Archives for January 2017

'Conor Orr of NFL.com chose Taylor as Buffalo’s unsung hero of the season.'

'"You look at it this way, I mean, right now, we have three guys under contract," he said of Taylor, EJ Manuel, and Cardale Jones. "We'll probably go to camp with three, maybe four. So, no matter what happens, we're going to do our due diligence on every quarterback in the draft, just like we're going to do on every position.'

'"You always want to get more information on a guy, especially in a setting like this," Bills General Manager Doug Whaley said. "But it's one of those things where, obviously, him and his camp decided that was the best for him.'

'"I feel like Doug Whaley and Rex Ryan should have been joined at the hip," said Scott, an NFL studio analyst for CBS who has been at the Senior Bowl this week as part of Morgan Stanley's seminars for the players about money management. "How can he survive and Rex doesn't survive? (Whaley) made those decisions. You talk about the bad contract for Tyrod Taylor with the $30-million pill in it. He didn't even have to give Tyrod Taylor an extension; he was still under contract. So those are all decisions that he made. You talk about trading everything that you traded for Sammy Watkins. Who made that decision? Doug Whaley.'

'"I mean, that'd be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, of course, to play for your home team, where you grew up and all through the years," the former St. Joe's standout said while here for the Senior Bowl. "It would be truly a dream come true, especially to follow in my uncle's footsteps. But you just never know. Wherever, I'd be very, very happy."'

'"It's unfair to rank McDermott this low," Rosenthal said, "but someone has to bring up the rear. McDermott is well respected throughout the NFL, but he has the fewest tangible assets and perhaps the most difficult job of the new coaches."'

'The process basically is, we're going to sit down with every position coach and the coordinator and the head coach, and they're going to have time to look at the guys on our roster right now, be them free agents, be them restricted free agents, and be them guys that are under contract. What we want to have them do is explain their vision of the player in their system that they're going to run. So that's the process. Then we go from there and assign a value.'

'"You're obviously going to be aware of guys, but you really don't dive into them because what we like to do is be as efficient as possible," Whaley said. "So if you're going to spend your time on a guy that may not come out, then you're going to take time away from the guys that are definitely coming out. There's plenty enough time from January to the end of April to get these guys, these juniors done. If we can't get them done by us, that's our fault."'

'He's teamed with several cancer organizations and pharmaceutical giant Merck to produce a promotional campaign titled "Your Cancer Game Plan," which debuts on Wednesday.'

'With that minimal surgery the usual protocol is to have them on crutches for one or two weeks in a boot for one or two weeks and allow them to return to running activity as soon as they feel good. Now even with that fairly accelerator program our studies have shown that 90-percent of guys will heal and stay stay healed. However, there are 10-percent of the guys that with that accelerator program may not be fully healed in the bone. And then after the season what we then do is go back and do a more formal bone grafting procedure to the fracture itself and then exchanging the screw, which also can be very, very successful.'

'“It’s interesting, but, you know, to be able to be around Buffalo would be a dream come true,” Kelly said Wednesday. “I think the coaching staff, they’ve got a great set of players, and the history is one of the best. So, to be able to play in front of your home team and where you grew up would be amazing.”'

'“We’ve just set up a date where we’re going to sit down with them and say, ‘Okay give us your vision of your offense, the defense and special teams,’” Whaley told Buffalobills.com. “Then we’ll start incorporating their thought process of the players we have on the roster already and their vision of those players and how they fit into what they plan to do.”'

'Culley spent the last four seasons as assistant head coach/wide receivers coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. He began his coaching career in the NFL in 1994 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.'

' "Right now, the recovery's on schedule. He's been in the office, doing some rehabs, so that looks promising. Everything else is too premature. They just hired (offensive coordinator) Rick Dennison. They just hired (David) Culley for a quarterback coach, so when we get back from the Senior Bowl, then we'll sit down as a staff with the new coaching staff and just go over everybody on our team."'

'"Here's what I said: 'We want to build a foundation that we consistently compete,'" Whaley said during Senior Bowl practices. "And I meant to say it as in, 'We're not one player away from getting over the hump.' We might be one player from getting from 7-9 to 10-6 and making the playoffs, but we want to have a foundation.'