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He was, but the count of 3 TE last year (Knox Kroft Smith) doesn't include him. That's why I think 2 TE is unlikely, but it is our thinnest position and it's quite possible no one is watching Sweeney too closely so they could PS him.

This is actually a point. Last year they kept Lee Smith on the roster as their 3rd TE (in addition to Gilliam as a FB/TE). They could easily decide to keep an extra utility OLman instead. ? Last year, Singletary, Moss, Yates, Taiwan Jones. That's 4. Plus Gilliam, if you want to consider him a FB RB is a high injury position whose players take a lot of wear and tear. I don't see them carrying less than they carried last season.

It's a point that Boettger is essentially a week behind everyone else

Yeah, I do. I think the player or coach giving the presser has a similar reaction, judging by subtle facial cues. I have mad respect for @john wawrow as a journalist but I wish he'd take himself back to basics (practice recording his asks and listening to the recordings) and get himself out of this "rambling man" question mode. It's the question equivalent of taking a Zoom presser in his bathrobe or similarly unkempt. Did he give any specifics on which starters would sit, besides Josh?

I was thinking Damn even in practice Milano can't cover a TE

Yikes! So much for their accuracy!

As someone else suggested, a roster that is so lop-sided (23 offense, 27 defense) seems unlikely to me. For reference, I think it might be useful to look at the numbers the Bills kept last year, which in part represent their perception of the numbers of bodies ready to dress at these spots. (your projection in parentheses). I will bold the situations that seem unlikely to me. QB 3 (2) [two is a more usual number around the league] RB 4 (3) [one was Taiwan Jones, one of our gunners] FB 1 (1) [though Gilliam was called a TE last year] TE 3 (2) WR 6 (6) [one was Andre Roberts, as KR/PR] OL 10 (9) I think it's extremely unlikely we keep only 2 TE. I also think one more OLman will be likely, though it's possible they go with 9. That would give us 24 or 25 on offense. If we keep 9, I think Doyle is likely to develop plantar fascitis or something and go on IR to start the season, and someone like Bobby Hart or Forrest Lamp will be kept. If we keep 10, Doyle may stay on the roster. DE 5 (6) DL 4 (5) LB 6 (6) CB 5 (5) S 3 (5) I agree that Neal will make the team, but in the past he's been counted as a CB, which means one of those you list doesn't make it. I think it's extremely unlikely we keep 11 DLmen when we only kept 9 last year. We might keep 10. I'm a bit puzzled by the "didn't have a very consistent camp" when we're only on the 2nd week of it. Seems to me there's a lot of camp left, and since Hollister has spent a good bit of the last 2 weeks out with a back injury - what has he shown you that has him beating out the incumbant?

Is the link up above somewhere? And are they the only two?

Is there an official or semi-official injury report? Somewhere I thought I saw "hamstring" for Moss which is not good - those can linger

FWIW, both things may be true; It may be true that Rousseau has had some good plays in practice but I actually couldn't find anyone praising him for his performance on SATURDAY so perhaps on that day, he wasn't looking as good. It's also possible that the press is talking up the good plays and disregarding the pancakes.

My guess would be we were working on some aspect of our offensive game that...wait for it...NEEDS WORK

Haven't seen this yet.

Pretty remarkable lack of coverage on today's practice.

And 22 minutes later, we're all still waiting. Perhaps some other news item has distracted the Bills press corps

I think you guys are explaining that in future, we shouldn't create these threads until actually after practice.

Bad news for Marquel Lee as far as his chances of making the team Any news on activating Dawkins? Though I think he needs like 3 days of progressive cardio conditioning and a medical clearance before he's eligible

Are you freakin' kidding me? As a talking head?

He has athleticism and intangibles, but he needs to be able to hold his lane on the field against the run and make some plays.

I don't consider myself an expert on assessing DL play. Butler was being asked to play a new-to-him position last fall. Phillips was still recovering from ACL. It's reasonable to expect we haven't seen their "best selves". The DL for the AFCCG was a tire fire - "not good enough", clearly. Butler was injured to be a "game time decision" for the Bills in the AFCCG and still got 30% of the reps. My point was to calibrate your assessment of Zimmer as a "marginal NFL player" (which his journeyman history suggests). You're making that same assessment of a former 3rd round draft pick and a former 1st round draft pick who has played a 5 year career in the NFL, seeing ~35 and ~50% of the snaps his last two years with his previous team. There are probably two ways to look at that.

My understanding is that reporters aren't allowed to tweet about it until after the practice, so it will be close to noon ET before we start getting some news.

The team might like to keep 6 DEs, but I think there is zero chance they keep less than 4 DTs. They kept 4 DTs last year with Quinton Jefferson, who was kind of a "tweener", as one of them, and that was regarded as kind of thin on DT.