Logic

Corey Davis's career best single season receiving yardage total is higher than any current Bills receiver's. Samuel: 851 Davis: 961 Davis has posted season of over 800 and over 900 yards receiving. He is 29 years old. He won't be unseating any of the top four, but no one can convince me that he's not at least a Shavers/MVS level talent.

Not gonna lie, "Thigh Doctor" would be a low key great name for a chicken place.

Thanks. I'm curious to know the difference in expertise level between Banged Up Bills and Thigh Doctor. Are they both MDs? PTs?

There are two prominent accounts that do this for the Bills, and a couple that do it for all teams in the league. Often, it's nothing more than "the test the medical staff is administering is done to test for ligament damage" or "this body language indicates a conscussion" or "the way the heel moves is potentially indicative of an achilles tear". Stuff like that. Most viewers of football don't know what a Lachman Test or Pivot Shift test are, so some people with medical backgrounds point these things out on social media in an effort to inform them, so that they may have some sense of what might be going on with an injured player.

Mentioning what an account on Twitter -- of which there are two prominent ones on Twitter that do this for the Bills -- lists as a few potential things to think about based on the information given, and indicating in my original post that it was merely a guess on this account's part, doesn't qualify as "wild speculation" in my eyes, buy YMMV.

The amount of hate and accusations of attention seeking toward this dude simply because his speculation would be really unfortunate news for the Bills is wild. For the record, he has been right and wrong in the past. He's simply a medical professional who shares his informed speculation on Twitter. He doesn't claim any secret knowledge or mysterious sources and he doesn't state anything definitively, and I've certainly never found him to be an attention seeker. To each their own, but I think "don't shoot the messenger" (or, in this case, the informed speculator) applies here.

The Thigh Doctor fellow on Twitter who analyzes player injury reports says that the fear and the worst case scenario here would be a torn bicep tendon, which some guys do play through, but others get surgery to fix. He's not saying that's what happened, only speculating that it's what he suspects/fears based on available picture/video/reports. *****.

The touchdown pass to Gabe in the 2021 Chiefs playoff game that gave the Bills the lead with 13 seconds left and should've sent them to the AFCCG. It was an aesthetically pleasing throw is it is, but the pressure of that moment and of that drive and the clutch factor of that play is what makes it my favorite. He's had throws with higher degrees of difficulty, prettier looking passes, etc, but THAT play in THAT game was Josh at the height of his powers.

Truth. I hope Daequan Hardy ends up taking the job, so they don't have to waste a roster spot elsewhere, since Hardy would also be useful as defensive depth.

They need bodies for the remainder of the preseason. Samuel Coleman Shakir Hollins Shavers MVS is almost certainly the six they're keeping, unless injury hits or something unexpected happens.

Sea Dragons legend Ben Dinucci to the rescue!

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Looking at your running back observations reminds me: I said this earlier this offseason and caught flak, but I'm sticking with it: By midseason or thereabouts, Ray Davis will be the starting running back on this team and getting the lion's share of the reps. James Cook will be relegated to the role to which his body type and skillset make him more well suited: Change of pace and third down back. At the VERY least, I expect a 1A/1B situation, but I'm sticking with Davis overtaking Cook as the primary back in this offense.

While the OUTCOMES of preseason games don't matter -- the final scores, the winners and losers -- you still want to see good execution in them. The reps matter. No, you can't glean much when your team isn't gameplanning, particularly if they're going up against a team rolling out stunts and blitz packages and so forth. But you CAN glean things like effort, execution, discipline, etc. For instance...for YEARS prior to the Sean McDermott regime, the Bills would look terrible in the preseason, and we'd all say "it's only preseason", and lo and behold, they'd be awful in the regular season, too. The past five+ years, the Bills have looked great every preseason, and lo and behold, they've been great every regular season. Am I saying that a bad preseason performance means your team will stink? No, certainly not. But I AM saying that the reps matter, the execution matters, and that these games CAN be somewhat informative in terms of where your team needs more work. Saturday's game was atypical for the McDermott era of Bills football. We have not typically seen them get blown off the field like that. Frankly, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, because it's a pretty young, pretty new version of the Buffalo Bills. They have kinks to work out. If I had one takeaway from Saturday's game, it's that I don't think this Bills roster is nearly as deep as in years past. The reason the Bills tended to win so many preseason games the past few years is that THEIR depth was better than most other teams' depth, so those boring, all-grocery-bagger All-Stars second halves would more often than not be dominated by the Bills. Now? Not so much. The Bears' depth whooped our depth. Will next game be any different? We'll see.

