The Buffalo Bills know that a lot is expected of them this season. So, it isn’t a surprise that with organized team activities and mandatory minicamps now all over the players are anxiously awaiting the start of training camp.
Shawne Merriman is one Bill who knows what it will take for the team to deliver.
“Expectations are just what they are,” said Merriman. “But unless you go out and do it, it doesn’t mean anything and that’s what we’re about. We have to go out and not look on paper and see the guys that we have now. We have to go out and be ready and prepare and that’s what’s going to be one of the biggest keys for us coming up this season.”
The Bills improved last year to 6-10 after going 4-12 in their first year under current head coach Chan Gailey. Gailey knows that the team has come a long way, but they still have to show it.
“We have come a long way,” Gailey said. “We do not have any kind of record to show that. That is our objective this year to show that. I do believe we have come a long way as a football team going into our third year. But you have to go prove it. You cannot talk (about it). You have to go prove it.”
The Bills made a huge splash in free agency by signing defensive ends Mario Williams and Mark Anderson and look to prove that they were the final pieces in their push to making the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. The Bills will return to the practice field on July 26th when they head to St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY for the start of their 2012 training camp.
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