Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Yuo're also assuming you're going to be playing four backups at once. Barring injury OL don't come off the field. May not look too bad with one or eve ntwo backups forced to play. Plus likely can find some improvment from other teams cuts.

I suppose you could cut Gay, sign another kicker, maybe not a great kicker as not likely to find one at this point. Let him kickoff and field goals for a couple weeks, Keep Carp on the roster and give him a couple of weeks to rest up and heal the leg, then see what he can do in practice. Might just be the leg hasn't healed yet and he needs time. I'd hate to see him become the next Gary Anderson

From what we saw last year, the reliable part of Fred Jackson is thta he just isn't very good any longer, that's the thing you can kind of count on.

Technically Saturday is "Offical Turk Day", but like many holidays in this country we make into two and three day events. I agree backup lineman have looked shaky, but you're looking at three or four out there at the same time. Lineman rarely come out of the game except for injury, so if lucky the backup lineman never play. If two lineman get hurt and you have a back up and say RT and LG, while it will hurt, not as bad as 4 subs in there at once like in pre-season. Plus can probably find some serviceable backups from other teams cuts too.

Offsides on 4 and 3, Bills stopped him but automatic 1st down due to penalty

Interesting comment announcers made, last game Trrod Taylor started was in the Orange Bowl against Andrew Luck for Stanford. Next week his next start against Andrew Luck of Indy

That was my thought exactly!!

This is cool, I have Roku too. Pretty good quality.

Can't watch it on computer, this sucks!! Hope it's not that way during the regular season. Most games I watch directly on TV, but once in awhile will watch on laptop if traveling

Nbc does it all the time with the Sunday night game. admittedly the entire country is receiving it. It will probably be one of those weeks where 95% of the country is getting the same game anyway.

I did see him on the field for at least one play.

Well in that case; what time does the Bills game start? Hmmm I didn't get the email! (as is often stated)

I'd pick the RB coach. Lets face it the staff is all together on the same page until it comes time for cuts. At that point the RB coach wants the team to carry five RB, the OL coach wants ten lineman, WR, let's go with six or seven. So I'm sure the RB coach was not happy with cutting Fred, but over all the team likely viewed it as a numbers thing and RB was the odd man out today.

So let me get this straight, he doesn't save $5mil, he only saves $4.15 mil? do I have that straight??? OK!! Where I come from $4.15 mil is close enough to call it $5mil!! But hey yup you are correct!

Guess I'm trying to figure out why everyone seems ot think Rex wanted to keep Fred. Is it because of somthing Tim Graham stated as "fact"? The only thing I can figure is becasue early in training camp Rex called our Brown for fumbling too much, therefore we jump to conclusion, Rex doesn't like Brown, therefore Rex loves fred and would have rather cut Brown and kept Fred. That comment by Rex was also made before Brown had a very strong fumblre free game agaisnt think it was Cleveland. I highly doubt the move of dumping Fred was made without Rex also agreeing with it, infact likely advocating for it. Wouldn't shock me to see it came down to will Fred be happy not dressing most weeks as the #4 back, probably not, so lets move on. But Whaley is being professional about it and letting himself be the fall guy here even if he had nothing to do with it. Normally this was the role Brandon took from the fans, guess we've moved on now. Maybe it was his idea, maybe not but this idea that Whaley got mad at Rex for naming Tailor the started so he then went and cut Freddy is nothing but laughable.

Last few seasons don't matter, this year is what matters. McCoy, Williams for certain. Factoring in ST would put Dixon ahead of him too. And honestly, if Brown gets over the fumbling thing, I'd put him ahead to, but may not matter as Brown likely won't dress unless someone else gets hurt which would have been the same position for Freddy, not dressing for the game.

Why because Freddy says Whaley was dishonest? For all we know Rex may have been the one who wanted to get rid of him, maybe Whaley tried to keep him, but agreed the numbers didn't add up so cut him, and now he's just taking the heat and not blaming others for it, unlike Freddy. Read in one of the columns today some names mentions, Green Bay cutting Farve, Indy cutting Peyton, and Emmitt Smith leaving Dallas, Could easily add Thurman leaving the Bills too. If those guys could be let go, players who everyone in the league knew what team they played for, half the fans in the league probably haven't even heard of Fred Jackson, then Fred getting cut, isn't even a story, which probably explains why it wasn't much more than a whimper on Sportcenter about it.

You may see Seattle in the Super Bowl, but still a long ways for him to still be on the team. Not knocking Fred but his best chance at still being with Seattle in Super Bowl is on IR list.

Kind of funny reading a post like list about calling someone else an infant. Well like they always say, it takes one to know one.

Or could be they just agreed with you so they didn't have to listen to you on your rant anymore.

I thought this thread was a riddle!! I may not be explaining this the best, but the rational is it helps teams (like Buffalo use to be) that aren't able to spend as much money as say the Cowboys due to revenue constraints. The logic is teams with deeper pockets could better afford to sign stars for the 47th thru 53rd roster spots which would widen the gap between talent on teams. A team that doesn't want/can't spend as much money can still have players that for 1 thru 47 are just as talented as the high rollers. The depth isn't as good on the lower salaried teams so this helps narrow the gap.

This is a Buffalo Bills Fans website and we're all fans of the Bills. Fan is short for fanatics. and thread's like this and others on this board today certainly prove than fans are fanatics, Rational thinking goes out the window when dealing with emotion. Blame it on Whaley not wanting to admit he's wrong on Brown; Show how from 2006 to 2011 FJ's stats were better than McCoy and all the other Bills, but kind of forgetting that it's now 2015; just plain stupidness, but that's how fanatics act.

If you IR him, doesn't he still count against he cap? Not sure what his cap hit is, maybe small enough not to worry about it. You only have I believe it's one slot for IR designated to return. I think it's way to early in the season and Goodwin isn't anywhere near good enough to warrant that spot. Other higher needs unfortunately will likely show up as the season progresses.

So if he's out hurt and unable to play, can the Bills still cut him this week if desired? Or are you not allowed to cut an injured player?

Based on what's been seen on the field, Taylor should start EJ is #2, Simms #3, and I'd be fine with either trade or cut Cassel. However as was pointed out earlier in this thread, what we've seen in the games is all against vanilla defense. How will either Taylor or Manual look against a normal defense. It's quite possible in practices Rex has had the defense show much more regular season game looks and in the process Taylor and EJ have both looked very shaky. Alot of the reports from training camp stated that particularly against EJ. Conversely maybe they deliberately held back what they wanted Cassell to do so all were saw were check downs. No idea what the decision will be, but could understand if it's not Taylor as the starter, it may be due to how they've looked playing against more complex looks and Cassell has looked better there.