BillsWatch Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 The New York Jets on Tuesday signed safety Jim Leonhard, the second player new coach Rex Ryan has lured away from the Baltimore Ravens. Leonhard, a hard hitter despite being just 5-foot-8, signed with Buffalo as an undrafted free agent out of Wisconsin in 2005. He is expected to join Kerry Rhodes as the Jets' starting safeties. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11453107 Let the lame jokes return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantankerous Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 No f-cking way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Another example of how inept the Bills are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC-Bills Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 The New York Jets on Tuesday signed safety Jim Leonhard, the second player new coach Rex Ryan has lured away from the Baltimore Ravens. Leonhard, a hard hitter despite being just 5-foot-8, signed with Buffalo as an undrafted free agent out of Wisconsin in 2005. He is expected to join Kerry Rhodes as the Jets' starting safeties. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11453107 Let the lame jokes return. Good for Leonhard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrFishfinder Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 The New York Jets on Tuesday signed safety Jim Leonhard, the second player new coach Rex Ryan has lured away from the Baltimore Ravens. Leonhard, a hard hitter despite being just 5-foot-8, signed with Buffalo as an undrafted free agent out of Wisconsin in 2005. He is expected to join Kerry Rhodes as the Jets' starting safeties. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11453107 Let the lame jokes return. Congrats to Leonhard. He deserves it and it's too bad, but not surprising, the Bills whiffed on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifestoshort Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 The Bills didn't whiff on Leonard. Assuming you meant the FO didn't recognize his talent level. The Bills missed with the coaching and schemes...they never allowed him to flourish. Same can be said for Lee Evans, Donte Whitner, Poz... Talent is there. We just run everything so vanilla that the players are limited in there ability to have game breaking impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hossage Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 He will fit in very well with the jets. They let their safeties run around underneath and he will make plays there. I think we missed the boat on Leonard, but he was injured and young and not a physical specimen and the front office would have had a glut of average safeties on the roster. If we could give Ko Simpson his brain we would be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrFishfinder Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 The Bills didn't whiff on Leonard. Assuming you meant the FO didn't recognize his talent level. The Bills missed with the coaching and schemes...they never allowed him to flourish. Same can be said for Lee Evans, Donte Whitner, Poz... Talent is there. We just run everything so vanilla that the players are limited in there ability to have game breaking impact. FO whiff, coaching whiff, scheme whiff....does it really make any difference at this point? Sort of like a vanilla sundae with wiffed cream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsWatch Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 More on story: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11458135 Jim Leonhard had his heart set on following Rex Ryan to the New York Jets when a late, eye-popping offer intrigued him."We were very close to having everything signed, sealed and delivered out to New York when all of a sudden the Denver Broncos came out of nowhere and threw out a really big number at me," the Jets' new safety said Wednesday. "So, I took a few hours to consider it and we ultimately decided that regardless of the money situation, the Jets were the place to be." The 26-year-old Leonhard signed a three-year deal with the Jets on Tuesday, and while financial terms weren't announced, it's believed to be worth around $2 million a year. Denver's offer was significantly better, and Leonhard acknowledged that he left quite a bit of money on the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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