however quarterback joe ferguson has produced some thrilling games on monday night he's had a couple of duds also first down and tim the jets is no score early going first quarter single setback dwayne crutchfield the second year man from iowa state the big one 230 pounder who tripped up right at the goal line he scrolls maybe for a half yard tripped up by ben williams a hard charging defensive left in for the bells don't agree with that goal at all you're not going to agree with many of the knights i don't think he was pretty he wasn't a bad caller lucius sanford just made one excellent play on it he split the tight end in the tackle and forced it back inside and i'm sure the back wanted to keep it outside i thought the raiders showed their game and i think it's the game of the time with plunkett throwing out of that a cliff branch well we all like to see that but they didn't win yesterday during all of them on the other side lamb jones wide open they have to respect tremendous speed he gets the first down out over the 15 near the 18-yard line with their receivers they can chew anybody up let's take a look at jones here howard he's running a deep end it just looks like he's you got to respect that speed he's a guy run 9.05 has an olympic gold medal for the 440 relay a 400 meter relay just ran a simple turn in and got a first down he jumps to catch the ball in the manner of lin swan he is very delicate he's had many many injuries ankles and strings that when you got him healthy walker on one side jones on the other what speed you have first down 19-yard line for the jets todd puts everyone in the pattern looks to bruce harper and bruce harper is hammered there hit hard chris williams coming up and lucius sanford we talked about him early he's a good pass defender very slight at linebacker 215 pounds but he roams the secondary when he reads pass and he is the one man they keep in the one linebacker they keep in when they go into their nickname he's that good of a defender yeah he's very smart guy you know he watches the field he reads the field real well he was the dean's list student down in georgia tech and there's a degree in industrial management huh well that man favorite by the way lamb jones can only practice one day a week with a soft ankle frank and he needs more than that this is bruce harper only three weeks ago arthroscopic surgery and look at the little man get another first down out over the 30 near the 33-yard line before he's upset by chris keating stats for you if you will the jets are dead last in the nfl against the rush buffalo defensively well they're fourth in the nfl defensively but they have not intercepted one pass this season they're the only team in the nfl who has not intercepted a pass and yet they have performed well against the past defensively they've really never been tested deep this year that's a different formation for the jets as they put scott dirking over the right side they're in kind of a stacked with the three tight ends and they get a couple of yards out of it i'd rather bruce harper over the right side you mentioned scott jerking though he made the key pass reception that led to the jets victory over the ramp he's not a sensational player he's a highly functional player the kind of guy you want around juice you know what i mean a great blocker make a few key yards you know what i mean barcum is good left and they are using lamb jones now in a wing they have jones [Applause] in the slap formation along with wesley walker split wide to the right second down and eight a hang up and there was a holding call against wesley walker he's not going to call it that mario clark almost four wesley walker's jersey off on the outside we have two officials right there i'm shocked that they didn't call it i don't believe that and walker is limping off the field it's a good way to pull a hamster let's take a look at it mario clark who's a fine defensive back but he's beat right at the line of scrimmage that chuck was really beyond five yards got a hold of his jersey i don't believe that hey they are now helping wesley walker off the field he had a bad angle an achilles tendon rather he's had it since training camp and thrown off stride like that that could have aggravated that injury well that's a good way to incapacitate the other team and i i just can't believe that that wasn't gold but i've seen enough this year and the officials to understand anything tonight hey howard and the fans are rare for them [Applause] third down and eight richard todd without his prime receiver rusty walker lan jones is in there however a little trap play and look at the man break loose as bruce harper harper on a call from head coach joe walton on a third down and long situation a bill's thinking pass quick trap and harper popped it give a lot of credit to the offensive line on this and to harper of course 45-yard pickup harper's longest run of his career a call that comes down from richie kotei to head coach joe walt he calls all the plays and the bills we're thinking pass all the way first down he's inside the 20-yard line of the bill still no four in this game a little more than four minutes remaining in the first quarter [Applause] now he goes back at the 26 yard line the blitz was on parker was there todd had everyone in the pattern not enough people to pick up nobody free excellent excellent coverage by buffalo yeah he looked like he's trying to hit one of his two types ends mickey schuler or tom cots cause is running a post pattern and schuler was running a flat pattern they both recovered excellently awesome about six yards late coming in now into the jet shuttle by derrick gaffney howard i'm a firm believer that when you're running the ball as well i think that bills may have underestimated their ability to run with premium mcneal not being here i must firm believe it if you're running that well you keep running well the situation we've seen many times by just about every team in the league wichita not happy with the call or the personnel to handle it timeout jets a welder becomes mysteriously ill then another and another an environmental expert from etna life and casualty is called in he does some tests and makes a startling discovery vapors from a chemical solvent combined with the heat of the welding produced a deadly gas once aetna solved the mystery the workers could return to work safely one more reason more and more companies are glad they met aetna edna i'm glad i met you [Music] some things speak for themselves wednesday there could be trouble in paradise for the fall guy [Music] westy walker back in the lineup for the jets second down 16 the ball just outside the 25 yard line of the bills the big play that got the jets here a 45 scamper on a third and long by bruce harper single setback now is crutchfield second-year math iowa state todd looking as if he's changing up again flanker screen wesley walker and covered well again it was lucius sanford a very active linebacker for the bills tonight that was a superb play by sanford they read that instantly it was almost as if they anticipated it in advance the very complaint freeman mcneil made about the jets offense against bill onsbarger in the final afc playoff game a year ago he said the other team knew what we were doing before we did it third down 13 the ball at the 23-yard line if i ran that player i certainly wouldn't run it on lucid stanford's side three wide deceivers rusty walker lamb jones gary gaffney movement on the right side for the jets appeared to be marvin powell pulling up quickly the flags are down nobody will forget that marvin powell let's listen to the call was the man who made the key penalty against miami when miami won 2019 on an ubi vancham on field goal in the final seconds false start number 79 offense third down yeah but he made a lot of key blocks to get him to that game he's a great great linesman but at that moment he made a critical mistake and people remember that third down 18 of all of the 28-yard line dude it's officially mother that's an interesting highlight the bill's playing tough on third down and long their opponents this year over 13 on third down and tanner moore and that's what the jets are looking over right now todd has the time gets it to harper he'll be short of the first down but he will be moving closer to field goal range again lucia sanford defensively and out comes the field goals unit but the point is frank the buffalo defense held together they are very tough to score on it remains to be seen if leahy can kick this field goal he's not the greatest and basically the jets come up and he is actually five to six this year and the other was blocked the holder is patron and joe fields will be doing the snapping a 38-yard attempt hooks and left coat filled by blue bill so we still are scoreless in the first quarter 256 remaining the partisan crowd [Applause] [Music] nissan 484 the most powerful standard engine in its class the biggest payload the highest minimum ground clearance the one and only king cam nissan technology builds major motion at your datsun dealer once the name eastern meant service only in the east not anymore today we spread our wings north to canada across to the west coast mexico and the caribbean down to south america serving over 120 cities in 22 countries flying more passengers than any other airline in the free world today only our name is eastern [Music] missing from 38 yards out of the bills get it back first down the ball just over their 20-yard line the three tight ends now for the bills are operating framer hunter and barnett first down of 10. piktos ferguson gets it out to cribs and cribs is snowed under as he gets over the line of scrimmage he gains less than a yard and a late flag it could be a personal foul well normally when a flag comes in that late it is that personal file but it's apparent that the jets have been voting up this week to stop the run and the bills i thought game plan originally when they came buffalo and it was holding late call so it was on the pull of one of the guards and i think the bills when they watched leahy hooked that must have thought we're off the snide a little bit because that's the first time an opponent has missed a field goal here at ridge stadium this year those things can get depressing you must remember that miami beat buffalo here 12 to nothing but never got a touchdown against the state this is number 87 offense first tough team defensively they deserve all the credit in the world for that if they've got a problem they have certain key players key weapons offensive jerry butler may be as good as there is as a receiver and of course grids down remains the same loss of tim a man holding was the rookie promoter named tony hunter [Applause] little quick draw goes to krebs read quickly by the jets marty lyons playing with a very sore ankle is defensive tackle position taking ice on gas the nose man double team there i think they had hoped he'd go outside on a pass for us so they can trap not really trapping but draw him inside but he played to run real well i'm sure they've been really putting emphasis on playing the run before they passed rush this week gamora as you noted at the production meeting will be helping out all day justin cross who can't possibly have got three second down 17. here comes cribs again and this time brought down from behind good defensive play moving out from his outside linebacker position last smell who seems to have a knack of being in the right place at the right time it'll bring up long yardage now for ferguson frank have you ever seen a man cribs his size with equal utter body strength remember the monday night superstars during the strike the weight love thing i do he reminds me a great deal of greg pruitt who performed the same kind of miracles down there greg of course had a had a big day yesterday down in washington [Applause] but juice has got a line on the way cribs run we're going to hear about it later any particularly in this field here at rich stadium it's an unusual field third down long yardage out of the shotgun we'll watch ferguson deflected it was intended for cribs and it was deflected it'll bring up fourth down and should produce good field position for the jets excellent play by lance mel certainly one of the lesser publicized linebackers and yet won the best in the national football league but it was mark gaston though that made the play yeah for the bills he beat cross right away and fergie was able to get outside of him but he forced fergie outside of the cup and broke up the play really mike harmon i'm sure they've talked to him about the possibility of a fair catch if he can't advance we had the jets on the one-yard line earlier in the game they got out of that trouble greg cater to punt for buffalo with 119 remaining in the first quarter and no score [Applause] hater towering kick but doesn't turn over and here comes harmon harmon inside bill's territory at the 49-yard line justin cross hustling down there to make the stop for the bills but it'll be first down in bill's territory for the jets when we return to rich stadium in buffalo tonight a quarterback who changed the team in the history of a league as sparta's america's sports vitamin presents nfl classics for the extra demands of physical fitness new sparta's a different high potency formula to supplement your diet sparta with every essential vitamin and mineral in the usrda and more more of the vitamins that help convert food and body fat to energy spartas with electrolytes essential for muscle action sparta's every essential vitamin and mineral and more the extra strength formula for the extra demands of physical fitness sparta's the official sports vitamin of the 1984 winter olympics joe namath's arm was once the most highly prized weapon in all professional football he threw with precise abandon sensing the game's fever running his offense with pure name at the instinct producing crystal moments in his career when the absolute force of his will drove a team past its own barriers it earned him a championship and instant respect for the afl joe clacco he's moved inside of course he had those great all pro years out of defensive end before he suffered that ruptured patella tendon in his right knee a year ago not back really totally 100 but he is much more effective at defensive tackle than he was at him first down jets hills territory near the 49-yard line that's rusty walker back in the lineup apparently healthy cut field left side of cut field gets inside the 45 for a gain of about four it'll be second down and six but joe walton got him fired up up front you know they outweigh the bills about 20 pounds per man up front except on the center of joe fields is a little smaller than smirles and they're going with the double tight end and triple tight end and they're just trying to beat him up up front sparrowless though is one of the great players in this league broadly original bermuda triangle and the bills fans are very proud of him and they should it's great play second down and six jets dominating offensively but there's no score on the scoreboard and there's less than 30 seconds in the quarter wayne clutchfield right side swarmed on there marv the inside linebacker was first and then he had a lot of help from his friends and it'll put todd and coach jill walton in a passing situation marv out of saginaw valley has become an outstanding player for this team nobody ever heard of him a very special point for the bills but crutchfield young as he has made a mistake should have swung outside instead got back inside into the pack you see all the change of personnel that's where the jets tricked them up on their last third long situation when they came with the trap and bruce harper went for a 45-yard scamper those are the final seconds in a scoreless first quarter [Applause] god he'll get the first down easy and a lot more hook sliding down close to the 31-yard line for a jets first down as the quarter expires here in buffalo and not much for the 80 000 buffalo fans to cheer about in the early going we'll be back when they move him down a couple years ago when he heard his arm early in the year these guys were down here scouting the