Archives for September 15, 2010

‘”Obviously, it didn’t go as we planned – and that would be an understatement,” first-year coach Chan Gailey said. “And that’s mostly my fault.’

‘Coach Chan Gailey on Wednesday declined to discuss the nature of the injury except to say Hangartner was held out for precautionary reasons. Gailey says the player will be evaluated to determine whether he can practice Thursday as the Bills prepare to play at Green Bay on Sunday.’

‘My translation: Brohm is barely hanging on by his fingernails as an NFL-caliber quarterback, but Gailey found something nice to say about him anyway.’

‘”I’ve just got to slow down and be more patient,” he said. “That’s the main thing. I let a couple runs get away from me. I was trying to play too fast. I’ve got to be able to slow stuff down and not miss those lanes that I kind of missed out there. But that’s just getting adjusted and I’ve got a good understanding of what it will be like on Sundays.”‘

‘"When we start making plays, everybody else just follows," he said. "We just try to feed off each other."’

‘It’s with that in mind that you wonder how such astute football minds have failed to comprehend what’s painfully obvious to us armchair quarterbacks, that Trent Edwards remains overwhelmed and unsuited to run an NFL offense. He’s in his fourth NFL season and looks just as frightened and bewildered in the pocket as he did in his first.’

‘”Their best personnel on offense is their running backs, so in terms of taking away what a team does best, that’s where you put a lot of the focus,” one scout said. “At the end of the day, there’s only one perimeter threat in (receiver) Lee Evans. It doesn’t matter who you have in the backfield if you don’t have the horses up front to block for them.”‘