Archives for April 26, 2018

‘For that to truly be the case, a plan that has been a year in the making needs its centerpiece. Thus, the challenge is twofold for General Manager Brandon Beane. First, he has to get into a position to draft a quarterback, which could mean trading the team’s two first-round picks, scheduled at No. 12 and No. 22 overall. Second, he has to be right on the prospect.’

‘The U.S. Bureau of Mines didn’t certify the 2018 quarterback class, but NFL scouts and draft speculators believe at least four and as many as seven passers could be selected in the first round.’

‘Beane will need to resist the temptation to make a splash and pay the steep price associated with quarterbacks Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, Josh Allen or Baker Mayfield. Moving up for any of them might cost the Bills two first-round picks this year, another first-rounder next year and more. It’s too risky for my taste.’

‘”I wish I could have thrown better at that workout,” Darnold said Wednesday of the session he had in front of coach Sean McDermott, General Manager Brandon Beane and other club officials in Los Angeles. “Not my best day throwing, but I completed most of my footballs. It wasn’t a huge deal, but could have thrown better. But I threw it really well. I was consistent, accurate. The ball just wasn’t spinning the way it usually does, which was a bummer, but it’s nothing crazy.”‘

‘”I thought the coaching staff he a really like a unique sense of drive and fire and kind of passion,” Rosen said. “Coach McDermott’s a really intense guy and I thought … you could see that he had a vision for where the team wanted to go. I thought that was really cool to see. They seem really excited around the building.”‘

‘”It was nice,” he said Wednesday after a youth event outside of AT&T Stadium, where the draft is being held. “Talking with their coaching staff, I really like what they’ve got going on over there. The owners are super committed into their team and I think that’s how it should be.”‘

‘”It seems really lazy just to say we need a guy with a particular arm strength or a guy with a particular hand size just because the weather’s so terrible around here,” O’Neill said in a recent interview. “I think that people just don’t know where Buffalo is. Outside of a couple lake-effect storms a year, our weather is very comparable to Cleveland, Pittsburgh or Chicago.”‘

‘After remarking that the league was “under assault,” Pegula unloaded a series of nautical references, according to the Times: “To me, this is like a glacier moving into the ocean. We’re getting hit with a tsunami.” He said the league should never again be “a glacier crawling into the ocean.”’