kids now they're back looking for help [Music] [Applause] the best never comes easy that's why there's nothing else like it [Music] budweiser lights [Applause] [Music] the best hey bob you got it it has a taste all its own enjoy it you're taking one of the most important trips of your life on 35 radial tires how good are they they're warranteed by sears for 30 000 miles their sears guardsmen steel belted radio starting at 34.99 radial design for performance steel belted for durability and peace of mind steel belted radial confidence starting at 34.99 confidence installed day and night there's more for your life at sears frank gifford howard cosell and oj in the house with the jews belt rich stadium opened in 1973 a cost of 22 million seats 80 000 and they're all here tonight 31 yard line the jets at the bill's 31 with the first and 10 and todd is back walker and walker comes down with the football and the first down inside the 20-yard line in the arms of charles romes take a look at walter he looks like his knee or his ankle whatever you heard just fine he's running comes back to the ball real nice here he's legally blind in one eye it's an off told story many people passed him up in the draft the jets didn't mike hickey who's got a lifetime job with leon hess the jets owner if he wants it has built this team in terms of personnel magnificent like walker is one of the best there is it is he gets a touchdown about every sixth reception first down jeff's 20-yard line of the bills high step being crutchfield and he gets big yard he's down close to the 13-yard line before he's dumped by rome's he'll pick up seven it'll be second down and three first quarter stats totally dominated offensively by the jets 118 yards for the bills 38. the thing to remember is they didn't capitalize and they haven't scored yet and that you may remember hauntingly later in the game second down and three that's gaffney going up to the top of your screen walkers split to the left inside handoff bruce harper and harper will have another jet first down he's down close to the six yard line chris harper he's amazing 5-8 177 pounder and just three weeks ago arthroscopic surgery let's take an end zone replay howard you could have got yards on this one they're just doing the job up front i might see big marvin powell marvin powell just made a block he took two guys out of the play and they got a good block by by their guard and they're just moving around up front you know i think this jet team came together after the first quarter against the uh rams last week once premium mcneil got hurt they start playing emotional football and he's carrying over to now quick count cut fields crutchfield down to the one yard line where it'll be second down gold to go in the arms of irvin parker you talk to anybody and we've talked about it before juice who knows this game inside out gilbran dick steinberg the great people in personnel evaluation nobody's got better personnel than this team you agree i agree i think the raiders may be real close but this team certainly is not playing up to their ability maybe they are today tonight they're they're fired up right now that's threatening the bills have allowed the fewest touchdowns in the nfl thus far this year and todd overthrows nikki schuler who is well covered and joe i don't know walton did not intend for todd to go to schuler obviously i understand that call frank as i said on the last drive when you're running the ball as well as they're running the ball a day why would you worry about throwing the ball you would think that you would take one shot running the ball at this point and then mind you as you can see a flag is down the discussion now going on in the field they still haven't gotten the ball in that could be on uh rome's rome put his hand on the receiver deep in the secondary but i don't think he obstructs you know his pattern or anything there is no foul the pass could not be caught third down you had the right you had the right man but the fastest so far overthrown that they do not allow the foul you've got a yard and i have to go second down you're cleaning them up on the ground why i would i think you're a frustrated coach i didn't send the call in walton johnny hector the rookie from texas a m joined by augustinian [Applause] third down goal to go good defensive play and i think the whistle had blown another flag is down it was hectic they're not going to get it in we're going to have holding same old plagued the jets they had 10 holding calls last week against the rams and that'll back them up [Applause] kay stevenson boy has he done a job with this field team well he hands the players very well he doesn't have the personnel but there is an esprit de corps here there is a spirit i think katie and her let's see the call here holding number 82 offense third down nicky schuler the tight end holding now the down will remain the same it'll be third down goal to go the ball just outside the bill's 11-yard line i'll be lucky to get a field goal [Applause] lamb jones split to the top of your screen wesley walker bottom of your screen picked off see what i mean picked off in the end zone and the bells get it back i think they're going to dread that not running the ball on second base williams who is playing for an injured rod kush the safety from a year ago free safety bill simpson retired richard todd tried to squeeze it into a crowd is picked off wobbly pass to begin with and the bills get their first interception of the season it could not come at a better time to get the football back the jets are turned away and the bills have it first and ten at their own 20. do i smell real stuck for tonight our anniversary yeah great the bell yellow pages talks when your fingers do the walking you save trouble and time leslie's flowers we get there fresh how about fast and fast you remembered i ordered the flowers after you started the duck so i burned the duck after you order the flowers get the yellow pages talking let your fingers do the walking i was the first one on our plot to own the brand new nissan stanza sedan i love this luxurious roomy interior and stereo with cassette once i drove this front wheel drive beauty i bought it then jack drove it and bought one and bill drove it and bought one now we have three nissan stanzas on our block [Music] at your datsun dealer timely interception by this man chris williams pressed into service of free safety with the injury of rod kush had a knee injury in the baltimore game a couple of weeks ago actually this williams a cornerback playing well back there backup quarter that may have found himself a home jets with 157 total yards no points on the board quicker more single setback now for the bills and joe ferguson frank lewis jerry butler the wide receivers fired to bramer over the middle he's short of the first down it'll be a gain of about six out of the 25-yard line i'll remind you wide world of sports coming up on saturday five o'clock eastern time for central the wba world heavyweight championship michael doakes jerry coutilla from cleveland ohio you can see for yourself could see a stunning upset of the defending champion michael doakes and of course you're always popular in the fun-loving harlem globetrotters return to new york you'll see it on wide world of sports immediately following sportsbeat here on abc coming up on saturday kremer got six yards out of the second down and four the ball at the 26 yard line cribs right side and he is hammered runs into the left side of the defensive line of the jets and gastineau draws some jeers from the bill's crowd take a nice own guest to know justin tried to make him think it was a pass to try to get him up field so they can run inside of him but gasol is playing run first i think it's quite obvious he's playing run first and he didn't fall for the fake of a pass actually it was pleco who did the damage and john would ring the middle linebacker third down no gain third down and four butler is left lewis is right and we'll watch the shotgun for the bills pick off the jets get it back stepping right in front of the defender was bobby jackson and ferguson it's an interception and we have a limping offensive lineman for the bills and they can ill afford that ken jones their best offensive lineman right now [Applause] take a look at it again bobby jackson just reading ferguson's eyes i think juice yeah it looked like they were playing a zone as a good play by bobby bobby had a concussion last week trying to catch eric dickinson he broke stride and fell on his head and had a concussion but he's back this week and playing good ball howard i think they're going to score this time the first down 29-yard line of the bills todd fires it complete going over the middle hits the big tight end jerome barkham there's bobby jackson on the florida state he's been uh over that left corner for a long time and he does a good job over there yeah they got him from buffalo really a choice that they got from the deals for billy newsome a few years back come back to haunt the bills here markham got seven yards it'll be second down and three the ball at the 22-yard line of the bill still no score we're inside 10 minutes remaining in the first half that's unusual in this day of pro football goose eggs on the scoreboard todd rifles it complete with johnny hector and the second round draft pick the rookie from texas a m will have a jets first down inside the 15 close to the 12. chris williams defending he just overran that play yes it is that's on the left side that's chris williams now he'll come back in and he reads it covering hector out of the backfield with the linebacker and williams on the stop but the jets get the first down at the 12-yard line walker is right and lam jones the two speedsters top of your screen walker 85 landfills 80. todd all the time in the world and he works it out to bruce harper and bruce harper's in the end zone chris harper the little man who does so much out of that backfield they love to bring him in there in passing situations and he can really work linebackers well we can't see harper but he's working on the left side of the screen here he looked like he had an option he went kept him inside beat the guy who's been playing good ball a day lucia samford and did a good job getting in the end zone hey when you protect your passer that long somebody's going to get open because everyone was in the pattern if you don't know [Applause] that's true here's pat leahy [Applause] nice snap brought down quickly by ryan and the jets are out on top seven to nothing after dominating offensively throughout the early going and this man made the big plays bruce harper introducing the switchable sony which at the hit of a switch plays video games which again and get regular tv it's two sets in one it's built for home computers and games but not just like a toy because it's a trinitron and no matter which switch you switch you always get that one-of-a-kind trinitron picture whether it's annihilators or commentators the switchable sony for game time and showtime we'd like to give you a quick demonstration of the ibm display writer office system it lets you type edit and file electronically it points out misspelled words and the correct alternatives it can be used as a computer and it can send information to whoever needs it the ibm display writer helps you get your job done so quickly it helps you look good saturday see jerry cotesie is starting up set up michael jokes for the wba world heavyweight championship plus the holland globetrotters visit the big apple in an encore presentation abc's wide world of sports saturday the jets capitalizing on an interception by bobby jackson worked it in touchdown pass bruce harper set the kick off pat leahy deep a pair of speedsters rob riddick number 88 mike mood who led the nfl and kickoff returns a year ago but this will be rob riddick a big opening for reddick and reddick taken from behind by kirk springs and the bills suddenly are in debt territory good return by rob riddick well the bills need that you know because joe ferguson is let's take a look at that again he's just going up the right side of the field the wedge comes over to get some real nice blocks a real nice block there and rick was part of a speedster i thought he was going to break it all the way and kirby springs makes another big play for the guests he's made a few this season already somehow from the miami university of ohio like rob carpenter of the giants they do first down bills are down by seven cribs right side and cribs hurdling all 190 pounds over the right side gets about three yards it'll be second down and seven look at little bruce harper in isolation i hope he's not offended if i call him little but in this modern day and age he is small got a real nice move of keeping lucas lucius sanford inside he went out the ball was on the money and did a great job of getting it in the end zone you called it he put a good head fake on champion frozen for a second second down and seven ferguson flag is down frank lewis gets the first down yardage inside the 30-yard line and again the flag is down i'm sure he's going to be holding uh gastineau and klecko was getting a lot of pressure in there and i think somebody just put an arm out and grabbed one of them holding and again we'll remind you that the bill sorely missed joe devlin their right tackle and he would be the man blocking primarily tonight on mark gasterno they are going with justin cross the second-year man who has not had that much experience here is jerry mark wright our referee in oh domain holding number 63 offense second down and there's just no cross who is holding mark astinho watch it now well he's holding him right there right when he came off the ball he was beaten inside and he grabbed him right away to keep gastineau told me last night you she came over the hotel to talk with me about this alleged altercation he was in but devlin is the toughest man for him in the national football league and that wins out second down big yardage for joe ferguson he'll work from the shotgun fires and it's complete over the middle that could be a completion and a recovery by booker moore it was jerry butler who was hammered and it was booker moore who basically is the rookie out of penn state the first round draft pick of two years ago who could not play a year ago who made the recovery i think the most disturbing thing to gas more about that whole alleged altercation is 175 pound guy beat him in arm wrestling so they say they've had some distractions this week the jets mayor koch announcing they were going to new jersey they've had charges concerning the super bowl that are too ridiculous to mention on the air i think that's 1969 that's gasping his problems third in line for ferguson gets it to booker moore moore looks for yardage inside but he's taken by greg it'll be fourth down and the bills will have to turn it over and some disgruntled bill's fans now starting to murmur in the stands you can understand it they've been totally outplayed and indeed the score might well have been 14 or 21 well i think one of the problems the fans are having with the bills they know they got all the home run players of receivers that can go all the way they haven't been really trying for the long bomb they've been playing a very conservative offense and i think that could have something to do with cross's adjustment and jim rickard richter of his adjustment of left side you got to look at mike harmon awaiting the punt of greg hater which is almost blocked but cater gets off the beauty mark harmon signs that one up and quickly call for the fair catch which he pulls off inside the 15-yard line so the jets chop their offensive unit back out onto the field and we'll be back with them in just a moment you're all set sir good time you're watching a ticket agent's class at the american airlines learning center here we taught debbie bridges the fastest way to get you through the airport with our one-stop check-in now she can give you boarding passes for all your flights once but some things we didn't have to teach here [Music] nissan trucks are can this 59.99 nissan haul 1400 pounds yep in a double wall steel bed yup with the most powerful standard engine in its class yep anyone else give you all this for a sticker price of 59.99 nope only nissan [Music] at your datsun wednesday you think they won't try it again the killer's getting desperate on dynasty [Music] 6 20 remaining in the first half from buffalo the jets have a first down and 10 at their own 14-yard line they're on top 7-0 over the buffalo bills augustinian middle and he'll get about three yards it'll be second and seven and we're going to pause five seconds allow all of our stations all along the line tell you who's bringing you the game you're watching another sports exclusive on channel 7 wkbw tv buffalo the bells and the jets the bills into tonight's game three and one they can move right to the top of the eastern division of the afc with a 4-1 record if they could pull off a victory tonight if the jets can pull it off they're going to have a four-way tie at the top of the eastern division of afc the jet joining miami baltimore and buffalo second down and seven richard todd lifts it over todd dumps it off to johnny hector looked up field a rather [Applause] augusteniak circling out of the backfield augustinian up close to the first down yardage i think you heard one of the officials indicate first down and that's what it is at the 24 yard line joe walton working many of his backs tonight crutchfield augustinian durking johnny hector you'll see bruce harper when he needs to throw the ball all of that because freeman mcneil the great running back below the nfl in rushing separated his shoulder a week ago as i mentioned earlier he'll be out six to eight weeks for the jets first down and ten todd again with a lot of time and he finds parkham and barkham is in bill's territory once again jerome barkin came in tonight with only seven receptions on the young season he's got a couple of big plays tonight let's see barking he's really just going to go right down the field and this could be a play that was successful because of the inexperience of chris williams you'll see he comes over he's really not playing the ball and he appeared to be there in plenty of times playing the receiver and not the ball he might have been able to even get the deflection first down and 10. 