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In the regular season you can only call up a player 3 times, not 4. After that, they'd need to be waived so any team could try to put them on their practice squad.

Yes, Warcodered said it but in case he wasn't clear enough, after the trade deadline all players are subject to waivers. And yes, the team claiming takes on the current contract which would make it difficult for the Bills to claim him. There must be some playoff team that could take it on though. After waivers, he's a free agent and any team can negotiate a salary with him.

You don't need to discuss much.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. For the longest time, I kept thinking when I'd hear either name, "wait, is that the LB or the CB?". And, since my father's first name is Bernard (Bernie), I bought my father a Bernard jersey for his 100th birthday back in August. He wears it now when he watches Bills games. So, now, I just remember that my dad is wearing the LB's jersey.

I think when teams, including the Bills, do this they are signaling a run play and it means the D mostly focuses on the run. Defenses typically have success when they know that a run play is coming. Last year at the Chargers game they ran this quite a bit. The Chargers were not very good last year and this was the first game under an interim coach. We barely beat the Chargers that day even though we were the much better team. I typically wouldn't notice that they were adding an extra tackle unless it's pointed out. I was at the game and of course the referee announces before each of these plays, "Number 76 is reporting as eligible." David Edwards played that role last year and it seemed the Chargers stopped 75% of these plays for very little gain. Interestingly enough, couldn't hear these announcements when I went back to watch on TV so if I wasn't at the game, I don't think I ever would have known they ran this play as much as they did.

I'm quite sure you are not correct on #2. I'm pretty sure the original team can make an offer (match or not match), but the player in effect is a free agent to sign to any team's active roster.

The article I read said they had him on the scout team at safety but he wasn't allowed to run or make contact so I'm not really sure what the "playing safety" part even means. I also had read (sorry if already stated but I only read the first two pages and the last few posts) that he was told feel free to stay home the rest of the season. The Giants wanted to play him and he wanted to play but the risk of injury guarantees kicking in wouldn't allow for that. They tried to have him waive the injury guarantees, his agent negotiated with the Giants but couldn't come to an agreement. He was willing to waive part but not the entire injury guarantee. It didn't give any indication of how much he was willing to waive.

Thanks for adding the person's name Happy, although I posted the comment, I didn't care enough to go back and listen for his name. I'd say I enjoyed the podcast and listening to his thoughts in general (as a recap, I had mentioned he was on the Shout podcast the other day). The last question he was asked was about contract extensions for Benford and Bernard and he wasn't that positive about either. Bernard he said is very tricky because he isn't good against the run and I don't agree with this either. To be honest, when I heard his response to this question, it made me reconsider if I put any credence to anything he said, those comments made me think he was a typical national media person who doesn't have time to analyze the Bills specifically. Maybe a bit harsh on my part.

This morning I listened to the Shout podcast. They had someone from The Athletic on for most of the show. One of the last questions was asking about resigning players. The guy wasn't that high on either Benford or Bernard. He wasn't negative, but for Benford he was basically saying it's all McD. and for Bernard it was that he's not very good against the run. I don't agree with either of these statements (although I do agree that McD. absolutely gets the most out of the secondary), just wanted to share an outside media person's take.

I think it's 3. NE and Jets would be 10 -7 if one of them won out. NE would have the tie breaker over the Bills on that case. No chance to clinch next week.

Years ago a Skankees fan did this against (I think) the Orioles. Obviously not a WS and likely not a playoff game, but he reached over the fence and caught the ball just as it was about to be caught. The umpires called it a HR. I don't remember if it was obvious if it would have landed in the field of play or as a HR if they didn't do that and if the outfielder didn't catch it. The fan was celebrated in NY as this gave the Skanks an important win. Pretty sure MLB changed the rule after that.

It depends on when he was put on IR. The new rule this year is that they can be put on IR the last day of cuts with a designated to return designation. It immediately counts as one of the 7 even if they don't activate. I think Evans was one of them but really not so sure I'm correct on that. Milano absolutely was. I remember that this was something Joe Marino said on one of his podcasts just before cut down day. If they do this with Milano then they expect him to return at some point this season. If they had put him on IR after final cuts then you are correct, he doesn't count as one of the 7 if they don't activate him.

I was listening to One Bills Live today, Tasker and Brown. And no, I don't really think much of Tasker's analysis most of the time but I think I agree with him on this one. He was saying nothing wrong with the strategy, don't allow the easy pass to get in field goal range. Hail Mary's are a very low percentage play even with the QB having plenty of time and even though Rogers has a great history with them, it's really not about the QB so long as they have the arm strength to get it to the end zone. It's about defenders knowing they need to bat it down. He also said that's not coaching, everyone who has ever played or watched football knows that. The one point I'd make is that coaches need to REMIND the players before the play to do that, maybe even threaten a fine if they intercept although probably the union would protest that (I remember hearing a player a few years back, maybe it was Hyde saying of course he'll go for the interception if he thinks he can get it instead of knocking it down). Reminds me of the clip a few years back of Marty Schottenheimer telling the Chargers defense that they should strip the ball and then fall on it, don't try to advance it. Immediately the D strips the ball, picks it up, has it stripped from him, the Chargers lose as they only needed to get the ball and let time expire, Marty's fired.

Congratulations Alpha! I've been to Busby's (for the Houston playoff game a few years ago). It was awesome! I go to a bar in Huntington Beach, Eat at Joe's. Nowhere near as good as Busby's but a much shorter drive for me (I live in Mission Viejo). The only issue is you obviously planned very poorly, having your son born during a game! My son was due during opening weekend in 2001. My wife was totally ok with having him a week early to avoid any conflict. Of course, it helps that we knew she needed a C-section after our daughter was born in 1998 so we could plan the date to make it convenient instead of having to rush to the hospital at an inconvenient time or day.

So, Johnson met with Rogers yesterday and fired Saleh today. Does that mean Rogers asked for the firing or Johnson wanted to give him a heads up? Or, did Johnson tell Rogers that Hackett was about to be let go and that's when Rogers insisted Saleh had to go? https://www.foxnews.com/sports/jets-owner-woody-johnson-says-he-fired-robert-saleh-one-day-after-meeting-aaron-rodgers