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‘”Josh has made progress since he’s been here. He’s made progress throughout the OTAs and he’s made progress just in these four days. I have confidence in Josh. He’s a second-year player that has a good grasp of what we want to do, and this is the time to do it. There’s going to be times where you’re going to be out there practicing against our defense, who’s a good defense, and he’s going to learn as camp goes what throws to make and what throws he should maybe hang from. I want him to make those throws, and I want to try and make him throw in tight windows, on time and make the tough ones. That’s only going to make us better as we sit back and look at the tape to try and improve that.”‘

‘“Up to this point, you really see him begin to come alive with the pads on,” Frazier said. “It’s hard for the defensive lineman to practice without pads. It really limits them from what they can do. Ed’s game is about his explosion, his power and his quickness and we saw some of that the first day we put pads on. It’s a little bit of an adjustment for him coming from a scheme where he was pretty much lined up directly over the center. Now we have more to guard so there are some intricacies and some thing’s he’ll have to learn but it was good to see him be able to do what he’s capable of doing and that’s being able to explode off the football and use his quickness and his power which he hadn’t been able to do prior in the past.”’

‘Did you know that only one player has been selected for the Wall of Fame since Phil Hansen in 2011? It was Cookie Gilchrist in 2017 and that honor came way too late but that’s a whole different story. The Bills need to honor a deserving player in 2020 and that next player should be Eric Moulds.’

‘To make room for Carter on the active roster, the Bills released linebacker Juwan Foggie.’

‘McDermott also confirmed a hamstring injury to TE Dawson Knox. The team is already without TE Jason Croom, who is also on the shelf due to a hamstring injury. Lee Smith is the next man up on the Depth Chart.’

‘The chemistry between QB Josh Allen and WR Cole Beasley started to show up much more than it had the previous three practices. Both were on the same page on several plays that resulted in completions for good gains.’

‘“John’s a great pro,” offensive coordinator Brian Daboll said before Saturday’s practice. “You know, there’s different forms of receivers. Some guys are just exclusively shifty guys that you can use and manipulate in the slot, and move around, and other guys have shiftiness but they also have speed. And even though John’s a little shorter, he has very good vertical speed, but he also has great balance and body control. The ability to break down and cut, as compared to (Cole Beasley) who’s got good speed, but not I would say John Brown speed, who’s a speeder, who’s shifty, and you can use him in different roles. John has flexibility to play inside and outside.”’

‘”When you’ve got two good guys in front of you in Jordan Phillips and Star (Lotulelei) just taking me in and coaching me up on everything possible, just giving me one little thing to work on today. That’s mostly Jordan just giving me one thing every day, he asks me every day ‘what’s one thing you can get better at today?’ and I’ll tell him and go out here and most times I’ll get better.”‘

‘”She’s doing good now. As good as anybody could be taking it I guess. She’s strong, she’s a fighter, she knows that right now it’s temporary. She keeps fighting.”‘

‘That meant the starting five looked like this: LT Dion Dawkins, LG Quinton Spain, C Mitch Morse, RG Spencer Long, RT Cody Ford.’

‘“We need to respect what they’ve [the Patriots] been able to do over the number of years they’ve been able to do it for,” McDermott said. “That being said, we need to focus on ourselves. If we want to have a chance to challenge them, it really starts with focusing on ourselves and what we’re trying to get done each and every day at training camp, and how we’re building this team.”’

‘”Our main focus is the fan experience,” said Kearns. “Each year we’re kind of tweaking little things here and there to give our fans the most access and the best fan experience that we can. Whether it’s adding some new elements, some new photo opportunities and things like that, or opening up new areas along the field so that they have better views of practice.”‘

‘Ideally, they’d love to have the unit set and know what they’re looking at by the time the third preseason game rolls around, but they also don’t want to jump the gun and make the wrong decision somewhere. There’s likely to be a heavy rotation throughout camp, especially the first two weeks before they play their first preseason game August 8 against the Indianapolis Colts. We may even see some players rotating every single day between the first and second team, much like last year they did at center with Russell Bodine and Ryan Groy.’

‘“This comes with a territory, I understand that,” Allen said following the first practice at St. John Fisher College. “Listen, I love football, I love what this game entails, I love everything about it. I love being a Buffalo Bill, I love being here in Buffalo. I love this team and I love being a part of this team so that pressure doesn’t really seem so heavy when you think about it that way. When you have guys around you that are going to do their job and that’s where the communication and the comradery and everything that we worked on in OTA kind of applies to camp and we continue to build on that and get into season, it’s very fluid and we got a good thing going here.”’

‘”Brandon [Beane] and I have said it over and over again, we believe in going away to camp,” McDermott said in a press conference with the Bills general manager before Thursday’s practice. “We really appreciate what St. John Fisher means and the campus, the people and the hospitality they extend here to us. As it relates to building our team, it’s important that we can go away and build some fellowship time off the practice field as much as on the practice field and come together as a football team. The gaps in the schedule offer us an opportunity to do that.’