Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I don't know if he was in but from looking at five different angles you couldn't tell so went with the call on the field it appears.

There were only 5 seconds left on the play clock so couldn't run out the clock without getting a delay of game penalty

See It must be Brandon is still interfering with football decisions!! *sarcasm* I mean seriously who could that be, doubt it was Rex as he has no history with the guy It was a mistake by the Pegula's who are new at this to interfere. Whaley now is taking the heat for it, but that's why he makes the big bucks as they say.

I'd more argue then that Pegula lied, not Whaley as then why didn't Pegula again step in and tell Whaley, no you can't cut hit, yeah I know, Whaley went rogue and cut him without Pegula knowing about it (sorry don't buy that for a second. My opinion and facts seem to support it, Whaley and I'm sure Rex wanted to cut him in March. Pegula made his first mistake as an owner, and listened to the fans and said no keep him. But even then I'm sure behind closed doors, the agreement was, we'll keep him for now and see what happens by September. So Pegula announced we're keeping him, but no way can you also state that publicly. Fast forward to Sept, he gets nicked up agai nin training camp, Bill draft Williams and he far exceeds expectations. He had one good 40 yard run after coming back, but as many stated, he never should have been caught either. Rex tells management OK, you can keep Jackson, and cut Brown, but either one of them will be the #4 back and won't dress unless there's an injury. So they cut him and Whaley looks like the bad guy, but really Pegula's interference which caused the issue.

From what I' know of the rules if they reached an injury settlement which is says they did, the Bills can not resign him regardless of what else happens. Even if no other team wants him and he's basically a FA no team is allowed to sign anyone that they give an injury settlement too. Yeah think they took a play out of the NE Patriot playbook here . I doubt the league will look into this all that much as it's kind of a unique situation that likely doesn't happen very often with all the limitations around who can and can't be on the practice squad to begin with. Have to have less than 4 years, can't have been active for more than a certain number of games, in addition unlikely you were ever a very high draft pick as if you were and met the first three conditions, likely some other team would sign the player as soon as he was cut, so would never make it to the practice squad. Sounds like Whaley is being real cute again here!! Don't you just hate it when he does that!

Just curious does Don Banks and Heath Evans opinions also mean nothing. Evans apparently picked us to win the SuperBowl. LOL Funny how these guys know nothing, but in the other threads on Banks and Evans, they get all the love. Yeah I get it but is still very laughable ohhh...... "Clayton means nothing!!"

Hear he's out working on a deal with Tim Tebow!!

Let the Pats win tonight, get all the emotion out and come int oBuffalo nice and flat. Seems I've noticed over time Super Bowl champs often win the first game the next season, then go down hill after that.

I've always felt the problem QB's are having is the game has become too fast, and players too big for the QB's to keep up, but maybe it's also way too much of the "whatever dude" generation. I've said this before and I'll state it again now, we need Stepford QB's. The NFL needs to develop a program around this.

Don't kid yourself, so will Keven Sheppard (Think that was his name?) Oh wait, he's no longer with Indy!!

No! I think playing them second is ideal, let them get their emotion out of the way this week, then we play them week #2

Russ Brandon!! We all know he's still making all the football decisions at One Bills Drive!

Speaking of not being at the facility, I assume Kromer is also started his fall vacation too?? Hadn't heard a word about it, but wouldn't really expect much to be said. Yes he was cute, he saved a couple million $$ If that's what you call being cute, then you're truely clueless. I see in one of your other posts you came to just be an emotional fan. Well if you're that emotional to post just totally stupid completly off base things and then hide behind you're an emotional fan when everyone rips you apart, then maybe you need to stop posting as you can't handle it. Fan is short for fanatic and that's fine, but if you're not reasonable, expect to be laughed out. That's the difference here, you're a fan, Whaley is a professional and he acts like one by doing things that you call "cute" In other words it's just a normal day at TBD

I think we can thanks his wife for getting pregant as sounds like that was a big factor in re-signing. Everything I've read says the #2 QB gets about six snaps a week with the first team offense. I'm sure #3 gets less, but if we're starting at six and going down, not really much to lose there. So can't see it truely hurting him. Why becasue the coaches who've seeen just a bit more than you, feel Cassell is better.

Yeah, these guys do a good job racking up the Frequent Flyer Miles!

