Bills news and notes; five cuts to be made Tuesday

by Brian Galliford on Aug 26, 2008 8:08 AM EDT in News Comment 19 comments

Tuesday marks the first day of cuts in the NFL, and as a result, the Buffalo Bills will be releasing five players by the end of the day today. The team must trim five off of its current roster of 80 to reach the NFL maximum of 75; the team will then play its final pre-season game Thursday at home against Detroit, and cut its roster down to 53 by the end of the business day August 30.

Anyone care to take any guesses as to who the five Bills cut today will be? I'd love to hear some predictions in the comments section; here's my prediction: RB Dwayne Wright, WR C.J. Hawthorne, DE Derrick Jones, DT Teraz McCray and CB Kennard Cox will be ex-Bills by day's end.

Fantasy Football!
Just a quick reminder that two Buffalo Rumblings fantasy leagues hold their drafts today. The Rumblings Premiere League will hold its draft tonight at 9:30; RL2 will beat us to the punch and draft first at 8:00; and RL3 has foregone the sanctity of pre-season football to draft during the Bills/Lions game Thursday night at 7:15 (all times eastern).

Speaking of fantasy, SB Nation's fantasy sports blog, Fake Teams, is running a series in which each SB Nation NFL writer (including yours truly) submits one stud and one sleeper from each team; this will hopefully give FT readers an edge when it comes to fantasy drafts. The Bills' stud and sleeper has been posted; be sure to check that out, as well as the rest of the series.

Some reading material
Few articles kicking around the Interwebs this morning that I'd like you to focus your attention on this morning (other than what we've already mentioned, of course):

Roster spot could be around the corner for Youboty (Mark Gaughan, Buffalo News)
- It's nice to see some local media taking notice of Ashton Youboty's play finally. It's about time the kid got some more recognition than what he already gets here. (At least we saw it first.)

Bills sharp, announcers not so much (Chuck Pollock, Olean Times Herald)
- Nothing like a little more ribbing of the NFL Network's trio of Sterling Sharpe, Marshall Faulk and Deion Sanders - the folks who called the Bills/Colts game Sunday night. They were awesome awful.

Losman leads a sharp Bills offense (Mark Gaughan, Buffalo News)
- From Sunday night's win. Nice read.

Reed's role a vital one in offense (Bob DiCesare, Buffalo News)
- Just for SuperFan82.

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I see the following getting the ax today:

DJ Pitzpatrick – P
CJ Hawthorne – WR
Derrick Jones – DE
Jason Jones – WR
Dwayne Wright – RB

I can see Wright getting cut early as that has been OBD m.o. with players that stand a good chance of getting picked up. The 3 position players are at a position that is log jammed and what’s the sense of keeping a 2nd string punter.

by gatornation on Aug 26, 2008 10:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Fitzpatrick and Wright makes it one more week. I see Mayle and Nua replacing them.

by the Skycap on Aug 26, 2008 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I picked Wright because I think Bruce Hall brings more to the backfield that Wright has so far. Fumbles aside Wright runs too high and can’t seem to make anyone miss. Hall reminds me of Fred Jackson of 2 years ago.

by gatornation on Aug 26, 2008 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jason Jones was cut 8/21

I knew that didn’t seem right. Huggins will replace Jones on the 8/26 cut list.

by gatornation on Aug 26, 2008 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Giving props to the Olean Times Herald! I like it.

If I had to give five cuts, I’d agree with gatornation’s list. A cop out? Absolutely.

by nickfeely8 on Aug 26, 2008 10:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree too

The Punter is getting cut, a give in, and the rest of them will be cut, although, with Roscoe and Hardy dinged up, would they cut 2 WRs this early? Not sure

The Bills CAN win every game

by killascript on Aug 26, 2008 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

with Steve Johnson, Huggins, Jenkins and Mayle on the roster I don’t think cutting the 2 WR’s above will leave them too thin this week.

by gatornation on Aug 26, 2008 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Last year Fitzpatrick and the fourth QB (Eakin) were both cut in the first round of cuts, so I’m going to say Fitzpatrick, Baker, Hawthorne, Wright, and Jones.

Interesting that nobody has mentioned Dustin Dickinson yet…

by Krenn on Aug 26, 2008 11:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Cuts

Mine are:

DJ Fitzpatrick
Scott Mayle
Shaun Nua
CJ Hawthorne
Dustin Fox

by Kurupt on Aug 26, 2008 11:24 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So close

Fox for Baker and you got it

The Bills CAN win every game

by killascript on Aug 26, 2008 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I had Baker there originally

but thought they’d need him to take snaps Thursday. Oh well.

I still don’t know how Scott Mayle keeps making it. He can’t catch!

by Kurupt on Aug 26, 2008 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He made this cut because of the Hardy/Parrish injuries, and for no other reason.

by Brian Galliford on Aug 26, 2008 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m actually pretty embarrassed that I forgot about Fitzpatrick. Swap him out for DE Jones on my list.

by Brian Galliford on Aug 26, 2008 11:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

On the article about the commentating

I don’t know about you but I have to disagree with Chuck Pollock that the commentating in the Bills/Colts game was aweful and worse than that of Tasker and Bently. Don’t get me wrong I have all the respect in the world for those two guys but I just can’t stand their commentating. I personally liked Sharpe, Faulk and Sanders. Although Pollock was right in that they were constantly missing or butchering names I still found it enjoyable to listen to them. Their emotions and their funny comments was all good especially Deion Sanders reaction to the collision between the Colts player and Darion Barnes

"Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?"

by ArenZimm on Aug 26, 2008 7:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Reed is USELESS

Reed’s career numbers are unspectacular. He’s never evolved into anything more than a possession receiver, and an inconsistent one at that.

This guy said it all.

a possession player, that cant catch. he gets no seperation, just runs out to the spot and turns around, hes awful and needs to be on some other team, but wait, no one else wants his stuff. get parrish or anybody else in the slot. i dont care if they are rookies or not. im just tired of seeing reed do nothing

by Bluebill on Aug 26, 2008 11:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If he gets no separation, why is he so good on 3rd downs? Just because he isn’t a burner or deep threat, doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a place in our O.

He’s actually a pretty consistent possession receiver. He’s always the guy the QB looks to on 3rd downs and is a good dump off option.

I really dont’ understand why everyone hates this guy so much. is it because he doesn’t score 15 TD’s a year? His role is to work underneath and pick up 3rd downs, which he’s pretty good at. I’m sorry that he can’t do more for you, but that’s what his role is.

by Kurupt on Aug 26, 2008 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I actually agree

It is certainly not Reed’s fault we have not found a #2 receiver that could put Reed at #3, where he would be one of the most reliable receivers at that spot in the game. He has been forced to play at #2. And he’s always performed to the best he can. Instead of hating we should keep him around until Hardy can overtake him.

McKelvin and Hardy - rookies of the year

by poz on Aug 27, 2008 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed

Troy Brown’s numbers, other than 2000-2002 where he actually was the #1 reciever, are similarly unspectacular. But he doesn’t get anywhere near the criticism that Reed does.

I wonder if part of it is because of Reed’s college stats – he had more yards and touchdowns in 2001 at LSU than he did in his first four years as a pro combined. Reed still holds the SEC records for most receiving yards in a game (293) and in a season (1740).

by Krenn on Aug 27, 2008 6:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs