Tuesday practice

The Bills worked without pads today for two hours at St. John Fisher College. Coach Dick Jauron said tackle Matt Murphy still was being evaluated. He suffered a shoulder injury Monday and is out for Thursday's game and probably a lot longer. Patrick Estes has a left knee injury but he was in attendance. Jauron did not detail the severity of Estes' injury. Brad Butler, who started 31 straight games at right tackle at the University of Virginia, took some repetitions at right tackle with the second team and is expected to see action there against the Steelers, out of necessity. The Bills are not expected to sign anyone at tackle immediately because that player would not be able to play against the Steelers anyway. If for some reason Estes can't return for the next game at Indianapolis, then there probably would be a greater chance the Bills would sign someone next week. ... Also not practicing were Scott Mayle, Marcus Buggs, Blake Costanzo and Tim Massaquoi. ... In 11-on-11 work, James Hardy made a nice catch on a bootleg pass from Trent Edwards. In 7-on-7 work rookie Reggie Corner continued to impress, with a good pass breakup on an Edwards throw for Hardy. Corner also broke up a fine throw from Edwards to Evans in the end zone with a well-timed leap. ... Edwards was flushed out of the pocket and made an accurate strike to Lee Evans on the sideline. Rookie Stevie Johnson made an impressive juggling catch along the right sideline on a pass from J.P. Losman. Jabari Greer picked off a pass from Edwards for Evans that was tipped in the secondary. ... Robert Royal had a red-zone TD catch from Edwards and another from Matt Baker.

---Mark Gaughan

Comments

[Texas Kid]

Good thing I don't take much out of these reports. I have Fantasy Football drafts coming up and if I read and listen to you guys about the great Bills team coming up, I might actually believe this line of bull and guess what...lose! I notice most fantasy sites have the Bills QB's ranked at 28 and below. Lee Evans has been dropping down too based on the QB situation and now Marshawn Lynch is dropping down a bit because the "smart thinking" is that the Bills can't throw so load it up front. Feel free and let me know if I'm really missing something or whether this 28th ranked offense is stepping it up big time this year. Also, New England is forecasted to have the easiest schedule. Why not..two against the Bills whom they've owned for the last 10 years, two against Miami and two against the jets..look for NE to be a Super Bowl contender and if they do make it..lose to Dallas.

[Dominic S]

It was nice to see that article on JP Losman today. All last season, on these blog pages, I defended Losman and argued for his keeping the starting job. I am not going to re-hash the myriad of reasons, just as I don't need the 90% of you who disagree with me to re-hash yours. Suffice it to say, we still disagree.

JP has been a class act throughout last season, the off-season, and the pre-season. I think he was right for 'calling out' the offensive game plans at the beginning of the season last year, though some may disagree. That one issue aside, he has been a class act.

I have little faith in Edwards. I fully expect him to be mediocre this season; hopefully not bad. I hope that I am wrong, and will gladly admit being so if by mid-season it looks like Edwards is doing a great job. But if he is not, I hope we get to see JP back in there.

[greg]

Greg,
What they do in practice, their not showing in these meaningless preseason games. Lets just hope when they unvail this new offense once the season starts will work. Or their in for a long season.
(lower case greg)

[Greg]

I sure wish some of these "great" plays in practice would carry over to paid scrimmages, and better yet, real games!

Sure didn't see much at D.C. save for McKelvin's punt return and the Losman-Hardy TD. Defense has to somehow find a pass rush and not be such a sieve over the middle.