Roscoe Parrish is glad the Bills didn't get rid of him

Orchard Park, NY (WGR 550)  -- Roscoe Parrish told me numerous times last season that it's not that he wanted to leave Buffalo, he just wanted to play whether it was here or someplace else. Dick Jauron was so down on Parrish he took his punt return duties away after Parrish led the NFL the season before. He was also inactive for four games.

Now Parrish is not absolved from blame either. He reacted poorly to all this and just moped around and didn't pay much attention to anything. This season it's a whole new football player out there. Parrish said, "That's the key to success, is be accountable for your job. Chan Gailey always stresses that after practice and as you see and take it upon yourself and you see what you need to do, everything just feel good and you can just go out there and play without having to think so much. "In this profession you can't ever feel down on yourself and last year was a tough year on me and I just had to handle myself like a professional, have a good attitude and you never know what tomorrow will bring. It's a blessing that a new coaching staff came in and I'm still here and they gone." 

Ever since Chan Gailey arrived he put Parrish in the slot as the number three WR and has left him there. Last week Gailey said he's excited about designing plays and situations that will make Parrish valuable. We got our first look at that against Cincinnati when Parrish got matched up with a LB and turned it into a 12 yard touchdown. Parrish is very happy Gailey is talking him up, "It's always nice hearing that from a coach, especially the head coach. I've heard that a lot before, but that's in the past. Right now is right now and I just have to control my own destiny. What I took upon myself this year is just work hard and don't take nothin for granted because how you prepare, is what you sow. Chan Gailey is a guy you believe in, what ever kind of work you put in, that's the way you're going to play."

Another thing happened in camp that was foreign to the WR, "In camp we communicated, that's something since I've been year for six years that I haven't seen. Everybody was communicating and you could just see the chemistry of the whole team."

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