Bills release an experienced guard

[Mr. Scot]

Quinton Spain, a Titan for his first few years and a full-time starter last year in Buffalo. He was starting this year until they replaced him with Cody Ford.

He has experience and is a decent blocker, but health might be an issue. He's sat out the last few weeks injured.

[Moo Daeng]

Can he kick? Play safety or DE or linebacker?

[Bartin]

He would be a great pickup for us, but the Chiefs, Ravens, Bears, Pats and Cowboys all pretty desperately need G help right now so I’m not going to get my hopes up on this one.

Also I find it very strange that an experienced and recently very solid G wasn’t even able to fetch a 7th in a trade when so many teams need IOL help. He had just signed a 3 year extension as well. He did lose his starting job, but you would have to be crazy to give up high quality OL depth for nothing when your team is a playoff and potential SB candidate without an extremely good reason especially given COVID and the need to potentially replace a starter on basically no notice just for contact tracing. I’d be trying to find out what that reason is. Something doesn’t smell right to me.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, Bartin said:

He would be a great pickup for us, but the Chiefs, Ravens, Bears, Pats and Cowboys all pretty desperately need G help right now so I’m not going to get my hopes up on this one.

Also I find it very strange that an experienced and recently very solid G wasn’t even able to fetch a 7th in a trade when so many teams need IOL help. He had just signed a 3 year extension as well. He did lose his starting job, but you would have to be crazy to give up high quality OL depth for nothing when your team is a playoff and potential SB candidate without an extremely good reason especially given COVID and the need to potentially replace a starter on basically no notice just for contact tracing. I’d be trying to find out what that reason is. Something doesn’t smell right to me.

Injury is the only thing I've seen, but yeah it's always "buyer beware" on these things.

[Bartin]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

Injury is the only thing I've seen, but yeah it's always "buyer beware" on these things.

Could be something as simple as Beane keeping a promise that he would let him go if he wasn’t a starter, but I would definitely call Beane before I’d called the agent on this one. If things checked out I probably would also offer Beane a 7th at the same time because lack of talent and COVID are killing our IOL right now.

[Proudiddy]

Would be an absolute steal if healthy.  I know he was well-regarded a few years ago.

[PantherExpress]

According to PFF he didn’t allow a single sack last year. Very surprising no one would trade for him, at least a late rounder. Maybe it was his salary? Makes you wonder what’s up with him 

[Basbear]

With a few teams in panic mode about OL, this sure is very odd for Billy to release him. This is a Marty Herniay move, very puzzling. 

[Davidson Deac II]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Injury is the only thing I've seen, but yeah it's always "buyer beware" on these things.

There is an article about it and it mentions nothing about injury.  

https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-gm-brandon-beane-explains-release-of-guard-quinton-spain/article_2d617fce-13b9-11eb-a701-fff06586eb31.html

Makes it sound as if there is more to the story, but he might be worth a look.  

[Mr. Scot]

56 minutes ago, Davidson Deac II said:

There is an article about it and it mentions nothing about injury.  

https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bills-gm-brandon-beane-explains-release-of-guard-quinton-spain/article_2d617fce-13b9-11eb-a701-fff06586eb31.html

Makes it sound as if there is more to the story, but he might be worth a look.  

The injury is mentioned here

Spain started every game for the Bills at left guard during the 2019 season and opened this year as their starter as well. He was replaced by Cody Ford when Buffalo shuffled its line in Week Three, saw some time in Week Four and sat out the last two weeks with a foot injury.

From the article you linked...

Quote

Spain announced the decision on Twitter, followed by the team's announcement. However, in a cryptic tweet that was later deleted, Spain wrote, "If only they knew the real reason but I'm going to leave it at that."

[Davidson Deac II]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

The injury is mentioned here

 

 

From the article you linked...

It looks like this has been in the planning stages for a few days and the player was aware it was coming.  Does make me wonder what is really going on.  But at least he knew it was coming.

Doubt he comes here anyway, but he is slightly more interesting than most players that get cut at this time of year.  

[Bartin]

1 hour ago, bull123 said:

What is his contract like?...is he good enough to contribute?...

id have given a 7th if he fits

He just signed a 3 year, $15M deal this offseason which makes it extra weird. That’s market value for a guy like him so he’s not overpaid or anything.

If we traded for him it would be like $3M for the rest of the year and $5M each of the next two. He’s not cheap but that is very reasonable.

[Mother Grabber]

we don’t need him since we’re picking an IOL in the first round. I saw it on the internets.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

Given how bad the Bills are at run blocking I can't say he's worth it.