ur name is tuf-e-nuf. . . Are you Matt Baker? Hmmmm

I was going under the asumption that all 6 of our CBs would make it through the last preseason game without sustaining any injuries that would leave them out for a decent amount of time. Fox is obviously not going to make the team if our other 6 guys are healthy.

My assumption is that if the Bills weren’t planning on keeping 6 CBs, then they would keep Cox around and place him on the practice squad. I don’t buy into Brian’s theory that Cox could still be PS bound. My whole point was basically that Fox isn’t PS eligible, so Cox was the only CB who is. If the Bills were planning on cutting James or Youboty than Cox would still be a Buffalo Bill.

Did that make sense?

Fox definitely isn’t eligible for the PS – he was on IR for all of 2005 (one accrued season) and was on the Bills’ 53-man roster for 6 games last year (a second accrued season).

Cox stinks. Haven’t you seen that already? The guy can’t tackle anyone.

I don’t think some other team is going to be so enamored with a guy who was moved to FS and can’t tackle that they sign him anytime soon. I also hope we don’t waste a PS spot on him.

That honestly doesn’t make any sense to me.

Cox is more likely to be picked up now than he would be after the next round of cuts. The simple logic being that teams have 75 roster spots now and will only have 53 (and a very final 53 at that) after the next round of cuts. A team would be more likely to bring Cox in for a look now than they would be to just give him a roster spot after the next round.

The Bills will have first dibs on all of their cuts to bring them back to the practice squad. Unless a player is actually put on somebody’s 53 man roster, every cut could be brought back. Why would a player leave now only to learn a new system. Practice squad players all make the same salary, so it isn’t as if the Bills will be outbid by another team.

There will be a very tough, down to the wire competition for spots on the practice squad. If the team had interest in bringing Cox back they would have kept him around and let him battle it out. I doubt he is so far ahead of guys like Gaddis, Corto, Buggs, Jones, Bryan, McCaskill, Johnson and Huggins that the Bills have already rewarded him with a spot.

Who would actually want Kennard Cox? Every team will have a tough enough decision trying to pick between their own players who have spent an entire offseason learning under the coaches. Seriously, why would the Bills have to be sneaky with Kennard Cox? He isn’t going to make another team, he won’t leave the Bills to play on some other team’s PS.

My thoughts exactly. We don’t have any near-future plans for Cox, nor does he have any attraction for another team to go for him. If he did, we wouldn’t have gotten him in the seventh round. However, if he goes go to the practice squad, I can’t say I’m extremely eager to see him back on the field again. He hasn’t shown anything to us thus far, and any progress would be impressive. I mean, the guys looked pretty much awful thus far, and he’ll need a good amount of time to develop. But i agree, cutting him now makes him more available for the practice squad, if we decide to go that route. Let’s say he’s a darkhorse(at best?) to be an NFL contributor someday.

“The good news is – we’re keeping you around. The bad news – it’s on injured reserve.”

“But coach, I’m not injured…. Coach, what are you doing with that baseball bat???”

Take that Jerry Rice.

I think you should randomly insert that into threads.