Archives for August 15, 2011

‘It’s a case of assessing individual elements rather than Buffalo’s body of work, though nine sacks have a way of standing out.’

‘”It’s nice to see Brad out there,” said Ryan Fitzpatrick. “He had a few third down conversions out there. When you have a guy like him who’s really a threat to throw the ball, having been a quarterback in college, but he has a good arm and he’s got good accuracy and also a guy with such great vision. That was something we saw in practice. He’s going to be a tough guy to stop.”‘

‘They call it “Disney-style parking”- about the silliest bit of spin I’ve heard in a long while. Will they also add trams, fuzzy characters and a monorail to shuttle people across Abbott Road?’

‘"We wanted to work on the Wildcat," Gailey said. "That was one of the things going in, we wanted to see that from those guys, from Brad and from Josh. We were able to get it on film and see what it adds to us. It really helps our short-yardage game. So that was a good thing."’

‘”If anything,” said receiver Stevie Johnson, “I would have thought it would have been some time later, like after the season. But that’s the business. Whatever the guys upstairs, whatever decision they make, we’re rolling with it. We’re the soldiers.”‘

‘”I was excited. I felt like a rookie,” he told reporters after the game. “I heard a bunch of the young guys coming off saying how they were nervous that it was their first game. I was like, ‘Hey, that’s good. You’re supposed to be nervous.’ I was nervous myself a little bit because I haven’t lined up and had a chance to play ball. But it felt good.”‘