Archives for April 2018

‘At one point, Phillips was thought of as a potential first or second round pick. He doesn’t have the same measureable as other defensive tackles in this draft, but if there’s one thing about this kid, he’ll embrace the grunt work.’

‘”Wrestling gave me a tremendous platform and kind of foundation to succeed at football,” Phillips said. “The hips, the hands, the flexibility. Also the mental side of it. We talk about winning one-on-one blocks. That’s all a wrestling match is. At the end of a wrestling match, you can’t blame your coach or the weather. It’s you and another person. That’s the type of mindset you want to have going into football and training and the whole works.”‘

‘This is a steal. This kid has first-round talent. Bills killing it.’

‘”I’m not going to compare,” McDermott said. “I don’t do that. I try and stay away from that as much as possible. It’s not fair to Kyle or Harrison in this case. He’s a good player and deserves all the recognition that he’s gotten and as has Kyle. You’re talking about two guys at two different stages of their careers as well.”‘

‘Billa, currently battling cancer, made the trip to Dallas from North Texas after the team gave him tickets. The superfan had three chemo treatments at the beginning of the week according to his Twitter.’

‘”If it was me in that situation, I think I would,” Alexander said. “Because you don’t want to have that lingering. You’re always going to have guys like, ‘Eh,’ trying to watch it extra close, tying to confirm it versus you addressing it. Then it’s kind of over. Then open it up. ‘Anybody got any questions for me? If you want me to answer them, I can do it now.’ Or, ‘I can take you to lunch.’ Whatever it may be so that you can really get to know the person I am.”‘

‘”Why wouldn’t you want your kid to be challenged?” Tremaine’s father and former Dolphins linebacker Ferrell Edmunds said Friday at New Era Field. “If he’s not challenged he could get bored and start getting into stuff. Education is very important for us. You want to challenge your kid to be the best he can be. By making him be the youngest in class, competing with people that have the same drives and goals that you have, I think that’s the best way to go about it.”‘

‘”He is a versatile athlete,” McDermott said. “He’s got size, length as you mentioned, he has played inside, he has played outside as well, he has played on the line of scrimmage as well as off the line of scrimmage. Some of that flexibility is what attracted us to him as well. We are real happy with what we did and credit goes to Brandon (Beane) and his staff.”‘

‘Uchenna Nwosu profiles as a strong-side linebacker in the Bills’ defense. He would be a logical pick for the Bills, who had him in for a pre-draft visit and expressed a lot of interest in him. He could develop behind Lorenzo Alexander in year one.’

‘Just wanted to introduce myself so you wouldn’t think I was a coach tomorrow!

‘Give Beane some credit for his conviction in Allen and talented all-around linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (taken by the Bills at No. 16 overall), who should be a tackle machine in coach Sean McDermott’s system. I hope I’m wrong about Allen, because a happy Bills fanbase makes for a better NFL.’

‘Just to reiterate how much he disliked the Allen selection, Sherman’s winner after bashing the Bills was “All the Teams That Didn’t Draft Josh Allen.”‘