Archives for August 17, 2012

‘The Bills still need to determine who’ll line up opposite top wideout Stevie Johnson. David Nelson seems entrenched in the slot, and third-round draft choice T.J. Graham will be here awhile. But the rest of the depth chart remains a curiosity.’

‘”It’s not make or break,” quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said, “but I think we have that mindset that we’re going to come out and we’re going to be more clean in terms of the pre-snap penalties and in terms of our execution and making sure that we have the right assignments for blocking the right guys, throwing to the right guys, running the right routes, and then coming out healthy.”‘

”’They’ve made it tough this whole time,” Gailey said. ”Vince was really behind the eight-ball early. But he’s come on strong. So it’s going to be a tough decision for us.”’

‘The ruling against Young was made in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on July 2, according to court documents.’

‘Carrington knows he has to play better, “I’m attacking it like I’ve got to do something like everybody else. You don’t want to be here and just be idle I guess you could say. I’m not going to say I wanna have a breakout year, but I don’t want to have a bad year obviously so I’m going to work as hard as I can, like I always do and see what comes of this season.”‘

‘It was up in the air leading up to the game, but it looks like Jared Allen will be able to play against the Bills. He likely won’t have every rep at left tackle like last week, but rookie Cordy Glenn will certainly see Allen lined up in front of him at least a few times. He went up against Orakpo and performed relatively well, but wasn’t dominant by any means. Glenn and Chris Hairston both have a big task at hand in trying to stop one of the most productive pass-rushers in the current NFL landscape.’

‘In the battle for the number two quarterback job, Tyler Thigpen got snaps with the second team offense against Washington and Vince Young ran with the threes. The two signal callers will switch roles for the Minnesota game with Young taking snaps with the second unit. Ideally Gailey would like to keep the snaps for Young and Thigpen even.’