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BUFFALO 2013 WEEKLY RELEASE AT REGULAR SEASON WEEK 17: BUFFALO BILLS at NEW ENGLAD PATRIOTS | Sunday, Dec. 29 | 4:25 PM | CBS-TV BUFFALO 2013 WEEKLY RELEASE REGULAR SEASON WEEK 17: BUFFALO BILLS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | Sunday, Dec. 29 | 4:25 PM | CBS-TV BUFFALO BILLS (6-9) AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (11-4) BUFFALO CLOSES OUT 2013 IN NEW ENGLAND BROADCAST INFO The Buffalo Bills will travel to face the New England Patriots in the team’s final regular TELEVISION: CBS-TV season game of the 2013 season on Sunday, December 29 at 1:00 p.m. PRODUCER: Bob Mansbach This week’s game will mark the 107th regular season meeting between Buffalo and New DIRECTOR: Suzanne Smith England, with the Patriots holding a 64-41-1 advantage in the series. PLAY-BY-PLAY: Ian Eagles With a win over New England on Sunday, Buffalo will: COLOR ANALYST: Dan Fouts • Earn their first win at Gillette Stadium since the stadium opened in 2002 BILLS RADIO NETWORK • Finish with a winning record (4-2) in divisional games for the first time since FLAGSHIP: Buffalo – WGR550 (550AM); Toronto - 2007 Sportsnet 590 The Fan; Rochester - WCMF (96.5) • Win three consecutive games for the first time since 2011 (Weeks 1-3) and WROC (950AM); Syracuse - WTKW (99.5/ WTKV 105.5) BILLS-PATRIOTS REGULAR SEASON SERIES PLAY-BY-PLAY: John Murphy (26th year, 10th as play-by-play) • Overall regular season record: 41-64-1 COLOR ANALYST: Mark Kelso (8th year) • Bills on road at Patriots: 19-34 SIDELINE REPORTER: Joe Buscaglia (2nd year) • Last meeting on road: 11/11/2012, L 31-37 • First regular season meeting: 9/23/1960, W 13-0 at Boston • Last regular season meeting: 9/8/2013, L 21-23 at Buffalo UPCOMING WEEK’S SCHEDULE Tues., Dec. 24 Weds., Dec. 25 Thurs., Dec. 26 Fri., Dec. 27 Sat., Dec. 28 Sun., Dec. 29 Mon., Dec. 30 Players’ Day Off 9:20 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 11:10 a.m. No Media 4:25 p.m. TBA Patriots Coach Belichick No Media Availability Practice (Open for Practice (Open for Availability Bills at Patriots Conference Call Stretch & Individual) Stretch & 11:30 a.m. Individual) Coach Marrone Gillette Stadium Practice (Open for Post-Practice & Stretch & Individual) Coach Marrone Open Locker Room Post-Practice & 12:30 p.m. Coordinator/ Patriots Player Open Locker Room Assistant Coach Conference Call (By Request Only) Coach Marrone Post-Practice & Open Locker Room Scott Berchtold - Senior Vice President/Communications Dominick Rinelli - Assistant Director of Media Relations [email protected] :: 716-312-8701 [email protected] :: 716-312-8707 