Archives for January 2013

‘The Buffalo Bills have named Kurt Anderson and Jason Vrable as offensive quality control coaches.’

‘”I don’t think it’ll be strange at all,” Weaver told Buffalobills.com. “I think our relationship having played together won’t change much at all. I think it’ll be a huge plus for us. We pushed each other as players and I think the great thing about me and him is we always an open, honest communication. I think any relationship, player-coach, coach-to-coach, it can be nothing but a positive.”‘

‘Sitter, who had worked at Fox Pools in Burlington for about four years as a service technician, was hit by a taxi cab while leaving a Buffalo Bills-Miami Dolphins game on Nov. 15. He suffered head trauma, a fractured jaw and broken ribs.’

‘”I don’t even know what the emotion is,” Reed says. “You can’t even describe it. It’s like you get up (almost) to the top of Mt. Everest at 29,000 feet… you get to 28,500, and then you turn around and go back.”‘

‘”Were they aggressive enough? Not even close,” said former Bills safety Mark Kelso, the team’s radio color commentator. “I don’t think they moved their defensive linemen enough or brought multiple rushes in a way that was effective. My philosophy has always been if you can’t get there with four, you better rush five. If you can’t get there with five, you better rush six. If you can’t get there with six, you better rush three and drop eight.”‘

‘”The options become limitless,” said Wheatley with his two versatile backs. “The more you can do the better for you. That’s my saying and these guys can do it all. They both have distinct skill sets, but they also present a different type of threat towards defenses.”‘

‘”The response was overwhelming when people found out I had an opportunity to come and work with him,” Pettine said. “It got to the point where I was literally answering the phones and saying ‘if you’re calling to tell me how good a guy Doug is, and how great he is going to be to work for, I already got that. You got anything else?’ “‘

”’There are some good football players here and we are excited to work with them,” he said. ”They are explosive athletes and playmakers and we are looking forward to building a system that is going to take advantage of that.”’

‘”We’re going to play smart, we’re going to be tough, we’re going to be relentless, we’re going to put pressure on you,” Pettine said in his first address to the Buffalo media. “We’re going to force quarterbacks, we’re going to force offenses to make very quick decisions. We’re going to take our best shot at you. We’re not going to be a read and react defense. That is not in our vocabulary. I think in this league to be successful you have to be aggressive. I don’t think you can be reckless, your aggression has to be calculated, but if you want to sum up what we’ll be, it’s going to be an attack style.”‘

‘”We’ve been told the Buffalo Bills are not as high on Ryan Nassib as most presume. In fact we’ve heard their scouts don’t even rank him as the best quarterback in Mobile.”‘

‘”I think first and foremost Stevie is a dynamic player,” Hilliard said. “We’ll have to find ways to get him the ball and other guys in our receiving corps. Stevie has a game that’s unique. He’s had a lot of success with it. We have a system in place that we’re going to implement and we’re all going to learn at the same time, and he’s going to be able to have the freedom to play his game within the system.”‘

‘”I think the big thing is, you have to always want to learn. You have to be a historian of football,” he said. “Technology these days, I can go back and look at 1984 cut-ups in black and white and try to learn how plays evolved. Watching the K-Gun with Jim Kelly from when I was here, looking at all that video. Joe Montana playing, who’s a friend of our family, I mean you look at all those different things. You just want to keep pushing yourself to learn and learn. Almost like get your Ph.D. in football. I think that’s something I’ve been very lucky to be a part of.”‘

‘”There’s different ways to present it, but they’re basically all the same,” Morris said. “Pass protection is pass protection. Run blocking is run blocking. There might be little tweaks. I may have a different personality, but football is football.”‘

‘The vote by county legislators today on a memorandum of understanding between the county, the state and the Bills is considered a significant step toward finalizing the terms of the deal into a formal 10-year lease.’

“I knew right away,” Marrone said, “that if this was the situation, Nathaniel was the one I wanted to be with.”