47-yard line just dominating offensively yet they have but seven points in the scoreboard threatening once again however bills have the blitz on flag is down and richard todd throws it away [Applause] another holding against the jets richard todd last week they talked about it and when they really got fired up he really had himself a game over 440 yards a pair of touchdowns you know despite this apparent hole infinity holding number 65 offense first down and what i would admit was a questionable call on the goal line i think joe walton has done an excellent job of getting a team that has not been emotionally emotional uh thus far this season emotionally ready for this game it's tough to come in here and play the bills with a crowd like this and play the first half a ball as they it was all pro center joe fields detected holding first down and 20. todd overthrows harper out of the backfield and complete it'll be second down and 20. [Music] picture todd rapidly in maturing and improving came into a tough situation he really did with the shadow of joe namath eight years ago and i think really in just in the past couple of years he's developed into the kind of leader that the guests have looked for [Applause] something to [Applause] within a couple of big plays from going to the super bowl a year ago second down and 20. again all the protection in the world harper harper gets back close to the original line of scrimmage before he's nailed by gary thompson he's in there in the bill's nickel defense got to get a jet's front line credit for that they gave him all the time in the world the bills have been on the field for quite a long time this half and it looked like the lineman just got tired there i thought sherman white who's been putting a lot of pressure on the qb that time looked at one point as if he just stopped all of this is well and good what you must remember is the jets have only put seven points on the board and if the bills can get any kind of break and any kind of offensive going they'll be right back in this thing leslie walker and gary gaffney the two wide receivers jerome barkham cannot just like one he was the receiver god reading the blitz tried to get it to bark him incomplete and adjustable punch see what i mean well how would you prove one thing once again you got a tremendous grasp on the obvious to use one of your lines fine okay jack ramsey comes out to do the putting we'll watch rob riddick turn in a nifty kickoff return for the bills sort of a quick snap and a fine punt by ramsey as they just try to cover it and they will not so getting under it ramsay had it hung up very high and we can credit the bills outside man from the jets coming down the cover for the touchback and the bells we'll have the ball up i started to talk earlier o.j as the bills come out first and 10 at their own 20 yard line this field has a huge crown in it joe cribbs runs on a better perhaps than anyone i've ever seen go except yourself we'll explain that in a minute where they're standing now they're really at the highest point of the crown and as they go to the sideline they'll be about two to three feet lower and it makes a difference if you watch the reception by tony hunter he'll have first down yardage out of the 25 yard line close to the 28th it really is but it's about two and a half feet two and a half feet so anytime the back is running a sweep or anything he's running downhill and consequently the defense is running downhill and cribs has learned to keep his body under control so when he turns up he can turn up and run by a couple of uh pursuing linemen who are running downhill and can't stop so he saves his explosion for the third guy third or fourth guy hunter got eight second down and two babies puts everyone in the pattern and fires complete to lewis and lewis who just goes on and on has the first down for the bills at the 37-yard line that was an excellent pattern by lewis he came back to the ball if he hadn't come back to the ball buttle might have gotten to it we got the two-minute warning coming up this is going to be interesting to see if the bells can strike and to build score of the crown you can see a little bit you really can't see it this well from here you have to see someone well look at the guys if you can focus on the people on the other sideline you're looking at them about knee-high and it really makes a difference especially on astroturf where you're moving a little faster than you do on normal grass we're going to be back in buffalo in a moment burger king presents the mcdonald's an unusual interview is it true all of you switched to burger king yes how come broiling the whopper being mcdonald's you must take a lot of ribbing yes we can't show our faces anywhere anymore would you advise everyone to switch to burger king no matter what their name is you bet you bet okay america now when you switch to burger king you can 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was doing at studio 54 the other night and there's not as much reaction as i thought we would have but the loss is all the way back to the best 26 yard line here comes joe cripps and the game is about four yards now that play looked like they were going to get a big gain and greg buttle made one super play he came in and forced the play up and it looked like the bills had it all set up to get a big game he did but it should also be noted and frank mentioned this early on flicko is playing with increasing improvement every game on the inside there is joe gets a call time out 113 remaining in the half the jets would like to see the bills turn it over to them and the bills have a third down and 16. we'll be back after this from the national football who's league warfield he's a pro football player hey there's the real poor work here you couldn't even see the hall of fame we never thought we'd see you here i just happened to be here but how would you like to take a special tour of the hall 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to get it to joe cribs and let him run for first down yardage but bobby jackson was all over him and that will bring a fourth down on the punting unit for buffalo frank yesterday the oil is against the steelers at three rivers stadium third quarter action 7-3 steelers gifford nielsen handing off to earl campbell and campbell going in for the score surprisingly 10-7 houston but in the fourth quarter watch cliffs down he's chased out of the pocket flips the ball to 34 walla abercrombie out of baylor abercrombie throws the ball or rather he flipped the ball to abercrombie 51-yard touchdown pittsburgh won it 17-10 i'll tell you that abercrombie can run juice yeah you saw me there apparent but i think the way frankel's running he's still got a couple of good yields left in mike is d for the jets greg cater to pump for buffalo flags are down bearcats called for on the short kick by cater at the 37 yard line by mike harmon but hold everything the flags are down at the line of scrimmage i tell you what the scouting report on justin cross who snaps on punts and field goals is that he's not a good snapper he's been having a tough time this year and then every punt we've seen the jets come after the ball and come strikingly close to blocking one they're gonna have to kick again of course time is also a concern on the part of the jets they might want to decline this just to get possession of the ball and they have excellent field position it might be right on the kicking team and the jets want the football back and they will have it at the 37. that looks like that's going to be their decision they would settle for a field goal if they can get it they've been frustrated so often in this half you know as you pointed out the jets the way they played should be where ahead and they they could have really been in the hole the bills could have got anything on that drive they could have went in on a real high because they should really be out of this ballgame now they have changed their mind and they are going to have the bills kick it once again it could be the fact that greg cater the punter for the bills is really not having a good year he's had his problems i think it's more because of justin cross i think they want to put a little pressure on him no man on the right end of the line of scrimmage fourth down well that doesn't work and they'll put it again and one thing the jets are well aware of the bills have allowed more punt return yardage against them than any other team in the nfl an average of about 17 yards upon return and that is amazing so the jets having brought it over we'll let mike harmon try to return this one from greg katie looks like they're going for the return they're doubling the outside men but i don't think they're really going to go to block this one 57 seconds gator picked him up and he hung up a beauty that turned over and we may have an illegal block on the part of the jets i think so bobby jackson picking up gary thompson coming down on the coverage i think was detected with an illegal block and the jets by the way have no timeouts well that was the time you should take the ball late in the game you got the ball on the 37 or late and a half you got the ball on the 37 yard line with about a minute to play i think i would if i wasn't going to go to block it i think i would have taken the ball they lose about 12 yards on the punt and then following the penalty they will have lost about 22 yards number 48 on the receiving team first down i think that was a mistake it was bobby jackson who actually executed the block and he wears number 40. 50 seconds remaining in half the jets on top seven or nothing they're operating with no timeouts we're trying to audible here hard to do with 80 000 screaming at you good todd lays one up to the outside for wesley walker he had to split the two defenders he was double covered down there by chris williams dropping back that's a good point you know this week joe walton had mentioned that that walker should have eight or ten touchdowns he's been overthrown or under thrown at least four or five times when he had it got a bad score he's certainly had him beat todd is not having a good game they're a second down and ten bruce hyper right side and the flag is down as harper ambles for five to the 20. preliminary indication it will work against the jets it's like another holding colony very mark right sorting it out and giving the bills their option [Music] holding number 79 offense declined powell right side holding that's what we have coming your way next monday night pittsburgh and cincinnati a little interesting rivalry there and then the washington redskins who played a tremendous game yesterday and their win over the raiders will watch them against green bay who exploded against tampa bay italy declined third down six and gutfield piled up and now the bills are looking up at the clock they have forced a fourth down and they a little late from using one of their timeouts and we have an injured jet look like ward this ward i think it is the left tackle well yesterday frank votes against the bengals second quarter action 10-7 bengals you know number 14 kenny anderson that throw and you know that man isaac curtis 17-7 bengals third quarter was 24-21 bengals ken anderson passing to number 80 chris collinsworth 20 yards touchdown 31-21 wenger 4th quarter 31-27 mike pagan handing off to curtis dickey the winning touchdown baltimore won it 34-31 [Applause] looking at chris ward down on the field you know his wife is karen who do you think is his father-in-law is yes jim brown he's married to jim brown's daughter is that right i didn't know that [Applause] i bet chris ward stays in line he better he looks like he's going to get up they were looking at the right knee he's all right and the former ohio state all-american is moving off it looks to be all right [Applause] the bells have two time-outs remaining the jets have a fourth down we have 28 seconds remaining in the half and the bills are down by seven take a look at the left side of your screen you see him 72. zone man came behind me much like the injury that phil philippiano suffered here his own guy hitting him in the back phil was in the locker room gave the team a pep talk today came out of the hospital was in a wheelchair so chuck ramsey finds himself in the same position that his counterpart greg cater hater wasn't a while ago because he's going to have to kick away hopefully riddick is not going to be able to put the bills back in scoring position and grams he's hit a beauty oh and it takes riddick all the way back inside this 30-yard line where he's smothered there hustling down for the new york jets was johnny lim 19 seconds remaining in the first half and the bills probably with second thoughts about trying to get on the scoreboard from their own territory bring their offensive unit out and we'd like to wish a very happy 30th anniversary to our affiliate station koello in reno nevado hello guys ferguson it's the line from katie stevenson shall we go for something with 19 seconds or shall we kill the clock and regroup at halftime trailing only seven to nothing well if they go for something they go deep but it's just like a good punt with so little time and a half i think we're gonna get a boo here if they don't well they come out in the shotgun jets with their two additional defensive backs all settling in that came close to being picked off ramer came down with the football but it was bobby jackson who took a shot at it which he can do because he has he had two men deep behind him [Applause] [Applause] is hardly of a cut with the jews thank you alice that ken jones incidentally is the defensive player of the deals not their offensive uh second down and five ferguson moving up high looking for the completion or the penalty he gets neither he gets the interception by troy and we have four seconds now on the scoreboard clock this lord we understand has abused me richard todd glances up at the scoreboard