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For McDermott, a training camp such as no other

‘“Certainly I would like to have preseason games, but it’s been done before. Maybe not always in the NFL, but colleges do it or something similar every year. So I’ve reached out to my college coach and he certainly had a lot of success, and we’ve got a lot of smart people in this building that have come from a lot of different backgrounds that can help. I’m confident that we’ll adjust (and) that our players will adjust and we’ll have a good plan in place to get our team ready to go.”’

Bills All-Pro cornerback Tre’Davious White will play in 2020

‘“Do I want to come in here and possibly get my little 11-month-old baby sick, just coming home and trying to love on him and pick him up?” White said. “Do I want to risk that? Because at the end of the day, no matter what, my family is going to come first. No matter what’s going on or how big of a season (it is), I’m always going to put my kids first. That’s still weighing on me.”’

Josh Norman looking to add ‘a little pixie dust’ to Bills

‘”I think that when you go forward and you look at it (from an) overall standpoint, we’ve got the best secondary in the league,” he said. “I think guys really sleep on (safeties) Micah (Hyde) and Po (Jordan Poyer) back there, because they really do a great job over the top and then coming down in the box as well. They are two of the best tandems in the league. And then you have Tre, obviously, on the other side. He does a great job just keying on his man and having a guy in that position to go in, day in and day out, and make a play. And you’ve got Levi (Wallace) on the other side. He’s doing a great job. … Taron (Johnson) in the nickel.’

Spit, sweat, tears, blood, whatever: Why linemen led NFL in opt-outs

‘“When you’re face to face with a guy, you’re not just face to face,” said Trevor Matich, an ESPN analyst who played center and long snapper for 12 NFL seasons from 1985 to ’96. “You smash your face back into his, and it’s a sudden stop for both of you. And your face stops, but what’s on your face keeps going, and so particles of spit, sweat, tears, blood if you’re bleeding, whatever. As a lineman, your potential for what is being called a ‘viral load’ close to you is high.”’

Bills’ DB White will play 2020 NFL season

‘After speaking with the media on Wednesday, it was unknown whether or not White was set to play in the 2020 campaign, but that possibility was put to rest when ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported White would not opt-out and the Bills later confirmed the news.’

Bills’ Tre’Davious White doesn’t opt out after hints

‘White was drafted in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft and is considered one of the top cornerbacks in the league. He is the cornerstone of a Bills unit that has been among the top three scoring defenses over the past two seasons and is a big reason Buffalo is widely believed to be an AFC title contender in 2020.’

Report: Tre’Davious White does not opt out of 2020 season

‘White will be entering the fourth-year of his rookie contract, set to earn $1.8 million in base salary this season. The Bills have also exercised their fifth-year option on White for 2021, meaning he is under contract for two more seasons. He’s set to earn over $10 million in 2021 if he plays on his current contract. However, White is most likely looking at a massive extension some time soon. The team has publicly stated they would like to lock him up long-term.’

Bills CB Josh Norman believes he can win a championship with Buffalo

‘“Night and day the perception from the worst to one of the best actually worst to actually winning a division now. When you look at the whole entire league from teams in general who has the biggest change of a franchise Buffalo’s gotta be at the top,” Norman said on a zoom call with reporters.’

Former Bill imparting receiver wisdom on Buffalo youths

‘“I want to get into coaching when I’m done playing, I enjoy teaching, and I enjoy helping out any way I can. I’ve been doing a little camp when I’ve been in Canada, doing little camps here and there, and I haven’t been home in the summer in a long time so I’m glad to be home, glad to help out any way I can,” Naaman Roosevelt said.’

Tre White decides to play

‘In the end, he still chose football, too. The news was first reported by ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. Albert Breer did later tweet out all the players who did elect to opt out. White was not on it.’

White decides NOT to opt out

‘White had good reason to be hesitant about playing football this year. The All-Pro corner has two young kids at home and his wife’s grandfather passed away from COVID-19.’

Tre White does not opt-out of season

‘White was undecided about his opt-out decision on a zoom call with reporters on Wednesday but appears to have not submitted paperwork to opt-out of the season.’

Bills sign G Brian Winters

‘Winters was released by the New York Jets on August 2. The guard was drafted by the Jets in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft out of Kent State. The seven-year veteran has started in 79 of the 89 games he has played. Winters started in all 16 games in 2018. Winters is a native of Hudson, OH.’

Bills activate CB Dane Jackson from Reserve/COVID list

‘Jackson was drafted by the Bills in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft. The corner is a Pittsburgh product and totaled four interceptions, 43 passes defensed, four forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and 148 tackles during his four-year college career.’

6 things we learned from RB Devin Singletary and CB Josh Norman about Bills training camp

‘”To be honest, I feel like I need to do everything better,” Singletary said. “Year-to-year, that’s what it’s about. You always want to be better all the way around than you were the year before. I will say I have to be better at pass blocking, catching the ball out of the field, making my reads, whatever it may be I have to be better at all of that. There’s always room for improvement, so I really went back and looked at everything. That’s my goal this year is to be better than last year and help the team win in any way that I can.”‘

Bills Today | What Josh Norman thinks about Tre’Davious White

‘”He’s doing so many things,” Norman said about White. “I’m just looking at him and just being amazed too because I’m seeing myself in him a little bit when I was coming out early on. Just seeing how he’s really explosive and how he’s taking every rep as if this was his last rep.”‘