Archives for February 2015

We loved him, Tasker said. Whatever people might say about it, we loved the guy. We knew that as hard as we fought for him, he was in our corner. He stuck up for us. He was very loyal. It made for a great chemistry, top to bottom in the organization.

Money will likely play a big role. The Bills cap situation will be dependent on whether they bring back free agent defensive end Jerry Hughes. Theres still more than a month before free agency starts, but the fact that there is already interest in Revis shows that Buffalos new regime is preparing to get this team over the hump by any means necessary.

The Patriots do have a team option on Revis that they must exercise by the end of the league year in March. If they choose to do so, Revis would be owed a $12.5 million roster bonus and carry a base salary of $7.5 million. Those two, combined with the $5 million prorated signing bonus from the previous year would push Revis cap number up to $25 million for 2015.

Nowadays every team in the league has a prime time game with the advent of the Thursday night schedule a few years ago. But after a 9-7 season and the addition of bigger than life head coach Rex Ryan, the Bills are very likely to be awarded a Sunday night or Monday night game this coming season when the 2015 schedule is released in mid-April.

'Polian, 72, becomes the 11th former member of the Bills organization to join the Hall and second in as many years. Andre Reed was selected in 2014.'

'ÔøΩClearly there is a reluctance among many voters to even paying some of the costs, much less paying most or all,ÔøΩ said Donald P. Levy, director of the Siena Research Institute, which conducted the poll for The Buffalo News and WGRZ-TV.'

'ÔøΩYou have 65,000 people show up on occasion,ÔøΩ SUNY CortlandÔøΩs Fay told me by phone. ÔøΩBut the other 350 days a year, itÔøΩs the equivalent of a huge vacant lot … Be careful what you wish for, and where you put it. You can lose a lot by mislocating it.ÔøΩ As new members of the elite club of NFL owners, the Pegulas are being initiated into the culture ÔøΩ and encouraged to build a new stadium.'

'"When you grow up in a family of six boys, you're going to be tough," he said. "I had three older brothers. They always said you're not allowed to cry. They said, 'If you want to cry, I'll give you something to cry about.'?"'

‘”You know what? I think it’ll be fun,” Smith said. “I think it’ll make our division a lot more fun. I think with having New England, with having the Dolphins, and having Rex in Buffalo will make for a very fun AFC East.”‘

‘Polian is credited for a number of key moves that helped put the Bills into the Super Bowl four straight times, the last appearance coming the season after Polian’s departure. Those moves included the hiring of Marv Levy as Bills Head Coach in 1986. That year, Polian also signed Jim Kelly who had been playing in the USFL. The 1987 trade for Cornelius Bennett and the drafting of Thurman Thomas in 1988 brought in other major pieces to the puzzle.’

The biggest thrill tonight, he added via the Indy Star, is to be able to share it with my family and to have Jim Kelly and Peyton Manning (in attendance) here too because theyre the reason Im here.