Archives for March 2, 2018

‘Will the Bills want to sell the farm for a top-five pick? If Southern Cal’s Sam Darnold and Wyoming’s Josh Allen go 1-2, as some predict, would the Bills salivate for UCLA’s Josh Rosen? If they do, they won’t have trouble getting potential traders to answer the phone.’

‘”You’re trying to assess accountability to not only players, but coaches as well,” Alexander said. “Because coaches oftentimes, even our guys are good about saying, ‘I want a clean, legal hit.’ But are they minus-ing you if you decide to pull off a guy because you don’t want to hit him helmet-to-helmet? If you’re going to grade me negatively because I slowed up — ‘You’re not finishing the play, Lorenzo, minus’ — but I’m pulling off a guy because I think I don’t have a clean shot to get, without hitting helmet to helmet, the next time I’m going to go clean him because I don’t want to lose my job.”‘

‘”From the day Patrick stepped on the field, in the rookie minicamp, the OTAs, the training camps, he has always ‘wowed’ us,” Veach said. “He has a lot to learn yet. I think he grew tremendously. But having watched him day in and day out, take to the studying, take to working on his craft, he did a good job.”‘

‘”Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit … towards the area where there’s no return, it stays then there’s no turning back,” Kelly said then, explaining why doctors had ordered a biopsy. “Going to the dentist and ripping your gums apart – that’s pretty much what they do. They take chunks of your inner skin, in your mouth way in the back where my cancer was, they just chop away and send them off to a lab and hopefully the tests come back negative.”‘

‘Cancer has returned because that’s what it does. Just know that Kelly will be back for another challenge because that’s what he does. That much hasn’t changed for as long as anyone has known him. He’s Exhibit A when talking about strength of the human spirit. His stubbornness will serve him well again.’

‘In recurrent oral cancer, doctors generally will put all the treatment options on the table, although radiation might be excluded if it was used in the past, depending on the circumstances, Hicks said.’

‘At least 15 organizations tweeted #KellyTough, including the Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Houston Texans, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots.’