Archives for August 22, 2012

‘”I’m feeling a little bit better,” McGee told Buffalobills.com. “It’s one of those things where you feel better once every two weeks. You make progress like that. Now I’m feeling a little bit of progress out here. It’s not where I want it to be, but it’s way better than when I first got to camp so I’m happy about that.”‘

‘That’s because the Bills could use a franchise tag to lock up one player entering free agency next March. The franchise tag for offensive linemen is $9.8 million this year, while the tag for safeties is $6.2 million. It would be much more attractive for the Bills to put the tag on Byrd than on Levitre.’

‘The total is up 5,912 over last season, when the team’s season sales dropped to a 10-year low of 37,355.’

‘Buffalo Bills players Eric Wood and Andy Levitre will participate in the Pro-Football Eating Challenge on the first day of the festival. The seven-minute wing eating contest will be held on the main stage to raise money for charities. Levitre will be playing for the Food Bank of Western New York. Wood is in the process of selecting a charity, Cerza said.’

‘As practice went along, the Bills’ first and second units on both sides of the ball went up against the scout team at One Bills Drive. The scout team offense and defense were there to provide those players with some looks they might see against Pittsburgh on Saturday night.’

‘”I was looking for it last week and the week before, too. You would like to have it happen this week and if it does not happen this week, you would like it to happen next week. If it does not, you hope it happens the opening game. Sometimes it does not happen exactly like you plan it. Hopefully we will improve this week. That is what I want to see is improvement.”‘

‘”We told them we were going to practice just like a game week this week,” said head coach Chan Gailey. “We go (shells) on Wednesday, pads on Thursday and then (shells) back again on Friday, so we’re doing it the same way this week. We’re trying to learn our tempo in (shells). Without pads on you’ve got to have great tempo and we’ve got to learn that.”‘

‘There were some glitches, to be honest with you. And we told (the team) we were going to practice just like a game week this week. Spiders on Wednesday, pads on Thursday and spiders back again on Friday. We are doing it the same way this week and we are trying to learn our tempo. Without pads on you have to have great tempo. We have to learn that.’

‘The Buffalo Bills announced that tickets for the Sunday, October 21 home game vs. the Tennessee Titans are sold out. With this announcement the first three regular season home games are now sold out. Tickets still remain for the prime time Thursday night game vs. Miami, as well as Jacksonville, St. Louis, and the New York Jets. Club seats are available for all remaining home games.’