ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- The Buffalo Bills have won four consecutive games, so Rex Ryan is boasting and bragging about how his team is on the fast track to the playoffs, right?
Not quite. Perception, accurate or not, is that Ryan puffs his chest and toots his horn when his team is on a roll, but he has done far from that since the Bills began their current winning streak -- their longest since 2008.
Consider Ryan's news conference after the Bills' 45-16 win Sunday over the San Francisco 49ers. His team had just rushed for 312 yards, the franchise's highest single-game total since 1992.