Archives for June 12, 2009

‘”We’ll spend some time with him going over what we’ve inserted while he’s been gone,” said Catavolos. “We’ll try to get him up to speed mentally and hopefully in camp he’ll get his repetitions there.”‘

‘”Does it affect you? I think you’d be lying if you said, `No,'” Jauron said. “Can you let it affect you? If you let it affect you and control you, then it’s not a very good thing. You just live with it like everybody lives with things.”‘

‘”What you do this time of the year can have an effect on what happens during the season,” wide receiver Lee Evans said. “I thought we got a lot of work done this offseason that’s going to allow us to hit the ground running when we get to training camp.”‘

‘”By ticketing these practices we can have a firm grasp on the attendance numbers,” Brandon said. “Normally, our first set of practices is on a Friday and we see spiked attendance on Saturday. This year, our first practices are on Saturday and Sunday and we want to be proactive with the possibility of attendance at those sessions reaching a point that could pose a safety issue.”‘

‘"By ticketing these practices we can have a firm grasp on the attendance numbers. Normally, our first set of practices is on a Friday and we see spiked attendance on Saturday. This year, our first practices are on Saturday and Sunday and we want to be proactive with the possibility of attendance at those sessions reaching a point that could pose a safety issue."’

‘”Our offseason program goes very well. Our guys are committed to it,” Jauron said. “They’ve worked awfully hard and they need to get away. They need some rest, they need some relaxation… But you also have to stay fit, stay in your books, you have to know what’s going on and you have to come back ready to go. We’ve made a lot of progress, but we certainly have a long way to go.”‘

‘”I’m just keeping my head up, just working hard and hopefully, something will happen,” Ganz said. “If not, I think I have a pretty good backup plan to go into coaching. It’s not do or die for me as much as it might be for some other guys, but I would love to get an opportunity to play.”‘

‘Bills quarterback coach Alex Van Pelt, a teammate of Kelly’s, has a strong grasp of the hurry-up and has been a good source of information for Edwards. "He’s a firm believer in it," Edwards said. "It’s not necessarily something we’ll run every single play or every single series, but it’s a change. That’s what Turk wants, that’s what Dick (Jauron) wants."’

‘The Bills like their young prospects but don’t necessarily like the idea of handing Levitre and Wood starting jobs protecting the middle for third-year QB Trent Edwards. But if they prove they are better than the veterans and can handle the responsibilities, the coaching staff would have no problem starting two rookies up front.’

‘"Fifty years in sports, there’s only one constant — Ralph Wilson is the owner of the Buffalo Bills. What Mr. Wilson has done for pro football and for the city of Buffalo and Western New York, it’s hard to put into words. He remains in it for the same reasons he got into it in 1959 — he loves the game of football, and that’s apparent in everything he does. It will be an honor to have a bird’s-eye view to watch him be inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, especially this year, in the 50th year of the old American Football League." — ESPN’s Chris Berman, after being selected by Bills owner Ralph Wilson to be his presenter at Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremonies in Canton, Ohio on Aug. 8.’

‘”Sometimes I think one of the best periods in practice is the walk-thru, the learning,” said Jauron. “We slow it down, talk through certain things, talk about details, certain areas that you don’t have a lot of time to cover in detail at other times. We decided today would be a good day to do it. That’s what we did. We spent the whole time in special teams walk-thru, offense and defense walk-thru, situations.”‘