Archives for April 18, 2013

‘”No Twitter, no games, no jokes, none of that. But at the end of the day, I feel just how everybody else felt when they see those bombs go off.”‘

‘”Also, I’ve said from Day One, this quarterback class is better than everybody thinks it is. It’s better than the publicity they get and by that I mean there’s about five or six of those guys, maybe seven, that do a lot of things good and do them good enough to win. I said this from the start that two or three of these guys will be franchise quarterbacks. I believe that.”‘

‘”I think he’s a great fit for what we’re doing, because he can fly. He can run,” Nix said. “He’s a guy that the closer he gets to the ball, the faster he gets. He likes to play. He was an excellent special teams guy. I would think that he’ll have a good year.”‘

‘”I think people are starting to appreciate safeties more, now that tight ends are turning into freaks and controlling the middle of the field,” said University of Texas free safety Kenny Vaccaro. “So you’ve got to have a safety who can cover and come up and hit.”‘

‘Spiller recorded the voice-over at the WGR studios Tuesday morning.’

‘Calling the injury a ”mild strain” Wednesday, Johnson says he felt a tweak while warming up before the team’s first practice a day earlier.’

‘Primarily a weakside linebacker for his entire playing career, when he got to Buffalo the 2012 fourth-round pick could do no better than a backup role at that position with Nick Barnett on the roster. Impressing coaches throughout OTAs and minicamps, the Bills elected to work Bradham over at strongside, pushing Morrison out of the equation.’

‘"I’ve been saying this all along that this quarterback class is better than everybody says it is," said Nix. "There are about five or six of those guys, maybe seven, who do things good enough to win. You look back at last year and the year before with Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick if you were drafting again you’d take them first or in the top five."’