Archives for August 2010

Chan Gailey will make the right choice. My calmness resides in the fact that even if the selected starter is a garbage tornado, I’ll be able to believe Gailey picked the least blustery trash bomb available to stand behind the center.

‘"We’ve installed a lot right here at the start of camp technically and fundamentally," first-year defensive coordinator George Edwards said. "They have all been working hard. We are just out here every day trying to improve and see what different guys bring to the table and how we can adjust to the situation."’

‘"I am back up to my normal self. It took me a while to get confidence back in my knee," Jackson said.’

‘Schobel’s agent, Jeff Nalley, told KIRV-TV in Houston he expects to hear from “most of the Super Bowl contenders in each conference that need a pass rusher.” Some media outlets have speculated one of the Bills’ AFC East rivals might have an interest, especially the New England Patriots, who might lose one of their best pass rushers, Derrick Burgess, to retirement.’

‘”Yeah, I’m excited to be out there,” Wood said Tuesday after practice. “When my leg feels good and everything is running smooth, it’s a dream come true. It probably won’t be perfect for awhile. But I could definitely see myself feeling really good by the first game of the season.”‘

‘”Every team that I’ve went to has been playing a 3-4, so that’s kind of been a good thing for me,” said the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Woods, who intercepted a pass in his first practice Friday night and has made several other nice plays since. “I’m just trying to pick things up as fast as I can. The concepts and stuff are pretty much the same, but I’m just trying to pick it up and trying to earn a job.”‘

‘”You know what I like about Naaman, he’s having fun out here,” quarterback Trent Edwards said after getting in some extra work with Roosevelt on the second day of camp. “He’s a guy that always has a smile on his face. He makes his mistakes, but he makes big plays. It’s fun being around guys like that who enjoy playing football and it kind of rubs off on you. I enjoy throwing to him, I enjoy having him as a teammate and I’m hoping for big things out of him.”‘

‘”I can’t determine what will happen down the road (in terms of an NFL team coming to Toronto on a full-time basis), but we feel now the best direction is to build this game. I don’t feel an imminent threat. We’re focused on building the CFL in this city.”‘

‘”This will shine a light on football,” said Richard Munro, chief operating officer of Football Canada, the governing body of amateur football in the nation. “There are now 14 or 15 Canadians playing the game in the NFL.”‘

‘Bills CEO Russ Brandon reiterated the team’s stated goal when the Bills Toronto Series was announced -to expand the Bills’ marketing reach in their home territory, which includes Toronto, to continue to make the franchise viable in Buffalo. Football Week in Toronto, he said, is part of that plan.’

‘”He’s been a real good player in this league for a long time,” coach Gary Kubiak said after practice. “We’re going to evaluate him like we would any other player of his caliber, and we’re going to see if we think he can help us.”Schobel, 32, has to decide if he wants to play a 10th season. He resides at his ranch in Columbus, an hour west of Houston. He said Monday that if he became a free agent, he wanted to play for the Texans.’

‘”The Bills were really looking to expand their profile beyond Buffalo and Rochester,” Steve Mahler, the director of marketing for Turing Stone Resort, said. “We already had a relationship with the Bills, but this is more of a partnership. It’s designed to bring more football fans to our golf and then the reciprocal is to get more golf fans engaged with the football season.”’

‘With Bills training camp in the Rochester area, the Jets in Cortland and the Giants in Albany, each team is spreading out in an effort to gain more support from upstate residents. New York, Florida and California are the only states with three NFL teams.’

‘”It hurts,” said Bills coach Chan Gailey. “He did a great job in OTAs and minicamp, but being here now is a different game. It doesn’t help anybody. It doesn’t help him, it doesn’t help us. We hope it gets resolved as soon as it possibly can.”‘

‘”You go through your highs and lows at camp,” said Trent Edwards. “Obviously, the defense won (Wednesday) and sometimes we’re not going to win a football game. But you have to find a way to learn from it. We have to go back to the drawing board. You can’t keep making mistakes over and over again and that’s what I felt like we were doing tonight. And that starts at the quarterback position. I’ve got to make sure that I’m picking my teammates up and that I’m doing my job every single play and I’ve got to find a way to fix that.”‘