Archives for July 30, 2005

‘”It’s just a long process,” Euhus said. “Really there was no offseason. It was just rehab pretty much everyday. My wife and I got to take a short vacation (a cruise to the Bahamas, which Euhus says his wife ‘shenagled’ him into going) but other than that it was work, work and work. But you can see the whole process and now it’s paying off. … It feels good to come back out and be playing again.”‘

‘"I saw it in minicamp," Vincent said. "I know we weren’t tackling, but we saw this guy buzz around, coming through holes, jumping over piles, running down the sideline pointing. You get the feeling that his confidence is back."’

‘”When Roscoe gets his feet wet, we can put me in the slot and put him outside,” said veteran Bills wide receiver Eric Moulds. “That will leave one of us in single coverage because there’s no way they cannot double-team Lee Evans on the other side.’

“The Offense squared off against the D for a twenty minute session of 11 on 11. It is safe to say the Defense dominated this session. JP was sacked numerous times (well…would have been sacked, he was never touched — thank you Troy Vincent), threw a couple of really bad balls that would have been picks (Clements dropped two that I saw). However, Willis and the running game looked great during this time. But, it’s difficult to say how much that means since it wasn’t full contact.”

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‘"I’m very confident in him," said second-year wide receiver Lee Evans. "He’s put in a lot of work time during this offseason, from working out to studying film. I think he knows what to do. It’s just about coming out here and doing it and using all of his potential on the field."’

‘Rosenhaus said the good relationship he’s had with Bills President and General Manager Tom Donahoe over the years allowed the two sides to hammer out a deal.’

‘”Everybody has faith in him, and as long as he has faith in himself, I feel he can’t be stopped,” said McGahee, who returns as the Bills’ starting running back after replacing the departed Travis Henry. “I don’t think it’ll take him long. J.P. is going to come along probably by the second or third preseason game, he just needs time under his belt. He didn’t get much time last year, but he knows what he has to do. He has to step up, just as I had to step up.”‘

‘”I think you have to be here from the get-go,” said coach Mike Mularkey, who is counting on the explosive Parrish to add some punch to his 25th-ranked offense. “Installation is faster than in mini-camp, especially for rookies with the pads going on and the tempo of practice picking up. Any time missed, even the run test, to me it puts a player behind. So it’s great he’s going to be in here, and it’s one less thing we have to worry about.”‘

‘He inherited a team in salary-cap hell and was forced to make some unpopular player cuts to get the franchise back on a sound financial path.’

‘”I’m very excited about this opportunity to be back in the league,” he said. “I don’t really have a title, but they list me at quarterback. I just want to make the team, no matter what position and that’s just the mindset you have to have.”‘

‘While the foundation has raised nearly $4-million since 1999, the Kelly’s have never funded any research on embryonic stem cells. “You don’t take a life to give a life. For us, it’s more so making sure you do it the right way.” Kelly said. Kelly fells the right way, is adult stem cell research, which has led scientists to transplant umbilical cord blood stem cells, now a leading treatment for Krabbe Disease.’

‘At eight years old, Jim Kelly’s son, Hunter, has literally beaten the odds. Most children with the genetic disorder, Krabbe Disease, don’t live beyond 14 months. “He’s still on oxygen 24 hours a day, he still eats through a feeding tube about 100 times a day because he doesn’t have any muscle control in his throat.”‘

‘”I expect it to be a little bit easier,” Evans said. “You kind of just know what to expect a little more. You’re not just kind of living day to day, not knowing what’s going on. I’m just excited to get going. [I’m] a lot more confident. My role is defined a little more and I kind of know what to expect. I’ll just be able to go into camp with a plan, to work on [certain] things to get better. I think that’s the difference.”‘

‘”I’m excited for JP only because of his work ethic in the off-season. It’s been impressive and now it just needs to carry over and I think it will, I really do. He’s such a competitive guy and I think it’s our job to make him comfortable and confident as soon as we can. I think our offense will gel as he does. It’s the coaches’ job to make it work.”‘

‘”I’ve been playing quarterback since high school and even then it starts a little bit. Then when you get to college, you’re going through the same thing, how the quarterback compares things and the competing thing between two quarterbacks. That prepared me a little bit for last year with Drew (Bledsoe) but this year everything has changed. It just feels good to be back as the man, as the guy going into camp as number one. All those things make everything else a lot easier as far as all the criticisms and everything everyone’s saying.”‘