Archives for May 24, 2014

‘”I think you can see it throughout the AFC East,” he said. “You look at the defensive linemen that are in this division, and you’re going against everyone in New York, to the guys in Miami and obviously the players in New England. … The players inside, everyone is getting bigger.”‘

‘”We’re pursuing the idea of a new stadium,” Cuomo told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session that followed a campaign rally in Amherst. “We’re going to be working very hard to do everything we can to keep the Bills here.”‘

‘”If you’re not having fun where are you going in life?” said Meredith, who caught Bills fever at a young age from his dad. “People go, ‘Why did you do this?’ Honestly, after Ralph Wilson died, I felt I needed to do something to pay tribute to him. Ralph Wilson brought me the Buffalo Bills and the Bills are a huge part of my life.”’

‘While some step-by-step procedures are spelled out in the NFL’s constitution and by-laws, in the real world events often unfold considerably less formally.’

‘”It’s been going pretty good. I can’t complain about it,” Jacobs said. “It’s been a pretty smooth transition. It hasn’t been completely smooth, but it’s not as hard as I thought it would because a lot of the schemes and terminology are some of the things I learned at Florida, so everything has been going pretty good.”‘

‘The Bills have signed all but their two top draft picks: wide receiver Sammy Watkins and offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio.’

‘”I’m used to knowing everything about the line, everything about my opponent and that level of competition that I faced is just going to help me here,” he said. “The plan is to try to get them to trust me, and hopefully love me so I can compete for these guys.”‘