Buffalo Bills Send Donald Jones, Terrence McGee To IR

with Leodis McKelvin looking to fend off rookie Justin Rogers for nickel reps

Gosh, that really hurts that McKelvin couldn’t hold onto his starting gig.

With aiken i think we have some one that can actually stretch the field.

But will martin and smith get more wr reps? Hope not. Aiken has size not sure of his speed tho. Face it season is over. Need to prep for next season

The Bills can walk away from nearly $49 million of Fitzpatrick’s contract after the season.

“Per a league source, the Bills could trade or cut Fitzpatrick before the seventh day of the 2012 league year and owe him nothing further than the $3.22 million base salary he was already due to earn in 2011 and the $10 million signing bonus he was paid upon inking the new deal last month.”—TWO BILLS DRIVE

It gives me something to look forward to this Sunday. If he can get down the field in a hurry and go up and actually compete for a deep ball, he’ll be doing more for the offense than D. Jones could do.

With no deep threat, Chan’s offense is brutal to watch. The defense only has to cover a small area when they don’t have to worry about a deep throw, and Fitz can’t make tight window throws on a regular (or semi-regular) basis. Even when Fitz does make those throws, the receiving corp decides to practice tip drills instead of, you know, catching the ball.

This offense needs a deep threat ‘like whoa’.

Probably the best signing that could be expected at this point, right?

I just heard and read up on both players, Aiken our own, as far as weaknesses goes, it ( SB Nation report ) says that his route running needs to be crisper and needs more muscle/ strength. If that’s accurate and correct then, we’ve had him all this time there should be some improvement on both fronts, absolutely no excuse if we can’t make some progress in areas that we identified. Hagan I don’t expect much from him, he has been around for awhile and hasn’t done much, plus he has to learn our system. I guess we’ll findout what Aiken thinks of his NFL future because theres no hiding behind being a rookie this late in the season. Even though this will be his first real action in the leauge, he has been on the practice squad for this team seeing all the injuries at his position. He had to know it was only a matter of time before he would get his shot, which is why I said we will see what he thinks of his ablilities and his future. Nerves yes, but not being ready shouldn’t come into the equation. Sorry for Mcgee he has been a good player for this team just injured too often. Go Bills!

It’s a shame to lose McGee. He was our most consistent CB, but he has been injury-plagued the past few seasons. We may have seen him as a Bill for the very last time. We will need to see what Aaron Williams can do, but we will almost certainly need to draft another CB next year within the first four rounds. Neither McKelvin, nor Florence, nor Corner should be the other starter next year.

As for Donald Jones… meh. I honestly have no idea what Chan Gailey sees in him. He doesn’t seem to get open often, and when he does, he has hands of Teflon. Everything seems to slide right through his non-stick fingers and into the arms of a nearby defender. I liked Aiken in the preseason, so I hope he can show something now. Still, this is another position that will need to be addressed early in the draft unless Marcus Easley can ever take the field. Easley, Johnson, and Nelson are a reasonable group, but we could really use a go-to guy like Calvin Johnson, AJ Green, Andre Johnson, etc.

Call me crazy, but given that the team has their backs to the wall at this point, I would actually consider bringing in TO for a workout. He had a good rapport with Fitzpatrick the last time he was here, and they could really use a veteran WR with speed, assuming he has any left.