Archives for July 2017

'"It's only going to get more and more intense as the season draws closer," McDermott said with the Bulldog and Sal Capaccio on WGR on Thursday. "Again, this isn't my first year in the NFL… I've got a great staff around me, and we're going to work well together and I'm going to be banking on them for things, they're counting on me and I've got a great group of players to work with, so they make my job a lot easier."'

'While Beane is excited, he does realize that improving this team will not happen overnight, "I'm fired up to be in this position, I'm fired up about what we've done. Sean (McDermott) has done a great job even before I got here getting the culture going. It's not an overnight thing, we're not there, we're doing it day by day, practice by practice. But I'm excited to watch us grow. Really, the journey it has started, but the real football starts now… hopefully we see, day by day, incremental growth as an offense, as a defense, as special teams and as a collaborative team."'

'“I’ve learned from my mistakes and I’m going to keep trying my best to keep doing the right thing,” he said. “Probably just the environment I go in and whatever. I’m young, I’ll make mistakes, I’ve just got to learn from them.”'

'Watkins believes his foot injury is a thing of the past and exclaimed after practice that he doesn’t want to hear about it any longer. Along with him, both Andre Holmes and Zay Jones also took reps with the first-team, which sets up for a competition between the veteran and rookie as we go forward into training camp.'

'"We want to get it right," Pegula said.'

'“I think it’s all been good,” said Peterman following his first training camp practice. “I have great teammates here – TJ (Yates) and Tyrod (Taylor) have all been so helpful to me. The speed of the game is definitely faster, but I think with all the work I did in OTA’s and coming out here (Thursday), I’m getting used to it and just got to keep working.”'

'“We’ve put together a rep count that will build up and at times come down a little bit just based off of the plan from the outset,” said McDermott. “But we’ve got to be flexible with that and see how he feels and that starts tonight.”'

'“I think if you look at the type of person that Sean is, the thing that stands out in my head the most is his determination,” Tim said. “He’s got a way of pushing beyond what most people can mentally or physically handle. Whether I saw that in football, in wrestling, in working out. At the point where most people would say I can’t, he had this amazing ability to push through a pain threshold that is incredibly high.”'

'“When you look at it there are a lot of teams that have been through that,” said McDermott of playoff droughts. “The number of turnarounds that are out there. The Chicago Cubs, for example. There’s history and then there’s how do we handle it going forward?”'

'“It’s really where I felt most comfortable,” said Rambo of Buffalo in an appearance on the John Murphy Show. “It was a great group of guys, great fan base, great organization. That’s where I felt the most at home. So I’m glad to be back and I’m ready to get to work.”'

'Brown, in his three seasons, has been decent but not shown the leadership expected from his position. Ragland, though highly coveted, hasn’t played an NFL down and is an uncertainty coming off a major injury.'

'On Twitter, Jones thanked the Bills and their fans "for showing me nothing but love and support" during his brief time with the team.'

'In 2016, Anderson signed a one-year contract with the Bills as a reserve safety and special-teams contributor. His season ended on Oct. 10, when he was placed on the injured-reserve list with a hand injury.'

'“Right fit or not fit, he’s a good player,” Dennison said. “He throws the ball well and he’s athletic so he can do some of the stuff that we want to do when we move him out of the pocket. But I’ve had quarterbacks that aren’t as gifted that can still get that done because they have to defend the run, and obviously with the guys we have up front and LeSean McCoy, I think we can run the ball pretty dog-gone good. They will have to defend a lot of the field.”'

'In 1992, Castillo was a 32-year-old minority intern coach for the Bills when Bresnahan was their offensive coordinator/offensive line coach. Castillo spent about six weeks, the duration of training camp and the preseason, as part of the staff of Hall-of-Fame head coach Marv Levy.'