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Archives for March 2018

Path to the Passer: UCLA’s Josh Rosen, a natural for the Bills?

‘UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen says his special ability to throw goes way back. “My parents always said that coming into my crib room was always dangerous because bottles would come flying out of nowhere,” Rosen said Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine.’

Combine notes: Baker Mayfield says he’d turn Browns around

‘”What makes me the best option? Accuracy, I can make any throw. Winning, that’s the most important, but the way I’ve been able to get my guys around me to play, not just the offensive players around me, the other 10 guys, but defensive guys, special teams, the energy I bring, the passion I bring, it’s infectious. So you can ask anybody on that Oklahoma staff, that’s what I bring to the table and it helps us out.”‘

Frank Reich is one of only five former Bills to become an NFL head coach

‘According to ProFootballReference.com, there have been 489 men in the history of the NFL who have been a head coach for at least one game. Reich becomes just the fifth man in that voluminous group who once played for the Bills. The others were Marty Schottenheimer (1965-68), Tom Flores (1967-69), Kay Stephenson (1968) and Jim Haslett (1979-85).’

NFL Scouting Combine: Some drills are useful, others are mainly a waste of time

‘“As far as the positional drills, not important; absolutely meaningless,” Polian said the other day during a break from his analyst work at ESPN. “What counts here are measurables; height, weight, speed, and the translatable drills, i.e. the triangle drill, short shuttle, vertical jump, broad jump. No one ever sits there on the first of April and says, ‘Let’s go back and look at his film from the combine workout’ to see if they want to pick him. No one does that.”’

What Vontae Davis said about signing with the Buffalo Bills

‘”Well I mean those guys, Mr. Beane, coach McDermott, those guys made me feel welcome,” Davis said. “They made me feel at home. As I went on my visit and kind of evaluated, it felt like I was just drawn to Buffalo because of how everybody made me feel. I feel like they run their organization with a lot of integrity. They respect their players. I just felt like it was the place to be.”‘

Why Buffalo Bills’ brass still has faith in QB Nathan Peterman

‘”Like most players and like our team really I thought Nathan had some good moments and some moments he’d like back, much like myself,” McDermott said this week at the NFL Combine. “I’m confident that he is wired the right way and he’ll learn from the moments both high and low that did or didn’t go his way. He’s an extremely confident young man and a guy that works hard. Sometimes as a rookie, in this case as a rookie quarterback, you’re thrust in a situation where everyone sees your body of work. I know his second year will be better than his first year. I thought he did some really good things his first year. When you look at the DNA, he’s a fit for us in that regard.”‘

Buffalo Bills have not been engaged in talks to move up in 2018 NFL draft, says Adam Schefter

‘”No, I’ve not heard that,” Schefter said. “Now that doesn’t mean that it couldn’t happen, but I know there are people who have said that and suggested that and the people I’ve dealt with in Buffalo have been very honest to me all along. And they have not confirmed that. So again, anything is possible. And we could get to the draft and they could move up, but that’s not my understanding as of today that they have been engaged in any talks to move up in the draft.”‘

PFF: EJ Gaines turned it around in 2017 with Buffalo Bills

‘But despite his turnaround, it came at a less-than-ideal time for the Bills. Gaines was in a contract year and Spotrac estimates his value at $9.3 million per season. The Bills only have approximately $27.7 million in cap space, per Spotrac.’