Archives for August 2015

'“Over the past several weeks the Bills organization has gathered information regarding the incident involving Offensive Line Coach Aaron Kromer. Today we have concluded our investigation and the Buffalo Bills will suspend Coach Kromer without pay for the first six games of the 2015 NFL regular season. The suspension will begin on Monday, September 7, 2015 and end with the conclusion of the Buffalo Bills vs. Cincinnati Bengals game on October 18, 2015.'

'But Dareus, who is due to receive a guaranteed salary of $8.06 million in the final year of the rookie contract he signed after joining the Bills as a first-round draft pick from Alabama in 2011, seemed encouraged by the progress that has been made, and is expecting to eventually be in Suh’s financial neighborhood.'

'“Oh, yeah. I’m aware of it,” Harvin said Saturday after practice at St. John Fisher. “It doesn’t rub me the wrong way at all. I know the person I am and the person I’m going to become. I enjoy being out here. I’ll keep growing as a player and I’m looking forward to the season.”'

'McKelvin, who turns 30 years old in September, has played a full 16 games in three of his seven pro seasons. He had 48 tackles and four interceptions last season before fracturing his ankle in a Nov. 13 loss at Miami. He practiced on a limited basis through organized team activities and minicamp in the spring before suffering this setback.'

'Marginal improvement over Day One. The majority of completions came on short and intermediate routes. Longer throws were generally problematic.'

'Now, legally, both are in the clear. The Bills are expected to suspend Kromer for a certain number of games to start the regular season, per a source, though he would be able to work at training camp.'

'The day our husbands pack their vehicles and set off for training camp is the day we become single – single women, single parents. The rigors of professional football cause our husbands to mostly withdraw from family life for six months. They’re tailoring themselves for a long, grueling season and we’re low on the totem pole of priorities.'

'“I definitely don’t feel like physically it’s my last year, but I have to come out here and continue to compete and show everybody that I can still contribute, and the rest will take care of itself,” Jackson said at the conclusion of Buffalo’s first training camp practice at St. John Fisher College on Friday.'

'"I've never been here before at all,'' Terry Pegula said. "They told me this was a good day to see things that we are working on. It's fun to see the fans get such a big kick out of practice.'''

'Stokoe Farms on South Road tweeted a photo of the maze, complete with a profile of Bills head coach Rex Ryan, his name, a football and "Go Bills."'

'"You know this thing is ever changing, ever developing, so things that we might of done three or four years ago we might be doing a different way now," Ryan said. "So it's always, you know we always tweak things, we don't coach out of the book. We invented the book, so I think that it is new."'

'Whatever the Bills did or said, it worked. Henderson reported to camp in shape, which is noteworthy given his past conditioning issues. More importantly, Henderson came into training camp ready to compete with Cyrus Kouandjio, who took most of the first-team reps during the spring. At practice Saturday, Henderson started to rotate in with the ones again.'

'The Bills have until the final roster cutdown to remove McKelvin from the reserve/non-football injury list. If they keep him on after that point, McKelvin will miss the first six games of the regular season.'

'"No, nothing serious at all," Ryan said. "He'll probably be a day, maybe two days max."'

'Unless the Bills have quietly expressed to the Vick camp they won’t ever sign him, the 13-year veteran ought to hold off on becoming any team’s backup. Not as long as there’s a talent-drenched team out there on which he’d have a decent chance to win the starting job. Hello, Buffalo.'