Buffalo Bills defensive end Dwan Edwards is new to the Twitter world. As “motivation” to get more fans to follow him, Edwards offered to hold a lengthy question and answer period once he got to 500 followers. It took but a few hours for that to happen.
As promised, Edwards fielded questions from the fans. As you’d suspect, the majority of Q&A was an endless Twitter stream clogging up the timeline filled with fluff. He loves the support from the fans, his goal is to win the Super Bowl, the new jerseys are nice, blah blah blah.
But one question and direct answer from Edwards caught a lot of people, or at least me by surprised. When asked by a fan with the handle “homeslice5454″ which quarterback he’d take in the draft if the decision was his between Cam Newton, Blaine Gabbert, Colin Kaepernick and Ryan Mallet—- Edwards got directly to the point.
Buffalo Bills Twitter Tales – continue reading…
It may be Bob Sanders or O.J. Atogwe. Perhaps it’s “sort-of” incumbent George Wilson. It may possibly end up someone not listed but at this point one thing seems certain— someone other than Donte Whitner will be manning the Buffalo Bills secondary at the strong safety position when the 2011 season begins next (hopefully) fall.
Reports circulating indicate the Bills are hot to trot for a couple of recently released big-name safeties. Matt Bowen from the National Football Post wrote of five teams that have interest in Sanders and actually has Buffalo listed as the top landing spot. Sanders is, or at a minimum nearly as good as it gets when it comes to NFL safety production, at least when he’s healthy. The problem is it’s been seemingly decades since he’s been one hundred percent.
He’s played in just nine games over the past three years due to a plethora of injuries. In fact, he’s never played a full 16-game season during his seven-year career and has suited up more than six times just twice in those seven seasons. To say an addition of Sanders would be a risky proposition is a colossal understatement. The upside to what would clearly be a huge gamble is Sanders’ excellent production and uncanny ability to be a force against the run when he’s on the field.
Candidates To Replace Whitner Emerging – continue reading…
Names have floated around as potential defensive coordinator in Buffalo at the same rate as when the team had a head coaching vacancy last month. One of those names was former Baltimore Ravens linebacker coach Vic Fangio.
You can formally scratch his name off the Bills list. Fangio signed on over the weekend to become defensive coordinator at Stanford under head coach Jim Harbaugh, who apparently rejected a Buffalo offer to become head coach in mid January.
Fangio was speculated to be a candidate for the Bills defensive coordinator, though it’s not known if the organization actually contacted him.
Defensive Coordinator vacancy reaches another week – continue reading…
Last season, Buffalo’s defensive ends may as well have been placed on the official endangered species list. They were rarely seen, and almost never heard from. Any semblance of a pass rush was a rarity. Non-threatened quarterbacks held pocket picnics waiting receivers to spring open. It was practically a mini bye week for opposing offensive linemen.
The 2008 Bills’ pash rush can be spelled out in candid terms. It reeked. The ends were usually pushed comfortably back and out of the picture when trying to create pressure. Defensive tackles rarely shoved blockers towards the quarterback’s face. With the exception of last year’s home opener against Seattle when the defense recorded five sacks, the rest of the season served as a bleak wasteland of quarterback chasing. The Seattle game ended up accounting for a whopping 21% of the 24 sacks this defense got… for the year
