Are Bell and Hairston back?

[Forward_Lateral]

It has Levitre as the C on BB.com and Bell and Hairston at LT. Are they both back?

[k-oneputt]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

Hairston.

Who knows with Bell.
Need to draft an o-tackle again early.

[madness]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

Hairston will start at LT as he has practiced the last two weeks. I haven't heard anything about Bell practicing as of yet.

[Forward_Lateral]

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I don't feel so badly about the O-line then. Levitre will surprise people I think.

[psubills62]

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I've heard people saying Bell is back. Not sure if they were simply reading tea leaves because the Bills didn't sign an OT to the roster or what.

[OpIv37]

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I don't feel so badly about the O-line then. Levitre will surprise people I think.

Not worried about Levitre as long as he's on the interior- I don't like him at T.

I am worried about whoever takes Levitre's spot at LG now that he had to move to Center.

[Ed]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

I'm not too worried about LG. I thought Rinehart did a good job of filling in for Urbik. You can't really replace what Wood brings at center, but I think our interior will be ok. It will be nice to have an actual OT playing OT again too.

[Bill Cody]

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Levitre will surprise people I think.

Really? Remind me, what do I do again if I get an erection that lasts more than 4 hours?

[madness]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

Mixed bag on O-line

Posted by Chris Brown on November 16, 2011 – 2:32 pm

The offensive line was getting shuffled around at Wednesday’s practice due to an unexpected absence.
Though preparations for Eric Wood were made with Andy Levitre in the pivot, Erik Pears was a surprise non-participant. Fortunately Demetrius Bell was back practicing along with Chris Hairston. For most of the media viewing portion of practice Hairston lined up at left tackle. Bell got work at left and right tackle. And Kraig Urbik saw a lot of work at right tackle during individual positions drills with Colin Brown lined up next to him at right guard.
Hopefully what is keeping Pears sidelined is nothing significant, otherwise the line could have a different player at every line position from opening day.

[Crisis]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

Can Levitre play WR too?

[RoscoeMagic]

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Not worried about Levitre as long as he's on the interior- I don't like him at T.

I am worried about whoever takes Levitre's spot at LG now that he had to move to Center.

What are you talking about? Rinehart's been there for 4 weeks and will be there the rest of the year with Levitre at C permanently since Wood's on IR.

[madness]

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Can Levitre play WR too?

Forget that... Can he rush the passer?

[madness]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

Day 1 goes well for Bell

Posted by Chris Brown on November 16, 2011 – 4:22 pm

OT Demetrius Bell was back practicing for the first time since Week 4 and by his account fared well his first day back in pads.
“It went pretty good,” Bell told Buffalobills.com. “It’s been too long. What was it? Six weeks? Way too long.”
Bell took reps at both left and right tackle as he tries to shake the rust off from a month and a half absence from the practice and game settings.
“Just trying to get an extra rep in here and there wherever I can,” he said.
Head coach Chan Gailey said he would consider getting Bell back in the starting lineup this week, but after such a long layoff indicated that he’d be leaning in favor of Hairston who has practiced fully each of the past two weeks to man left tackle.

[Johnny Bugmenot]

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Now let's hope Demetrius doesn't revert to his old "penalty machine" self.

[X-Era]

Re: Are Bell and Hairston back?

Hairston.

Who knows with Bell.
Need to draft an o-tackle again early.

Why?

If the Bills think Hairston is their long term answer at LT, which is very likely BTW, that position is filled. And the Bills appear to be fine with Pears on the other side. If they lock up Pears long term prior to the end of the season I'd expect OT to become a mid to late round possibility.

And no I still think Hairston is best suited to play RT but I don't make the decisions.