Archives for January 26, 2013

‘”The response was overwhelming when people found out I had an opportunity to come and work with him,” Pettine said. “It got to the point where I was literally answering the phones and saying ‘if you’re calling to tell me how good a guy Doug is, and how great he is going to be to work for, I already got that. You got anything else?’ “‘

”’There are some good football players here and we are excited to work with them,” he said. ”They are explosive athletes and playmakers and we are looking forward to building a system that is going to take advantage of that.”’

‘”We’re going to play smart, we’re going to be tough, we’re going to be relentless, we’re going to put pressure on you,” Pettine said in his first address to the Buffalo media. “We’re going to force quarterbacks, we’re going to force offenses to make very quick decisions. We’re going to take our best shot at you. We’re not going to be a read and react defense. That is not in our vocabulary. I think in this league to be successful you have to be aggressive. I don’t think you can be reckless, your aggression has to be calculated, but if you want to sum up what we’ll be, it’s going to be an attack style.”‘

‘”We’ve been told the Buffalo Bills are not as high on Ryan Nassib as most presume. In fact we’ve heard their scouts don’t even rank him as the best quarterback in Mobile.”‘

‘”I think first and foremost Stevie is a dynamic player,” Hilliard said. “We’ll have to find ways to get him the ball and other guys in our receiving corps. Stevie has a game that’s unique. He’s had a lot of success with it. We have a system in place that we’re going to implement and we’re all going to learn at the same time, and he’s going to be able to have the freedom to play his game within the system.”‘