Archives for June 8, 2014

‘”We talked about this, Doug (Whaley) and I, and we talked about it with the scouts,” said Marrone. “I think you can see it throughout the AFC East. I can’t speak for the other teams, but you look at the defensive lineman 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 and then you look at the players we’re getting. The people inside, everyone is getting bigger players at least in our division if you look at it. We’re doing it for the matchups.”‘

‘”What he was doing, I just followed along,” said second-year veteran Duke Williams, who will compete with Da’Norris Searcy for the second safety job opposite Aaron Williams. “Playing with a guy like Byrd, you see the regimen they go by, you try to emulate the same thing. You might get the same results.”‘

‘”The family atmosphere has always been evident here,” said Andre Reed, the Bills’ go-to receiver who played 15 seasons in Buffalo. “We’ll be the first ones to tell you that. We weren’t as good as we were without each other. We loved each other off the field and really cared about each other, and it’s more evident now than ever.”‘

‘Dareus declined to talk about his recent run-ins with the law. He was arrested in May for possession of “spice” or synthetic cannabis.’

‘”It’s nothing personal,” said Charles Pellien, one of four fans who came up with the Bon Jovi boycott last month. “If Santa Claus was coming to Buffalo and telling us he was going to take our team to the North Pole, we would be boycotting Santa Claus.”‘