Saint Doug

Yep. I also see it as bad PR for the team and the NFL if he dies on the field and the team was aware that he had a condition, waiver or not.

There's something fishy with this case. He received an initial medical opinion that he should retire, so he did. What has changed? Did his missing vertebral body grow back? If he received a 2nd opinion, why didn't he get one before filing the retirement papers? It seems like he may have finally received an opinion (3rd? 4th?) he wanted to hear. His words: "Now that I've gotten a taste of the game being taken away from me, I'm even more hungry to play," Orr said Wednesday on NFL Network's Good Morning Football. There's no way this guy passes a team physical. I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole (but if I did, I'd do it gently).

I don't see this as bad news. This is great news. Bad news would've been him experiencing a sudden cardiac death on the field.

This says Russ Brandon all over it. Yuck.

I think they are really odd too. I can understand commercials for ED treatments or perhaps depression, because most patients know what these condition are but may be reluctant to even bring this up to their physician and end up feeingl helpless. But, then there's some really esoteric conditions like "atrial fibrillation not due to an artificial heart valve". Really, what kind of patient out there would (1) even know they have atrial fib or (2) have a strong opinion about what med they are on? Or conditions that are not very common like rheumatoid arthritis?

This is likely anperirectal abscess from a developing fistula. This isn't good.

Thoughts and prayers.

So basically, the Bills offered him what they believed his market value was based on his age and recent production. I applaud this approach. Not too long ago, Whaley would've opened the vault for him, just like most fans were asking them to do.

So, it seems that if you are actually cut by the Bills, you really aren't going to amount to much because 90% of the names being thrown around on here weren't cut, but left in free agency. We should keep this in mind come late summer.

Da'Rick Rogers

No one said they are the same player. But production is production, which was Wood-ish. I'd be extremely wary of paying a 30 year-old who had a "down year" when his team made the playoffs. That tells me a lot of things we're going right on that team, but not him. Wonder why.

Would you give Woods that type of money? Because that's the production (minus blocking) you'll be getting, at best.

I'd sign him for a little over the vet minimum plus a bunch of incentives, 1-2 years. It was insane he was making that much for average production. I'm sure he was on the Bills minds (on what not to do) when they decided not to option Sammy.

This guy certainly doesn't want to be a Bill or the Bills don't want him to be one. I would move on.

No, that was tapping Giselle.

There is so much speculation in this post, I don't know where to begin. First, the 3rd round isn't like the 1st round. There's no talent cliff you fall off of after the 10th pick. The difference between the 90th pick and the 100th pick is highly subjective. There's no consensus once you get that far out. The price we'll have to pay depends on who we trade with. A trade with LA is going to look much different than a trade with the 49ers. We just don't know where the cards are going to fall. We can't speculate about the price at this point. Who says we'll have to trade into the Top 5? Again, speculation. There are a number of great QB prospects coming out next year. I don't think anyone on here is going to take it as far as you and speculate the Chiefs pick we received may not even be valuable to us. All I'm saying is that we just don't have enough information yet for us to confidently make any decision on whether a 3rd round pick is valuable or not. We may not need to trade at all. Then we pick an extra player. It's win win. Just because $100 bill exist doesn't mean $10 bills have no value.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the Bills organization know a heck of a lot more about Sammy's medical issues than people on this board do. There's been a lot of smoke (declining the 5th year option, this report) about the Bills moving on from Sammy and just maybe they know something that we don't.

Not to discourage your argument, but just recently a team gave us a 2018 1st AND their 3rd round pick (pick #91) to move up in Round 1. And this team then drafted a QB with the pick. So, it's reall[y/I] inaccurate to say that an extra 3rd round pick next year would be a meaningless asset for an attempt to move up in the 2018 draft.

He should be able to drop out, and have the Bills pay back any tuition owed. He can finish schooling later.

Come on, guys. Keep it to the "all-stars" that were all voluntarily let out of their contracts.

Peter Principle, but in reverse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

http://billswire.usatoday.com/2017/04/07/buffalo-bills-deshaun-watson-tyrod-taylor-2017-nfl-draft/ Original report was from Matt Miller of Bleacher Report. McD not wanting him was my assumption, considering he was a position to select him and did not.

I'm glad the era of trying to get an "athletic" QB ended when Whaley left. The reports were probably true, Whaley was in love with Watson and McD wanted nothing to do with him. We saw how that power struggle ended.

Ok, "Russ".

If refreshing to see a coaching staff that is attempting to see how a player will best succeed instead of jamming them into a system's position.