Archives for June 2012

‘I talked about several things. If they want to talk about them they can, but I just talked about the state of the team. Where I feel like we are right now. I said ‘this is where we are, this is where we want to be and how do we get there? These are the things we need to do to get there.’ That is what I basically talked about with them in the team meeting today.’

‘”He does a great job for us because he can do so many different things, whether it be in the blocking game, whether it be on special teams. … He’s just a football player,” said fellow receiver David Nelson. “He’s one of those guys you’ve got to have because he brings so much to the table."

‘The sale of the mansion in Aurora will yield about $500,000 in restitution for the victims of the convicted swindler who previously owned it, court officials said Wednesday.’

‘”Yeah, absolutely,” he said, “but it’s going to require a lot of work … a lot of consistency … and being able to go out and get better every day. I’m not just settling for, ‘OK, I can go out and be productive again.’ It’s about being back to that dominant stage, and it’s going to be a lot of work.”‘

‘”There is a big buzz around town. The town deserves it,” RB C.J. Spiller told reporters earlier this month. “We haven’t been good lately, but at the end of the day we look good on paper. We’ve still got to go out on Sundays and get the job done.”‘

‘”It definitely worked from last year,” said Williams. “As long as he focuses on the little things that he needs to do as far as cleaning up stuff that he knows that he needs to work on, it’s fine with me. He can do whatever he wants. He can do back flips if he wants.”‘

‘”I know it’s an uphill battle for me going into my third year, especially with everything I had to deal with the past two years,” Easley told Buffalobills.com. “It’s a confidence booster day in and day out, I come in and make plays. I try to learn from my mistakes and just take it one day at a time.”‘

‘I am attacking this year like every year before it. I have standards, expectations and goals I want to accomplish and I know what those are. The team and players know. All I have to do is do my job and everything will come together.’

‘”I’m not going to say one guy has stood out the most because it is so early in the process,” said Metzelaars. “We have a long way to go and time will tell.”‘

‘”It’s a very humbling experience,” Kelly said. “But you don’t do this sort of thing to win awards. You do it to make a difference.”‘

‘”It’s a new little wrinkle,” said Bills offensive coordinator Curtis Modkins. “Hopefully he continues to get better and improve. We’ll see when the preseason starts, it’ll be a good indicator of what he can do, but I’m excited about him. He’s a fast-twitch guy. That’s where he’s different. He’s one of those fast-twitch, speed, quickness guys that’s hard to match up with.”‘

‘Mario J. Williams, the $100 million defensive end signed by the Buffalo Bills in March, paid $2 million to buy the lavish Aurora home of a disgraced and jailed attorney, who was convicted last year of swindling clients out of millions of dollars.’

‘Buffalo Bills safety Jairus Byrd told the team website “it’s hard not to get giddy.” That perfectly sums up the attitude of Bills fans as the season approaches. Buffalo’s offseason acquisition of defensive end Mario Williams has completely raised the stakes. Pundits are buying into the Bills.’

”’I’ve got a great saying above the door, and I’ve had it since I started coaching,” the veteran coach and Buffalo’s first-year defensive coordinator said. ”And it says that on defense, we shouldn’t be affected by any outside elements.”’

‘”They took care of me. I had 10-11 plays, but as a competitor I wanted to go out there and do more,” Johnson said after practice Tuesday. “I believe in what they’re doing. They gave me the right steps since the surgery, so, I’m going to go with what they’re doing now. I believe in it.”‘