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Tracker: Bills' Roster Moves to the 53 Man Limit - Two Players Awarded from Waiver Claims with Colton Schmidt Released


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13 hours ago, Domdab99 said:

The new punter had one helluva college career...not sure why they hated Schmidt so much, though. He was a perfectly serviceable punter, and often got it inside the 20. Hope they know what they're doing with a guy who didn't make one punt in the pre-season. 

 

And even though the J is silent in his name, his nickname just HAS to be "Bojo," right? 

 

The CB signing could be very helpful....I have little confident in Davis or Gaines.

 

Davis looked pretty old and  slow out there 

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2 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

That was a really stupid thing for Bo to do and I think that it hurt his draft position. If you look at the video, the players all seemed to have a great time at the White House this year. His idiocy did not represent the team.

 

Because this is a passing league, the defenses are slowly getting smaller and faster. Imo, this increases the value of a big back. Remember how well Karlos performed on the Bills?

I want the Bills to get better blocking and a large tailback more than I want Bo specifically.

 

 

 

He is still a kid so I get it.  We've all done stupid things.  I know I did, but I had a lot less at stake.  

 

Karlos' situation is worse in my mind because he was already on a team, and I think he would have had a chance to fight for the starting job by now if he hadn't of smoked, ate and instagrammed his way out of the league.

 

 

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I couldn't help but notice that a fair number of the Bills' cuts have been signed to other team's practice rosters... Clay, Boettger, Redmond and Vallejo so far.  I guess that this could be an indication that we cut the wrong guys... but I would rather believe that the overall talent level is rising on this team... despite the fact that some media outlets are speculating that we might have the least talented roster in the league.  Anyway, I've got a lot of confidence in this management group's ability to acquire personnel.  Players like Croom, Neal, Murphy, Phillips, McCloud and Teller are virtually unknown outside Western New York (and Southern Ontario)... but I think that they're all future solid starters at the very least.  Discipline and teamwork are going to have to get the job done for the time being... but better days are coming.  Go Bills!

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I couldn't help but notice that a fair number of the Bills' cuts have been signed to other team's practice rosters... Clay, Boettger, Redmond and Vallejo so far.  I guess that this could be an indication that we cut the wrong guys... but I would rather believe that the overall talent level is rising on this team... despite the fact that some media outlets are speculating that we might have the least talented roster in the league.  Anyway, I've got a lot of confidence in this management group's ability to acquire personnel.  Players like Croom, Neal, Murphy, Phillips, McCloud and Teller are virtually unknown outside Western New York (and Southern Ontario)... but I think that they're all future solid starters at the very least.  Discipline and teamwork are going to have to get the job done for the time being... but better days are coming.  Go Bills!

With Clay and Vallejo, it's likely they were picked up for their special teams contributions.  The Bills have had solid special teams so it doesn't surprise me that other teams have gone after our cuts in this area.  As to the O linemen, Dallas is looking for depth with all the injuries that they've had on their oline this preseason.  The Bills were hoping each of those guys would make it to their practice squad, but couldn't sneak them through.

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20 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

 

This guy made some plays in the preseason.  Seemed to be around the ball quite a bit. 

He was around the ball, but ran right past about 4 sacks, several of which he was unblocked.  He hasn't done much in 3 years. He had a nice INT for a TD in the 4th preseason game.

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1 minute ago, cle23 said:

He was around the ball, but ran right past about 4 sacks, several of which he was unblocked.  He hasn't done much in 3 years. He had a nice INT for a TD in the 4th preseason game.

 

Had a nice pick six in week 4 against the Lions. 

Can't-Miss Play: Orchard leaps up for INT and races for pick-six

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2 minutes ago, cle23 said:

He was around the ball, but ran right past about 4 sacks, several of which he was unblocked.  He hasn't done much in 3 years. He had a nice INT for a TD in the 4th preseason game.

 

From what I'm reading about Orchard... it sure sounds a lot like what was being said about Jerry Hughes when we picked him up.  Guys that can get through to the quarterback fairly consistently are worth a lot in today's game.

