Great game on tap today folks. Here's just a few local links and a couple from Buffalo to whet the appetite:
LOCAL SHOTS
- Jim McBride takes a look at which team has the edge today when the Buffalo Bills come to Foxborough to take on the Patriots.
- Karen Guregian notes that the Bills are prone to turnovers, and bits on Kevin Faulk, Jerod Mayo, and where to get Laurence Maroney's autograph today.
- Shalise Manza Young discusses the hyper-confident swagger and bravado of Ellis Hobbs III.
- John Tomase says the division sweep starts here, and gives us Five Things to Watch.
- Mike Reiss informs us that David Thomas will appeal his NFL-issued $7,500 fine.
- Jim McCabe has a nice piece on classy Dick Jauron.
- Ron Borges talks at length about with Mike Vrabel, who is the Patriots' player representative and newly elected member of the NFLPA Executive Committee, about the collective bargaining agreement.
BUFFALO CHIPS
- James P. McCoy (Buffalo News): Pats' front seven has the horses to gallop through Bills' O-Line.
- Jerry Sullivan (Buffalo News): Time for Bills to knock 'rivals' off cloud nine.
- Sal Maiorana (Democrat & Chronicle): Buffalo Bills Scouting Report.
- Scott Pitoniak (Democrat & Chronicle): Patriots still alive, even without Brady.