Archives for August 3, 2009

‘Lynch’s suspension begins on Sept. 5 and ends on Sept. 28, a day after the Bills play the New Orleans Saints in their third regular-season game.’

‘”It’s the league’s policy and we’re disappointed obviously,” said head coach Dick Jauron. “We’ll lose a real good football player for three games. Hopefully Marshawn will learn a great deal from it. He’s a guy that we have a lot of belief in and we really like this man on our team, but he’s paying a price.”‘

‘Asked why Buffalo was a better situation for him than Dallas, Owens fired back quickly. “This city has embraced me,” Owens said. “I’ve always said I never want to be somewhere I’m not wanted. Obviously that was the case in Dallas. To a lot of people this is not an ideal situation for me. But I’m here, and I’m making the most of it. I’m going to make the most of the situation.”‘

‘”It’s not the K-Gun,” said quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt, who worked in the K-Gun offense as a reserve signal caller behind Kelly in the mid-90’s. “It’s just something we decided to make a point of emphasis in our offense. It’s real easy to communicate in a huddle. It puts stress on an offense to communicate at the line of scrimmage, but it also stresses the defense to get a call in. So it’s something we’ve played around with in the offseason and carried over into camp.”‘

‘”Oh yeah, it’s a competition,” Florence said after a recent practice at St. John Fisher College. “Everybody’s out here trying to get a roster spot. It’s going to get a little aggressive out there and the two-minute drill’s a drill we’ve got to win to be able to finish ball games. We did pretty good finishing the drill today.”‘

‘"It’s amazing," he said. "Just watching from Fred to Lee [Evans] to Roscoe [Parrish] to T.O. [Terrell Owens] to Dominic. Even on the defense, with the linebackers Kawika [Mitchell], Poz [Paul Posluszny], and our D-line has been having an outstanding camp. So just looking all through the field, you get to see something special from every position on every play."’

‘But based on the series debut last night on Citytv, Owens had better stick to his day job. This was basically two minutes of entertainment packed into a full hour, though if pressed to recount which two minutes, I’d have to pass.’

‘”I’m going to settle in there for now, and as he comes in, gets familiar, we’ll see what happens,” Whitner said. “The coaching staff will make an assessment, and we’ll go from there. As it is, me and Bryan are the starting safeties and we’re going to continue to prepare and get ready for the preseason games and the regular season games.”‘

‘In Edwards’ case, the Bills coaching staff is closely monitoring his throws after he complained of a dead arm late last season. The coaches want his “pitch count” for training camp to be around 600 passes and Edwards had already hit the 200 mark. He hasn’t complained of soreness so far, but the coaches are mindful of overworking their No. 1 quarterback and rest not only benefits him, it gives backups Ryan Fitzpatrick and Gibran Hamdan the extra work they need, Jauron said.’

‘”I feel more pressure selling these boxes of T.O.’s than going out and scoring touchdowns. It’s a breakfast thing of choice. This is the equivalent to (being on a box) of Wheaties. It’s better than Wheaties.” — WR Terrell Owens, at his news conference hawking his new cereal.’