GunnerBill

I can't remember watching him play for Carolina when he made a few starts. Based on the numbers I was cautiously optimistic. But what has me concerned about his pre-season is nothing to do with game planning or play calling it is his general skittishness and lack of pocket awareness. He is atrocious. I think you could have Bill Walsh gameplanning and playcalling and the pocket awareness would still be a problem.

No I just want someone better. And there are lots of them. Kyle Allen sucks.

Nobody is disputing if Allen goes down for the season we are done. But what if he breaks a finger on his throwing hand? That is a "you can't just play with it you are going to miss at least 2 or 3 games" you want a guy who can get you through.

There are injuries that won't keep you out long but that mean you can't play. The whole "backup QBs don't matter" thing is so tiresome. Of course it matters.

I think someone will choose him as a WR2 when he hits FA. It won't be a contender like the Bills, but someone will.

See I think Gabe is a #2. But he isn't a "good" #2. He is a lower end low volume, high output guy. And as he goes into a contract year his route to improving that is to offer more in the short game. When you look at the way the short game is played one of the shorter routes that best fits his skillset is the slant.... and he dropped a ball on a slant. My post isn't saying "man Gabe Davis sucks" it is saying unless he improves in that facet he is what he is. And the early returns were not as encouraging as they could have been.

Didn't Belichick do that with kickers a couple of seasons back for like the first 3 or 4 weeks? Didn't roster one had two on the PS. If Barkley was healthy I don't actually think that would be the worst idea I have ever heard. There isn't much between them, they both know the scheme.... continue the competition for 6 weeks until you have exhausted the call ups and give yourself an extra roster spot to manage any short term injuries. As it is I think Allen will be on the 53 unless someone else comes in but I think their ideal is to bring someone in and they will turn over every rock to do so.

They were in on Trey Lance who is definitely not a ready now option so I am not sure they are confining themselves to that. I think they feel pretty confident they could get Allen on the PS and elevate him.

Hmm. Looks like the LTs to me. Of the three defenders at the second level they both end up blocking the one furthest to the inside. I would think that was the guard's responsibility and Dion should be blocking one of the outside guys. But equally without the play call hard to know. It might even be that it was a called combination block on the guy they block and they think the two outside guys are irrelevant because the play is designed to go up the gut. But because 93 penetrates Cook has to bounce (which wasn't the design) and therefore the two 2nd level players on the outside are still in the play. Clearly something didn't quite work as called but hard to identify what.

Yea the first one he loses the first half of the rep and wins the 2nd half. The second one he is totally beat off the bat. His worst rep of pre-season. On Boettger I agree with @Ralonzo that he isn't beating any of the other contenders out at guard, but I do think this was comfortably his best game of the 3. I suspect the Bills will try and PS him to give him more time to recover from the achillies (and because they love him as a guy) but it shouldn't be at the expense of Anderson who would be my priority IOL for the PS (on the basis I think he will be the last OL cut from the roster).

I really don't. I think they are going to try really had to bring in a QB.

He is right a trade makes no difference. Keenum being cut does potentially (unless the rules have changed and nobody has come up with a comprehensive answer on that).

I mean whether he said it or not them being in on Lance kinda proves the point, right? I expect someone else to be on the Bills roster by the end of the week as a backup QB. Kyle Allen on the PS but possibly with him elevated week 1 to serve as the backup giving the new guy 2 full weeks to learn the offense.

Nope. Try again.

Even for pre-season games the announcers get sit downs with some key people in advance. Maybe they spoke to Beane. I doubt he expressed it quite in those terms as Miller put it but I can imagine Beane saying "Kyle has had some struggles from the start of camp" (which fits everything those who were there have said) and then something along the lines of "this game will be another chance for him to show us he has what it takes" which Miller then translates to "Beane thinks he doesn't have what it takes". I suspect that would be how it went down. If indeed the OP is right. I did not hear it on the DAZN broadcast but then I did not sit through half time I was loading the dishwasher and watering the garden 😄

Except we have seen these issues in the regular season for Gabe.

I hope not!

If Keenum is cut it might make eating Harty's dead cap worth it.... haha.

Ford doesn't count in the comp pick formula. Signed after the deadline.

Yea we wouldn't get anything.

That is because he is.

He is bad.

Yep. Certainly used to be the way it worked. If Keenum is cut we have lost to pick. I think that is clear.

I did ponder this the other week think it was with @Beck Water. It definitely used to be the case that the guys that were qualifying FAs for the purposes of the comp pick formula had to actually make the rosters they signed to (without being cut) and make it a certain number of weeks (think it was 6). If they stay on that contract having been traded to another team they still count. Wasn't sure if that was still the case but it appears so. In which case definitely woth one of our extra 6ths to trade for a better backup and keep our extra 3rd.

It wasn't. Here is the photo from the other angle of the contact. That is a block in the back.