Chris Jenkins - Director of Media Relations Kevin Kearns - Media Relations Assistant [email protected] :: 716-312-8702 [email protected] :: 716-312-8704 BuffaloBills.com 1 BUFFALOBILLS.COM/MEDIA REGULAR SEASON WEEK 17 | BUFFALO BILLS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | DECEMBER 29, 2013 | 4:25 PM | CBS-TV BILLS 2013 REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - THROUGH WEEK 16 WON 6, LOST 9 * RUSHING No. Yds Avg Long TD 09/08 L 21-23 New England 69,519 Jackson 193 836 4.3 59 8 09/15 W 24-23 Carolina 67,819 Spiller 182 822 4.5 77 2 09/22 L 20-27 at New York Jets 76,957 Manuel 53 186 3.5 19 2 09/29 W 23-20 Baltimore 68,296 Choice TM 35 126 3.6 20 0 10/03 L 24-37 at Cleveland 71,239 Lewis 22 48 2.2 8 1 10/13 L 24-27 OT Cincinnati 67,739 Summers 12 46 3.8 16 1 10/20 W 23-21 at Miami 60,592 Tuel 3 17 5.7 14 0 10/27 L 17-35 at New Orleans 72,405 Robert Woods 2 16 8.0 13 0 11/03 L 13-23 Kansas City 68,159 Graham 4 14 3.5 14 0 11/10 L 10-23 at Pittsburgh 60,406 Goodwin 3 13 4.3 17 0 11/17 W 37-14 New York Jets 68,036 Johnson 1 10 10.0 10 0 12/01 L 31-34 OT Atlanta 38,969 Wingo 1 4 4.0 4 0 12/08 L 6-27 at Tampa Bay 59,194 TEAM 511 2138 4.2 77 14 12/15 W 27-20 at Jacksonville 60,085 OPPONENTS 428 1796 4.2 80t 8 12/22 W 19- 0 Miami 54,305 * RECEIVING No. Yds Avg Long TD 12/29 at New England Johnson 52 597 11.5 45 3 Buff. Opp. Chandler 50 600 12.0 33t 2 TOTAL FIRST DOWNS 282 284 Jackson 44 334 7.6 22 1 Rushing 105 86 Robert Woods 39 560 14.4 57 3 Passing 139 163 Spiller 28 157 5.6 27 0 Penalty 38 35 Graham 20 299 15.0 47 1 3rd Down: Made/Att 79/231 87/232 Goodwin 16 261 16.3 59t 3 3rd Down Pct. 34.2 37.5 Hogan 10 83 8.3 16 0 4th Down: Made/Att 4/11 4/10 Summers 7 79 11.3 34 1 4th Down Pct. 36.4 40.0 L. Smith 5 78 15.6 28 0 POSSESSION AVG. 28:28 31:32 Gragg 5 53 10.6 28 1 TOTAL NET YARDS 5017 4952 Choice TM 4 10 2.5 5 0 Avg. Per Game 334.5 330.1 Easley 2 13 6.5 9 0 Total Plays 1048 1021 Wingo 1 2 2.0 2 0 Avg. Per Play 4.8 4.9 TEAM 283 3126 11.0 59t 15 NET YARDS RUSHING 2138 1796 OPPONENTS 296 3544 12.0 74 27 Avg. Per Game 142.5 119.7 * INTERCEPTIONS No. Yds Avg Long TD Total Rushes 511 428 Byrd 4 85 21.3 57 0 NET YARDS PASSING 2879 3156 Leonhard 4 72 18.0 41 0 Avg. Per Game 191.9 210.4 A. Williams 4 43 10.8 34 0 Sacked/Yards Lost 44/247 56/388 Alonso 4 38 9.5 32 0 Gross Yards 3126 3544 Gilmore 2 0 0.0 0 0 Att./Completions 493/283 537/296 Searcy 1 32 32.0 32t 1 Completion Pct. 57.4 55.1 Robey 1 19 19.0 19t 1 Had Intercepted 15 22 McKelvin 1 0 0.0 0 0 PUNTS/AVERAGE 92/43.0 91/45.5 Rogers TM 1 0 0.0 0 0 NET PUNTING AVG. 92/35.9 91/41.0 TEAM 22 289 13.1 57 2 PENALTIES/YARDS 104/898 104/900 OPPONENTS 