Bills sign P Brad Robbins

[Buffalo716]

59 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

Australian and 4-year starter James Burnip, Alabama.  If he is still there in the 6th they should pick him.

just came in this thread said the same thing

[Einstein's Dog]

1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

I like this pressure move by Beane.  He's showing the offense we're going to be terrible at punting so we better convert our 3rd downs....

And help McDermott's decision to go for it on 4th down.

[Don Otreply]

Is it something or is it nothing? 

[Steptide]

Beane loves those mid players 

[Big Turk]

Bills sure love signing average punters

[MrEpsYtown]

 

David Shannahan, left footer, former Gaelic footballer. Checks some boxes. 
 

But to me this is Camarda’s job to lose. Beane did say they were very high on him in the draft. He had two really good years and struggled this year and was cut. He’s a great athlete and there is upside there. Robbins feels like a nothing burger. 

[BillsFanForever19]

It's interesting that he's bringing in multiple Drafted young Punter's. 

 

Sometimes it takes Punters years before they get it down. And both these guys were given up on fairly quickly. 

 

I like the approach. If there was enough talent there in College to get Drafted when the vast majority of Punters go Undrafted and they're that young and given up on under questionable circumstances - you may hit on something.

 

I had thought with Camarda being the only Punter on the roster that we may Draft another with one of our later Day 3 Picks. Maybe they still do and the first leg of the competition is Mini Camp. Between 2-3 Drafted level Punter's, you're probably going to land on one that's good.

Edited Monday at 10:21 PM by BillsFanForever19

[mikemac2001]

[gonzo1105]

Wooo two highly drafted punters who have failed in the NFL. Start the competition 

[Augie]

3 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Is he best friends with Trey Hendrickson?!  4D chess

 

Classic formula, it almost seems too obvious.  🤷‍♂️

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

Draft Two punters, have 4 on the roster.

This will make opposing teams spend a lot of time during game week preparation , not knowing who is going to punt.

[FireChans]

5 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

Superbowl. 

Got scrolling through the first page and was really nervous that no one said this yet

[SydneyBillsFan]

5 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Realistically the bad holding thing with bojorquez was the most overblown thing ever 

 

It's not a hard skill for a professional football player to learn 

 

Even Cory bejorquez.. who got lambasted here for being a bad holder.. has been called the best holder his current kicker has ever had lol not that hard 

 

I also for an exercise went through every single hold of Cory's career while with Buffalo.. and he didn't have over seven kicks with the laces not out in his career...

 

He held over 150 kicks..  he had seven times the laces were in.. that's about average with most NFL long snappers 

 

There's never been a punter who was good at punting who was fired for being bad at holding

 

True, but we did have the opposite situation in Matt Haack who signed a 1.035 million dollar contract, which I remember saying at the time was surely broken into two components based on the eye test:

 

Punting - 35k

 

Holding - 1 mil

[BullBuchanan]

6 hours ago, Warcodered said:

If there are punters in the draft definitely wouldn't be surprised if we take a late pick on one. But meh punters most important is to have a consistent holder for Bass other than that I'll take what we can get.

I'd rather bring back the QB who holds kicks so that we can credibly fake it on occasion.

[Augie]

I think that @HOUSE Could have signed him for an ashtray less. . 

[Joe Marino]

The Punt Demigod!

[BillsFanForever19]

The real Joe Marino doesn't like it. 

[GolfandBills]

Well looks like Jake Camarda is the new punter 

[ganesh]

21 hours ago, MJS said:

As long as he doesn't shank them and can hold well, he sounds good to me. I'm not too concerned with who our punter is.

gone are the days when our punter was the team's MVP !!!!  Go Bills !!!

[Logic]

I really wish they'd shelled out the (nominal) money required to sign Ryan Stonehouse.

Oh well. Onto the Camarda vs Robbins puntapalooza.

Truth is, for a team that punts is infrequently as the Bills, it just doesn't matter that much.