Archives for May 31, 2016

'After missing the final five games of last season through a brutal bout with Crohn's disease, Henderson underwent two surgeries to remove all infected areas and reattach his intestines. The most recent surgery was about a month ago. The Bills' medical staff, Herman assured, does know that Henderson has been recovering in Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic and that it's been the tackle's plan to report back to Buffalo June 1 all along.'

'When asked what the odds are that Henderson is even on the team next season, one teammate responded, “Nobody knows.”'

'Humility is not part of their vocabulary. No matter the results, neither can resist the urge to boast. Rex has not had a winning season since taking the Jets to the playoffs in 2010, going 34-46 over that span. In his 12 seasons as a coordinator, Rob’s defenses have been ranked 20th or worse in points and yards allowed eight times. So says Rob: “I am great.” I’d love to hear his definition of mediocre.'

'While Williams certainly took his complaints to a different level and teammates weren't thrilled with it, it is also true that when Ryan listened to his players at the end of the season it helped the Bills defense.'

'Henderson is penciled in to be in a three-way battle for the starting right tackle job this season with Jordan Mills and Cyrus Kouandjio. All three started at least one game at the spot last season.'

'While Ragland can certainly play the weakside linebacker position, his best fit in Ryan's defense is the spot that Brown will play in the beginning of the season.'

'Now being coached by his professional mentor, Ed Reed, from his time in Baltimore, Graham’s ability and recognition skills have the chance to do quite well in 2016. He does not have the starting job locked up, however.'

'“By leaps and bounds we’ve improved just because last year was a new defense, so any time you have all that going in, you really have to understand that’s a lot of verbiage that we kind of have to relay between amongst all 11 players,” said Jerry Hughes. “Now being in our second year in the system, actually having the same defensive coordinator, same head coach back, really helped us out a lot tremendously.”