Archives for August 2, 2013

‘One big difference from the 4-3 front run last year by coordinator Dave Wannstedt is the three down linemen all essentially are defensive tackles. Starting are 331-pound Marcell Dareus, 303-pound Kyle Williams and 301-pound Alex Carrington.’

‘”All the time,” Jackson said. “I know what I’m still capable of doing. I’m sure that the ‘He’s too old’ thing will be out there. ‘Is he at the end of his career?’ Which is all the more reason to go out and prove people wrong.”‘

‘”I think really in this day and age because it’s now a business, you have one bad year, you have one bad preseason, whatever it is, things start to happen,” he said. “So everybody is competing every day. You can ask anybody, even midseason practice, you’re still competing.”‘

‘”We expect a lot out of ourselves,” said Wood. “We expect to get better each day out here, through camp and during the season. We expect high performance throughout the year. I think we have a really good group up front and if we continue to get better, I don’t think we will miss a beat this year and we’ll be able to get back to where we were.”‘

‘Reed chose to spend training camp with the Chiefs instead of Buffalo, the team he helped reach four Super Bowls, though he’s certain that Bills fans would have loved to see his return. Reed wasn’t so sure if it would be a good fit for him, because the Bills – who face the Chiefs in November – have a new head coach in Doug Marrone.’

‘The topic of conversation is always going to center around Kevin Kolb and E.J. Manuel. In my mind Manuel has badly outplayed Kolb. Marrone disagrees, “We’re very happy with Kevin. He’s done a nice job, it’s the execution where he wants to go. He has to make better decisions. He needs to improvement from a standpoint, really from him, the protection, the receivers getting open, but as far as someone who has a really good background in the style of offense that we’ve done, as far as the tempo, so for him, really all three quarterbacks have handled that well, which is different.”‘

‘”This critical event of terminating him when they realized that he was going to qualify for this benefit to me was a distinct act of greed,” said Hojnowski.’