15 298 19.9 100t 2 FUMBLES/BALL LOST 31/12 17/7 * PUNTING No. Yds Avg Net TB In Lg B TOUCHDOWNS 32 39 Moorman 57 2342 41.1 36.4 4 14 62 0 Rushing 14 8 S. Powell TM 35 1613 46.1 35.2 5 10 66 0 Passing 15 27 TEAM 92 3955 43.0 35.9 9 24 66 0 Returns 3 4 OPPONENTS 91 4137 45.5 41.0 8 38 74 0 * SCORE BY PERIODS Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 OT PTS * PUNT RETURNS Ret FC Yds Avg Long TD TEAM 70 103 68 78 0 319 McKelvin 32 13 180 5.6 21 0 OPPONENTS 58 123 82 85 6 354 Leonhard 7 8 63 9.0 25 0 * SCORING TD-Ru-Pa-Rt K-PAT FG S PTS TEAM 39 21 243 6.2 25 0 Carpenter 0 0 0 0 30/30 31/34 0 123 OPPONENTS 43 21 470 10.9 79t 1 Jackson 9 8 1 0 0 54 * KICKOFF RETURNS No. Yds Avg Long TD Johnson 3 0 3 0 0 20 Goodwin 16 351 21.9 28 0 Robert Woods 3 0 3 0 0 20 Easley 3 55 18.3 19 0 Goodwin 3 0 3 0 0 18 Graham 1 19 19.0 19 0 Chandler 2 0 2 0 0 12 Ross 1 7 7.0 7 0 Manuel 2 2 0 0 0 12 Robert Woods 1 9 9.0 9 0 Searcy 2 0 0 2 0 12 TEAM 22 441 20.0 28 0 Spiller 2 2 0 0 0 12 OPPONENTS 44 933 21.2 50 0 Summers 2 1 1 0 0 12 * FIELD GOALS 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+ Gragg 1 0 1 0 0 6 Carpenter 0/ 0 13/13 5/ 5 10/11 3/5 Graham 1 0 1 0 0 6 TEAM 0/ 0 13/13 5/ 5 10/11 3/5 Lewis 1 1 0 0 0 6 OPPONENTS 0/ 0 6/ 6 12/14 7/ 9 2/3 Robey 1 0 0 1 0 6 Carpenter: ()(42N,55G,20G,48G)(37G,23G,43G,26G) TEAM 32 14 15 3 30/30 31/34 0 319 (27G,27G,22G)(52G)(51G)(39G,20G,31G)(50N,37G) OPPONENTS 39 8 27 4 39/39 27/32 0 354 (26G,30G)(20G)(40G,42G,43G)(29G)(40G,46G)(42G, 2-Pt Conv: Johnson, Robert Woods, TM 2-2, 54N,40G)(45G,21G,22G,26G) OPP 0-0 OPP: (48G,33G,35G)(27G,25G,39G)(47G,34G)(35G, SACKS: M. Williams 13, K. Williams 10.5, 24G)(30G,24G,44G)(46G,34N,43G)(51N)(47N,38N) Hughes 10, Dareus 7.5, Lawson 4, Searcy 3.5, (27G,41G,39G)(36G,37G,23G)(48N)(49G,36G)(53G, Robey 3, Alonso 2, Bryant 1, Byrd 1, 32G)(32G,55G)() Westerman TM 0.5, TM 56, OPP 44 FUM/LOST: McKelvin 7/1, Lewis 6/3, Manuel 6/3, Spiller 4/1, Jackson 3/0, Chandler 1/1, Goodwin 1/1, Graham 1/1, Johnson 1/1, Moorman 1/0 * PASSING Att Cmp Yds Cmp% Yds/Att TD TD% Int Int% Long Sack/Lost Rating Manuel 306 180 1972 58.8 6.44 11 3.6 9 2.9 45 28/ 159 77.7 Lewis 128 77 845 60.2 6.60 3 2.3 3 2.3 57 14/ 77 77.8 Tuel 59 26 309 44.1 5.24 1 1.7 3 5.1 59t 2/ 11 45.1 TEAM 493 283 3126 57.4 6.34 15 3.0 15 3.0 59t 44/ 247 73.8 OPPONENTS 537 296 3544 55.1 6.60 27 5.0 22 4.1 74 56/ 388 75.2 BuffaloBills.com 2 BUFFALOBILLS.COM/MEDIA REGULAR SEASON WEEK 17 | BUFFALO BILLS at NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | DECEMBER 29, 2013 | 4:25 PM | CBS-TV 2013 DEFENSIVE & SPECIAL TEAMS STATISTICS DEFENSIVE TACKLES DEFENSIVE FORCED FUMBLES PLAYER Solo Assist TFL TOTAL J.