Archives for September 19, 2012

‘”Anytime you stockpile some draft picks into the offensive line, and then you bring in an experienced guy like Pears you’ve assembled a decent group,” said Wood. “We had a lot of turnover in the first couple of years I was here. It’s great that we’ve now had the same group around for the past couple of years. To have the organization committed to a group definitely means a lot to us and we want to perform because of that.”‘

‘"Rightfully so, the focus here is to get guys ready for Sunday, so I felt like if I was going to go to the training room, I’d see the trainers and they’d say ‘here’s what you need to do, go do it’ and then they’d go work on Fred or whoever to get him ready for Sunday, which is what should happen. I’m not complaining about that at all, I think that’s the right way to do it. But for me, I just need to go off site somewhere and get ready to come back."’

‘The Bills were consistently able to get pressure on Matt Cassel and keep the Chiefs’ offense guessing where the rush was coming from.’

‘Deputies said Murphy appeared to be intoxicated. He told deputies that he works at the Oak Run Golf Course and said that after work he stayed to watch the football game and drank nine beers before driving home.’

‘In a league full of parity, the Bills have missed the party. The body of work is not as inept as that of the Browns, but it is ugly. And the Bills don’t have the excuse of having been without a franchise for three years.’

‘He scored a lot of touchdowns at Clemson, so he’s a player. He has been in a sharing role because the Bills’ two best players are arguably their two running backs, Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller. Jackson’s out several weeks with a sprained knee. He won’t play against the Browns. But Spiller averaged 90 yards from scrimmage and started the last six games last year. He’s off to a great start. The Bills have a pretty good offensive line, and he’s legit. This isn’t a flash in the pan. He’s a talent.”‘

‘The two worst finishes in the NFL last year were posted by Cleveland, which lost nine of its last 10, and Buffalo, which dropped eight of its last nine.’

”’The biggest thing is not being on the cereal box, it’s the opportunity and the chance to give back to those who need help,” Williams said at a Buffalo-area supermarket. ”My father was actually diagnosed two years ago with colon cancer, so I definitely know what it’s like to go through with a family member having cancer.”’

‘Six years after entering the NFL as the third player taken in the draft, Vince Young finds himself without a team and with only a fraction of the money he received from a contract that guaranteed him $26 million. The question is, where did it all go?’

‘”You have to make sure when you have a win like this, everybody’s happy and upbeat but there’s still a lot we can learn from that game moving forward. You do the same thing, you evaluate what went right and what went wrong. You learn from it. You put it behind you and move onto the Browns. That’s the nature of the NFL. You saw when we went out there, we didn’t carry what happened the week before with us in terms of hanging our heads or being discouraged. We went out there facing a new opponent with a new week and we played well. That’s what you have to do in this league.”‘

‘While it’s early it’s easy to see why Buddy Nix joked that watching film of Glenn cheers him up when he’s down. Glenn appears to be the final piece to what has turned into a very solid line.’