clock probably frustrated as i'm sure jet fans are with the fact the jets have only been able to put seven points on the scoreboard having generated a lot of offense well let's not overlook the fact that they're playing against one of the league's better defensive teams here this is not san diego fish down is at the 35-yard line we're not looking for anything fancy from the jets they'll take the seven points go in and talk it over and they'll be back with second half action [Applause] so the bills and the jets are getting it on both of them looking for first place in the afc east and we'll be ready for halftime highlights after this from our local [Applause] the stations were able to generate over 220 yards of offense they however got one score and this came from a richard todd pass to bruce harper a good move by bruce harper working against number 57 the linebacker lucia sanford he got into the end zone following a bobby jackson interception let's watch it again and watch bruce harper now with his head fake to the inside that freezes sanford for that one beat and it gets harper into the clear that's why they like to use him coming out of the backfield on receptions richard todd frustrating perhaps because quite frankly he's had a lot of time to throw the ball he has and they really haven't mounted a real what you would call scoring drive that uh they didn't have to go too far after the interception to get the touchdown and you know you like to see him go 80 yards at 60 yards on a nice drive and for ferguson well he just hasn't had the football that much but he threw one interception that cost the bills seven points it was a poorly thrown ball the bobby jackson stepped in front of pickup and the jets were able to capitalize we're looking deep now as the bills will receive the opening second half kickoff from pat leahy that's mike mosley he led the nfl in returns a year ago he's been troubled with a hamstring pull and he was questionable even going into tonight [Music] leahy will try and keep it away from mosley and he does once again as rob riddick will take it from the goal line and riddick gets touchback yardage plus one and the bills they'll open the second half with possession at their 21-yard line the stats offensively all in favor once again so far with the jets time of possession everything working for the jets basil they lead by only seven to nothing rolling through the halftime 229 yards of offense to the bill 70. and i think the interesting thing for the jets defensive unit is the fact that they are not being run on like they have been in the past buffalo getting only 10 yards and that's what the jets other opponents have generated all in the first half and it's beginning to sprinkle a little bit we were promised by a local weatherman and it would not rain tonight it will be showery tomorrow morning but we're getting some already first down and ten and ferguson screen pass got it down by joe cribs he was thinking run before catch castino in again working against justin cross pressuring joe ferguson interesting thing at halftime i spoke with jim gunzola jets president and he said i feel we should have been ahead 10 nothing i think you're extreme in saying we should be ahead 14 or 21 nothing which of course is a difference of opinion but really do you see a team so totally dominate and have so little to show for it but the credits of buffalo's defense second down and ten ferguson this time he had the time mark bremer looked like he had the reception actually was only for a pickup of a couple of yards but he has pounded hard and coughs it up it'll be third down and 10. well that was bobby jacks who is a pro bowl player he really is he's a fine defensive back and he hit him with a big hit they usually start framer and get him out of there quickly to put in the potential superstar tony hunter third down and ten that's hunter second man in from the bells up at the top of your screen the bill is unable to convert a third down the jets now have their linebackers in and they drop out for the coverage ferguson has one batted away by tony hunter [Applause] it'll be fourth down the bills we'll have to fight they really look poorly terribly you know that juice yeah they look a little disconcerted you know normally you can look at ferguson if he starts off bad he's so tough on himself sometimes he you can't work itself out of it but i can't blame him now he he's thrown some balls that should have been caught and it looks to be that they expected to be able to run the ball a lot better than they're running the ball and they appear to be a little lost right now exactly what they should do on offense drake cater to punk for buffalo mike harmon not showing a whole lot of respect he's almost at midfield and this will take harmon back to his own 40-yard line setting up for mike harmon flag goes and that's good harmon got it back to the 30-yard line but a flag is down there's virtually no play in the nfl these days that doesn't have a clip on a kick return well one of the reasons now it may not be clipped they got the new rule about blocking the load of waste and all these different blocking rules and sometimes the guy will he'll release the other guy high and by the time he make contest contact rallies below the waist it'll be marked up but nevertheless the jets will have the ball right at midfield here is our referee jerry mark wright now with this field position we'll be able here's the caller number 47 on the run back first down with three homes of the jets [Applause] first down jets good field position dwayne cotchfield a single setback god again has all the time he could ask for and he goes to mickey schuler the tight end he has a gain of eight yards it'll be second down and two and there is a mark astronomers had a busy week he's saying hi to you alex well i'm fine and i hope he is too he's a good kid what did he tell you about last night well he's been much my line i want the people in the truck first to let him give his little message to the person who matters to him as much as anybody and then i'll talk about it schiller picked up eight second down and two crutchfield and crutchfield shares strength to the 40-yard line but he's short of the first down by about a yard chris keating defensively there for the bills we're talking about gaster though you can have your opinion about his dancing and anything you know whatever you feel but he is first and foremost one excellent football player he is one great athlete i've watched this guy can run about a 4 6 40. his muscles have muscles and he happens to be maligned thick muscles have muscles but he couldn't beat a 175 pounder and arm wrestling you don't know that you weren't set third in one august anyhow in motion and todd third one will put it in the air he's successful for scott jerking and down the sideline goes turkey and once again a call that catches the buffalo defense thinking they are going to run this time they pass well that's what i meant about jerking when i called him an utterly functional player somehow he's always there with the key yardage when you need it and he is the kind of player who is a winner and every winning team needs a player like that [Applause] i totally agree but i'd hate to go through life being known as utterly functional first down and 10 the ball in the 21-yard line chris harper chris harper to the five yard line inside the five yard line first down goal to go the jets and they've come out banging here in the second half and this was what i wanted to say at the beginning of this series we could tell right off if the jets are angry at themselves for their failure to put more points on the board in the first half and it appears they were and they're ready to capitalize now and play up to that talent hey stevenson the young head coach of the buffalo bills former quarterback coach here under chuck knox who of course has gone through seattle highly respected around the league johnny hector the rookie second round draft pick from texas a m hit at the line of scrimmage surges for maybe a yard it'll be second down goal to go it was his cap backwards he's told us today because once as a kid he was a caption and got into the habit isn't that right that's what he said he also when i played with him years ago that's exactly how he wore his cap he used to accuse him of trying to cut down this air resistance they had three great years with the giants all three championship years as a tight end and hawaii turtles favored receivers good second down goal to go and ryan jones couldn't handle it the ball was right there it was a great play by the defense i made an excellent play on it stripping with the ball after it hitting his arm look at it again i don't know whether he got a hand on it or not richard had it right in there [Applause] well we don't see it but the ball is right he should have caught it johnny lamb jones yeah right downtown i don't blame richard for that third down goal to go and jones top of your screen wesley walker split to the left crutchfield and he's kept out of the end zone by a good play the big outside linebacker parker and his decision time now with a seven nothing lead do you go for the three points and that will be the decision of joe walton with only a seven point lead he wants to put three more up there and he trots out pat leahy that's the mark of the good defensive team they'll give you a lot of yards and when you get down there close they skipping up and the bills dipping up there and they can still be in this ball game seven points would have really hurt them the way the offense is going but ten points is certainly not a insurmountable lead so the jets settle for three and they move out on top ten to nothing early going in the third quarter from a jam pack rich stadium in buffalo new york and we'll return in just a moment in television presents you make the call eagle quarterback pete list grows right takes a seat on the turf and then throws an apparent touchdown pass to steve saver now you make the call is it a touchdown finding the best video game system is a tough game to win who plays the most games the best selling games in television too add the new system changer and play all atari 2600 games the most games the best selling games like hubert enduro burger time in television 2 has the most going for it more games than atari and kaliko over 430 games get in television too it's got the most going for it what call did you make since he was not touched by any defender list is permitted to throw from any position he chooses it is a touchdown saturday see jerry cotesie is starting upset of michael doakes for the wba world heavyweight championship plus the holland globetrotters visit the big apple in an encore presentation abc's wide world of sports saturday that lady will kick off rob riddick mike mosley have dropped for the bills bill's just unable to generate any offense and primarily they've been emily able to move the ball on the ground and almost every team has been able to do that against the jets for this season and let's see leahey catches the end zone that'll be a touch back they'll bring it out to the 20. and here comes mark gastineau broadcasting oh the center of controversy and alleged assault in studio 54 disco in new york here's what he had to say there's one other thing i'd like to say the things that have been said lately not mentioning them but i would like to say one thing to my mother they are not true and i swear by that even though you don't like me to swear they're not true mom and i want you to believe that because that is the truth thank you sinner said that to his father i've met his father his father could spank him first and ten the bottom of the 20-yard line for the bills they trailed 10 to nothing here in the early going third quarter joe crimson amazing strength 511.190 pounder just surges forward and carries jets for five yards it'll be second down at five [Applause] i believe mark gastineau lock stock and barrel he's a very troubled young man at the moment he called me yesterday came over to visit with my wife and me last night told me what happened at studio 54 i know something about what it is to be sensationalized and to be the subject of attack second down and five ferguson not one of your finer runners but he's gonna pick a big guardian for the first down all the way out over the 40-yard line stepping out of bounds at the 43-yard line the blisters on let's take a look at it everybody's covered pressure's coming on and fergie's running out there he came out there to run the ball he really never looked downfield to see if a runner a receiver may have scrambled open but he evidently made the correct decision basically a number being that it's supposed to be a good running uh team going against uh but supposedly is a easy to run on defense that's the bill's longest run of the day i don't believe that jets are an easy to run on defense but it has been true foreign is um foreign number number 93 [Music] [Music] and this is beyond their 47-yard line positioned himself for first down the arnie's hooked to the 45-yard line of the championship good key play for the bills byron franklin a real speedster out of auburn one of so many coming out of that great university with real talent i think that's the first third down conversion they've had today and you know talking about gasoline except he has this back it's no different than a receiver beating his cornerback and he doesn't dance and ends up if you want to stop him hey don't let him set 50 quarterback i agree with you the bills at the moment threatening their best efforts thus far tonight they failed 10 nine minutes remaining in the third quarter it was pleco coming off drags it down and it could be that bucko was drawn off he was complaining that he was i have a feeling that he may have been induced but ferguson is down and very slow getting up a little surprised it looked like the movement was so soon before the ball was snapped but those whistles should have been not answered yet looks like he had jumped so clean that the wiffle went off before the ball was really tough i was surprised they let it go on that part ferguson a very durable quarterback as we watch him once again he made his 92nd consecutive start tonight ferguson is actually stopping it i think he thought the play was really dead and this could really hurt that was great cuddle on top of ferguson he was still slow and getting up offside penalties already been assessed and now there is still concern over the well-being of joe ferguson i think ferguson rendered one of the most memorable moments in football as he trots off at the moment under his own power we'll see matt coppler i think and yes we will he's coming in now second-year man out of san diego state who has yet to throw a regular season pass that is the durability of joe ferguson and also is often uh a negative for an offensive unit you remember the moment i mean about ferguson when virtually crippled he played so brilliantly against san diego in the playoffs san francisco week before first down in five down goes grips kenny neal coming in from defensive right hand was right there kenny neal is playing this game the white played a year ago [Applause] i would suspect we're going to see ferguson very quickly standing on the sidelines he's coming back and he'll get an ovation speaking of ferguson how about that monday night game a few years ago here when the raiders have been undefeated on monday night raiders went ahead with less than a minute ago and fergie took us bills the distance and hit a marvel shot shot britain can do center league in that time john madden stayed up all night with me trying his eyes out cribs lost a couple it'll be second down in seven ferguson the treads and cribs will have first down roundies are close to it at the 35 yard line as the bills have now made their deepest penetration thus far of the ball game they want to pause five seconds and allow our stations to identify themselves [Applause] you're watching another sports exclusive on channel seven wkw tv buffalo the bells get another first down at the 35-yard line of the jets the bills trailing the jets 10 to nothing in a game that was totally dominated