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LOS ANGELES -- Although the Buffalo Bills three-game winning streak is equal parts exciting and improbable, LeSean McCoy sees ways it can get even better.McCoy shredded the Los Angeles Rams defense for 8.3 yards per carry on the way to 150 yards rushing in the Bills 30-19 victory Sunday -- and he still wasnt impressed.There were some plays I missed today, McCoy said. I could have easily had over 200 yards.Thats a bold statement against a defensive team as good as the Rams (3-2), who were missing three injured starters on their vaunted defensive line. But after the Bills (3-2) turned an 0-2 start into an above-.500 record with three impressive victories, they could be excused for feeling good about themselves.Its just a gratifying moment, and we know weve got a ton of work in front of us, Bills coach Rex Ryan said.The Bills handled their first game in the Coliseum since 1992 rather comfortably, thanks to an opportunistic defense that forced three turnovers and a grinding offense that managed only 305 yards but found holes in the Rams solid scheme.Tyrod Taylor threw two touchdown passes, scrambling to find newcomer Justin Hunter in the first quarter and finding Marquise Goodwin in the fourth after Nickell Robey-Colemans second interception.Robey-Coleman returned his first interception 41 yards for the tiebreaking touchdown in the third quarter, punctuating the Buffalo defenses effort against Los Angeles inconsistent offense.Case Keenum passed for 271 yards, while Todd Gurley scored the Rams first home touchdown of the season while rushing for 72 yards. Los Angeles couldnt build on its three-game winning streak with back-to-back road games in Detroit and London coming up.Weve got to score in that red zone, said Tavon Austin, who had seven catches for 59 yards while rushing for 26 more. We keep getting down there, but not scoring in the red zone. Three points is good, but three points is not going to win too many big games.Here are some other takeaways from the game:LOUSY FAKE: Trailing 23-19 and desperate for a late-game spark, the Rams faked a punt from their own 23 with 3:47 to play. The Bills sniffed it out perfectly, tackling Bradley Marquez 3 yards short of the first down. Thanks to a 24-yard run by McCoy and a TD pass by Taylor, Buffalo essentially put the game out of reach moments later. Ryan credited the decisive play to the Bills special teams coaching staff, saying Danny Crossman, Eric Smith and Kathryn Smith were preparing special teams for that exact play, so we were ready for it.DEFENSIVE BLOWS: The Rams began the game without starting defensive linemen Robert Quinn, William Hayes and Michael Brockers, allowing the Bills to gang up on star lineman Aaron Donald in their blocking. Theyre all willing, but were looking at the long haul right now, coach Jeff Fisher said. And they wouldnt have been productive. In the fourth quarter, Los Angeles lost standout cornerback Trumaine Johnson to a right ankle injury that had him on crutches after the game. If Johnson or the linemen remain out for a prolonged stretch, the Rams greatest strength will be compromised. Fisher expects to know more about Johnsons injury Monday.GRINDING HALT: Gurley scored a touchdown and had his second-biggest rushing game of the season with 72 yards, including a 16-yard run and a 12-yard run. But the standout second-year pro still has only 288 yards in five games. He also fumbled twice, losing one. The Rams still cant get their most dangerous offensive player going.HOMECOMING GAME: Robey-Coleman was named a Bills captain for the game along with Reggie Bush, Robert Woods and Kevon Seymour. The reason? Theyre all USC Trojans returning to their home stadium. We could have let distractions get to us, Robey-Coleman said. We came out here with a mindset to get a victory and thats what happened.BIG SACK: Buffalo linebacker Lorenzo Alexander had two sacks, putting him into the NFL lead in the category. Hes the first Bills player to get part of a sack in five consecutive games since Mario Williams in 2013. Alexander was more excited about the Bills takeaways. Thats what we pride ourselves on defense, he said. Our core principle is to take the ball away and score on defense.---AP NFL websites: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Wholesale Air Max 720 . 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The Cleveland Indians, Tampa Bay Rays, and Texas Rangers all won on Sunday meaning the Rangers will host the Rays in a play-in game on Monday. Peter Handscomb and Matt Renshaw crossed for the winning runs in their first Test, and a new Australian team won in an old familiar style. For all the talk of debutants and inclusions, the most telling contributions were made by senior players stepping up as they needed to, doubtless inspired by the change they saw around them.More broadly, Australia won in Adelaide because they had more members of their side pitch in at key times than South Africa did. Of the XI chosen by the reconfigured selection panel, only one player - a nervy Nic Maddinson - could not be said to have played a significant part in at least one sequence of the match.Two other players were still to make their presence felt when the fourth day began, but they did so in ways that put the capstone on Australias performance. Jackson Bird was chosen narrowly ahead of Chadd Sayers for Adelaide, his extra height and previous successes at Test level allowing his inclusion at the expense of a prolific hometown operator. Birds stump-to-stump line is pivotal to his