Ask former Bear’s GM Jerry Angelo why he was fired in the off season and he possibly would shove your microphone in your face. The elephant in the space is the reality that they did not have a backup QB on the roster who could win games and continue their playoff quest in 2011, amongst other reasons. The fact that they were in a equivalent situation a year earlier for the duration of Jay Cutler’s infamous “knee-gate” certainly did not help.
Perhaps this circumstance led the Washington Redskin’s war area to pick (2) QBs in this year’s draft, RGiii and Kirk Cousins, possibly placing to rest any worries of faltering down the stretch in a playoff race ought to the starter “go down” with injury.
The Bills present QB depth chart does not give the sense of confidence. The vice quarterback is Tyler Thigpen, who in the course of his appearance in (3) games last season amassed an astonishing 6.8 quarterback rating (yes, the decimal point is right). Jack of all trades Brad Smith rounds out the QB roster. I thought he threw a pass or two last season but the Bills official stat sheet shows that he did not make a single passing try in the 2011 season.

Buddy Smith, given that the Bills did not pick a rookie QB in the draft, what do you say about all this?

“We were poised to draft one, and he just wasn’t there,” Nix stated. “We’re gonna get 1 in cost-free agency. We’re gonna bring in a quarterback, and we feel a good one.”

This is very good news, because Buddy is in fact a “straight shooter”.
Unless this contains trolling the dumpsters for UDFAs (hopefully not) the list may possibly not be all that appetizing. There could be some decent veterans cut as the teams that did draft QBs will no doubt do some roster editing. But again, how great for how long could / would these players be?

Right here are the available QBs at the moment up for sale-
eight-year vet Kyle Boller.
Mark Brunell is willing to decline retirement for a year.
Rudy Carpenter is obtainable.
How about Kerry Collins, Jake The Man, Dennis Dixon or Trent Edwards?
A. J. Feely any individual? Jeff Garcia!? Jon Kitna, JP Losman, Luke McCown, Donovan McNabb, Kevin O’Connell (not the radio announcer), Curtis Painter, Chadd Pennington (finest so far, and that is not saying considerably), Billy Volek and…

Vince Young?????

Following reading off that list, Brad Smith running the spread offense a la’ Tim Tebow sounds like a thing watchable and interesting.
Having a decent backup on the Bills roster might be a dilemma worth having with the Bills in an actual playoff hunt. Sadly only (1) out of (4) beginning QBs actually make it through a full season.

No dessert for the Bills after this draft feast. Buddy’s watching his cholesterol.

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