offensively by the jets in the first half but they came away at halftime with only seven points they got down with the first down goal to go inside the five-yard line they had to settle for three that's where we are at the moment ten to nothing the jets two and two on the season going against buffalo three and one play action by ferguson looks for butler he was covered and ferguson would run again and this time taking to the sidelines he cut back inside i think the flag is down but ferguson has first down yardage and i think the jets are complaining was not a late hit on ferguson but certainly won the late hit i think the official may have called it close normally when the quarterback goes down they say you shouldn't hit him but fergie put such a nice move on buttle i don't blame the safety for coming up and uh making sure he was down this could be a matter of over projecting when you're running with the football pass the line of scrimmage you can judge for yourself i mean he put a good move here look to the outside and back just like you said he becomes a running back in my estimation yeah i think he was hot right then i don't know he looked like it was a good hit we lost fergie for half a season once against new england when he went down like that he was cleanly down he got hit and he i guess he separated his shoulder and we lost him for a half season but on that particular play because of the move he put on uh puddles i thought he was live i thought he was as live as you can be they're gonna have enough sports for that conduct i think against the jets they're throwing uh gary mark wright's flag around and he's not going to buy that they could have said they speared him the guy did hit him it appeared to be almost a helmet first but i think that's because fergie went under him maybe we'll see it again they keep going they're gonna be in the end zone it's not gonna help the jets and they have only themselves to blame when you fail to capitalize on scoring opportunities here's the call the way they have in the long run two fouls on the new york jets personal foul unnecessary roughness [Applause] well i think they call it because he hit him with the contact was made with the helmet first debatable reverse angle on it let's take a good look at it see frankie gets under him so cleanly i i don't know if he intentionally drives his bearing but the official call call goes against crable the unsportsmanlike conduct he works against the jets jerry holmes is a first down goal to go the bill's at the six yard line of the jets the bill's trailing 10 to nothing ferguson twice now has run for first down yardage that's very unusual with joe ferguson booker moore trying to get outside right and vocal more spelling the end zone trying to get in taken out of bounds at the one-yard line by daryl ray that was a nice run by brooke moore because it looked like he was going to be forced up field and he kept it outside and he showed a little explosion there to almost get it in the end zone it'll be second down goal to go and if the bills get in and they're looking awfully good this complexion of this game could change dramatically now i bet they don't throw it now there's the eight coach 38 years old head coach of the buffalo bills second down goal to go cribs he might even lose yardage on that tried to launch his over-the-pile leap a little deep you know it's funny when i was in buffalo i guess we ran i formation more than any team in football in our offensive line coach or he's the jets offensive line coach now jim ringo we came to the conclusion over a couple of years that short yardage i was not the best formation to be in because the back was really too far from the line of scrimmage and because everybody was playing kamikaze on defense it gave the linebackers and the safety too much time to get to the point of attack it's i'm a little surprised to see teams still run a lot of short yardage plays out of the i formation joe ferguson with third down goal to go at the one wants to talk it over we'll be back nissan trucks are this new 4x4 is proof of nissan know-how the most powerful standard engine in its class and independent front suspension tamed the worst terrain it's one tough hump 4x4 nissan style is major motion [Music] at your dots and dealer maybe the only way to improve the postal system is to build a new one introducing mci mail it lets you use practically any electronic typewriter home computer workstation or telex to send mail to anyone anywhere even to people without equipment mci mail can work instantly in hours or overnight and can cost up to 90 percent less than overnight mail mci mail ferguson has talked it over with his young head coach casey stevenson he's back on the field third down goal to go the ball resting at the one yard line and the interested numbers there were what 70 no shows tonight 79 000 plus on hand ferguson tries to quiet the crowd now they get out of that eye formation [Music] the jets say they have it cribs fumbled the ball never did handle it and the jets have recovered and there'll be a lot of times like those right unfortunately the vagaries of the game and trips now is shaken up there was a tremendous surge i don't think there's any question that chris would not have got into the end zone but i don't think he ever handled a uh handoff let's take a look at it see if he ever really had the ball fergie turns around once again you know we we talked about this a few weeks ago you can't hand the ball to a back high like that because the ball literally comes right off his shoulder pad he never had control of the ball as his first fumble of the year and he's a sick young man right now we'll be back in buffalo in a minute once the name eastern meant service only in the east not anymore today we spread our wings north to canada across to the west coast to mexico and the caribbean down to south america serving over 120 cities and 22 countries flying more passengers than any other airline in the free world today only our name is eastern [Music] monday night football yeah just for you with a distinctively clean crisp taste that says budweiser [Music] this bud's for you [Applause] wednesday he likes to touch me a beauty queen has to pay the price hotel [Music] john woodring the middle linebacker in the regular 4-3 defense of the jets made the recovery they had the football at their own three-yard line and maintain their lead attend to nothing 6 42 remaining in the third quarter jets looking for breathing room and it is crutchfield out to the five-yard line for a gain of a couple will be second down and eight want to remind you saturday abc sportsbeat howard will be talking about really absolutely fantastic the coaches who have come out of what they refer to as the cradle of coaches miami university of ohio we'll be talking with people like woody hayes aaron parseghian we've eubank earl blake paul brown is just endless they all came from miami of ohio that's abc sports league coming up on saturday second down and eight buttfield remains that single setback looking for first down yardage perhaps a yard short dwayne crutchfield breaking a tackle of lucius sanford at the line of scrimmage that would have held him right there take a good look at it this is the difference having a 232 pound back on about 115 pound linebacker and he just he just didn't have the muscle to bring him down 115. i'm sorry 200 200 yeah 115. he'd be kicking the ball possibly probably be the ball frank i just want to sad one of the great weekends of my life spent three days in oxford ohio at the great university they call the yale of the west it was begun in 1809 that first president had come from yeah i speak of the miami university of ohio and i spent the weekend helping to dedicate the new yeager stadium there fabulous weekend with weeb eubank woody hayes johnny pont just some of those who came from them at the 13-yard line crutchfield good running gets the first down for the first time pressure but he gets it away to crutchfield and crutchfield up close to another jet first down he'll have it out over the 25-yard line and we just may have a rush down back where richard todd has been taken to the artificial surface and it's going to be a personal foul roughing richard todd and he does a throwback chief he hands it to jerry markbright take a look at the pass from behind he's looking really downfield and there's a release by the fullback safety val it may be a design play they've run that play twice and he's been so wide open they may have had it designed that way [Applause] let's take a look at the roughing after that was the pass here's the late hit that's how his rule is eugene marv who went to the helmet that's the personal foul and they tack it on to the gain of crutchfield a very expensive fumble at the one-yard line and now a very expensive penalty against the bills 510 left in the third quarter it may take a turnover for the bills to undo that crips fumble here and the bills could have some bigger problems i've noticed on the sideline eddie abramowski and bud tice to build trainers working on joe ferguson they appeared to be moving their fingers in front of his eyes maybe he got shaken up on on those some of those runs he had i seen kofla warming up and that would really hurt the bills at this point but nothing else fergie's running ability tonight aria is sitting down and they are looking at him right now that's blood tys there with him harper got four yards it'll be second down and six the jets at their own 47-yard line [Applause] harper again and harper up close to midfield before he's pounded back sherman white closed down hard from his defensive right-hand position man that's fergie you start holding those fingers up you start getting concerned and no you think about that hand-off now that maybe was a little shaken up from one of those for that that late hit two handoffs later he really wasn't a good handoff and it may have cost the bills a touchdown and it looks like the deals may need a turnover they the jets have been six times lost five of them coming into this game now big play for the jets third down four long three but it puts richard todd in the passing situation he gets it off to scott dirky and durking has a first down nope they're saying he did not hold it bobble the ball incomplete and we'll see the putting unit for the jeffs unusual for durkin the player i've talked about a number of times tonight paul was right there can't blame todd for that critic will drop for the buffalo bills and chuck ramsey comes on well it certainly looks like coco is going to be the quarterback i see he just grabbed his helmet [Applause] [Music] 3 44 remaining in the third quarter strong snap jets looking for an offside they don't get it ramsey hangs it high and this is one that jeff should be able to cover deep in bill's territory they let it dribble to the one and that's where the bills will take over offensively and they are bringing out their backup quarterback as we look at joe ferguson it is matt coppler who has yet to throw an nfl regular season pass second year man out of san diego state 6-3 192 pounds we'll try and get the word on ferguson i can't believe we're bidding a job this big they wanted somebody new if you can make the numbers work it means the big time that's why you've got the rainbow the new personal computer from digital with two separate microprocessors one for today's jobs another for tomorrow's it's like getting two computers for the price of one that's it welcome to the big time the rainbow from digital equipment corporation call 1-800 digital for the store nearest you if you're a smoker inside this little can is a legitimate alternative introducing skull bandits an individual portion of wintergreen flavored tobacco in a neat pre-moistened pouch what you do is put one between your lip and gum what you get is great tobacco taste without lighting up and you can enjoy it wherever you are if you're a smoker try new skull bandits 20 pouches to a can take a pouch instead of a puff ferguson on the bench very durable quarterback he was hammered a couple of times groggy getting up and i think juice might have been right he missed the handoff the joe cribs will cross the fumble down at the one-yard line the jets recovered and we are watching matt coppler a two-year man out of san diego station up in his fancy gives it up again in a jets cover touchdown new york destination mark castino oh yeah we're going to see some dancing now now he wants to keep that ball and what a turnaround this has been and cribs now is slow getting up he appears to be injured cribs had not fumbled the entire season coming in had handled the ball 96 times and he has now given it up twice although the first one i think the co-conspirator would have to be joe ferguson and he really got tagged you'll see and i'm sure we'll have a replay of it you'll seem they were trying to run a little off tackle play there almost a trap and appeared at first would be a hole and somebody came out of nowhere and just just underlined him i mean just flipped him right up in the air he came down on his head and he seemed to be really shaking up shaken up there came down hard the ball came out and gastineau was there he was totally upended as he tried to get a little breathing room over the right side and believe me this is a different team without ferguson and cribs as you can see they're running a little power play what we call a just a plain four drive as wood ring the middle linebacker moved in on upended cribs ball came out and gastineau was there actually looked like butter with spindle you know really didn't hit him hit him with it let's face it it's like vincent d lombardi said it's a game of fundamentals you block better you tackle better you win the football game jets are beating them up offensively and defensively on the line of scrimmage and that's what's happened here tonight well once again we came into this game saying that joe walton's offensive strategy was was to put in three tight ends i don't think he wanted to do that the whole game he just wanted the team to think tough that hey they're going to play three tight ends and try to muscle the ball on them and they came in emotional and they've been playing aggressive footballing leahy throws it through the uprights and the jets lead 17 to nothing as mark as to know gets his first nfl points [Applause] this sports to everyone who tackles the changes and challenges of that free promotion [Music] yep just for you that distinctively clean crisp taste that says buckwiser for [Music] here's what people are saying about it i want one the sporty nissan pulsar nx i really want one five-speed stick front-wheel drive and performance you call major motion the pulsar nx i've got one [Music] [Applause] now on his feet but they are checking out that left shoulder as you can see and the bills in just a matter of moments when they look like they were going to be back in the game possibly trailing ten to seven all of a sudden look up and see a 17 to nothing jet lead set to kick off pat leahy rob riddick and mike mosley are deep for buffalo this riddick is some good running this could not find the gap and he gets out to the 22-yard line it will be first down and 10. and we'll see cochlear once again this happened earlier on the drive before the fumble this is ferguson rolling out it's a good moving look he'll look to the sidelines and the jets are thinking he's going to run out of bounds he cuts back in gets additional yardage and then he is whacked here battle comes across they rule that spearing and that was followed by unsportsmanlike conduct and there isn't now another flag down as we return to live action matt cochler is in the bills at the moment the backup quarterback personal foul unnecessary roughness number 21 kicking team first down kirk springs unnecessary roughness for the jets and the bills have a first down at 10 at the 37-yard line rob riddick has replaced joe cripps he is in the lineup along with booker moore and cochlear out of san diego state where he set nine school records in one mcaa mark but has seen little professional action this is ridic and gastineau comes out gets his hand on riddick and reddick spins loose gets up to the 40-yard line for a gain of about four it'll be second down and six i must say for a man under pressure gastineau has been all over that field tonight i don't know how much pressure he's really under he's a football player and i think he's the type of guy that can come out here and put all his attentions on what he what he really has to do and that's played football i'm worried about that ferguson as you look at him he's obviously still groggy yeah he may be groggy but i think he may be a little depressed also you know players competitive like him he certainly doesn't want to be on the sideline while his team's down by 17 points second down long six matt coppler his first attempt and he gets it to frank lewis and lewis comes up with the completion and the first down at the 46 yard line of the jets and we may get a roughing the quarterback on kenny neal a late hit on copeland they're really getting the penalties maybe well you're if the coach is emphasizing being physical and being emotional maybe coach walton said come on play up to your abilities once and for all be aggressive take a look at frank lewis he has yeah steve's been doing this for 13 years he has a beautiful glide about him makes jacksonville 36. 