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Bills/Dolphins: Final Injury Report

The Buffalo Bills' final injury report for this Sunday's tilt with the Miami Dolphins is out, and once again there are some pretty big names on it.

DE Aaron Schobel: He has been officially ruled out by head coach Dick Jauron and will miss just the second start of his career.  The official site's Chris Brown reports that Schobel is making progress, but his foot remains in an immobilizer boot.  Rest assured that the Bills won't allow Schobel to hit the field until he's 100 percent - they want him completely healthy for the stretch run.  Ryan Denney will start in Schobel's stead, just as he did last week in the win over San Diego.

CB Terrence McGee: Listed as questionable.  He's been limited in practice all week, but Jauron admitted - again according to Chris Brown - that he didn't want to give McGee a full work load this week.  We heard last week that McGee would be good to go against San Diego; clearly that didn't manifest itself, but the injury was described to us as "very close" earlier this week.  I think McGee plays and starts in this one.

CB Ashton Youboty: Listed as questionable.  He was active last week against San Diego, but largely for numbers purposes.  He didn't play a snap.  McGee appears to be much closer to going this week than Youboty, and one of the two is going to play.  Again, my money is on McGee, and if he does, Youboty won't play.  Leodis McKelvin would take over the nickel role, with some of the team's safeties playing their roles as well.

OG Brad Butler: He's out.  He didn't play much against San Diego after spraining his knee; I, for one, didn't even realize he was out in that game for quite a while.  It's unclear how long he'll be out; until he returns, Jason Whittle - the Bills' oldest and most tenured player - will get the start.

C Melvin Fowler: Listed as questionable.  He's been limited in practice this week, and just like Schobel, I don't think the Bills are in any hurry to get Fowler back into the lineup until he's completely healthy.  I agree with Brown on this one - even if Fowler is active, I think his understudy, Duke Preston, will make his second straight start.  With Butler out, however, it may be imperative for Fowler to dress in case another guard goes down and they need to move Preston around.

TE Derek Fine: For the first time in his young NFL career, Fine is completely healthy and ready to play.  Whether or not he'll be active is another question entirely.  My guess is that he won't; the sooner they can get him in on special teams units, however, the better - the team is going to miss John DiGiorgio.

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The secondary injuries may be the most serious in terms of what are team has to do to compensate, but we will still be okay.

If we can contain the Dolphins run, I don’t see Pennington winning the game. Rewind to last year against the Jets…that is what we’ll see from penni-boy, and he’ll do okay, but if we do stop the run, they are no better than 17 pts tops. With our offense doing better than last year…I wil modestly say Bills win, despite the above injuries, 24-17

The Bills CAN win every game

by killascript on Oct 24, 2008 3:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

whoops accidentally hit enter

These aren’t Bills injury report related, but didn’t deserve a fanpost so I thought I would throw them here.

The Dolphins placed cornerback Michael Lehan on IR today. I would say this was good news if Lehan wasn’t a mediocre starter with mediocre backups. Still worth mentioning though.

The Bills need to throw more on first downs. I just read that on first and 10, Trent is 41 of 50 for 500 yards and 3 TDs. Thats 82% completion rate and 10 yards per attempt for those of you following along at home.

by kaisertown on Oct 24, 2008 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

wow lol

41/50 thats ridiculous

by jdol1568 on Oct 24, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Overall on 1st down, Edwards is 45 of 55 for 578 yards and 5 TDs on 1st down. That’s all of his touchdowns on the year.

Both of Edward’s INTs have come on 2nd down, so that should be a running down. Then on 3rd down, bring in Losman, who is 5 of 5 for 141 yards and a TD on 3rd down (plus 1 TD rush). Except that only three of those five passes were actually first downs – the other two were 3rd and 20+ yards. But if he could really average 28 yards per attempt on 3rd down…

by Krenn on Oct 24, 2008 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I know you're mostly kidding

But of course Losman’s 3rd down avg is skewed by that 87-yd TD pass to Evans.

by thefourwinds on Oct 25, 2008 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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