I kept 3 quarterbacks because I watched Matt Baker on Tuesday. He was awful. Both of Buffalo’s top two quarterbacks aren’t bulletproof when it comes to injuries by a long shot. They can’t risk relying on Baker as the backup if one of them goes down, because the talent gap between Hamdan and Baker is immense.

In regards to Chambers, I cut him because I think the Bills are looking for a way to. All of their moves at that position are desperate right now – moving Walker, transitioning Murphy, speeding along the development of Bell. They’re desperate for something, and it may not necessarily be to replace Peters. I think Chambers is a surprise cut.

To be honest, I don’t think the club is looking for a way to keep Youboty around like everyone else seems to be. There are ten defensive backs listed up there, and the Bills will need some serious depth and flexibility along the offensive line depending on how the Peters situation turns out. That’s why I kept Gaddis over Youboty.

Hamdan was drafted in 2003 and has spent time on the practice squads of four different teams (Seattle more than once, San Francisco, Miami and Buffalo). I believe he does have some eligibility left (can’t be sure without doing the research), but I’m not sure I see the advantage to putting him there in the first place. The team would just have to cut someone if (when?) Edwards went down anyways. I think it’s just easier and smarter to make him a part of the active roster.

There are 9 offensive linemen listed above. Even if the season started tomorrow and Peters wasn’t here, they’d still have 8 guys to use. That’s par for the course for this team, save the last few weeks of the ‘07 season. I kept nine BECAUSE of the Peters situation; if he comes back, I don’t think they’ll keep that many.

Ha, yeah… figures an injury would happen as soon as I make a prediction. I should retire from blogging…

Let’s hope Ace is OK. Our LB depth is pretty putrid without him (beyond Ellison and DiGiorgio, that is).

Ko’s ready to go. His MRI was clean and he’s back at practice full force. Even so, I still think they keep five safeties since Wendling is really exclusively a specialist.

Adjusted for Bowen’s injury:

- Moved Bowen to IR.
- Moved WR Steve Johnson from practice squad to active roster.
- Added LB Jon Banks to practice squad.

I didn’t think it was an easy exercise at all. Those last few spots are so much more difficult to figure out, because our special teams guys are more unknown this season.

I just think he’s bound for the practice squad. I think that spot could be used for a STs player, or another lineman on either side of the ball.

Johnson was getting major reps on punt coverage and punt jamming at the practice I saw, and he didn’t look too bad. I think he can play special teams just about as well as any guy you mentioned above, save maybe Youboty.

I kept Omon in lieu of an extra tight end. I think if Barnes were to go down, the Bills could just as easily tinker with Wright or Omon as the “big” back, and I think at some point, we can sacrifice one special teams guy (who would likely just be inactive anyway) for a guy with promise. Omon was that guy – and he may be able to play special teams, too.

Poz’s link doesn’t work; check it out here.

They spoke about this on WGR this week, and I think Tasker’s mention was well-deserved. That was an excellent video as well.

I’m not sure that Tasker’s mention has anything to do with trying to build hype for the Bills though.

Answering one by one…

I’m not sure I’d keep Hamdan. Is he really that much better than Baker, and if we were down to those guys, wouldn’t we already be screwed anyhow?

In brief, yes. He really is that much better than Baker. And yes, if we were faced with the prospect of starting Gibran Hamdan at quarterback, we would be screwed. But that’s not a good reason not to keep the guy.

I’d keep Courtney Anderson, a TE with size and some blocking ability. Who knows what Fine can give, and I’m not sold Schouman’s going to be the answer.

Anderson was one of my last cuts. I’m taking the fact that Fine has been taking first-team reps, and holding his own, as a sign that the Bills are relatively comfortable with the trio of Royal, Schouman and Fine. I don’t think any of those three get cut, and I don’t think they keep four tight ends. So Anderson goes… and if a TE gets hurt, well, nobody’s going to sign Anderson after he’s released by us anyways.

I’d still think Chambers makes the team, with Bell on the PS or on the team in place of Murphy. Chambers is still running with the first team O at RT. He must be doing something right…

Well, we’re only a week into camp, K – did you really expect Murphy or Bell to supplant Chambers this early in the game? I don’t think the coaching staff is married to the idea of starting Chambers (or having him on the team, for that matter), and Murphy/Bell are reportedly getting better each week. Give it time. I wouldn’t be shocked at all to see Chambers slide on the depth chart over the next 2-3 weeks.

I wouldn’t bother with Jason Jefferson. That’s the type of player we can pick up during the week if we have an injury. No need to tie up a roster spot on him, IMO.

You wouldn’t, but Buffalo will. I agree that Youboty has a shot at a bigger impact, but Buffalo always does things a bit differently than we’d all like them to. They’ll value the versatility in their D-Line reserves more than an 11th DB.

Marcus Buggs? Isn’t he like 5’10", 220 lbs? I’d rather keep Costanzo, a guy who proved he can contribute on ST, and brings some actual size to the backup LB position.

Yeah, Buggs is small, but he looks like a promising specialist (and a great athlete), something the Bills need to replace with Bowen gone. Costanzo played three weeks last season – he’s definitely not proven much of anything (though more than Buggs). John DiGiorgio took first-team reps at weak side linebacker yesterday, so it’s clear that Buggs would only see the field on defense if three of the team’s top five linebackers went down. He’s a more promising specialist than Costanzo, so he stays.

It’s just a FA visit at this point… we’ll add him next week when we run this feature again.