36 years old can you imagine frank lewis and charlie joyner on the same college team down in grambling louisiana where the trains don't stop unless you flag them down hey how would you like a backfield of joe cribbs william andrews and james brooks who lined up together one year in the auburn backfield and 77 all together once that's not too bad lewis gets the first down they tack the penalty on it's at the 31-yard line bill's down 17 to nothing here in front of their what has been reported as the largest in stadium attendance they've ever had here 67 no shows tonight first down and ten trips back in the lineup and this is joe cripps hibs gets out of the 30-yard line down close to the 28-yard line give him three it'll be second down and seven and now you wonder one of the number one draft picks the bills had this past season was quarterback tim kelly from the university of miami he of course signed with the usfl and unavailable so we might have been watching a jim kelly tonight and he not decided to make the other move well you got to get a bill's management now uh our credit coach stevenson and the new general manager pat mcgroder because they could have had a lot of disarray on this team with priup signing with the other league and they're not signing their number one but they seem to have a lot of harmony i think those two individuals are the reason for it i think the nfl has a good chance to win the cribs case on second down and eight this is crips and joe cribs that's a fine open field tackle by greg button the new tackle cribs that way yes that's a fine open field test he is a great player crips cribs held short of the first down it'll be third down and two the ball at the 28-yard line of the jets you know you see great butter you know they talk about uh gassing once again dancing on the field that doesn't bother me greg butter when i played against him once he he used to have a lot of you know he was always excited when he tackles you he never let you go you know frank the kind of guy that you're on the ground he's still got you when he stands up he's still holding your legs and it kind of has to make it really hard boy that makes me out a lot more than seeing a guy dance after having a sack from the shotgun koepler gets it to cribs and he'll give him he'll have a first down yardage and inside one minute remaining in the third quarter lance now there defensively for the jets you know the jets have had a problem in their first three games the problems that they've had is stopping the run and stopping the short passes and the bills uh ever since they came out in the second half but just been throwing the short pass and they've been working for him earlier with ferguson remember the offside call against him he also got hammered here they he thought the play was over and he was slow getting up after this one he came out of the game as a matter of fact that was and went back in and at any event matt koepler is the quarterback first down at 10 they're at the jeff's 20-yard line the bill's down 17 to nothing but a man open is tony hunter and underthrown and almost picked off that was really a poorly thrown pass and it should have been picked off yeah it wasn't a great pass that's one thing tony hunter will learn if you see some of your better tight ends around the league they'll use that size and that strength to get positioned between the ball and the defender if he would have been a little more under control he may have been able to well it wasn't a tight safety destroyer had that ball begged and should have held it and he was at san diego state as a senior matt coppler throw for over 3 300 yards had 21 touchdowns one of a whole string of quarterbacks that have come out of san diego state one of them played right here dennis shaw you know i played with dennis second down and 10. cochlear flag is down copper gets the ball to booker moore and he is smothered at the line of scrimmage and maybe got a yard out of it this will be the flag is down this will be a hold on buffalo frank jerry mark right setting it up and it'll work against buffalo holding number 65 offense second down castino was in there again the hold was on him that was tim vogler [Applause] of the bills they have now been penalized 10 times for 40 yards the jets rolling it up second down and 20. single setback lewis split to the right butler top of your screen butler not much of a factor thus far tonight no sooner he will say it it was so close that was jerry butler he was double covered hopefully tried to get it in there incomplete i want to say this about jerry butler for whatever reason he has not figured in this game tonight and that could be many reasons that was one of them he was double covered inside and out exactly but he is one of the great receivers in football this is a superstar well that's been sort of look how open he is out there they're playing his own defense he's all by himself copeland sees him a little late and just couldn't get enough on the ball to get it to him but one of the perplexing things about the bill's offense this year that they're they're uh inability or at least they just have not even tried to go deep they have not thrown the ball deep they've been very conservative i don't know if that's a hold over from chuck knox but even knox have thrown the ball deep uh a lot more than they have that's well this year third down and 20. hunters wide open underneath but they needed much more than that [Applause] hunter gets to the 20-yard line for a pickup of 10 but it's going to bring up fourth down and trailing 17 to nothing we'll see what k stevenson decides to do in the first play of the fourth quarter we'll return for that action after this word from our local stations your son is the winner lottery turns this kid into a multi-millionaire and he wants to give the money away then matt houston's the target of a murder manhunt i am desperate and mexico is his only road 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had three over 50 and then he just sort of crumbled and you can see it just came off the tee and i don't think because of the wind because it isn't that much he just had a leaning back too far but ali has you she that has great potential youngster out of michigan having a superb year with the giants vanilla hangs it high and is taken by johnny hector a rookie from texas a m and hector who had a big return for the jets earlier in the year out of san diego gets it up to the 34-yard line numbers for you well that shows you the jets domination at halftime and in the third quarter the domination basically continued though thinned somewhat by the bills jets have just overpowered at the offensive and defensive lines wayne crutchfield hours around the right side big man over 230 pounds and he ambles for good yardage up to the 40-yard line yeah i think the bills are getting a little um aggressive themselves now they're probably a little upset with themselves for their inability to get anything going here and i i think they may have hit crutchfield out of bounds that time there's a foul that works against the bills they hit him late and out of bounds that's the way you kind of counteract the team that's coming out playing physical when i was playing ball whenever we played the raiders we always felt that we would we would uh play the raiders we would have to get as many aggressive penalties as they did we didn't we figured they'd manhandle us and run us off the field i'm already ferguson i'm worried about joe they're taking him off the field now they'll try and get a report we don't know how successful we will be if you perhaps join the slate ferguson is down twice and then they finally brought him out of the game they said he was dazed and we'll see what other news that we can get for you personal foul against the bills first down at 10. 45-yard line of the bills or just with the ball and richard todd still in the game todd scrambling around overthrows tom combs one of the three tight ends working in the lineup [Applause] that'll be second down and ten jets fighting their own injury problems early in the year freeman mcneil is gone lamb jones has not been healthy he hasn't practiced much at all even during training camp only one day a week is he practicing now because that ankle is still very tender as the most publicized problems with the defensive line finally seems to have come together tonight with pleco coming back close to 100 and moved inside this is bruce harper left side and bruce harper scooting down the sidelines sprinting inside the 30-yard line going out of bounds down close to the 22-yard line your kid's a player isn't he juice yes he's a player he did a good job that time he just they opened up a real nice hole over there on the left side and he just followed his block and real well got through the hole got to the sideline and i'm surprised i thought he was faster he just must have good acceleration because when he's running inside he runs uh with a lot of he's just cerebral plastic 100 yard in the nfl he saw ringo just walk in front of him and jim ringo i guess you have to give a lot of credit he is as fine as they come as an assistant coach and he coaches this jet offensive line inside the 23-yard line johnny hector now single step back from the jets johnny hector moved [Applause] [Music] this guy took the ball on third and long against san diego as frank just mentioned and he wound up running for 43 yards and a first down this is what you get from only great bags that's right that's right all instinct you don't teach that rome is still looking at his shoestrings what a move he put on charles rome oh i tell you that's i mean that's what i'm talking about i'm gonna talk about running the ball that's what i'm talking about the jets are physical tonight leahy through the uprights and the jets extend their lead and there he is you're going to see a lot of him johnny hector the 1984 king cab extra room in a compact truck is a nissan innovation nine cubic feet of lockable space behind the seats sometimes it hauls my work and sometimes it holds my workers the one and only king cave a tough nissan original [Music] okay everybody what do you say we make it michelob light for the winners [Music] yeah it's a whole new game when you're playing for piccolo of light the rich smooth taste you can compare to any beer you like [Music] we're back with nearly a full quarter of action remaining to be played and the jets have well for lack of a better way of putting it really out physical the bills tonight leahy will kick off and we'll once again watch from the end zone as mike mosley and robert riddick are deep for the bills [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and picks up yardies to the 25-yard line where the bills will once again bring out their backup quarterback matt koepler the word the only word we have thus far on joe ferguson is a slight concussion and a good-looking runner yes he's aggressive from little millersville state where is that juice that's in pennsylvania you didn't speak there no i've never spoke to everybody you peeked out neary p.a yes you know one thing this game is showing us we saw it with the redskins last year in the super bowl we saw it with the raiders against miami and we're seeing it tonight that what wins in this league you know you can have all the fancy patterns and all the fancy plays in the world it's strength it's blocking the type of win and the biggest strongest team's win on first and ten copler whistles one out they win by joe cribbs before he can make a move for it it's a very important game for coach joe walt the easy thing for him to have done would be in effect with all the injuries and with the unexpected losses to seattle and new england both of which have inferior personnel to the jets and the opinion of most easy thing for joe would have been give up on the year instead these young players are now getting a chance to show just how good they are and to develop next week another problem the browns good offensively joe wong has never given up on anything great little all-american and they said he was too small he said he was too small to play in pro football we watched cribs once again running for good yardage for about eight on the third down in a couple i mentioned those three years he had with tiddly in three years he got 17 touchdown passes he's only about five nine really says five ten he's standing on his toes he used to run that square out and down as well as anyone who ever put it together come on you guys had one of the greatest teams i've ever seen chopped he was part of it you wrote webster morrison and then walt let's tell it like it was kids got nine yards out of it it'll be third down to one the bill's caught out for three tight ends short yardage offense for them cochlear tries to go play action and he's going to lose yardage back to the 33-yard line a loss of a couple that did not fool the jets at all that's with their commanding lead at 24-3 or not thinking that cochlear was not going to try and play action and go deep on them frank you knows played a great game tonight maybe hasn't had that many calls but he's been all over the field with his pursuit number 77 kenny neal playing just the way he did a year ago when he starred as a mere rooker especially against the raiders in the playoffs fourth down that brings out greg cater once again mike harmon is dropped for the jets [Applause] gator has it low the kind you can run back and here comes mike harmon and hartman finds nothing behind the picket line to the right so he turns it upfield his bills are saying that they have recovered a fumble and they're digging around down at the bottom of the pile all right all right they needed something here someone just stripped it out of mike harmon he's learning well you got to give the jets coaches credit on defense once again they made the big move by moving glecko back over and kenny outside to take care of advantage of his quickness and i think the players may be a little more comfortable they know that's what they're going to be and uh they're they're certainly playing some excellent defense the type of defense everybody expect them to play when we came into this season expected it i'll tell you it'll help gas to know too because gasterno is basically a pass right she's a good strong end that can do anything but as a pass rusher when you've got a klecko inside of you the big size of klecko he can castino can take more chances as we look at young jesse johnson being assisted off the field for the jets yeah the point you make you think of deacon jones all those years he probably wouldn't have been the great player he was without marilyn olsen right there next to him nobody would have been great without marilyn olsen next door first and ten the bills 12 25 remaining in the game they have it at the jets 35-yard line following the fumble recovery matt koepler throws it underneath the joe griffs and tribbs does his spring to the 21-yard line for a bill's first down