Archives for October 16, 2014

‘”I had to tell him, ‘I don’t want to be traded,'” Williams said following practice. “At the end of the day, you’ve got to tell him, ‘I’m the boss, and I want to be here.’ So that’s what I had to do.”‘

”’It’s not one individual,” coach Doug Marrone said. ”It’s easy when it’s one individual. You just put one out and put somebody else in. But it’s up front, it’s hitting the holes, it’s believing and trusting the scheme.”’

‘”I’m not off to the best start in my career, but I still have all the confidence in the world that I’ll be where I want to be when the smoke clears,” Spiller said.’

‘”Yeah, I had to because it started getting out of hand. He was trying to see other options but then it got public, and everybody found out and everybody started going crazy,” the wideout remarked. “So I had to tell him, like, I don’t want to be traded. I told him that. You’re right, at the end of the day you’ve got to tell him, like, I’m the boss and I want to be here. So that’s what I had to do.”‘

‘”I knew about it last week. He had something come up that was personal for him, so I excused him,” head coach Doug Marrone said. “It’s nothing related to anything that has to do with him. It’s family.”‘

‘”It’s going to be exciting,” said Brown, Buffalo’s leading tackler through six games. “Just looking over there I know he’s going to be smiling and laughing. We always had that fun where we’d be talking to each other so it’d be fun to see him out there.”‘