Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy, and I’d much rather the Bills cut Kelsey, but that wont happen.

As to why I think Denney has a chance of being cut? Well he’s in his final year of his contract for one. Then theres the fact that he’s pretty much only usefull against the run. And personally I’d much rather we keep our three young pass rusher (Maybin, Ellis and Bryan) and rejuvinate an area of great weakness on this team rather then we keep an aging, one dimentional DE.

My guess is Youboty gets injured again sometime before cut down day and Lankster makes another pick in tonight’s game and the Bills run with McKelvin, McGee, Florence, Corner, Lankster. With Youboty sporting yet another injury the Bills decide they can’t take him into battle and rid themselves of him. Too unreliable. Just a random guess but we’re talking surprise cuts, aren’t we?

Oh, wait…

No one.

Why does there have to be a surprise cut?

Hall and Oman have shown some value early on, and the way McIntyre ran at the end of the last game might mean a short yardage or goal line role for him out of the tailback position.

Also, perhaps there are too many playmaking youngsters for a guy like Florence to keep them off of the field.

Just throwing that out there….if it doesn’t happen, forget I said it, but if it does, “I told you so!”

Derek Fine.

As we’ve seen in previous threads the Bills have something of a surplus at the DE position; Shobel, Kelsay, Denney, Ellis, Bryan, Maybin. The common logic is that the Bills can keep no more than 5 DEs and might only go with 4.

Maybin is a mortal lock simply based on his draft position and his continued ability to convert oxygen into carbon dioxide. Schobel can milk the injury exuse at least through this year, never mind that he wasn’t all that productive in 2007. Denney is comparable to Kelsay but cheaper, if a year older. Meanwhile, Ellis and Bryan have been coming on strong in preseason games. The Bills, of course, have more of an investment in 2008 3rd round pick Chris Ellis than Bryan…though third rounds have been known to flame out early.

Perhaps more to the point, the Bills have shown a willingness to let veterans go in order to develop younger players. Dock was dropped for a rookie. Hang is younger than Fowler and was drafted in 2005 like Preston. Wood displaced Butler, himself a younger player. The Bills dumped McGahee for Lynch and London Fletcher for Poz.

Yes, Jauron needs to win now. However, a good season followed by another 7-9 effort likely would doom his last ever head coaching gig. Dropping Kelsay—who is a known quantity when it comes to (lack of) pass rushing prowess—in favor of a younger, cheaper player makes a degree of sense. Chris Ellis (or Copeland Bryan for that matter) might represent improvement in terms of getting pressure on opposing QBs.

Then there’s the injury bug to consider. Say, for example, that Schobel comes up lame again. Cutting a guy who won’t be claimed by another team certainly has an appeal; even if he’s not a great player he does at least know the system. Ellis would be claimed off waivers. I’m not so sure that Kelsay would as teams know that he has zero upside. Bryan has made it through waivers in the past and could again.

So, I’m voting for Kelsay—particularly if Buffalo goes with 4 DEs (Maybin, Schobel, Ellis, Denney) instead of 5.

I’ll guess there won’t be any surprise cuts this year (as long as Youboty stays healthy). We’ve already seen a couple of surprises in the timing of the Costanzo cut and Ryan Neill sent packing. And I don’t see anybody who could potentially be cut that would come as a surprise.

Looking back, Buffalo didn’t really have a surprise cut last year. Will James looked very safe in early August, but as the cut date approached, everybody thought he was on the fence. The other noteworthy cuts from last year (Dwayne Wright, Jon Spragan, Blake Costanzo, Jason Jefferson, Corey Mace, Patrick Estes, Christian Gaddis, Nevin McCaskill, Courtney Anderson, Tim Massequoi) couldn’t have been any more predictable.

Buffalo did make some surprise cuts in 2007. They cut Craig Nall who was supposed to be the backup until Trent’s stellar preseason. They only kept 2 QBs and they kept 5 RBs which was stranger than anybody could have predicted (and it also means don’t rule out 6 DEs, 11 DBs or even 7 WRs even though I think they’re all a little crazy). Terrance Pennington was a shocking cut, but go figure, the guy who got his spot, Kirk Chambers, has been pretty solid. And Ryan Neill over Mike Schneck was a decision that a lot of Bills fans have never agreed with.

TO! haha cant get much more surprising than that

But i cannot think of a more suprising move than Jauron deciding to resign on the first of September!!!

With Wood and Levitre starting and doing well enough, do we really need him?

aaron maybin, to trim a little salary ;)