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Yeah ideally Van Demark would be backup LT, Ifedi would be backup RT. In a perfect world we'd have a single swing tackle but it's better than nothing.

He is a possible candidate for backup RT. Only allowed 1 pressure throughout preseason. There's more clips in that Twitter thread from Erik Turner. EDIT: Now signed.

This is interesting. Although it's possible he's a wait in the parking lot candidate.

Oh no, a sudden hamstring injury that popped up right on roster cut down day!

For the first time in his career, including college? That was one of the question marks on him coming out of Oklahoma. Everyone knew he would likely be a solid center, but that's all he projected to be. He doesn't move the needle for me at all as far as identifying mistakes in Beane's tenure.

For a rookie QB, sure. For an established QB like Josh Allen the only thing that matters is snapping the ball and holding up decently well. I am pretty confident based on things I've heard that Morse will be gone next year and Bates will slip into his spot without any measurable drop off. Morse is the better player. It just isn't the type of position where top quality matters as much.

The Creed Humphrey obsession is so tired. I'll criticize Beane when it's warranted. But if we drafted Humphrey instead of Basham we would have the exact same number of Super Bowl wins right now. We're not talking about the league MVP here. It's just a center, the easiest position in football other than RB to find quality talent. Failed day 2 and 3 draft picks is not why our team has floundered in January. The main reason is our free agency spending relative to the rest of the league has been mostly awful. Missing on a late 2nd round pass rusher is acceptable. Wasting money on the likes of Vernon Butler and Rodger Saffold is not.

Presumably he will be cut and put on the PS as soon as Von is back.

This was always the expectation. This is the info I posted on August 8, I got this from my usual source:

I could see us adding him to the PS potentially.

I mean that tweet might as well have written by Kirksey's agent, but if he is indeed healthy it makes a lot of sense. At the very least I consider Kirksey to be a replacement level player. I can't say that for sure about our current options.

Most importantly, 3-3 as a backup in the past 2 years, and that's playing for a much worse team. .500 is all we need from a backup.

Colt McCoy just became available. I would be all over this.

This is one of the writers for Over The Cap. According to him it doesn't matter if Keenum is cut, the comp pick is locked in. Good news here.

You'd be surprised what reporters find out that they never actually report, and equally surprised how careless many people are around microphones. I didn't hear the slip-up myself but it's not totally unbelievable that this happened. I believe Beane has a good relationship with Jim Miller actually, he goes on his radio show a fair amount. GMs will divulge a lot of things in casual conversations off the air, especially inconsequential things like this.

I watched this play a couple times. Torrence loses leverage on an inside move and he gets pushed back almost into Allen's lap. He recovers decently well but the pocket is muddied. The same thing happened to Torrence later on the play that Allen escaped the pocket and threw back across his body, he got beat on an inside move. That time he wasn't able to recover. (a better angle is shown at 0:19) It's one lingering hole in Torrence's game that he needs to focus on. That vulnerability is on tape now. Every DT that faces him is going to try the same thing.

He played in 3 snaps yesterday. Here's 2 of them: He just doesn't have any kind of instincts or anticipation. He was massively overpaid by the Bears.

He was their 3rd round pick just two years ago. I remember he had his fans on here because of his elite speed. Turns out he couldn't do anything other than run fast.

I come away from preseason still concerned about our WRs behind Diggs. Much has been made of Davis's catch percentage throughout his career. Here is the only preseason game where I believe our offense looked as close to the real thing as possible and he finishes with a 25% catch percentage. His only catch was one where Allen held the ball for over 5 seconds. A low catch percentage and only catching the ball on a long developing play... That is who Davis has always been, and that inefficiency is more pronounced when he's the full time #2 as he again projects to be this year. So once again the passing offense this year will mostly have to be about Allen and Diggs making magic happen. It's a little scary to have nobody behind Diggs that can consistently win within 10 yards of the LOS. Hopefully Kincaid is ready for a lot of target volume as a rookie. On another note, I think that in Harris and Torrence the Bills may have finally found a goal to go run offense. Red zone TD% is one of the only areas where our offense has substantial room for improvement so this could be a significant development if Harris stays healthy.

This is classic Edmunds. Decides to give extra attention to the one WR that was already covered and lets Diggs run right by him uncontested.

I still cannot believe they gave him that contract. The Bills may have a big problem at MLB this season but giving Edmunds that kind of money would have been an even bigger mistake.

Like I said in the live thread I am still concerned about MLB and the WRs behind Diggs.