that's acceleration right between two jets what have we got left 12 minutes or thereabouts [Applause] [Music] that have to paula washington type miracle which i still don't believe off yesterday's game somehow i got a feeling we may see those two teams playing again you know for the raiders to go back there and not have marcus allen available and play a game layout almost the whole game degree doing by washington at the 22-yard line of the jets cochlear back those again underneath again tony hunter having trouble finding it watching the jets play disappointingly in the first half watching them hold together come on in the second half and watching joe walton and having met with him this morning i must say this last tuesday night in washington frank i had to emcee a cerebral palsy dinner honoring joe theismann and joe said the man from whom i have learned the most about football in my career is joe wolf good he really was there with the emergence of joe walton with through the tough years playing behind billy kilmer and joe with something yesterday this is young matt coppler in trouble on second and ten cochlear gets as much as he can steps out of bounds short of the first down close to the 15-yard line it'll be third down in about three well you know gasoline just told one of our camera men that if they win this game he'll wrestle a 70 year old man on the sideline and lose [Music] one thing about him he doesn't lose his sense of humor does he i've stated my feelings about him they're down at three for matt kobler who gets the play brought into him from tony hunter that's a pretty tough side to go against gas to know and play i mean it could be one of the great sides when you think of all the great defensive ends you think about the tackles who played right next to him he's pretty formidable certainly has been the night cochlear and that's batted away batted away and it was that has been rudolph who was in there defensively now for the jobs everybody's doing this pleco who is slow getting up oh that's bad now that's bad for the jets vin rudolph let's go we've been talking about him all evening and now he is being assisted by the medical training staff of the jets if it's not the knee it's all right but if it's the knee again welcome back to oh it's good to be back a lot of thrills here howard opening game civic war memorial state it's the jets first james harris playing amazingly well and then you with your first touchdown juking out 22 jim hudson tell you one of my big highlights is right here on this field howard the bills are playing in their first monday night game with the seventh game of the year we're playing against the kansas city chiefs and i went over a thousand yards that game and you were here to tell america watch number 73 second from the top that's joe klecko right there they're not looking at his legs and he's up now but they were inspecting his head although that replay it did not appear as though he took any kind of a severe blow and now he's all right oh does bird reynolds love that guy and jackie gleason remember him in those movies getting out of the truck when jackie would come over to arrest him frank and kleco would come out and jackie would look at him and then jackie would turn the other way he's rather messy and he appears to be all right fourth down now for young matt kopler 11 29 remaining in the game booker moore the single setbacks that's frank lewis in motion butler had the time fires it in and taken by frank lewis daryl ray his rod he had the interception he's really angry at himself he knows he blew it take ice on lewis went in motion [Applause] like he's running a deep turn in [Applause] found that opening between linebackers catches the ball between his legs almost here that's one you had to catch so it'll be first down goal to go for the bills they're trying to get back in it with their starting quarterback joe ferguson having gone to the training room where it was like concussion you're watching young matt copeland number 10 second year out of san diego state and he tried to get it to wide receiver frank lewis who could not double back inside of the defender they're working on joe's left eye i think he's blinking it look you can see a tyranny finger must have gotten in there hope the retina wasn't scratched that'll bring up second down goal to go gosh he's been unlucky such a great player well if nothing else the bills may have found themselves a backup quarterback it's just hope ferguson's all right he won't have to be the starter this kid [Applause] [Music] i didn't notice it being just a little abbreviated tonight or something [Applause] i think he's been affected [Applause] i think what you said earlier frank has gotten to him from other people their down goal to go bill's now just inside the jets 13-yard line byron franklin has been a wide receiver for the bills cochlear in a lot of trouble wide open in the end zone his trips good play worked around until he found an opening no that's jerry butler now his cribs they were standing right there together and chris found the open spot taking endzone replays in the shotgun i don't think this was a design pattern obviously but chris being the heads-up ballplayer he is evidently saw his quarterback was in trouble and went to the open area ran the way they weren't but the kid kept his points and it was a good throw got to be happy for him after costing one touchdown with a four i don't know if it was his fault of fumble and giving up a touchdown with a fumble i'm sort of glad for him that he was able to get me in zone oh he was dancing around there gastineau was closing in on him he was doing a two-step back there and he finally found chris canelo banks through the uprights and the bills uh closer take another look at it i like this kofla i think he's doing a good job here tonight he had great numbers at san diego state he just because of the durability of cribs chuck knocks liked him i'll tell you that he's very high on bills within a couple of touchdowns of the jets and we'll be back at rich stadium in just a moment to run the hat of the month club in a business like what could bring home a tool for modern times the ibm personal computer it can help the business person wear many hats and sell even more the ibm personal computer try one on at a store near you [Music] [Applause] this bud's for everyone who answers the call when someone needs help [Music] yeah just for you that distinctively clean crisp taste that says budweiser this buzz for you the bells but for a couple of errors one of them probably caused by the fact that joe ferguson is trying to play with the slight concussion he'd be right in this ball game they trail by two touchdowns as we watch preston brown recently acquired by the jets find an opening on the right side and here comes preston brown with another fine return he had a 46-yard return against the rams only last week [Applause] new england patriot player that's right we had him but he was a rookie with the patriots and he looked terrific i don't understand how he got loose well they waved him and then baltimore waved him and the jets got him there he is preston brown wide receiver starter for new england several occasions [Applause] and he gives the jets field position at their own 41-yard line dwayne crutchfield single setback lamb jones wide receiver top of the screen here's crutchfield yeah big opening right side and crutchfield moves up over a midfield you need a team to bring him down juice i'll tell you tough i'll remind you once again wide world of sports coming up saturday five o'clock eastern time michael doakes joey kowitzi is that how you say it cleveland ohio and you can see for yourself so it's a stunning upset of the defending champion michael doakes and then he always find ever popular harlem globetrotters and they just go on and on they return to new york and you see that from new york abc's wide world of sports this saturday immediately following sportsbeat crutchfield got the first down his first down and 10 and crutchfield dodging again this time over the left side and hit there by chris keating after a gain of a couple urban parker is getting up a little slow he really made a real nice playoff taking on the uh the blocker and forcing the guy in inside so keaney can make the tackle he did but crutchfield leaves men in his way he sure does the jets i tell you that's what they're looking for they're still going with three tight ends and they're just playing good rock em stocking football there tonight bill's hurting it linebacker o.j mentioned the loss of phil dela piano last week probably for the season bill haslam injured reserve and of course the great shane nelson retired after being injured last year second down and eight crutchfield is a 42-yard line eugene marv there defensively the bottom of that pile for the bills he'll be third down at about three now for the jets [Applause] hitchhike coming in tonight passing at 60 percent really had a superb game against the rams last week over 400 yards completed 37 of 50. third down long three bruce harper single setback sam jones the man with all the speed he turns it on he's colored in pursuit there by charles rose but he gets the first down for the jets near the 25-yard line well that kid can fly you remember him up in uh just out of high school i don't think he had started college yet did something really special i think when he got his signing bonus from the judge he gave the largest single donation that was ever given by an individual to special olympics and that was his way of saying hey i've got a everything working for me i'd like to help somebody else there's a lot of guys like that on that field you see marty lyons and his foundation help kids cooking with leukemia and you know you hear so much about the negative things with players well the guys like those two guys that far outweigh the ones that we're here having problems that make this league special that's cut field once again and bullying inside the 20-yard line hookup of about seven jews you ever get the feeling watching this team with all of its talents that someday they're going to put it all together and crush everybody in sight well they certainly can crush the teams that don't you know they can't stand in there with them up top i mean up front there's teams that uh you know like the redskins and the race raiders who have the horses up front and the cowboys but they certainly you know they have the talent not to lose to some of the teams they've lost to and the niners are back nine of your tough toughest year fetchville got six so it'll be second down and four richard all the time he's had it most of the night times to work it to mickey schuler has been good coverage in the secondary of the bills if they could only generate a little bit of pressure on the passage and you begin to understand why they got their first interception of the season tonight well it just has done to them what teams were doing to the jets you know you you get those guys down on the line they would prefer the pass rush and you run the ball at him the jets came in ran the ball and took some of the starch out of uh the bill's defensive line and bill's blind hasn't been able to mount much of a pass rush since third down long three and scott durking number 25 bruce harper number 42 the setbacks for the jets both of them work well out of the backfield turkey and derpy will have a first down inside the 15. just always have that underneath man i watch that pattern it's either going to be jerking or harper but it's a joe walton philosophy keep somebody to check off to and when you get the ball to a durking or a harper it might be a four-yard completion but they can turn it into a big one and dirky he's a little guy but he's obviously strong he won the nfl arm wrestling championship with joe klecker they came to win it this year speaking of our wrestlers let's send him to studio 54 you've been on that all night oh i get a kick out of here about you know i've been in studio 54 and i know the guy that talked about because he wanted to arm wrestle me once but i was a little brighter his cut field that feel with all of that size can really get into first gear quickly he's taken out of bounds by mario park but he moves the ball down close to the seven yard line we're gonna pause five seconds and allow our stations to identify themselves you're watching another sports exclusive on channel seven wkw tv buffalo [Applause] well i still live very well mike manucci he used to look at the biggest guys in the world would come into his restaurant want to challenge him and i've seen him pull him right out of their socks i don't think he's ever defeated but i know [Applause] yeah he is tough he's running up field but it you know it's not all that well i can't say it's not difficult to be impressive when your line's blocking like this you still got to be tough and he's run over a few guys i wish we'd have seen a little more that johnny hector you know that type of move is what excites me said it several times tonight as you see they're just short by inches for another first down but freeman mcneil separated shoulder last week out six to eight weeks looking realistically forward he probably could be available for maybe the last three or four games for the jets well you look at the backs that have run for him tonight uh that injury may not be as damaging as we first suspected third down an inches ichita takes it into the first crutchfield now 80 yards on the night 18 carries [Applause] the jets have put together a 200 yard effort on the ground tonight they've run the ball well and they have basically overpowered what is not a big defensive unit for the buffalo bills but what has been an effective defensive unit miami couldn't get a td on them beat him 12-0 four field you know as we said about miami they are not they are physical but they're really a finesse football team and that's two finesse teams playing against one another ketchfield looking for the corner of the end zone he won't get there as charles romes takes the ride in crutchfield out of bounds at the 1-yard line just has made jess have made no attempt to finesse the bills tonight they just come out there with the biggest guys they got three tight ends most of the time and just rammed the ball down their throats for the most part that's the raiders technique yeah they've been good at it for a lot of years take what you get in the air they look across that offensive line though for the jets and the lightest guy in there is an old pro and that's joe fields alexander 260 one side of course baltimore has gone a left guard the pellegrini comes in there [Applause] and [Applause] they are enormous flags go down that's the penalties once again tonight [Music] mark wright and his crew handling a very good game tonight encroachment defense and the times it has been very rough [Applause] bills detected moving across that neutral zone that'll keep the down the same six minutes left encroachment defense second second wasn't any movement that's just big friend smearless he'll line right up on joe field's nose smearless is a class of that yeah and all provenance is three [Applause] over the top we go [Applause] smearless the last member of the famed bermuda triangle yeah was running up to lester hayes with defensive end vp a few years ago he's having a tough night tonight though they're king over the top and the jets hang up six more we're going to have a log jam at the top of the eastern division of the afc not to mention the log jam we're having leaving this stadium right now beginning to dwindle out they came with high hopes the bills coming into the night three and one they're going to be three and two and that's going to put them in a tie with the jets miami baltimore and the afc east and pat leahy drills it through scott durking who has been effective tonight as a jetson shuffled their offense he backs in very freely we'll be back in a moment [Music] can't build a bike for the olympics by machine each tube's got to be custom fit to transfer weight into forward momentum after all a champion should ride a champion the olympics take teamwork and budweiser is proud to be part of that team this bud's