Bills Release Mark Anderson

[stuckincincy]

Bad month for DEs named Anderson. - CIN cut the Jamaal version recently.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...innati-bengals

[Meathead]

bring back kelsay!

[Michael82]

Glad to see the Mark Anderson experiment is over! The Patriots suckered us into taking him and he was a worthless POS!

[Pinkerton Security]

Im surprised that we cut him honestly...i know his cap # was definitely the reason why but the damage he did in his career was in the 3-4, and I thought Pettine could make some good use of him.

[stuckincincy]

Gee - it was just last year, when some folks here were slavering over him, as a part of the NFL's best DL.

[Goobylal]

I assume his knee isn't responding well.

[Scumbag College]

I honestly forgot this guy was still around until last week when I looked at the Bills roster.

[superbills]

News flash..the Patriots cut players for a reason...just because we look up to them as a franchise doesn't mean that their garbage will make us better. Hopefully, Whaley understands this going forward :)

[Meathead]

everone associated with the bills last season thought they were a couple players away from prime time so cheap ralph shelled out the huge bucks to land the top two pass rushing free agents. nobody knew that anderson would injure himself early and be a non-factor so they get a pass there. the mistake of the fans was thinking he was more than he had always been - a situational pass rusher only

if he was healthy im sure they would have given him another shot to recapture his '12 magic

[DraftBoy]

I'll be curious to see what this means for the OLB rotation along with who they bring in with the one open roster spot they now have. Outside of the guys mentioned by others (Hughes, Lawson, Blatnick) I'd be interested to see what Kourtnei Brown does. He's a physical specimen out of Clemson (6'4, 253, 4.7 40) and could be a late bloomer. Also this gives Howard star Keith Pough a better shot at the roster.

[feldspar]

I never understood it when everyone was saying that the Bills made a big splash in free agency last year by signing Mario Williams AND Mark Anderson. Never got that "and," like Mark Anderson was a big deal in any way.

This move does surprise me quite a bit though. I guess he was worse than worthless to the Bills. More money to eat.

[EDS]

that, or hughes blatnick are just as good rushing the passer in otas... the byrd situation and hughes made him expendable. hughes was especially lighting it up though

Are they even wearing pads in OTAs to genuinely be able to evaluate these players pass rush abilities in the new scheme?

[DraftBoy]

Are they even wearing pads in OTAs to genuinely be able to evaluate these players pass rush abilities in the new scheme?

No

[TacklingDummy]

I just got the text that the Bills have released Mark Anderson.

Makes wasting the first round pick on EJ even worse.

[TacklingDummy]

The quality of his replacements is irrelevant. If someone took his job then he'd be quality depth or a 3rd down specialist. But this year he stood to make $4 Million. By cutting him, he counts for $4.5 million. We ate a penalty to make him go away.

As a business owner I would be thinking I saved $4 million on garbage.

[mayotm]

Makes wasting the first round pick on EJ even worse.

Refersh my memory, did you like the EJ pick? You haven't mentioned it a hundred times.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

As a business owner I would be thinking I saved $4 million on garbage.

Good thing they hand out trophies for coming in under budget.

[BillsFever21]

The Bills were ******ed for giving this guy the kind of money they did in the first place. The sooner we get him off the cap the better. Not that it matters too much though since we never spend to the cap but that's another topic altogether. They should've cut him sooner so his entire cap hit went to this season. I mean we're only sitting there with 18 million dollars we're not going to use.

[BertSquirtgum]

Makes wasting the first round pick on EJ even worse.

Oh really?

[feldspar]

I mean we're only sitting there with 18 million dollars we're not going to use.

When is the last day that we can spend money on new contracts and have that count towards THIS year?

Anybody know?