Archives for April 3, 2013

‘The thing that got me is they say it is a lot like Michigan. It kind of is, kind of similar to Ann Arbor, more like kind of a college town. Buffalo, they love their football here. It is going to be crazy and wild in the stands. Just the opportunity to play with this defense and the scheme that they are planning on putting in is pretty exciting as well.’

‘My first impression is expectation. I think he is definitely an advocate of changing the tempo and the whole demeanor of how things have been here the last however many years. Just trying to get us upbeat and focused on expecting to do better. More accountability.’

‘Well I think the first thing you have to do is you want to create a personalized type of effect. A lot of them can go on-line and figure out about me the same way I can go on-line and figure out about them. So I just try to tell them, ‘Hey, I was born and raised here. This is what I believe in. This is what is important. I love the game of football and respect the game more than anything else.’ And that I am looking forward to working with them. How honored I am to be up in front of them. To be coaching this football team with this organization and that I hope through our time together as we build this that they will have the same type of respect for me.’

‘”Free agency was really nerve wracking,” he said after signing his contract. “You don’t really know what your future entails. Seeing what this team brings, the defensive line, and all the new young coaches and all the energy, I feel like it’s the right place for me to be.”‘

‘E.J. Manuel is the Florida State quarterback who was the Most Outstanding Player at the Senior Bowl in late January. He ran for one touchdown and threw for another in his team’s victory in Mobile, Alabama.’

‘An anchor on the interior of the defensive line, Branch (6-6, 325) played each of the last two seasons in Seattle, starting all 31 games he played in while racking up 37 tackles and four sacks. Branch was originally drafted by Arizona in the second round (33rd overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played his first four NFL seasons with the Cardinals, seeing action in 47 career games with three starts.’

‘Gilkey is a 6-6, 318 pound lineman who played tackle at Division II Chadron State in Nebraska. That’s the same school that produced Bills WR Don Beebe, who was Buffalo’s first draft pick in 1989. Beebe played the first six years of his nine year NFL career with the Bills and he wound up playing in six Super Bowls overall.’