I just saw the tweet, read the article and came to the site to post, but you already had something up! haha, good stuff.

Two observation (and you’ve pretty much already hit on them)

1. The Vick stuff is bogus and getting old. Florio just can’t seem to let it go. It ain’t happening!!

2. That said, I can see the team sniffing around back-up QBs. I haven’t been able to follow training camp as much as I’d like, but from what I’ve heard and seen from Fitz, he leaves a lot to be desired. Does anybody have a list of QBs still available? Maybe Farve will take a back-up role (JOKING!!).

You beat me to it, Brian. You might want to erase the story I just put up.

I would love for the Bills to sign Griese. He would be a muh better bakup then Fity and ould atually teah Trent a thing or two… or ten.

And if these reports are correct then it would mean that the FA is also realizing that Fitzy might not be the QB that they thought he was (which is plain to see for most of us).

has finally made it to the FO. Better late than never? Who have they been sniffing around? Come on….we want the details!!!!!

something is going to happen, and with Jauron being more akin to TOny Dungy in terms of personality, there could be a fit there.
I don’t about Vick, but if you figure that you have to imagine a back up playing 1-5 games minimum for our Bills, then you want the best guy out there.
I don’t know about Vick being ready until the second half of the year….BUT, Vick can be the 3 for a while and depending on when/if Edwards does go down, you can decide then who to put in. Not to mention, if Fitz is taking a dump on the field, you have nothing to lose than having the engineer of a record breaking rushing offense out there in charge of your team

Here’s some rank speculation for you:

Segal, who represents both Maybin and Vick, uses Maybin to get the Bills to sign Vick to a one year deal. Sure, it’s blatantly self serving but then Segal is an agent and pretty much everything they do is self serving. Maybin signs a 5 year/ $26 million deal—which is pretty much the consensus ‘fair’ deal—before Crabtree finally gets his deal done and Buffalo agrees to sign Vick to a 1 year deal for $2ish million.

The Bills have practiced almost exclusively in the no huddle during camp, and I’ll let the readers and league insiders out there decide if Vick would be a good fit for that offense. He couldn’t be much more different in profile from Edwards and Fitzpatrick.

Yes, Vick can be VERY different from Edwards. Edwards is a game manager type who has an accurate throwing arm and makes good quick decisions. Vick is a lifetime 52% passer who when he doesn’t see someone open, takes off running. These two are very different types of QBs.

Well I’m about as surprised as Florio is annoying. The day the team signed Fitzpatrick is the day they should gave been sniffing around for other backups. If Trent were to go down for a few games, right now our season would probably go down with him. We need someone better than Fitz, unfortunately there might not be much out there…

Michael Vick
JP Losman
Brian Griese
Gus Frerotte
Cleo Lemon
Quinn Gray
Brad Johnston
Brooks Bollinger

That’s a scary list…I guess I will just pray for Edwards health.

PFT is speculating that the reported length of Crabtree’s holdout (into September) may prompt Raji and Maybin (taken 9th and 11th) to sign reasonable deals (which would be 5 year deals for about $32 million and $26 million respectively) instead of waiting for Parker to get it into his head that San Fran isn’t going to cave.

I still am not apposed to signing Vick. He is better than what we have in the back up department or the other options out there, aside from maybe Griese.

but I don’t see the Vick signing happening because he “could” be out for 6 weeks. That doesn’t help the team on gameday, if they wanted or needed him. I actually don’t buy the argument that he won’t be in shape to play the game. His conditioning may be off, where he’d get winded more easily, but this is like riding a bike. Look at Vinnie Testaverde and Steve DeBerg.

Or…look at Todd Collins. The guy went nearly a decade without playing a game snap, then took the Skins’ on a decent ride 2 seasons ago.

I think all that might be holding the team back is his availability – honestly, I do. Mind you, that’s what I think.

so when did Vick become a decent Q.B.? his numbers literally sucked when he was at his best.

after being so chatty the last couple of days, is Geronimo’s silence on this discussion an omen? Now I’m scaring myself…

It really blows my mind that there is ppl out there that does not think signing Vick is a good idea…what do we have to lose? have you guys seein Fitz he’s been terrible i never think i would say this in my life but i rather have JP!!! Vick cant run the no huddle Vick’s accuracy Vick this and that…the guy may not be ur typical qb but he is a game changer and thats what we need, bring him in on certain situations and some1 had a good point when it gets cold and snowy out there ohh man it would b trouble VICK LYNCH and Jackson/Rhodes!! ru guys kidding me!

I saw above a suggestion of trading for Josh Johnson. We may not have to, per rotoworld.com a few minutes ago:

Coach Raheem Morris says the Bucs are unlikely to keep four QBs on the roster during the regular season. First-round pick Josh Freeman and Luke McCown, who got a $2.5M signing bonus in February, are safe. Josh Johnson is the underdog, but no part of Byron Leftwich’s contract is guaranteed. Byron could still be the odd man out if Johnson plays well in preseason and McCown wins the starting job.

Hello Byron Leftwhich. Personally, I still think Byron should start for them but if they are not expecting much this season, it makes more financial sense to start McCown and let Freeman take over midseason, making Leftwich expendable. I would take Leftwich or Josh Johnson.

Another thought on Vick:

I think everyone saying that Vick doesn’t fit because he couldn’t run the no huddle is dead on. But it even goes way, way past that. Vick was a good QB and would probably be one of the 32 best by the end of the season if somebody signed him to start. But I’ll stand by previous statements that there isn’t a single team in the league that wants Vick as the backup QB. Not only would he struggle in the Bills’ system, he needs a coaching staff willing to completely design an offense around him. That’s why I think his best fit this year is as a wildcat QB for a team that could potentially hand the reigns over to him in 2010 or 2011. But I can’t imagine him winning a QB competition against even a bad player in a pro style offense. He needs an organization to commit to him. It’s the same problem that other mobile QBs have had when teams try and turn them into pocket passers and it’s the same dilema teams will have with guys like Tebow on draft day. You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole.

We can’t be surprised to hear about the Bills looking at Backup QBs. We’ll see what develops.

I’d like to see how Gibran Hammy does this preseason. Could he handle it? He’s been in the system long enough.