Archives for September 2010

‘My translation: Brohm is barely hanging on by his fingernails as an NFL-caliber quarterback, but Gailey found something nice to say about him anyway.’

‘”I’ve just got to slow down and be more patient,” he said. “That’s the main thing. I let a couple runs get away from me. I was trying to play too fast. I’ve got to be able to slow stuff down and not miss those lanes that I kind of missed out there. But that’s just getting adjusted and I’ve got a good understanding of what it will be like on Sundays.”‘

‘"When we start making plays, everybody else just follows," he said. "We just try to feed off each other."’

‘It’s with that in mind that you wonder how such astute football minds have failed to comprehend what’s painfully obvious to us armchair quarterbacks, that Trent Edwards remains overwhelmed and unsuited to run an NFL offense. He’s in his fourth NFL season and looks just as frightened and bewildered in the pocket as he did in his first.’

‘”Their best personnel on offense is their running backs, so in terms of taking away what a team does best, that’s where you put a lot of the focus,” one scout said. “At the end of the day, there’s only one perimeter threat in (receiver) Lee Evans. It doesn’t matter who you have in the backfield if you don’t have the horses up front to block for them.”‘

‘Gailey deserves a pass – for now – because that was his first game as Buffalo’s head coach. This is Edwards’ fourth season as the Bills’ quarterback and he has regressed instead of showing improvement.’

‘”I really started looking at myself and the things that I had been doing,” said Kelly, who was by this time also the father of his and Jill’s second daughter, Camryn. “I was just living the life that I wanted and not really what God intended for me. When my wife had nowhere to turn, God was right there every step of the way. It took me a little longer than it took her to understand this, but in April 2007, I became a Christian, too.”‘

‘”As good as it might feel, it’s never as good as it seems and it’s never as bad as it seems,” said Ellis. “Once you break down the film and correct little things like giving away your alignments and stuff like that… there’s still plenty of stuff to correct but as far as execution I think everything kind of matched up with what we needed to do.”‘

‘"We know that we’re a much better football team than how we played yesterday," wide receiver Lee Evans said on Monday. "There were a lot of plays to be made, we just have to make our share. We have high expectations for ourselves. We expected to play well and we didn’t, but we’ll be better in the future."’

‘It’s hard to accept Buffalo’s unwillingness or inability to trade Lynch last offseason. It was a chance to parlay a two-time 1,000-yard rusher into a tight end, tackle or wide receiver. But then, this new regime thinks quarterback Trent Edwards can be salvaged, too.’

‘Both are expected to be top-five picks in the 2011 NFL draft, assuming red-shirt sophomore Luck decides to turn pro. I watched them both play Saturday and was more impressed by Luck and believe he could start sooner than Locker for the Buffalo Bills.’

‘”Give us a couple of days to work on the game plan and see how that all pans out,” Gailey said. “It depends on the packages Green Bay wants to throw at us. That will have a lot to do with it. The personnel groupings that they bring might depend on who we play.”‘

‘The breakdown for the Bills occurred on the left side. Outside linebacker Cameron Wake started rushing toward left tackle Demetrius Bell and then stunted to the inside. Bell still tried to engage Wake, but that left Dansby unblocked on the outside.’

‘It’s understandable that Evans isn’t a big Edwards advocate. His production has suffered since Edwards arrived in Buffalo.’

‘So many questions, so little time. Bills fans have seen this movie before.’