the nissan sentra has climbed to the top you made it the best-selling import because you need this car room for five superb performance built solid to last the sentra major value major motion as only nissan can build it [Music] back at rich stadium crowd starting to filter out that leahey set to kick off for the jets yeah but just a a bully boy drive in the part of the jets using big crutchfield behind the overpowering offensive line as we watch rob riddick bring it back to the building and he's on the road he's exciting ready gives the crowd that remains a big break but there is a cloud there is a hanky deck back at the 23-yard line every kickoff it seems yep it happened so often you think after a while they had learned this has been going on ever since they changed the rule governing the blocks on the punts and the kickoffs yeah and it's so tough because so many guys on the special teams that's the only chance they got to making the team is to be on special team and they go under a microscope on tuesday you know that they hit their man that they get downfield and sometime in their eagerness to to make their block they get a little carried away lights are out number 56 on the return first down but we still have a rookie and you know what other reasons because so many of the youngsters are used on these special teams and these rules are different than they come out of college with tell you with everything that happened to the jets this week i didn't give them much of a shot tonight you couldn't get many full credits got to be given the head coach joe walton and to the players on first and ten cochlear just before the sack came in and another flag goes down he got the ball off in the general direction of jerry butler it'll be a personal foul well cochlear was hit in the head that time i think that's a rule against hitting the quarterback in his head let's take a look here you look like the statue of liberty there you go kenny neal he's been up there all night he's really been okay that i don't think that's far from delivered i think he was just trying to get a hand in there he was trying to get blocked he was trying to get the deflection but nevertheless finally personal foul roughing the passer number 77 defense a blow to the head first down it's a tough time for the buffalo bills offense now you know you're out of the game you know lou saban and jim ringel they had a little trick for us we found ourselves behind quite often so we have what we call objectives game objectives going into the game we wanted so many running first downs so many passing first down so if offensively we were really out of the game we can still go on the field as an offensive unit and have things that we want to accomplish it's just a trick to keep our heads into the game even if we're out of it like like the bills are now now this sack for gas to know [Applause] no dance this time there a little bit of it having a lot of fun tonight third sack tonight for marc gastineau and another flag is down [Applause] apparently that had just fallen because it is picked up and will resume play with a loss of seven second down and 17. time remaining and matt gopher from the shotgun powers is complete goes to byron franklin slightly built youngster out of auburn with a lot of speed he gets up close to the original line of scrimmage but it'll be third down and 10. [Applause] not ticking away and for the bills it'll be back to the drawing board until next sunday when they will be at miami for the dolphins the gyps on the road also they go to cleveland next sunday that won't be easy coagler got out of trouble and throws an interception right into the hands of great puddles and a little rugby out there to funnel ladles to johnny land and lynn takes it down inside the 15-yard line matt copra knows he should not have thrown that buttle had to catch it in self-defense take a look at it from the end zone if you can if we can somehow spot number 93 monty lyons coming in here you'll see him and will grant have a little altercation watch this spots johnny lin flips it out frank lewis saves the touchdown to play that cal berkeley made famous 14 yard line first down for the jets they pulled six of those you gotta give it to joe cap he tied arizona nobody is he's he is doing a job out there he did a great job a lot of people left that game i'm sure [Applause] bangs his way down close to the 11-yard line there's a great bundle one of the many penn state linebackers that adorn the many teams around the nfl good ones too this victory will restore this team's self-belief the belief they had at the end of last season i think last week did i i watched that second half of that game and they came back they could have quit and dickerson went 85 yards second play of the game rams rolled up a lot of yardage against him and this team just reached down found a little something extra and playing the kind of football they have been expected to play you know they beat a ram team that's a lot better than people think they are that fail flag is down once again crutchfield shows why the jets made him one of their top picks of a year ago third round pick you know you're talking about runners crutchfield look at that guy dickerson i thought when i saw him play in college that he had the potential to be maybe as good as anybody that ever played the game you've got to worry about him i'm worried i'm worried franco got my 1100 he's after my 2000 and my 23 days he has nine tds in such a short time of you know he got just about the whole season in front of them well he's got the coach to do it for him john robinson number 82 offense second down just now been penalized 13 times for 133 yards was that our most decisive loss in rich stadium it seemed that we were behind more than that at times it's a todd and he goes down sacked by the rookie from west virginia darrell talley second round draft pick for the bills and the bills are putting their youngsters in to get a little game action tonight well you know you wonder why todd might be in the game well walton mentioned that todd really hadn't gotten into his uh throwing rhythm and i gather they figure they can protect him and he you know there is a possibility that he can get hurt but this is a good time to learn good time for him to get his rhythm back and he's not in the game passing the ball off he is dropping back to your exactly right joe said todd is the kind of quarterback who needs work working malware third down in a bundle for richard todd he fires a complete far short of the first down as he goes over the middle it's there is tight end jerome barkum that'll bring up fourth down you know a lot of people might be surprised that the jets ran so well against buffalo buffalo has been uh historically at least the last few seasons pretty tough against the run but you know the jets they had to do something they had a team that was not playing aggressive emotional football they did have the i guess the muscle up front to run against buffalo bills and what he came in here i think to do more than anything was to establish toughness with his lineman with his team he said they were going to run the ball they practiced to retie in all week and i think the whole point of that is to put those guys in the frame of mind that they were gonna have to work i think everybody realized it takes a tougher line than i think to play against the run than it is to a guy who can you know throw the ball and that's good by leahy 41 yards he missed earlier from 38 he made a chip shot and soleil two of three for tonight normally takes a tougher attitude to block the run than it does for the past and what the jets have been lacking thus far this season has been the toughness of spirit howard two minutes in five seconds as you can see a lot of the locals who come from all over western new york to support these bills have send out next monday night we'll be watching a pair of ohio teams get it on well actually one of them against pittsburgh steelers terrible ohio playing with the scenes and then a week from monday night we'll watch the washington redskins against the green bay packers [Applause] tomorrow night the world series starts yeah i can't believe it green bay america looks so terrible against the giants and they just ate up tampa bay pat leahy to kick off once again as they just now have moved out to a 34-10 lead breezy night once again the ball comes off the tee and he pops it back up and robin goody can mike mosely for buffalo well to be ready and he watches it go out of bounds in the end zone that'll bring about the touch back and the bills will have the ball at the 20-yard line and that also brings us up to the two-minute warning the death's 34 the bill's 10 we'll be back in a moment [Applause] what keeps america going on a freezing [Music] why does your car need a fresh fill of prestone after just 10 000 miles of driving on weak neglected antifreeze a radiator could look this bad while a preston radiator looks this good that's the prestone difference what brings them to the mountains [Music] a colorful breakthrough canon's 270f it lets you make up to 27 copies a minute reduces enlarges can even feed and collate automatically but the 270f does more it lets you communicate in color at a price that keeps you in the black the canon np270f for information call toll free gets on top 34 to 10 we still have no further word on joe ferguson he was taken from the field they've only been told that he suffered a slight concussion certainly hope that he will be all right he did appear to be shaken up a couple of costly plays the ferguson involved as the girls were trying to get into the end zone causing a joe crips fumble on first down at 10 we're watching young matt coakley directing the bill's attack and then later on shortly after cribs fumble once again and gastineau recovered for a jet touchdown well matt culpler has done a decent job at the bills if they're going to challenge here in the afc east they're going to need ferguson back so let's just hope he comes out of this it's just a mild concussion and he will be back next week second down and ten for the six foot three 192 pound matt copper [Applause] franklin byron franklin gets the completion short of the first down it'll be third down in about three and we want to remind you which we'll do immediately after copeland gets his hurry up offense underway out to mark bramer he'll have the first down for the bill stopping the clock at 128. this telecast is presented by the authority of the national football league it's intended for the private use of our audience any re-broadcast or other use of the telecast without the express written consent of the national football league is prohibited and so is fighting well you remember i mentioned to you before monty lions had a little thing going with the buffalo center on that uh interception and i think one of the reasons he didn't leave the field he had a score to settle and it looks like the official is asking him to leave the field now [Applause] you know personal fouls number 53 buffalo number 93 new york jets penalties offset and they're both ejected from the game [Music] while the man is a terrific football player his life is devoted to the monty lions foundation which he created which deals with care and concern for youngsters who face terminal diseases in whatever form it's one of the great things you're talking about what athletes do this is one of the great things i've ever seen an athlete do so forget that physical exterior and know what's in the heart of that man oh yeah when he plays the game he plays it all out and he looks like he cares he goes out all out in the cars that he carries for next kids the jets are full of those type of stories penalty was assessed against the jets and that will bring about a bill first down or rather they apparently happened after bray mary picked up the first half that is the call and down goes cochlear then rudolph yeah he's nuts and he loses once again again the bill's trying to get the receivers back on side penalty involving will grant and marty lyons happened after bremer picked up the first hour that was the ruling cochlear decrypts cribs up to the 36 yard line with down to a minute left to play and matt coppler uses a buffalo bill timeout go over to talk it over with dave stevenson and well matt shoots the bat with kate stevenson tell you this abc sports exclusive has been brought to you by budweiser the king of beers great for that distinctively clean crisp taste that says budweiser for all you do this bud's for you and by nissan builders of high mileage high quality cars and trucks for 50 years available at your dodson dealer so the jets will go to three and two and there will be a four-way tie on top of the afc eastern division involving the jets miami baltimore and buffalo i think not juice no i think not todd on the night 31 220 yards and an interesting stat for you and 11 regular season meetings richard todd tonight on his 12th attempt got his first 200-yard game against buffalo and he's had some big gains so they've played him pretty tough third down and eight bills at the 37-yard line bills with one timeout remaining and copler incomplete they say that cribs trapped the ball well it appears the jets have broken somewhat of a of a jesus they've had here no question about it chuck knox doted on the jets why the inside story the true story the late phil island a marvelous man had let chuck knox inclined to the notion that he when we bank retired would be the next head coach of the jets in fact it turned out to be charlie winner chuck never got over it and took special delight in preparing his team for the jets and he still did this year with siena kofler on fourth [Applause] and down goes coppler and that is gilbo rusty gilbo a second year man out of mcneese state and the jets have a lot of different folks in the ball game at this point as well you would suspect [Applause] so again a week from tonight we'll be in cincinnati for the steelers and the bengals and then two weeks from tonight back in green bay for the packers and the washington redskins the redskins coming off joe theismann who never understates anything characterizes one of the great games ever played of all time well it was a great game it was one two great teams and they played it like two great teams exposed to play that's the best game i've seen this year and i think for a lot of years on the ball wouldn't be surprised to see those two teams play again and when that might be that would have to be in tampa bay right yeah let the 49ers in dallas and possibly this jet team maybe even the rams the way they're going dallas of course 5-0 the only undefeated team the bills were trying to join the raiders and the 49ers the 4-1 records tonight they did not do so they fall to three and two that's a relieved man joe walton deserves a lot of credit i've been quick to criticize him but he sure no oh you all right oh you deserve it tonight congratulations [Applause] big winners tonight over the bills [Music] you know the records show that race car driving is actually safer than driving on the streets the drivers here are professionals and you know what to expect still i wouldn't dream of turning a lap without building myself and now for the tricky part to drive home first thing i do is buckle up if you don't belt yourself you're just kidding yourself this message is brought to you by nissan motor corporation and your datsun dealer mom how come jeffy wilson gave me his rabbit well since jeffy's dad died they have to move to an apartment well we have to win for something happens protection life insurance with an all-state mortgage protection plan it doesn't cost much to help make sure a paid up house is there for your family even if you aren't don't worry murphy you never have to move again you're in good hands with allstate once again from rich stadium in buffalo new york the jets have defeated the bills 34-10 coming up tonight

Channel: Maurence Shipley

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Keywords: Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, NFL, 1983

Id: t_4mpQ7tF8I

Length: 186min 25sec (11185 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 07 2021