Monthly Archives: June 2009
James Hardy radio appearance
James Hardy will be a guest on The Fan 590 in Torontoon Tuesday at 8:05 am. If you’re outside the listening area you can listen live online. Hardy has been doing more and more through the spring and was even doing some light cutting at half speed in work with the trainers last week.
Bills 1st three home games sold out
The Bills announced today that individual game tickets for their first three home games are sold out. That means the Tampa Bay game (Sept. 20), the New Orleans game (Sept. 27) and the Browns game (Oct. 11) will be full houses at the Ralph this fall. As part of the Bills season ticket holder benefits [...]
McGee and Youboty doing team work
Terrence McGee and Ashton Youboty are both doing team work coming off injury. Leodis McKelvin is not doing team work.
Schobel, Reed back
Aaron Schobel and Josh Reed are back practicing for the final OTA here on Monday.
T.O., Nelson, Parrish not in attendance
Terrell Owens, Roscoe Parrish and Shawn Nelson are not in attendance for the final voluntary OTA practice Monday. Mandatory minicamp begins Tuesday.
Just finished Pittsford triathlon
As part of Brian Moorman’s PUNT Team a bunch of Bills players participated in a sprint triathlon in the town of Pittsford this morning. Here’s the order of finish for the Team for those that did the swim, bike and run. Brian Moorman 1:25:16 Andy Simpson 1:28:17 Rian Lindell 1:32:54 Chris Brown 1:37:54 Marty Battaglia [...]
PUNT Team in Pittsford triathlon Sunday
Brian Moorman, Rian Lindell, Ryan Neill, special teams coordinator and other Bills club members will be participating in Sunday’s Town Of Pittsford sprint triathlon. The PUNT Team will be racing to benefit pediatric cancer research as part of Moorman’s PUNT Foundation. I’ll be there and let you know how everyone did in the race.
Fan Friday 6-5
OTAs are almost over and then it’s three days of minicamp before the six week break. Hard to believe training camp is around the corner. On to your questions. 1. Hello Chris, What are the chances the Bills trade Kelsay with or without Parrish to get Scheffler? Denver needs to improve their defense and we need [...]
Jauron has comment on Parrish’s wish to play more offense
Bills head coach Dick Jauron was questioned about using Roscoe Parrish more on the offensive side of the ball or perhaps creating a small package of plays designed to take advantage of his skills, knowing Parrish would like to expand his role on the team as a receiver. Here were coach’s comments on the subject. [...]
Owens expected back for practice next week
Terrell Owens missed the first voluntary OTA practice in 11 days, but head coach Dick Jauron says the veteran wideout assured he’d be back early next week. “He wasn’t here today, but it’s good that he does keep us in the loop and he’ll be back early next week,” said Jauron. ”But it has been great [...]
Nelson’s absence due to personal issues
Bills fourth-round pick Shawn Nelson has missed the entire third week of voluntary OTAs. On Friday head coach Dick Jauron explained why the rookie tight end has been absent. “Personal problems,” said Jauron as to why Nelson has not been in attendance. ”But none of it is mandatory. Our guys are really good about informing us. [...]
No T.O. at practice
Terrell Owens is not in attendance for Friday’s OTA practice. It’s the first voluntary workout he’s missed this spring. Also not in attendance are Roscoe Parrish, Josh Reed, Aaron Schobel, Corey McIntyre and Shawn Nelson.
Steve Johnson radio appearance
Steve Johnson will be on 1230-AM WECK radio Saturday morning at approximately 10:30am. Johnson has performed admirably in the OTA setting this spring and will be battling for an expanded role as a second-year player.
Nelson, Reed and Schobel not on hand
Those players not in attendance for Thursday’s voluntary OTA practice were rookie Shawn Nelson, Josh Reed and Aaron Schobel. Roscoe Parrish was also absent. We expect to get an update on Nelson’s absence from Dick Jauron Friday. For a full report on Day 10 of OTAs check the home page later this afternoon.
McGee and McKelvin participate
Terrence McGee and Leodis McKelvin participated during individual drills for a second strâight day, but both stayed out of team work.
Youboty doing individual work
For the first time this spring Ashton Youboty is participating in OTAs as he is working his way back from platar fasciitis that landed him on I-R last season. He only did individual position drill work and is hopeful he’ll be able to do more during minicamp next week. We’ll have more on how he’s [...]
T.O. on the house hunting
In the wake of Terrell Owens’ tweet that the owners at 1 Deer Run in Orchard Park were not interested in renting to him, Owens was asked after practice to elaborate on his brief twitter comment on the house hunting situation. “We had a couple of spots that we were supposed to go look at [...]
Nelson absent; Thomas practicing
4th round pick Shawn Nelson is absent again for Wednesday’s voluntary workout. LB Pat Thomas is back practicing off injury. Leodis McKelvin and Terrence McGee are participating in individual drills. We’ll see how extensive their participation will be.
Player radio appearances
Paul Posluszny and Brian Moorman will both be on the local WNY airwaves Wednesday and Thursday morning. Poz will be on 97 Rock around 7:45 AM Wednesday. You can listen live here. Brian Moorman will be on 1280 WHTK in Rochester Thursday around 9:30 AM. And you can listen live to that interview here.
Whitner not against 17 or 18 game season
Part of talks between the NFL and the Players Association on a CBA extension will eventually get to the subject of expanding the regular season to 17 or 18 games. Bills safety Donte Whitner doesn’t think the longer regular season is a bad thing provided they’re given regular season pay for two more games. Whitner doesn’t [...]
