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Offseason Conditioning Program Gets Underway
Preseason Schedule Announced: The Bills preseason schedule is now set with dates and times to be announced shortly. The one game that is set is an 8pm start in Cleveland on ESPN on Thursday August 20th. That game takes place in the 2nd week of the preseason. The Bills open up the preseason at home against Carolina and they will also host Pittsburgh week 3 before closing out the preseason like they always do against Detroit this time they meet in the Motor City on September 3rd or 4th.
Tuesday April 7, 2015
Bills Host Landry: The Bills hosted a free agent today at One Bills Drive as veteran safety Dawan Landry was in for a visit. The 32 year old perennial starter has plenty of experience in the Rex Ryan defensive scheme. He played for him the last two seasons with the Jets and was with the Ravens for five years and Ryan was the defensive coordinator for the first three of them. He also spent two years in Jacksonville.
Dareus Gets Plea Deal: Marcell Dareus agreed to a plea deal to end the drag racing case against him. He agreed to be ticketed with two traffic violations for failure to keep right and imprudent speed. He will also hold a free football camp for Erie County high school football players, the misdemeanor charges against him will be dropped in the deal. He was facing several charges for crashing his Jaguar into a tree on a busy road back in May. He was allegedly racing Jerry Hughes at the time of the crash.
Ryan Ready To Win: Rex Ryan addressed the media yesterday after the first day of the offseason conditioning program. He said he's real excited about getting back to football saying it's a special time to teach and mold players while giving them your vision. He said he expects to win and expects to win and right now. They need to use phase 1 of the program to start the process of getting everyone on the field. The organization is ready for anything and they made it happen when Percy Harvin became available and they know he will be big help to the football team.
Monday April 6, 2015
10 Players Not Fully Cleared: Dan Carpenter, Anthony Dixon, Stephon Gilmore, Chris Gragg, Chris Hogan, Fred Jackson, Leodis McKelvin, Sammy Watkins, Aaron Williams, and Chris Williams are not fully cleared to workout since they are coming off of offseason surgeries. Rex Ryan expects all of them to be ready for training camp.
Hughes, Gilmore Absent: The Bills held their first offseason workout at the fieldhouse today with 66 of the 71 players on the roster attending the voluntary workout. The two most notable absences were Jerry Hughes and Stephon Gilmore. Hughes is absent because he is getting married this coming weekend and Gilmore had an equally as good a reason to be absent as he just became a father. Matt Cassel, Sammy Watkins, and Aaron Williams did not fully participate as they are recovering from injuries. They mostly worked out with trainers on exercise bikes.
Back To Work: The Bills begin their offseason conditioning program today as the players were busy tweeting their arrival back in Buffalo on Easter Sunday. These workouts are voluntary but everyone is expected to attend most of the offseason program. The Bills get an extra voluntary minicamp because they have a new coach. The first phase of the program is limited to strength and conditioning work by the CBA and will take place this week and next. Rex Ryan is expected to address the media today.
Saturday April 4, 2015
Watkins Had Surgery: Reports came out yesterday that Sammy Watkins underwent surgery for a slight hip labral tear. It was an orthoscopic procedure and according to Vic Carucci of the Buffalo News he should be ready to do some light work when the offseason conditioning program begins on Monday. A source told the paper that he will not take part in OTAs when they begin in late May but should be ready for the start of training camp. He originally injured the hip against Cleveland November 30th but played the rest of the season with the injury.
Friday April 3, 2015
Offseason Dates Announced: The Bills announced the dates for all offseason activities yesterday. They earlier announced that the voluntary offseason conditioning program will begin this Monday. The first week of the program will run through Thursday. Week 2 of the offseason conditioning program will be April 13th thru 16th. They will hold a voluntary minicamp from April 28th thru 30th leading up to the NFL draft that begins on the last day of the voluntary camp. The voluntary offseason conditioning program continues the first three weeks of May with workouts each Monday thru Thursday. The rookie minicamp will take place Friday May 8th thru Sunday the 10th. They will wrap up the offseason program with organized team activities May 26th, May 27th, May 29th, June 1th, June 3th, June 4th, and June 8th – June 11th followed by the one mandatory minicamp Tuesday June 16th thru Thursday June 18th. Mike Rodak of ESPN reports that Rex Ryan is scheduled to address the media 14 times during the entire length of the offseason workouts. We will keep the list of offseason dates on the right side of our homepage in our offseason dates section.
Monday March 30, 2015
Dareus Deal On The Horizon? Vic Carucci of the Buffalo News is reporting that Doug Whaley says a new contract for Marcell Dareus will happen in the near future possibly before or just after the draft. Whaley also told Carucci that the team will need to restructure Mario Williams' deal to fit Dareus under the cap and in the process will likely add a couple of years to Mario's deal locking up all four stud defensive linemen for years to come. Whaley says that is part of the new overall strategy of the team to keep their own guys now that they have built up the talent base of the team.
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