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Buffalo proved it could play with big boys
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Nov 09, 2020
For all the positive impact Sean McDermott has had since taking over as coach of the Bills, his critics, albeit quietly, have registered one persisten...
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Bills show why this year’s team isn’t the same
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Oct 05, 2020
Here’s why this Bills’ team might just be the one their fanbase has been hoping for since the start of this millennium. After opening the season 3-0, ...
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COLUMN: Bills are 3-0, but no thanks to the defense
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Sep 29, 2020
This whole Bills’ season is backwards. Remember this spring when the feeling was Buffalo’s “playoff-caliber” defense would carry the team as quarterba...
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Allen gives fans performance they won’t soon forget
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Sep 21, 2020
Bills fans won’t soon forget this game. Who wouldn’t recall a stadium power outage that blacked out the network telecast for over 20 minutes? And what...
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Bills’ win marred by turnovers and two key injuries
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Sep 14, 2020
To be sure, hundreds of thousands of Bills fans are celebrating today. After all, Buffalo handled the Jets, 27-17, Sunday afternoon at Bills Stadium a...
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Bills training camp 2020: Day 1 observations
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MATT PARRINO syracuse.com/TNS 
Aug 18, 2020
Orchard Park, N.Y. — It’s weird to type “Day 1” of Buffalo Bills training camp on Aug. 17. But here we are on this Monday in a whole new Covid-19 foot...
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Bills’ hierarchy still in a battle with Covid-19
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Aug 14, 2020
The Bills won’t even be allowed to conduct a practice in pads until Monday, three days after their long-ago postponed preseason opener at Baltimore. I...
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Bills sign McDermott to multiyear extension
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JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer 
Aug 13, 2020
The Buffalo Bills have signed coach Sean McDermott to a multiyear contract extension. A person with direct knowledge told the Associated Press the con...
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For Bills’ Beane, unprecedented training camp
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Aug 12, 2020
Never in his four years as general manager of the Bills has Brandon Beane been flooded with so many issues heading into a season. The impact of the co...
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For McDermott, a training camp such as no other
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Aug 07, 2020
The confusion is palpable. By this point, in a normal year, the Bills would have been 11 days into training camp and looking ahead a week to the prese...
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Different look for Buffalo’s training camp
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Jul 28, 2020
The Roycroft Inn, East Aurora (3 years), Sheraton, Blasdell (5), Niagara University, Lewiston (13), Fredonia State (19), St. John Fisher College, Pitt...
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Coronavirus testing Bills’ camaraderie
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Jun 08, 2020
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a three-part series with fourth-year Bills coach Sean McDermott from a Zoom session with the team media last week...
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Loss of ‘camp’ disappointing to McDermott
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Jun 05, 2020
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a three-part series with fourth-year Bills coach Sean McDermott from a Zoom session with the team media earlier t...
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Thoughts on Bills’ Oliver, Williams, preseason slate
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
May 20, 2020
Some thoughts on the Bills, namely Ed Oliver, Ben Williams and Buffalo’s preseason schedule: HOW CONSIDERATE of Ed Oliver to embarrass the organizatio...
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Bills’ McDermott discusses team’s roster additions
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
May 06, 2020
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series with Bills coach Sean McDermott. Today an assessment of a new-look roster.) National Football ...
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After Bills’ loss, is Allen QB of team’s future?
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Jan 06, 2020
Buffalo’s pro sports fans have long had an inferiority complex. Their language is peppered with phrases from the city’s ignominious playoff history: W...
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Steelers vs.Bills: friend vs. friend, Tomlin-McDermott
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CHUCK POLLOCK Senior Sports Columnist 
Dec 13, 2019
Every now and then the question is raised … why is Buffalo in the AFC East? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have that division composed of the four tea...
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Let’s look at Bills’ 6-2 mark for what it is
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Nov 05, 2019
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — OK, so I’ll be the wet-blanket guy. Before we get all wrapped up in the Bills’ best half-season start in 26 years, a dose of real...
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