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1 hour ago, Jamie Mueller said:

 

From what I'm reading about Orchard... it sure sounds a lot like what was being said about Jerry Hughes when we picked him up.  Guys that can get through to the quarterback fairly consistently are worth a lot in today's game.

5 sacks in 3 years. 

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11 minutes ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

 

When the guy you just gave a contract to publicly states that your logic in signing him to said contract is broken.....you've got a problem. This punter-gate is hilarious and...I hate saying it but....so Billsy. I can only hope that the idea is to grab Jon Ryan after week 1 so that he doesn't have a fully guaranteed deal.

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1 minute ago, MiltonWaddams said:

When the guy you just gave a contract to publicly states that your logic in signing him to said contract is broken.....you've got a problem. This punter-gate is hilarious and...I hate saying it but....so Billsy. I can only hope that the idea is to grab Jon Ryan after week 1 so that he doesn't have a fully guaranteed deal.

You know what makes less sense keeping a punter all of preseason and never letting him punt.

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On 9/2/2018 at 7:38 AM, eball said:

The Foster thing is interesting. I’m not going to take the time to re-watch the preseason tape but it strikes me that he was getting open a lot but sometimes struggled with tracking the ball or making “natural” catches. They must believe he is coachable and will improve with experience. The athletic tools are obvious. I’m glad they took a chance with a guy like this over someone like Streater. 

 

It may just be that Foster knows that Daboll likes his coffee with whiskey added and does it without even saying it.

 

Sometimes coaches keep players because they are familiar with them.

On 9/2/2018 at 10:36 AM, Bronxbomber21 said:

Nether is Vald

I am sure your years of OL tells you that.

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21 minutes ago, MiltonWaddams said:

I'm not actually certain that makes less sense. They, at least, had the opportunity to see him kick in practice. 

Right but if he wasn't good enough to let him take a shot during preseason games why would you keep him so long and not open up a spot to try someone else?

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14 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

Right but if he wasn't good enough to let him take a shot during preseason games why would you keep him so long and not open up a spot to try someone else?

I'm not arguing against that. It's obviously a terrible idea. What I'm saying is that a team that has never seen the guy kick in an NFL stadium, after watching him get held out of 4 PRESEASON games, is thinking way , way outside of the box to think that picking him up to replace two proven, yet under-performing, veterans is the the right move. These are both ridiculous concepts.

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2 hours ago, cle23 said:

5 sacks in 3 years. 

 

2 hours ago, cle23 said:

5 sacks in 3 years. 

 

Getting through the line is supposed to be the hard part... maybe someone just needs to teach him to stop when he gets to the quarterback...

13 minutes ago, MiltonWaddams said:

I'm not arguing against that. It's obviously a terrible idea. What I'm saying is that a team that has never seen the guy kick in an NFL stadium, after watching him get held out of 4 PRESEASON games, is thinking way , way outside of the box to think that picking him up to replace two proven, yet under-performing, veterans is the the right move. These are both ridiculous concepts.

 

Let's just see how the kid does in a game before we lose our composure.  I have seen a reaction like this since they drafted Allen... a move that does seem so upsetting any more.

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2 hours ago, MiltonWaddams said:

I'm not arguing against that. It's obviously a terrible idea. What I'm saying is that a team that has never seen the guy kick in an NFL stadium, after watching him get held out of 4 PRESEASON games, is thinking way , way outside of the box to think that picking him up to replace two proven, yet under-performing, veterans is the the right move. These are both ridiculous concepts.

I really think that BB and the Pat's were trying to outsmart everyone and held him out to sneak him into their PS. Other teams that may have seen or scouted him in the past probably knew he could kick and swiped him before he could get into the PS in NE. Either that or the Bolls front office is actually run by Chimps and decided to pick up a Punter that they didnt get to scout play in a Preseason game......

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9 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said:

I really think that BB and the Pat's were trying to outsmart everyone and held him out to sneak him into their PS. Other teams that may have seen or scouted him in the past probably knew he could kick and swiped him before he could get into the PS in NE. Either that or the Bolls front office is actually run by Chimps and decided to pick up a Punter that they didnt get to scout play in a Preseason game......

 

 

Exactly 

 

they knew he could punt so why show it to other teams. Stash him for a year cheap and maybe replaces their starter 

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