Archives for July 2006

‘He did not take another snap the rest of the practice session and left the field under his own power to the locker room before the team workout was over.’

‘Head coach Dick Jauron said that Nall tweaked his hamstring and his status will be updated either Sunday or Monday.’

‘Dick Jauron is allowing our photographers to shoot the practices, and I mean ALL of the practices with no restrictions. Last year, our shooting was very limited, which is a shame for the fans, who would often miss a nice play on our local sportscasts because of it.’

‘Rookie Ashton Youboty, another Ohio State defensive back, suffered an ankle injury that was not considered to be serious.’

‘The reps again were relatively even among the quarterbacks. Kelly Holcomb was short a rep in the first set of 11-on-11 team work. The coaching staff mixed up the rotation a bit in terms of how many reps per guy. On day one through a 21-play session it was mostly three reps and rotate out. They did that twice through and then on the last three plays they’d each get one play apiece.’

‘On dividing the quarterback reps out equally: We are and that is sort of the plan to let them go and compete and it will take a while. I don’t really have any indication on how long but hopefully somebody is going to rise up and clearly be the guy and just keep moving in that direction. It will get harder as we go. If somebody doesn’t take it because we’ve pointed it out a number of times and we’ve talked about you only have a certain number of reps. It’s hard to divide them by three until somebody is ready as you want them to be.’

‘"The reason we moved him inside is we have a number of tackles," said offensive line coach Jim McNally. "We wanted to give Dylan McFarland and Brad Butler the opportunity to get reps there. Aaron has had the experience of playing tackle so we’re interested to see if there’s more he can do."’

‘”Everybody wants to earn it,” Losman said following practice Friday morning at St. John Fisher College. “It’s competition week in and week out. That’s what the players want to see. That’s what coaches want to see. They want to see people earn it. And that’s what it’s all about.”‘

‘The deal is expected to pay him about $8.5 million, but could be worth up to $11.7 million if incentives are attained.’

‘”It was a little bit different because guys would come to camp to get in shape sometimes in those days and maybe we had to because there was no limit on when you could report.” – Jauron on how NFL training camp has changed since he was a player.’

‘”Dallas was definitely a learning experience,” he said. “I wasn’t a (Dallas coach Bill) Parcells’ guy.”‘

‘”It’s not much different than what it was (Thursday),” Levy said. “Jim (Overdorf) is still in contact with the agent. I haven’t talked with Jim since this morning. I don’t know if he’s spoken with him (Friday) or not. I hope it’s close. I think it’s close.”‘

‘”I guess you could say I am confident that I’m going to be here for awhile and that I want to be here for awhile,” the Bills’ third-year quarterback was saying following a soggy first training camp practice at St. John Fisher College on Friday morning.’

‘”Right now we’ve penciled that in,” said Jauron. “That’s how it is on opening day, and what I like to tell them is that it is penciled and you can change it. They’ll make the decision for us as we move along.”‘

‘”He very much wanted to work things out and be here on time for the afternoon practice,” general manager Marv Levy said. “In fact, he probably got more of a workout hurrying to get here than he did in practice.”‘