Archives for March 28, 2001

‘Buffalo Bills coach Gregg Williams said Tuesday he would be interested in pursuing former Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Josh Evans if and when Evans is reinstated from a year-long substance abuse suspension this spring or summer.’

‘The league will change from its current six-division setup to eight, four-team divisions in 2002. It remains likely that Buffalo, Miami, the New York Jets and New England will stay in the AFC East. Indianapolis almost surely will move out.’

"The NFC East and Central and the AFC East and West seem pretty well set," commissioner Paul Tagliabue said as he unveiled seven of the dozen or so plans under consideration. "The more difficult decisions are in the others."

"We don’t worry about if an end holds up against the run because you can always put more bodies in the box to coverup for a smaller guy,” says Bills coach Gregg Williams, who had great success with Kearse when he was the Titans’ defensive coordinator. "But if he has true defensive end speed, that’s something you can’t coach.”

‘[NOTE: Sam Rogers was an OLB not an ILB] ILB — Sam Rogers, Bills. He was good enough to start for a good team for five years.’

‘If plan A1 makes 20 teams happy then the deal is done. The maintenance of rivalries will get the vote closer to 20. If those four proxies owned by Tagliabue count, 24 of 32 would be needed, and the commissioner would have the right to cast the votes for the Texans, Rams, Ravens and Titans.’

‘While the Super Bowl has become a January tradition for the past thirty-five years, it will soon turn into a February feature. At the owners’ meetings this week, commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that starting in 2004, the Super Bowl will make a permanent move into month of February.’