Most coaches like players who respond to instructions of “Jump!” with something along the lines of “How high?”
So it’s a relief that when Bills coach Rex Ryan tells a guy to make way in the bathroom, that guy seems to be there with a square to spare.
Via Nick Veronica of the Buffalo News, Ryan had a simple instruction for wide receiver Dez Lewis, who was just promoted from the practice squad after being passed a few times.
“He’s got to poop or get off the pot, so to speak,” Ryan said. “It’s going to be an opportunity for him. Don’t assume opportunities come around all the time, because they don’t. We’ll see. He’s got the size. We drafted him because we thought he had that kind of ability that he could play in this league, and now he has to prove it.”
The Bills have been squatting on Lewis for nearly two full seasons, stashing the 2015 seventh-round pick on the practice squad since final cuts last year. And he sounds like a guy who is ready to make a splash.
“It’s time to go,” Lewis said. " They look forward for me to go out and contribute to the team, that’s the main thing.
“Stuff like that [Ryan’s remark], I understand it. Some other people may take it as a negative comment, but I don’t. It’s my time to step up, my time to go out and make plays so that’s what I’m going to go out and do.”
It’s good to hear the young man ready to take advantage of the opportunity now that it’s presented to him, lest it slip through the cracks.