Sean McDermott had barely begun speaking to Nathan Peterman during their January postseason meeting when the rookie quarterback presented the first-year Buffalo Bills coach with a detailed road map for his offseason.
"[Peterman] had a whole list of things -- what he was doing, when he was doing it and his plan for the offseason and his growth, which I think is phenomenal for a young player," McDermott told the team's radio program last Wednesday.
Some of McDermott's most glowing comments last week at the NFL combine were about Peterman, a fifth-round pick last April who has seemed to emerge as one of McDermott's star pupils despite a rocky rookie season.