If they don't like him I think it's due to too often poor decision making. I will grant you he looked very good in the pre-season, stronger than Cassell. But not sure that isn't because he facing very limited blitzing and game planning. So in that situation he can look good. Meanwhile maybe in practices they did blitz all three QB's and really scramble things up and in those situations EJ looked totally lost. That may be why the insiders are saying what they are and why the coaches don't have much faith in him. As far as EJ's pre-season stats go, TT looked just as good, and again both looked great against limited game planning. So yes if the Bills offense flounders I will think of EJ's pre-season and come to the immediate conclusion that would be much better off as everything from the preseason equates 100% to the regular season. And I'm not an EJ hater BTW, just someone who's objective

While what you say is true, I have to agree more with Dean in that everything I've read is back up QB's get about six snaps all week with the 1st string. So based on six snaps each week, I'll take my chances on Cassel over EJ in that situation. I do think EJ looked much stronger than Cassel in the pre-season, but if you rate all three QB's as far as the basic tools go, EJ likely would come out on top as far as size, arm strength etc. In pre-season with limited blitzing and game planning the guy with the best tools may look the best. EJ, as most QB's looks best when no pressure, but in prior years gets rattled easily. Conversely I'm not completely sure that they didn't deliberately sandbag Cassell reps and just have him do nothing by 5 yard check downs though admittedly that is somewhat his MO. But again pre-season might be deceiving.

your correct if that was the goal, but in this case they kept the RB with more potential in Bryce. And also realize it may not matter as barring injuries neither would be dressed, so kept the player less likely to be upset with not playing and at a much smaller salary.

No not at all, funny how he pointed out how Jackson totally outplayed Brown. Well yeah since Marrone would never activate, wasn't too hard to do. There were other comments to in the article that were huge stretches, but great article for people who don't like Whaley. You can find truth in anything!! We'll never know what the deal there really was. I'm not at all convinced the plan wasn't to bring Polien in as a consultant but once he started plans to bring AJ Smith in, Pegula pulled the plug on the whole thing and Polien to save face, claimed he turned it down. Pugula wasn't going to get into a pissing contest with him so let that story fly. So blame Whaley for drafting these guys, but lets give Rex the credit for Richie. Statements like that really show me you would definitely qualify to be Sully's understudy. And sure finding a franchise QB is important, but if it truely is the most important, then over half the GM's in the league have failed miserably.

Any idea what actually happened to Thompson, what was the extent of the injury? I see Chandler also is listed on IR, another phantom injury??

No way, even if they end up at six wins, the Bills would be crazy to not resign him. People who knock Whaley for not doing more at QB make it sound like QB's grow on trees and every team in the league has a franchise QB except us. In the AFC the only teams that I could as solid at QB are NE, Pitt, Balt, Indy, San Diego; NFC; Giants, Dallas, Green Bay, Det, Carolina, NO, Atl, Seattle, You can then throw in teams like Denver, Philly, Az who took gambles that may work out or may not due to age or injury prone. Then there are teams like Cinn and Miami who have guys that each year do well enough to think you're set at QB, but bad enough to question if you should cut the guy, but they keep him because they too are smart enough to know it's very difficult to find someone better. Then there's the rest of the league including Buffalo who have someone who may turn out to finally be the guy, or in two more years the team will be looking again for their next franchise QB. Look at Tampa, three years ago Freeman was in the pro Bowl, now he's gone through three teams since and Tampa had the #1 overall pick. so to fault Whaley for not getting that great QB is a joke, if it were that easy, every team would have one.

So explain to me what players can get added to practice squad? As I understand it only players with I believe it less than 4 years are PS eligible. Players with more than 4 years exp who are released become UFA Therefore anyone with less than 4 years would go through waivers But if a player who went through waivers has to be added to active squad, then how would anyone ever end up on PS (as must have less than 4 years for PS)?? Either I'm missing something or the statement below can't be true as with what I wrote above there's no path to PS??

This isn't HS. Yeah he went to Clemson, Rex may watch their games a little closer than other schools, but if he doesn't have the talent, he's not on the team. It happens often with coaches giving other coaches jobs becasue they went ot their alum or are buddy with the coach at another school, but how many adults give any type of job other than maybe washing their car to their sons friend.

The comments made in the past year by think it was Henderson and also EJ makes it sound like the coaching staff of the Marrone era was about D-2 college level. Or may have been the coaches were fine, but Marrone's interference in giving different instructions than the positional coaches was the issue. Probably wouldn't be a bad move to bring Richardson back to the PS assuming he doesn't first sign elsewhere as at least he does know the system. But would still like to see them sign on actual experienced preferably inside guy for the active roster

O-line is the one positions where starters will play the entire game so agree depth isn't as big of a concern barring injury. But going as light as 7 or 8 is a bit of as risk for dealing with in-game injuries. Can one of our five TE's play line to finish up a game?? Do we send the injured OL player to the locker room and have them switch jerseys with a PS play and send him back out there to finish the game, a sudden injury healing. (You have to wonder if that's ever been tried, may have been an Al Davis trick) Plus PS players can't have more than what is it 4 years experience, so not exactly getting strong depth there. I agree that it's a good way to develop a young guy say like a Battle who may be a year away from being able to make the roster, but if all of a sudden you have two lineman get injured week one, you're in trouble the next week having to activate one off the PS. I'd like and kind of expect with their still open slot to see them sign a somewhat experienced interior lineman.