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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Buffalo Bills Demetrius Bell The Man Of The Hour

It takes an awful lot of faith in a young inexperienced player to make the kind of move the Bills made on Tuesday with in releasing seven-year veteran Langston Walker. But the Bills coaching staff in there belief Demetrius Bell can make the Offensive Line better. "I feel comfortable with him in there "said Offensive Coordinator Van Pelt, He is a great athlete, a great talent. The only thing he is lacking right now is experience and he will get tons of that coming up real quick. We like as a player, Obviously, and I have the ultimate faith that he will get the job done for us."I actually got a call last night from Langston last night when he told me he was being released, "said Bell. The situation was he just told me he was being released and he was coming to clean out his locker and told me to have a good year."Bell felt Walker took the news relatively well as he expressed confidence that he would get on a roster somewhere in the league. Bills Head Coach Dick Jauron admitted Wednesday that they may have overestimated Walker's ability this off season to switch from the right side to the left side replacing Jason Peters. "Probably, "said think Jauron. "We clearly thought that we could move him and he would do the job. He was just not playing up to our expectations. So we felt like it was time to make that move. Alex Van Pelt has already come up with ways to put the young Lineman in position to succeed with his game plan for the Patriots. We will have to protect Bell, Andy Levitre and Eric Wood? Yeah sure Van Pelt we will,"Van Pelt said. We will when Shawn Nelson will be out there-we have got to keep it where we are doing things that they can do well and kind of help them out along the way, too, as they feel there way. After practice on Wednesday, Bell and Levitre felt good about about there pre-snap communication and execution. During preseason we took some snaps, and in training camp those snaps add up too, said Bell. I am comfortable beside him and know when we get a game or two under our belt it should be A-plus work every time. He has been in our system for a year and he knows what is going on and we have played next to each other in a couple of games, said Levitre and Bell. "We have been alongside one another in practice, so it is nothing new. I think we are doing a fine job and we both understand what is going on out on the field so, it is going to be easier than most people think it is going to be. He is a good player, a very athletic guy and I am looking forward to playing next to him. That is why Bell is determined to show Buffalo's coaching staff they were right to put there faith in him and have high expectations despite his short NFL resume.

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