Bills Announce They're Moving On Without Schobel

Let me be the first to call BS.

Clearly, the Bills are getting antsy. But, there’s no way the turn Schobel away if he decides to come back. None. There simply trying to get him to make a decision quicker.

i sure hope this doesn’t mean we set him free to sign with anybody without compensation. if tthat’s what it means, how is that in our best interest?

go bills!

Curious Joe Buscaglia tweet from earlier this morning:

Buddy Nix on the cell phone walking around practice. Looks animated.

I really hope the Bills gave Schobel this deadline ahead of time or at least gave him some sort of ultimatum recently. Because if Schobel really was planning on coming back sometime this week and Nix and Gailey just burned that bridge, it was a huge mistake.

About time. Treating this man like he was a child was getting old fast. Like I said before it doesn’t take over half a year to make any decision. He was a very good player but it’s time to move on.

Updated the post with Schobel’s reaction, via WKBW.

Schobel doesnt seem too upset, The Bills dont seem too upset, and neither am I. Thanks for the past decade Aaron… if we trade you, good luck on chasing a ring… if you retire, you were a helluva player.

I hope he lands somewhere decent, given that he decides to play. Though, this pretty much kills any trade value he might have had.

No more being held hostage waiting for him to decide once and for all.

If he wants to play somewhere, fine. Trade him.

From earlier comments, I think he wanted permission to go home (Texas) more often during the week. Remember when he said it’s in the Bill’s court. I don’t think the Bills wanted to have “exception” type rules for Schoebel at this stage of the turnaround project. I hope they can trade him for something (even a 5th or 6th rounder).

Glad to see OBD nip it in the bud so that this doesn’t become some kind of Brett Favre-like fiasco.

the way OBD is handling things. Making everyone compete for their starting spot, demanding toughness on the field, but also being touch off of it. Schobel was a great player for this organization and from what I know a pretty darn good person. His heart wasn’t in it anymore, and I can’t blame him. It was never about the $8M. Buddy took a stand today, and now if he does play we know it won’t be for the Bills. But I am a little sentimental about seeing a veteran guy who never made the playoffs and had a pretty darn good career hit the road for good

Is it time to sign someone to replace him? Or are we sticking with the youth movement no matter what?

if this will give OBD the incentive to loosen the purse-strings on a Spiller deal.

I’ll be wearing my Schobel jersey on opening day.

does he go on the wall of fame someday? I say yes.

As I said it last week , I wish Schobel well but it was time to retire or move on, the Bills are just helping him along.

get something. unless he doesn’t want that (yeah right)….. what do the Texans have that we could want? Mentioned this before, but was that maybe what got Pitts noticed, us watching tape of them to assess who they could have for us? if so, what did they find? Hopefully it wasn’t that Pitts was their only player we had a shot at… But I way prefer a player, and someone who could help us now. I would take a 6th or 7th or hopefully both in a trade. We are not likely to get much, but better than the nothing we usually get. Saving money in an uncapped year is not a huge concern, but getting only draft picks for an uncertain CBA year is not very beneficial either.

Good for Nix. The wishy-washy standoff was more annoying than 4 blonds at a 4-way stop ;-)

The NBA is proving what happens when the players start controlling the league. Bad news.

I’m proud Buddy decided to do what they don’t have the balls to do in Minnesota.

I’m sorry, but if you want to play in the NFL, you should be at camp. If it’s too tough for you, but you still like to play the games, tough doo-doo. Man up, Brett. Cowboy up, Aaron. Schobel said he was “relieved, happy, and a weight lifted off his shoulder” when he heard Nix’s decision. That just confuses me. No wonder Bing can market itself as the ‘decision maker’ search engine. I used to wonder what kind of a person wants someone else making big decisions for them. Now I know. Does Aaron needs to go ask his mom and dad what team he should play for?

That may be a bit harsh for a man like Schobel, who I have great respect for otherwise, but someone needs to put a stop to this silly game.

If all the GMs decided to discontinue allowing Farve behavior, these guys wouldn’t have the option to dog training camp, and there wouldn’t be this stupid grey line between “the guy has proven enough to skip camp,” and “miss practice, loose your job.”

Good on you, Buddy. Be a role model for the other wussy GMs.