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TBH, I thought he looked better than Doyle at RT during preseason, so I wouldn't be upset about that

This, which makes me hella nervous How can Beane justify allowing a situation to continue where Doyle is 1 snap away from protecting Josh Allen's blindside? Yeah, No. Bad take Poyer is playing lights-out this season but the general consensus this year is that Hyde Came to Play

Please bite your tongue. We only have so many offensive lineman, and even if vaccinated it is entirely possible that most of the OL is close contacts with Brown and now testing daily

I think we don't need more than one thread talking about unlucky uniform pants

"Paper Tigers". "Paper Champions" isn't a thing, though I suppose it could be. What exactly are we supposed to be "proving you wrong" about? Every Championship team needs a good defense, usually a top-10 defense on points that peaks at the end of the season. The years the Pats won the Superbowls their D was 7th, 1st, 8th, 2nd, 1st, 6th A QB also needs a sound OL too. For years, the Pat's secret weapon was "Coach Scar", long-time OL coach Dante Scarnecchia who had the ability to mold cutout bin scraps and JAGs into a solid OL anchored by a long-time center and LT

Let's review the rules, or at least my understanding, because it may be less of a practical difference than you think: 1. vaccinated: test 1x per week (think it's Monday) OR if symptoms OR if exposure as a close contact Can return to play if no symptoms for 48 hrs and 2 negative tests 24 hrs apart (or after 10 days, whichever is first) Close contact: Do not have to quarantine but must test daily for 5 days 2. unvaccinated: must be isolated for minimum 10 days Can return to play when asymptomatic Close contact: Must quarantine for 5 days and test negative to return https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-covid-vaccine-rules-explained/1efarozoadvh11vig3gtdctcdz So if Spencer Brown was put on the list today, he is either a) A vaccinated close contact who tested for 5 days and tested positive this morning - in which case if he tests negative Fri and Sat or Sat and Sun and continues with no symptoms, he can theoretically play - that would be a difference b) A vaccinated player who developed symptoms this am and tested positive - in which case his symptoms would have to clear by Sat. and he would have to test negative as above - this is a tall order, even for Tall Brown. Symptoms can be as mild as a sniffle or sore throat, and mild symptoms can linger for a week or so. The test is extremely sensitive, so positive tests can also linger - in which case the 10 day rule applies. But we could get him back for Thanksgiving. c) unvaccinated and testing positive, in which case he is out for 10 days (until Fri or Saturday, depending on if the test was taken yesterday or today) The meaningful difference for vaccinated players is the difference in the rules for "close contact". In theory, a vaccinated player who tests positive could be back in just a few days, but in practice, if they test positive during the week, it may very well be because they have some symptoms, and the time difference between symptoms clearing/2 negative tests may not be less than 10 days.

You have bizzare preferences. Doyle is just NOT ready. I guess we may see him, but he looked bad in preseason at RT. The snaps that he took for Dawkins in the Jets game were turnstile-ish

We lost games against Pittsburgh and the Jags without Brown starting. We won games against Miami (x2) and Washington without Brown starting. To be fair, we lost a game against Tennessee where he started, where having him let a guy blow past him caused an INT as Allen's arm was hit as he threw And we won games against Houston and the Jets as well as KC with him So I would say him starting is a "mixed bag"

Well, he can.

But can Jake play RG any better than Cody Ford?

True. But it probably had a lot to do with Charlie Weiss as his OC, who NOT coincidentally was Brady's OC his first 4 years in NE. The previous year under Haley and the subsequent year under Bill Muir, Cassel kind of sucked. Both Cassel and Garrapolo have some talent in the sense that they can play in the NFL, sure, but is it fair to say they were or are not "franchise guys"? Can't speak for the guy you're responding to, but my point would be that a good coach and a good system have helped lift the apparent talent of average guys and help them find (at least a few years) of success where they likely would have fizzled with a crap team and poor coaching. So to the topic of the thread, yes, Mac Jones shows promise, and I'll wait and see. Au contraire, a lot of people remember that and use it to discredit Belichick. But just as players can develop and change, so too can coaches. It's all about how driven they are, and how committed they are to a "growth mindset" and improvement.

