Bills re-signed safety Scott with a two-year contract

On a day full of news about teams releasing players or making tender offers, the two-year contract the Buffalo Bills offered to safety Bryan Scott sounded so favorable by confirming a long-term relationship between a team and one of its players.




Scott’s agent, Edward Johnson, said the two sides are still completing the final details of the deal, which was reached prior to the start of the NFL’s free agency period, which opens on Friday. The seven-year veteran proved his value by giving consistent performance on an injury-depleted defense last season except for missing seven games because of injuries.

Entering the third season of wearing Bills jersey, Scott opened the season as a starting strong safety before missing his first five games of last season with sprained left ankle. But when a rash of injuries hit the team’s linebackers, he came out in time to fill in and started six games at weak-side linebacker. Then he missed another two games, the final two of the regular season, because he sustained a head injury.

Bills LT Bell may end the season with knee injury

The Buffalo Bills Coach Dick Jauron said Monday that left tackle Demetrius Bell needs further tests to determine his playing status for the remaining season; however, he was not optimistic that he would hear good news.




Bell hurt his right knee in the first half of Sunday’s 41-17 loss to the Tennessee Titans. With the leg heavily wrapped, he was seen limping around the locker room in his Bills jersey. And Jauron acknowledged the team already is considering signing a lineman before the team plays against the Jacksonville Jaguars this weekend.

Rookie starting left guard Andy Levitre was switched to tackle after Bell left the field, as the Bills had no other tackle available to replace Bell: Kirk Chambers was starting on the right side in place of absent Jonathan Scott, backup Jamon Meredith was out with a knee injury, and right tackle Brad Butler has ended the season with knee injury since Week 2.

Bills still expect Owens to start at WR

The Buffalo Bills NO.1 wide receiver Terrell Owens missed second straight practice Thursday with his strained hip, but the Bills Coach Dick Jauron has not given up the hope that Owens could still play against the Tennessee Titans.




After Thursday’s practice, Jauron told reporters that the receiver is “still struggling” with the injury, which flared up during the team’s day off on Tuesday. He admitted that Owens was feeling better but still not good enough to be on the field. And the receiver was seen walk into the locker room without limp. But he was not in practice Browns jersey nor taking part in any part of workouts. Hopefully he will not disappoint the Bills.

What is more hopeful is that the Bills will have starting defensive end Aaron Schobel back and play on Sunday as he was able to work out on his own for the first time since he got groin injury in the 31-10 loss to the Houston Texans on Nov. 1.

Bills rookie TE Nelson missed practice with strained shoulder

After hurting shoulder in the first quarter of Buffalo’s win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last week, the Buffalo Bills rookie tight end Shawn Nelson skipped the team’s practice Friday, making his status for Sunday’s game questionable.




So the Bills will be preparing for playing against the New Orleans Saints with only two tight ends: Derek Fine and Jonathan Stupar. The injured also includes reserve defensive lineman John McCargo, who has missed Friday’s practice because of a calf injury, and receiver Josh Reed and cornerback Terrence McGee, who are both questionable because of ankle injuries.

Those who are likely bu have not been confirmed to play against the Saints include starting center Geoff Hangartner, cornerback Leodis McKelvin and receiver Roscoe Parrish. They are not confirmed to play because of injuries.

LB Pat Thomas was released by Bills with leg injury

Linebacker Pat Thomas has been missing most of the Buffalo Bills training camp and unable to compete for a backup job because of a nagging lower leg injury, which also became of the reasons for his being released by the Bills.

The four-year NFL player spent last season with the Kansas City chiefs and played 12 games. A one-year contract brought him to Buffalo in March, but he missed part of the team’s spring minicamps and most of training camp. Before the announcement was made, Thomas had been cleared for this week’s practice.




The move was made before practice Wednesday, with left for the Bills exhibition finale against the Detroit Lions. Starting defensive end Chris Kelsay did not appear on the practice field and was ruled out for Thursday night’s game, too, but for a different reason-he will be with daughter who is having surgery in Chicago.

Unsigned 49ers rookie Crabtree caused slow pace of contract talks between Maybin and Bills

According to former NFL linebacker LaVar Arringto, unsigned first-round draft pick Michael Crabtree is one of the factors that slow down contract talks between rookie defensive end Aaron Maybin and the Buffalo Bills.


Arrington, who is also Maybin's publicist and friend, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Crabtree's stalled negotiations caused Maybin to miss the first two weeks of training camp and the Bills' preseason opener against the Tennessee Titans last weekend, because Maybin's value is hard to determine with Crabtree, or to be exactly, four of the five players selected ahead of Maybin, remaining unsigned.

It was said that Maybin is growing frustrated tired of defending himself against critics who question why he's not signed. Bills linebacker Kawika Mitchell and safety Donte Whitner supported him by posting tweets of their own.

Titans prepared for AFL Legacy Games by throwing back to original Oilers

The Hall of Fame Game will be held on this Sunady and marks the beginning of the “AFL Legacy Games”. There will be totally 16 games to be played during the 2009 season in commemoration of the 50th anniversary celebration of the inaugural season of the American Football League.


The Tennessee Titans will play with the Buffalo Bills in Canton, Ohio. They planned to throw back by breaking out helmets worn by the Houston Oilers in 1960. The Oilers moved from Houston to Tennessee in 1997, and then became the Titans in 1999.

The Houston Oilers were champions of the first and second AFL seasons in 1960 and 1961. Hall of Famer George Blanda was then a quarterback of the Oilers. The Buffalo Bills won championships in 1964 and 1965, becoming one of the only two teams who were two-time champions of the AFL beside the Houston Oilers.