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The Spaz
05-11-2010, 02:13 PM
Fullback Kyle Eckel worked out for the Buffalo Bills today, according to a league source.

http://www.twitter.com/RavensInsider
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 02:13 PM
Aaron Wilson of Ravens Insider reports that the Bills worked out Kyle Eckel (fullback) today. The Bills really do hate issuing press releases to the media.

ANyway, Eckel has played for the Patriots (twice), Miami, Philly and New Orleans during his career. He's 28.
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 02:14 PM
Good job.. can you merge that other one.
NOT THE DUDE...
05-11-2010, 02:19 PM
the bills are going to run the **** out of the ball and pound teams into submission!!!!!
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 02:24 PM
He may have grown up, but he was a bad kid in college.. Got expelled from Navy because of alleged alcohol incidents, among other no-no's (including a female encounter)
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 02:29 PM
Excellent article from Boston.com about some of Eckel's trangressions while in college.

Sounds like he's grown up though.

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2007/11/18/troubled_waters/?page=1
more cowbell
05-11-2010, 02:32 PM
yawn
WeAreArthurMoates
05-11-2010, 02:36 PM
yawn

If it means getting McIntyre off this team I find it exciting.
WeAreArthurMoates
05-11-2010, 02:39 PM
If he can actually open a hole unlike McIntyre I'm all for him.
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 02:40 PM
If he can actually open a hole unlike McIntyre I'm all for him.

Can't hurt to look.
Dujek
05-11-2010, 02:46 PM
All McIntyre could open was his fly. Allegedly.
OpIv37
05-11-2010, 02:58 PM
He may have grown up, but he was a bad kid in college.. Got expelled from Navy because of alleged alcohol incidents, among other no-no's (including a female encounter)

Sex and booze in college? What a degenerate!
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 03:00 PM
Sex and booze in college? What a degenerate!
Agreed.. However. not to many athletes get EXPELLED from the Navy.
Michael82
05-11-2010, 03:11 PM
Has to be better than McIntyre! I'm fine with him here.
OpIv37
05-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Agreed.. However. not to many athletes get EXPELLED from the Navy.

yeah, the article definitely makes it sound a little more serious than that.

But sounds like he's been around the league for a few years without any incidents, so maybe he grew up.

My bigger concern is that he's a FB. In the past, the Bills have wasted roster spots on FB's they never used.
patmoran2006
05-11-2010, 03:14 PM
yeah, the article definitely makes it sound a little more serious than that.

But sounds like he's been around the league for a few years without any incidents, so maybe he grew up.

My bigger concern is that he's a FB. In the past, the Bills have wasted roster spots on FB's they never used.

yeah by all accounts it seems he's done some real growing up.

I think with Gailey they are going to use a fullback more than Jauron did.
more cowbell
05-11-2010, 03:45 PM
If it means getting McIntyre off this team I find it exciting.

good point
clumping platelets
05-11-2010, 11:35 PM
Sign him!
Pinkerton Security
05-12-2010, 08:38 AM
He may have grown up, but he was a bad kid in college.. Got expelled from Navy because of alleged alcohol incidents, among other no-no's (including a female encounter)

My brother-in-law actually knew him really well, he lived with several of the football players at Navy when he was at Annapolis. Said he was basically a bad person haha, really didnt like him much at all. However, that was several years ago and hopefully he has grown up by now.
jamze132
05-12-2010, 09:09 AM
Sounds like a candidate for the Bengals.
Jan Reimers
05-12-2010, 09:17 AM
Did anyone read the friggin' article? He was NOT expelled from the Naval Academy. He graduated in 2005, but WAS later expelled from naval service before he had fulfilled his entire commitment and had to pay back some of his education costs.

We really should get a fact or two correct on here once in a while.
methos4ever
05-12-2010, 10:32 AM
Did anyone read the friggin' article? He was NOT expelled from the Naval Academy. He graduated in 2005, but WAS later expelled from naval service before he had fulfilled his entire commitment and had to pay back some of his education costs.

We really should get a fact or two correct on here once in a while.
And like he said in the article the "trouble with a girl" was akin to being blamed for a car accident when you just drove by it.

And the second incident was more murky; however, if anything these incidents show to me if he's going to be signed, they have to watch him around alcohol.
Ickybaluky
05-12-2010, 10:41 AM
I doubt he threatens McIntyre. He was a halfback at Navy (and played there in NE) and is really more of a big RB than a true FB. He is a RB/FB tweener who is a better fit as a FB in a West Coast-type scheme or as a single-RB with no FB. Perhaps it is the latter the Bills see him, since they will be using spread sets. He isn't a hammer-type lead blocker as a FB.

If the Bills do sign him I doubt he makes the team.
OpIv37
05-12-2010, 10:44 AM
I doubt he threatens McIntyre. He was a halfback at Navy (and played there in NE) and is really more of a big RB than a true FB. He is a RB/FB tweener who is a better fit as a FB in a West Coast-type scheme or as a single-RB with no FB. Perhaps it is the latter the Bills see him, since they will be using spread sets. He isn't a hammer-type lead blocker as a FB.

If the Bills do sign him I doubt he makes the team.

That actually makes him a good fit for Buffalo. They never actually use a FB on offense and their criteria for the position seems to be "guy who can play RB in an emergency situation and contribute on ST in the meantime"