What you wrote comes across to several as critical of him and wanting to take it up. Just for your own calibration purposes, no salesman will call. Not AF, and not service academies, but Back in Da Day I knew some children of Well Connected People who got 4 years of free ride at an Ivy on ROTC scholarship and never served active duty. In fact the service paid for one of them to attend law school. Now they may have had some reserve commitment which they fulfilled somehow, but no one knew about that. This woulda been back in the '80s I don't think a Wiki that reads as though written by a football agent, is concerned with the fine points of his military commitment. Can't disagree there, but life isn't fair.

Yes. And his price to sign for this season was a cool $6M. No reason to think he would take a discount next season.

Depends upon what he thinks he can get in FA, and what we really think of his physicality on game day I have the impression that he's more into being a great humanitarian than a great football player, but what matters is the viewpoint of the coaches and the guys who are playing beside him. The fact that he's been a "healthy scratch" in 3 games so far this season is not a great sign.

Joe Buscaglia's grades continue to make no sense whatsoever to me. OK, very little sense

That last would be really stupid, considering that 2 of our top 3 WR are 33 and 34, we only have one TE, and our interior OL is struggling. At some point we must invest in the offense, and moving on from 3 of 4 DT plus a guy who can rotate would just create a huge hole we have to fill. Phillips, Butler and Obada are all UFA. Star is under contract through 2023. I can't tell you how the Bills FO will evaluate them or what they offer, but it's always a bit of a guessing game signing lower tier FA, you always overpay for top guys, and we can't draft 3 or 4 top DT. I agree (not necessarily with WR in the first round, but that we need some investment offensively) End of the world predicted, News at 11 😂

This response: 🔥🔥 If it were a well-salted pretzel, and if the guy she threw it at was very sensitive to wheat allergens.... ....it could be assault with a deadly weapon I'm here all week, Tip your Server

LOL that Chipmunks TikTok abhomination of the classic Shangri-La breakup song pukes me out too, but then, we only just installed a couple of USB outlets in our house, in time for everything to switch to wireless charging

Per Spotrac and Overthecap, Beasleys contract runs through 2022 season. So no Yes

“He’s awesome- don’t be awesome this weekend though” ”Be the best father and husband you can be this Sunday, take the day off” LOL McAfee still a Colts homer

Ha.

I guess you'd want to take it up with him on the front of "integrity first" then, since I believe that's accurately what he said. As far as the service committment https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/07/13/new-policy-eases-army-navy-air-force-players-path-to-the-nfl/ Changed in 2016, see above. Happened on a case by case basis before that.

I agree with this I disagree with this. Isaiah McKenzie has notably become a better route runner since joining the Bills. Davis has improved. Knox has improved. I don't see why what you say would be true. Like anything else, it's a matter of recognizing the need to improve then working hard on the right things. IMHO both Brown and Beasley improved as route runners after Diggs arrived and Chad Hall took over as WR coach.

Considering Hyde made a difficult open-field tackle where Henry flattened him but he hung on long enough for the rest of the team to get there...Imma go with: "he said what he said" Henry broke a long run against us. Otherwise, Bills contained him to 70 yds on 21 carries. His major effect was that they were too busy worrying about Henry to do enough covering the pass.

Just a note that people on the Twitters are trying to conclude from this that Star was unvaccinated because "only the unvaccinated test on game days", but that isn't correct. Any player (vaccinated or not) who is identified as a close contact of someone who tests positive (need not be a player) will test immediately Any player (vaccinated or not) who reports a symptom that might be Covid - and at this point, that's a very long list - will test immediately So, for example, Star might be told that one of his kids just tested positive -> test immediately Star might wake up with a sniffle and a sore throat -> test immediately If he tests positive and has symptoms, he can not return until he is symptom free and tests negative 2x 24 hrs apart, even if he is vaccinated. Or, he might be unvaccinated and be held out the minimum 10 days. We just don't know at this point. I really hate it when the Bills coaches on Mon and Weds are talking about what a big challenge they have and how they need to come up with a plan to limit and slow the opponent down. I hate it because when the Bills coaches talk like that, we seem to wind up with a "play scared" defensive plan like we had against the Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game or against the Titans.