Archives for July 28, 2006

‘Merz, who has been issued No. 62, is listed third on the team’s depth chart at right guard.’

‘"I didn’t come here to rebuild, I even hate thinking about it. It’s sour to my stomach, I hate thinking about rebuilding. I came here to win, and that is the only thing. Then at the end of the season you will really know whether or not if its going to go one way or the other. But as far as my mindset, I don’t believe in rebuilding. I look at it as reloading".’

‘"This is a small town and you kind of work together. This was not a major difficulty, but Josh had a concern."’

‘We’re going to be smart, I’m going to participate in everything…not now, but one step at a time and remember that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Just take it one day at a time and one of the biggest things is live by not getting too high and not getting too low. Just putting the blinders on and stay focused.’

‘We have to get up at like six or seven and you don’t make it back to your bed until like ten or eleven o’clock at night and then you have to study your playbook until about one. Then you have to wake up and do the routine all over again, so I mean each day you have off feels just like Christmas vacation.’

‘"There’s progress, but what does that mean?" Levy said. "We hope to get it done. Not just our people, but it perplexes me why all the early rounders wait so long to do it. If I was a player, I’d want to get it done."’