Captain Caveman

Yes, he is on IR. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/162573-is-brad-smith-still-on-the-team/

That was ~6 total in those 2 games.

I'm thinking Mario gets between 7-10 more. ~6 will probably come against Pittsburgh and Jacksonville.

It appears ESPN has gained consciousness. Time to bomb it back to the stone age before it starts making those killer robots.

He likely would have been, but you can't cut an injured player.

Oh, I see.

Which means he is unavailable to play this year, so to respond to the intent of the OP, he is not on the team for all intents and purposes.

Straight up for Peerless Price.

Let's see, a first round pick for a little more than a half season. Add to that the player who they would presumably be trading for has not taken a snap through the first 5 games due to a foot injury. Sure.

I'm angry right now.

Eli looked hobo-level-disheveled yesterday.

Link?

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts.

Can he play guard? Oh ****, wait, he's actually a guard.

I didn't bring it up, I was responding to the OP who keeps incorrectly asserting that an injury has to be "season ending" to IR someone. I was pointing out that this is not true.

He looked pretty good blocking. I'd have him back just to block on a WR screen. But blocking should not be a QB's strong suit.

Then he's not healthy. My next sentence was "You can IR a player who is legitimately injured, even if he would otherwise have come back earlier in the year."

Thanks!

I haven't heard anything about this with all the other craziness happening this week - has anyone heard if he is expected to play this coming weekend?

Negotiating an Injury Settlement and filing a grievance are 2 very different things. If he really wants an injury settlement, he could probably get one. Then he won't be paid for the rest of the year and will have to hope he catches on somewhere else (risky for a rookie kicker who has shown very little so far.) Filing a grievance would indicate that he wasn't injured at all could be playing right now, but the Bills are trying to stash him away for next year. I don't think that's the case. I disagree. I haven't heard anything to indicate a healthy player being IR'd recently.

You can't use IR to "stash" a healthy player for next year without him counting against the roster limit. You can IR a player who is legitimately injured, even if he would otherwise have come back earlier in the year. Otherwise teams would have a serious challenge in fielding a healthy roster by mid season.

That's not true - lots of players are put on IR with a multi-week injury that is not necessarily season ending. Teams have to make judgement calls like this all the time in order to keep enough healthy players. Now, if he wasn't injured at least a couple of weeks you might have a point.

And you would have a nice little Arena league career to look forward to as well.

We didn't recover it, a Brown came out of the pile with the ball.