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Do they do IR for... being bad?

Communication has been the biggest issue with the defense - helped a lot having bernard and johnson back. Edwards and Bishop missed a ton of camp, and bishop didn't look strong in his play this year. I also thought after the hail mary hamlin played a lot better. A bit more reckless abandon, a bit faster. I don't think the lights ever going to truly go on, but all of the competition brought in this offseason missed a ton of time and he won the job. Yep - only guy i'm benching hamlin for is probably hyde.

So... 9 drops is on him though. 53 targets and 9 drops. Gabe davis worst season was 9 across 93 targets - and we called him stone hands.

I guess i'd do our 6th, but thats probably not that juicy for them.

The drops are a problem. Asking price should be considerably lower though. Coopers got a 45.3% catch percentage this season. 9 drops... 9!!! in 6 freaking games?! how is that even possible? He has dropped 17 percent of his targets this year!

Well I'm glad we can kill this thread before it hits 100. I wonder what the compensation looks like, and if he re-did his contract to hit UFA next year. In any case - crazy that they are doing this at 2-4. I know the "window" was with rodgers, and rodgers is likely done after this year so i guess go all-in, but now you're trading futures to try and sneak into the playoffs?

First drive of the game he and kincaid trucked people and i just thought - it is going to be a long day for the jets secondary if they can't start stopping plays at the LOS.

I'm only 37, but i can't remember really running a tab without a card so I'm not sure if this is an issue i'd ever encountered. Definitely left my credit card at quite a few bars though.

I could also see Milano going the way of miller and knox and lowering his pay in favor of guarantees. End of the day - this team has Allen and is mostly absent star players. Milano, TJ, Miller are probably the 3 closest players buffalo has to being star players, and while oliver isn't a star - he still had 9.5 sacks last year. Diggs cap eating was a necessary evil because he wanted out. Cutting milano either costs cap space (1.1M plus the replacement contract), or it costs 11M in dead cap in 2026, while creating 9.9M in space in 2025. You can do a lot with that but, he's still better than Williams and the defense is better with him on the field. Probably a year too soon to move on there IMO. I wouldn't move oliver - he's a good player and one of the only mainstays on the defensive line. Whatever savings gets eaten by the replacement. Knox - I don't see a trade market for a TE at 1yr 8.75M with the limited production he's shown this season. So if you cut him you either lose 3M in cap space in 2025 (plus the replacement player), or you are eating cap in 2026 - you save 4.5M and eat 7.4M in 2026. 4.5M will get consumed by a replacement player which basically gets you Jonnu Smith. Feels like i'm robbing peter and paying paul and the team doesn't improve at all by making the move.

That and your #1 demanding a trade a month after free agency opens, while creating a massive dead cap hit. I don't even think much of what they added changes if they keep diggs - in fact everyone probably slots where they should. Knowing that back in march there are a few moves you can consider that were probably more realisitic than overpaying ridley for example. I think instead of samuel, you can target hollywood brown (i know he's hurt but probably more of what we need at the moment). There are other trades we potentially consider - Jeudy, Diontae Johnson, Keenan Allen perhaps.

Ravens have some pretty stark home and away defensive splits as well. Crowd noise helps a ton with snap counts, especially against motion heavy offenses. As for ravens pass defense, their rush defense is #1 in the league so that kind of leads to it being a bad matchup for us.

THIS!!! There were less than 2 minutes til booth review, what do you have to lose here?

I always viewed him as a backup option for a few spots. I thought he'd get a shot as that 3rd safety role that Ingram has been playing, but he also missed like all of camp, and i feel like he missed minicamps or OTAs too. Can't really do that mid-season though, and his contract is up. Hamlin is also a free agent so realistically he'd be in competition with bishop and rapp. Douglas currently has a 4M void money dead cap hit for 2025, which you can spread out if you extended him.

Right? We're 3-2. Why are people so inclined to make changes to the lineup for a rookie to work out his rookie issues. He should've worked them out in camp, but he was hurt, its why he didn't have the job to begin with. If anything he's shown that he needs to continue to work in practice before he's field ready.

So from the previous games statline - Hamlin had 9 tackles and bishop had 4. Bishop had 2 recorded missed tackles. Bishop also blew his assignment that gifted houston 7 points in a 3 point game. Like what did people see in bishop that was so impressive that he gets a spot over hamlin? I'm all for promotion when a player has earned it, however i also don't see hamlin as a player worthy of demotion at this point. He's 2nd on the team with 3 pass defenses, 3rd in tackles. It's a mash unit, and I don't think it's wise to bench starters who actually practiced all camp and aren't missing tackles and making mental mistakes.

I still have turf toe from at least 10 years ago, it's never really right unless you get it fixed. When I play bar league football i tape the crap out of it and its mostly ok. I have to crack it when it rains :-). Rest, and probably more frequent mid-game rest. It's pain management more than anything else - toe instability isn't going to prevent you from cutting, but jump cut on that foot and its probably gonna hurt. It's also unlikely to prevent you from running like a hamstring or ankle might. But it hurts. Every step. To me that didn't look like turf toe in the way he hit it? I'm not sure how he'd roll the toe under his foot with that type of shock, but it doesn't mean it wasn't broken, badly bruised, or dislocated.

Don't worry- they're probably all out too 🙂

They lowered his base salary in the offseason with incentives, so i assume this was partially requested by his agent to offset monetary loss. The teams good with it because it created cap space without having to push money into next year (unless he hits incentives). See i thought the 2nd one she just refused to testify so you don't really have a case.

Hamlin has played better than Bishop though. More tackles than bishop and rapp combined, only 1 missed tackle to 2 for bishop and 1 for rapp in fewer snaps. Pass coverage has been fine too. He hasn't done anything spectacular, but the big plays the last 2 weeks went to rapp and bishops sides of the field.

You can do this when you have a core. When you gut the core and leadership of the team, you need people who can play day 1 more than lottery tickets.

It's going to be tough to go down the whole line Arizona - 3/9 33% - 2/2 on 4th downs (both less than 2 yards), 1 3rd and 19 after a penalty, another 3rd an 14 after penalty. Miami - 3/9 33% - 0/3 in 2nd half, and after the pick 6 it was all but ballgame. Jax - 6/11 - Thats a good game. Baltimore - 3/13 - 17, 8, 10, 10, 12 - so 5 times they faced 3rd and long. Houston - 3/14 - 20, 11, 9, 14, 10, 9, 8, 10, 10. This alone is absurd, 9 times they faced 3rd and long.

So you want to lose so you can be like "see, beane's terrible". Got it. Bigtime fan.

Fair, he's big and elusive. Us missing half our defense helped them too, so i don't really feel that bad. People get injured.

I mean... he's a defensive coach and the adjustments that were made resulted in 3 punts and 2 takeaways. During the 5 possessions buffalo had after that they scored 10 points. I'd put the onus more on brady and allen in that regard.

I think timing of playcalls has been an issue on the road. Not getting to the line quick enough, and always going on 1 makes it a lot easier for defense to disguise.