I assume Todd Johnson was signed to replace Nic Harris at safety?

they asked him to take a salary cut from his 1.1 mil a year to $750k a year (league minimum for a vet player with his years of experience) He offered where he took pay cuts in the past and thought the team could look elsewhere for the money. They said no they needed him to take a cut. He was then released in a surprise move right before the season started.

He is a stand-up guy with good leadership experience. Not the biggest guy in the world, but plays with his experience and smarts to get ahead. Certainly he would be a good back up and eventually could be starting in a few weeks.

Bills problems at LB will continue through the season and off-season because Mitchell (like Digorgio) will need surgery and more than a year’s recovery time. I believe he won’t play effectively again for this organization. Hence we have very little experience or star talent at any of our LB spots. Poz possibly but hasn’t done enough to keep himself healthy to be a difference maker on the field.

Too bad the Bills fooled around with free agency and could only sign Pat Thomas. He was such a bad signing for us that he couldn’t even make it on the team a second time with this past workout. We should of had Pisa Tinoisiamoa who went to the Bears. This guy has experience at both the strong-side and MLB spots. Why we couldn’t have bucked up more for him outside of the Bears is beyond me and a true indication where OBD is trying to get guys “cheap”. I know that Pisa said that he’d rather have gone to a team where he had to earn his starting LB spot rather than give it to him what Buffalo was going to be doing. I think that is “Bull” and just another way of saying I didn’t get paid enough.

Yes, We got some players from the Rams… What a great organization. They can instill a winning attitude around here. And, they are probably very good, since they couldn’t make the Rams roster. You know what a wealth of talent their roster consists of!

I want to beat the rush that happens anytime we sign somebody. Oh wait, too soon?

Why wasn’t this done immediately after the Whitner and Scott injuries? What’s the point now? Both should be back relatively soon. Unless the team had Harris solely at SS during this time, and now he’s back to OLB, it’s a bit odd.

Then again, they never hesitate to add DB’s when possible…

OH NOES! WHY DIDN’T WE SIGN ALL-PROS?

/sarcasm

You know, I’m not saddened by these two moves, but I’m left feeling like there was more to be had, that there was something else we could have done. That’s the main thought I’m left with. Draft and Johnson are just “guys”. They’re just guys. Not that we could have reeled in a true replacement for Kawika at this point in the season, but I’m a little disappointed we didn’t make a move to get someone at least a little bit better. :(

and we sign a Safety and an LB?

Color me confused.

And regarding Seau, it kills me when some who post on this blog think Brooks is washed up and yet a team sign Seau who is 4-5 years older has more wear and tear on him but is still valued by a winning organization.

But hey, we have the fundamentally sound Keith Ellison and we can pick up practice squad guys from losing teams better than any other franchise!!!! Playoffs here we come!!!!

murtorious says:
October 13, 2009 10:45 PM
tell me Draft plays some OT too.

any rumors if we are ever going to sign a damn OT?I guess it makes no sense because they would have to learn our complex hi-octane offense, and might have multiple false start penalties during home games as a result.

So we’re in desperate need of depth so we go to 2 guys that weren’t good enough for the St. Louis Rams? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this? Let’s grab players from the only team that might be worse than we are right now…. that were cut from that team! Haha.

And why do we insist on making Safeties into Linebackers?

What in God’s name is the problem w/ signing Brooks? He obviously has plenty of experience in our system and was always a quality player w/ good character. Does he have some ailment/injury that we don’t know about? If that’s not the case, WHY, WHY, WHY, didn’t they look him over back when Poz went down? Is it the almighty dollar AGAIN?

Now we are hurting in the LB corp badly and this is the solution?

I know that the waver wires are slim, but the team should have looked deeper. A 10 year vet at LB? Another Stanford guy who was cut by the Rams?