Former Jaguars LB Kirk Morrison now on the Bills

by Alfie Crow on Aug 26, 2011 10:01 AM EDT in Jacksonville Jaguars News

The Buffalo Bills recently reached an agreement with former Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Kirk Morrison. Morrison, acquired from the Oakland Raiders in a trade during the draft, started all 16 games at middle linebacker for the Jaguars last season. His contract expired and the Jaguars let him walk, upgrading the position with former Bills linebacker Paul Posluszny.

Morrison was picked up after Bills ILB Reggie Torbor went down with an injury and was placed on injured reserve. It's a solid pick-up by Buffalo as a stop-gap player on the inside, but I'm really not sure how Morrison will fit as a 3-4 inside backer. In his time in Jacksonville, he wasn't very good at shedding blocks or in run support. Not only that, but he was very suspect in coverage. While Morrison was a tackle machine and hardly ever missed a tackle, the problem was all of his tackles came after gains of yardage in coverage. In a 3-4, Morrison is going to have to worry about taking on offensive lineman at times and I imagine he'll struggle shedding those blocks. There's a reason the Jaguars went for Posluszny hard in free agency rather than bring back Morrison who knew the system.

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Morrison is such a classy guy, i think we would give him a chance to stay as a backup but not sure he wanted that role just yet.
Anyway, he was what Raiders fans said he was, tackling machine who is usually late on doing so, eventually will make a big play for you as a TFL, will have lots of problems with coverage and shedding blocks…
but have those issues and and put him on a 3-4 defense? I don’t know what Bills FO were thinking or if they lacked option, but he’s OK for a 4-3 team, in their scheme i guess he will be a huge liability.

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by Hellveto on Aug 26, 2011 10:48 AM EDT reply actions

The Bills FO was probably thinking, “We just lost a LB for the year, we need a better backup” so they went out a got Morrison. No big deal.

by unbiased5 on Aug 26, 2011 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions

one mans trash is another mans...

trash.

by UCLAllDay on Aug 26, 2011 11:09 AM EDT reply actions

Hes an upgrade from their backup linebacker, but nothing to get excited for from their sde.

by FgallosJAGS on Aug 26, 2011 11:23 AM EDT reply actions

A bill is just a bill

Morrison is just a stop gap at this point ………that’s why we upgraded from him to the POZ

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by Daddycrapper on Aug 26, 2011 11:41 AM EDT reply actions

I think Poz is an upgrade. However,

“While Morrison was a tackle machine and hardly ever missed a tackle, the problem was all of his tackles came after gains of yardage in coverage.”
Bills fans said this same thing about Poz.

by CheapSeat on Aug 26, 2011 12:43 PM EDT reply actions

it's all relative

Bills fans seem to say good riddance because of the money Poz got from Jax. We would have gladly kept Morrison if he came back for less $ and obviously a reduced role. Either way, both teams got excellent community guys.

by Joe Fisher on Aug 26, 2011 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions