Bleeding Bills Blue

They can always do what they did last year and "release" players with no cap ramifications just to bring them back.

Could also be looked at like Jones role is secure.

It is an initial group - lots of cuts to be made still. Bates has some tackle experience, as does Ford. So while Brown is probably primary swing tackle - if Williams went down in game you might see boettger in at G and ford moved to Tackle. Lots of flexibility among the group.

RBs - I think with the flexible PS rules, i can probably roll with 3 RBs and 1 or 2 on PS. The 3rd one should be a special teamer for the most part, so I'd assume Jones. I also really don't think that teams are lining up to snag matt breida and antonio williams. So you can probably get one to the PS and activate on a game day if someone is banged up. I also think you can find guys like breida and williams throughout the season and get them up to speed with the playbook if a more interesting player comes available. WRs - With the top 5 WR's pretty set for the season I put the 6th as the guy i least want to lose - I don't feel the need to carry 7 when 2 will hopefully rarely dress. Ideally 6+2 on PS. My guess is stevenson for active roster, and kumerow/hodgins/lenoir/williams to the PS. They'll probably lose one or 2... but they can also add players they were interested in that are cut from other teams. OL - Carrying 9. Your 8 plus one more. I feel like you have to at least have 9 even with PS rules. TE's - I'd probably just roll with 3 initially, pushing sweeney to PS. I'd also look at roster cuts for a possible 4th. DTs - depending on philips injury, i could go either way with him or butler. Early season availability is key here. DE's - I'd assume Johnson gets cut, and those ST snaps go to obada who offers more as a pass rusher. Hell - with 6, and dressing 5 you can probably put anyone you want out there on STs.

At the end of the day - they said all of the same things about duke williams in previous camps as they say about kumerow. He played some snaps for buffalo and still ended up on the practice squad. 28 year old journeymen struggle at that position though, there are usually like 30-40 new WRs every season. A few retire, but mostly the journeymen are continually pushed out by new 20-22 year old kids who have draft pedigree and or some super plus traits (size, speed, hands, polish, etc). A lot of worry is going into who the 6th WR is - when they'll probably end up with 8 between the active roster and PS.

I feel like I was the only pro-allen guy. I was just at the crossroads of - we never hit home runs because we never swing for homers. Swing for the fences, worst case scenario you're right back in the same spot. Rocket arm, plus athlete, seemed like a good kid, super competitive.

Barney's movie had heart, but Football In The Groin had a football in the groin...

No more raw a deal than EJ Manuel. And Josh's numbers are worse - lower comp %, higher int%, higher sack %, lower Y/A and AY/A, lower TD%, fewer rushing yards. He was statistically worse in like very category of quarterbacking. His numbers are worse than David blough in 2019. Slightly better than the Luke Falk Jets offense that scored 3 points in 2 weeks. I just look at his game log and see the numbers of a guy who needs to get the ball out quick, but doesn't. There isn't a team willing to give him snaps at this point, and rightfully so. He has to catch on somewhere, be a backup, and make plays if he can ever see the field. I'm sure SF was probably a good spot last year as Garoppolo has been hurt before, but then they grabbed lance. It's all luck at this point.

He took 2 franchises to the super bowl. and won 1. He also won 2 MVP's. There are greater tragedies than a 2x MVP 1x Super bowl MVP being in the HOF.

If he doesn't make the practice squad, williams probably does. Buffalo's starters are among the worst in the league by most pundits opinions, so why are teams jumping to steal their 3rd and 4th backs? Yeldon is also available as well if they desperately needed a guy.

It's a chemistry issue. Run blocking maybe? But pass pro is more of a unit offense. Not to mention you only have 7 or 8 linemen active on a gameday - so you'd only be able to sub out a few players.

Moving players before the season starts usually results in terrible returns. I'm open to it, but i trust the GM/coach to see that and make the right call. I also don't want to cut a mccoy so we can throw frank gore out there again. While that was financially a good move, i feel like mccoy would have been a more productive player for the offense in 2018 than frank gore. Rousseau and Basham are probably situational players at this point. Neither is ready to start and be productive. So moving on from an addison creates pass rush opportunities, but thins out the team depth wise on early downs to Obada and darryl johnson. I don't have a ton of faith in that pair to be impact players on early downs.

Taiwan played 200 something snaps last year on special teams. If you keep a 7th dline or 10th oline, you are forced to replace those snaps and I'm certain the STs coach would look at it as a downgrade. Put the extras on the practice squad. I think they're both free agents next year. Hughes saves more cap space, but he's almost impossible to trade. He's also probably our best defensive lineman. The team has super bowl aspirations, they aren't trying to win some cap space war, or keep all the young players. Get the best 53 and try and win the damn thing!

I wanted to like him. Seemed like a Woods-lite for a replacement, but watkins never saw the field again and they brought in mathews who was a bad fit in that dennison offense. But i had very little faith in him as a player after he secured 36.5% of his targets. That's not all drops, that's not all Tyrod either though - by far the worst on the team and probably the league. Improved in year 2, but not enough that Buffalo didn't feel the need to completely overhaul the roster for 2019. He ended up losing snaps to guys like mckenzie, duke williams, roberts, and foster. Basically they felt like there was no step-down to go to those guys, and ended up getting Tommy Doyle for him.

You can put 1 or 2 WRs on PS though and elevate if anyone is banged up. They carried Duke and Kumerow last year. Some combination of Stevenson, Hodgins, and Duke Williams. Looking at depth charts across the league, there aren't a ton of depth spots that aren't already taken up by players drafted by those teams (https://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/depthchartpos/WR). There were 36 WRs drafted in 2021, and another 35 in 2020 - not to mention UDFA's from the same timeframe. I'd be surprised if people are targeting all 3 of those players listed above, and if so, there will be others available. If your 7th or 8th WR is playing significant snaps, thats a serious problem.

The cap difference between butler and phillips is fairly negligible. Phillips probably has more value with a cap hit of like a million, but while butler is listed as a 1T on the depth chart, he plays 3T as well, so position flex there is important if they're only carrying 4 DTs. Obada also has flexed inside a bit in passing situations, so if he can play well on ST's i think that flexibility (as well as being a more productive pass rusher) would push DJ off the roster. I think Gilliam will likely be more active as a special teamer than Sweeney, who I think can probably hit the PS.

I think an extra CB is likely without a vet behind wallace. Maybe drop sweeney to PS - if you have knox, hollister, gilliam? I also see butler over Phillips.

And if he doesn't get hurt you have a 7th WR who never suits up for a game. 7 of the 53 above are inactive on game days. 1 of the 4 RBs if you have 4. 2 Olinemen if they kept 10. 2 dlinemen. Probably 1 of the 6 WRs. 1 of 4 TEs.

Looks pretty good to me. Changes i expect I see 4 RBs and 9 Oline. Add Jones, subtract hart and plug him or someone else (probably not on the roster yet) in on PS. If you need them to be active for a game or two you have the option to bring them up without having to sign them for a full 53 spot. I just look at it like this - the 10th offensive lineman will be inactive on game days. Jones will be active as the 3rd running back (pushing breida into a matchup dependent role), and played over 200 ST snaps. Kumerow may not be active on every game day, as it would be matchup/injury dependent. If a starter is nursing an ankle or something, and is Questionable, maybe you have 6 active that week in case of reaggravating an injury, but there isn't a need for 6 WRs out of 45 players. First thought is winning games, 2nd thought is protecting players. The team is a division winner coming off playing in the AFC championship, they can't keep everyone.

I thought we were going to look at like, previous 1st rounder edge rushers and see their impacts in 1st year. Taking out guys taken in the first 3-5 picks (players expected to start day 1) Last year Chiasson - no impact on a terrible team, while playing about half the snaps. Not sure on how he was entirely used though. 2019 - Sweat and Burns - impactful players in rotation. Gary and Collier, no impact rookie seasons. 2018 - Davenport - relatively impactful in rotation. 2017 - Barnett - impactful player in rotation. Mckinley, Charlton, Harris, no impact. I do think the impact is definitely dependant on snaps. Epenesa flashed here and there and only played about 27% of snaps. Hopefully with the extra length Rouss can replicate some of that athleticism that made sweat and burns dynamic rookies.

Yeah but... its the bears. The bears don't have good quarterbacks. That's just how the world works.

Lawrence - Low expectations. But honestly the talent is there on the offense. Etienne gives them another option in the run game. Chark, Jones, Shenault isn't bad. Wilson - They added some pieces but the offensive line is still not good. No run game. Davis crowder mims is a pretty mediocre group. Lance - Will probably sit for a year. I think he's in a good spot though. Fields - Potential to be the greatest bears QB in 50 years. But that offense will probably still be bad. Jones - They added a ton, he's got a decent chance to get on the field this year. Offensive line is usually strong there. I just don't see a potential stud. Something like Kirk Cousins. I see Fields and Wilson as most likely busts. QB starved fan bases who seem to never have QBs, and football has a way of just keeping with tradition. My guess for the stud is Lawrence. Lance is a wildcard. Jones will be fine.

I can't do hortons. No standards for their drinks. And the food is terrible.

I mean... expectations have to be pretty low right? Team was 4-12 and still probably have the worst D in the league, they didn't have their first and second round picks, and their only star is currently being accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. They had to burn one of the 5 picks they did have on a QB since the expectation would be that they won't have Watson.

Maybe if the league suspended him they could get out of some guarantees? But they'd have to release him, and they likely are trying to trade him.