The billboard: A daily dose from Bills training camp
No TV for Poz
The dorm room of linebacker Paul Posluszny is the exception to the rule at training camp. It has no television.
“I didn’t bring one last year,” Posluszny said. “Last year I was just so nervous about everything I didn’t have time to watch TV. So this year I said that’s fine, I don’t need one. I’ll catch the news in the morning, and I can keep myself busy without it.”
Posluszny owns a computer but he doesn’t have a laptop, so he doesn’t have that for a diversion at camp, either. He’s resorting to old-fashioned media to get away from football; he’s reading a book.
“I’m in the middle of a pretty good
book right now, ‘Guns, Germs and Steel.’ It’s about why certain cultures, particularly the Europeans,
developed the way they did,” he said.
The book, by Jared Diamond, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
Sideline views
Just like last year, the Bills’ first two camp practices were held in shorts, without shoulder pads, as coach Dick Jauron
eases his club into the camp grind. The Bills worked on the turf field for almost two hours in both the morning and afternoon. The offense looked good by first-day-of-camp standards.
The passes from Trent Edwards were crisp and the ball did not hit the turf much. Edwards hit his first 11 passes of the morning and his first 10 of the afternoon. Lee Evans was the most frequent recipient of Edwards’ throws. In the afternoon, Edwards hit three straight sharp throws to Evans on an out route, an in cut and a deep cross, all in perfect rhythm. Josh Reed and Fred Jackson also caught balls on crisp downfield routes.
For the record, J. P. Losman went deep on his first snap of camp, and the pass for Roscoe Parish was broken up by Ashton Youboty. It was a slight underthrow. ... James Hardy caught several passes over the middle with no drops. ... Will James, Terrence McGee and Ko Simpson added pickoffs.
No fooling around
Jauron on the difference between organized team activity work in the spring and training camp:
“We don’t experiment as much in training camp as we do in OTAs,” Jauron said. “We try a number of things in OTAs, just to look at them, but not in training camp, not as much, because you don’t have that many reps to get ready for the real thing. So it’s significantly different.”
Directions
From Buffalo take the Thruway to Exit 47. Take Route 490 East for 25 miles to Exit 25 (Fairport Road -31F). Turn right. The shuttle bus lot at East Rochester High School is about a mile down the road. Shuttles run continuously before and after practice.
Schedule
The team works today from 8:30 to 10:20 a. m. and again from 2:15 to 4:05 p. m. There is no practice Sunday.
Monday’s practice is 11 a. m. to 1:05 p. m. The first night practice is Tuesday, from 7 to 9:05 p. m. However, a free ticket is required for admission to the night practice, and no more are available for the first two night sessions, Tuesday and Thursday.
On the Web
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