Archives for June 14, 2013

‘Instead, all Jackson did, in nine months, was collect the easiest seven figures of his life … and that’s on Nix and Gailey. Why did they invest a draft choice and a generous salary in a player they ultimately wouldn’t use? That’s the kind of thinking and planning that has kept the Bills out of the postseason for 13 years.’

‘”Our goal was to make sure that we build and earn that trust, and in turn, they go ahead and do that to us,” he said. “Really building a relationship, making sure that we’re all part of one team, was important, that there wasn’t any separation. I think we’re able to do that.”‘

‘Johnson said the back injury occurred while doing a power-rope exercise.’

‘”Everything’s open,” Hackett said after Wednesday’s second of three mandatory mini-camp practices this week. “To be able to put anything down on paper would be — I’d be lying to you.’

‘Williams has so far shown signs of being a capable Plan B after closing the Bills’ mandatory minicamp Thursday with his third interception in three days.’

‘”Really, building a relationship, making sure that we’re all part of one team was important, that there wasn’t any separation,” he said. “I think we were able to do that. I’m very pleased with the amount of work that we’ve gotten done. We’ve reached our goal as far as what we wanted to get in. We’ve reached our goal as far as teaching the players what our tempo is, how we want to practice.’

‘Asked whether he thinks Tebow can start, Pettine said, “I always did.’

‘”Just working with the players, starting phase one. Our goal was to make sure that we build and earn that trust, but really building a relationship so we’re all part of one team was important, there wasn’t any separation and I think we were able to do that.” Marrone added, “I’m for pleased with the amount of work that we’ve gotten done, we’ve reached our goal as far as what we wanted to get in, we reached our goal as far as teaching the players what our tempo is of how we want to practice and we’re excited.”‘

‘Obviously we’re looking to make sure that we’re not going to make any mistakes and that we’re putting the players in the best situation. So I think that’s the first thing. All three systems do that. We’re looking for where we can put in plays where they can be most successful. I don’t think we’re looking to take things out unless they really didn’t fit because we went thinking about the personnel and we went in putting things that fit. Now it’s a library of offense, defense, special teams. I think we still keep that same type of foundation when we go through training camp. When you get to the first week of the year, you look at what you can be successful at, where the players can have success and then you start taking things out and putting things in.’

‘”We’re looking to make sure that we’re not making mistakes and we’re putting the players in the best situation. I think that’s the first thing,” he said. “All three systems do that. We’re looking to see where we can put our players so they can be most successful. We went in thinking about the personnel and we went in thinking about putting things in that fit. Now it’s a library of offense, defense and special teams. I think we still keep that same type of foundation as we go through training camp.”‘