game, and it was one such delivery that pinned Quinton de Kock in front to end the series of a batsman who had been a thorn in Australias side. That wicket alone justified Birds place.David Warner, too, had some work to do in order to match-up to the efforts of some team-mates. For most of the match he has been afflicted by a shoulder complaint, wincing when throwing and off the field for just long enough in the first innings to be precluded from taking his usual place as an opener. Brushed aside by Kyle Abbotts seamers when he did get to bat, Warner resumed in the sort of scenario that suits his busy style.While Renshaw covered up judiciously in defence at one end, Warner took the initiative in the kind of manner essential to any chase of a small total. Infamously Australia were stuck in the dust of a fifth day SCG pitch in 1994 to hand South Africa their first Test win down under since readmission, and the early dismissal of the energetic Michael Slater was a critical element to that tale. Warner though was able to capitalise on early errors in line and length from Abbott and Vernon Philander to quickly take down the target.Renshaw was beaten countless times, but his temperament to survive was demonstrated amply even after Warner was wastefully run-out. In many ways, his impact transcended the number of runs he made on debut, for he showed the team and the public that stolid defence can, indeed must, be a part of a successful Australian batting combination in Test matches. His survival of the tricky 12 overs on the first night should not be forgotten, demonstrating supreme judgment around off stump and an unwillingness to do any more than cover the line of the off stump. Across two innings he soaked up 183 balls, a notable figure.This is partly because it shielded the Australian middle order until a platform had been laid, but also partly because Renshaws solidity allowed Usman Khawaja to grow into his finest Test innings to date. Avoiding the undue risks posed by driving and keeping out all that South Africa could hurl, he was deservingly Man of the Match. Team-mates, namely Nathan Lyon, had a good natured joke with Khawaja about his newfound nightwatchman status, but the truth is that his was an innings with that kind of selflessness at its heart. By departing from his usual methodss, Khawaja did exactly the job the team required of him.ddddddddddddSo too did the captain Steven Smith and the debutant Handscomb. Plenty of times in this series Smith has appeared the batsman best placed to keep South Africa at bay, yet the first innings was his only half-century in the three Tests, and a good one at that. As a captain, most of his field placings and bowling changes had the desired results, not least the use of Nathan Lyon on the third evening.Handscombs debut innings was a lovely piece of middle order counter-punching, aided greatly by the hard work done by those above him in the order. His idiosyncratic method was picked apart on the air by the likes of Michael Clarke, with the inference that Handscomb will have to advance further forward from his crease in order to prosper overseas. But the attitude he demonstrated, taking the game to the bowlers and punishing minuscule errors in line and length, contrasted favourably with the inertia offered earlier by Adam Voges, Mitchell Marsh and Peter Nevill, among others.Of the bowlers, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc enjoyed the movement offered up by the pink ball and a well-grassed Adelaide pitch, while not getting carried away in their search for wickets. Hazlewood has been Australias leading wicket-taker for the series, and Starc admirably durable despite what was an abominable physical preparation for Test matches. Both will be better still against Pakistan.So too will be Lyon, author of the spell that tilted the match to the hosts on the third night. He had started the match with three men in the deep for his first over, but grew in confidence with every ball from there. JP Duminys dismissal, as important as any in the Test, was brought about partly by tempting the batsman with a gap at midwicket and a second slip, then sliding a quicker ball into off stump. Smith can take credit for floating the idea with Lyon, but so can the bowler for pulling it off. Lyon will sing the team song with plenty of pent-up gusto.Another likely to bellow Underneath the Southern Cross will be Matthew Wade, a Test match winner on his recall for the first time in more than three years. Wades yappy visage behind the stumps has in turn been the cause for plenty of comment, so too his cheap first innings dismissal while Peter Nevill clouted an unbeaten 179 for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield. But six catches and a stumping were sound reward for a gloveman improved if not perfected, and most of all there was the fact that his winning habit with Victoria has now been returned to Australia.It should not for a moment be forgotten that this was a victory in a dead rubber Test match, of the kind that brought about many false dawns for England in the 1990s. Numerous areas of the game, notably running between the wickets, must be addressed. There also remains the possibility of further evolution for the team between now and the Gabba Test against Pakistan, notably the question of how to re-accommodate Shaun Marsh, perhaps for Maddinson.But the victory in Adelaide has at least provided all with a reminder of how most Test matches have been won by Australian sides over the years, and how they will be again: with grit as well as flair. ' ' '