I guess Villarial hurt his ankle today and may be out Sunday. Good thing we have so much depth on our O line. The season hasnt even started yet.
I guess Villarial hurt his ankle today and may be out Sunday. Good thing we have so much depth on our O line
I hope to heck Donohoe doesn't come out saying this is one of the things beyond his control!
where'd ya hear this?
If its true... how much do you think we miss Tucker already???
I still cant believe we released him!
www.billsdaily.comOriginally Posted by Pride
why do you think we kept all those wr's? Wilson and Aiken can play Ol if asked to.
We need to look at Steve Sciullo!
http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/showthread.php?t=79481
how good does ross tucker look now eh???
Jeremy Cupp
Personally, I will NEVER miss Tucker. I just wasnt that impressed. I think Preston will do just fine.
If your point is that our o-line depth is weak, I absolutely agree! I lobbied here a few days back to upgrade some of our backups from the last round of cuts. I would have liked to see some players like:
Mike Compton, Anthony Clements, CJ Brooks yet we stuck with who we have. None of those guys is a C but any would have been better than our current depth. Im a little worried that yet again our o-line depth is weak and costs us games.
Im fine with our starters except for the penalties from Anderson. But after the starters we are pretty darn slim.
We need to bring back Tucker, if he's healthy. He knows our system.
Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?
OK, just did some scouring of the cuts, yes they were cut but someone has to be at least a competition to Preston at C:
Brett Romberg
Vince Carter
Ben Claxton
Not alot to choose from.
Im gonna look at backups as in a trade next.
OK, I scanned the depth charts from NFL.com for names that stuck out to me at backup C. Personally I think we may be fine with Preston but im willing to feed the sky is falling folks.
These are the BACKUPS that seem familiar to me:
Cinn- Ben Wilkerson
CHI- Roberto Garza
Dal- Andre Gurode
GB- Grey Reugamer- also backups up at G
Scott Welss- also backups up at G
Min- Adam Goldberg
KC- Chris Bober
NO- Jamar Nesbit
NE- Russ Hochstein- also backup G
SF- Eric Heitmann
Sea- Chris Spencer
Pitt- Chucky Okobi
Was- Corey Raymer
Overall, Im a bit pleasantly suprised in a way. The rest of the league doesnt seem to be too deep on the OL either. Im not really sure any of these guys is a serious upgrade to Preston. But sure, there are some guys here with potential. Problem is, if we trade for one in hopes of saving a few games until Teague gets back [Thats if you assume not having Teague will costs us games] and you trade for one of these guys, you basically are telling Preston he isnt our future at C.
BTW, Chris Specer was a 1`st rounder, not likely we could or would even try to land him even if we felt we needed a potential star.
If Tucker's back was in bad shape he wasn't going to be worth keeping on the roster.
Preston had a real good preseason so he'll probably get the nod at RG.
However once again bills fans freak out like the little girls they are and cry DOOMED any chance they get
DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED
Oh, come on, you just don't want to admit that the sky is falling and the season is lost.
The Bills have depth at OL
We have 2 OL on IR Smith, Lawrence, and Sobieski, Ben
and 2 OL on the practice squad McFarland, Dylan, Esposito, Jasen
the practice squad players can be called up , and the IR guys will return to duty.
All 4 of these guys played in our system some last year. So I'm not sure why everyones freaking out about our OL, and the players we kept. Obviously the Bills coaches kept the players active that deserve to make the squad, put 2 OL on IR who are banged up, and placed 2 OL on the Practice squad to get more seasoning and be avaialble for call up.
Damn straight.Oh, come on, you just don't want to admit that the sky is falling and the season is lost.
nothing but a big over flowing dish of optomism being served up by me. I just cannot get behind the negative nancies. Too many Bills fans have reduced themsleves to doom and gloomers.
Who is freaking out that the sky is falling and the season is over?? I havent seen one post in this thread like that. Everyone is simply discussing the event. Where is anyone freaking out? Where still gonna reck s*** this Sunday and every Sunday, everyone relax, nobody is scared.
Billsfancupp38 made a Tucker reference, a guy let go because his back is screwed. There are posts once again desperately searching the waiver wire for Ol help.
there are also numerous posts in other threads about the Bills OL, who we cut who we kept and nuemrous references to TD being the problem, which IMO is th ebiggest joke going.
and there is only a matter of a post or 3 before we start seeig the negative comments... I'm just jumping the gun, but we all know it will happen
Injuries happen, and our coaches kept the best players on the team who could fill in for an injured player.
I don't see panic, I just see Bills fans debating on how to improve their beloved team, which is the purpose of these message boards.
GO BILLS!
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