I think it'll be like it always is with these things: The amount of time the offense will get will depend on how good and how sharp they look. If they go out there on the first drive of the game and march down the field on a 6 minute scoring drive, looking crisp and executing well, and punch it in for a touchdown, I think it's realistic to think McDermott would just pull them. If they look sloppier or go three-and-out or something, then yeah, they'll play longer. I don't think it's absolute.

Chiefs will sign him for vet min to be WR5 and Rashee suspension insurance from the slot.

I have no way of knowing this for sure, but I suspect that one of the reasons McDermott is playing the starters against the Bears is that the Bears stink. The opportunity exists to go out there and put together one good, long scoring drive, build some confidence, and then bench the starters for the night. I know that the team being young overall and needing to work on timing and chemistry and in-game communication is part of the calculation, but I'm sticking with my "Bears stink" theory as being part of the thinking as well.

I really hope they don't keep La'el Collins over someone like KJ Hamler or even a younger OL prospect like Richard Gouriage. From all reports in camp thus far, Collins is cooked. If they MUST have some veteran OL depth, I hope they scour the waiver wire after cutdown day.

Jerry Garcia once said the Grateful Dead are like black licorice. Not everyone likes licorice, but those that like it, REALLY like it.

This poem written for Jerry by Robert Hunter just days after he died gets me in the feels every single time. Miss ya, Jer. Elegy for Jerry Jerry, my friend, you’ve done it again, even in your silence the familiar pressure comes to bear, demanding I pull words from the air with only this morning and part of the afternoon to compose an ode worthy of one so particular about every turn of phrase, demanding it hit home in a thousand ways before making it his own, and this I can’t do alone. Now that the singer is gone, where shall I go for the song? Without your melody and taste to lend an attitude of grace a lyric is an orphan thing, a hive with neither honey’s taste nor power to truly sting. What choice have I but to dare and call your muse who thought to rest out of the thin blue air that out of the field of shared time, a line or two might chance to shine — As ever when we called, in hope if not in words, the muse descends. How should she desert us now? Scars of battle on her brow, bedraggled feathers on her wings, and yet she sings, she sings! May she bear thee to thy rest, the ancient bower of flowers beyond the solitude of days, the tyranny of hours– the wreath of shining laurel lie upon your shaggy head bestowing power to play the lyre to legions of the dead If some part of that music is heard in deepest dream, or on some breeze of Summer a sn@tch of golden theme, we’ll know you live inside us with love that never parts our good old Jack O’Diamonds become the King of Hearts. I feel your silent laughter at sentiments so bold that dare to step across the line to tell what must be told, so I’ll just say I love you, which I never said before and let it go at that old friend the rest you may ignore.

Nope. He played a mean organ. In later years, when his health started failing him and as the band's sound evolved, he played organ less and often played only harmonica and congas. From 1965 to mid 1968, his organ was a critical piece of the Dead's sound. Here's a great video of the Dead from Monterey Pop in 1967 where you can very clearly hear Pig's playing.

The eternal optimist in me wants to say "maybe being forced to watch, learn, and have extra time to study and take in what he heard in meetings instead of having to do the physical part is EXACTLY what he needs to learn the complexities of the mental part of his job at an accelerated pace", but you're probably right. I think, as a side note, that it's interesting that Hamlin has taken almost all of the first team reps at free safety so far this camp. Yes, his primary competition has been injured, and prior to those injuries, it was a rotation. BUT...since then, Hamlin has been starting consistently, and -- as you say -- that's not easy to do in a McDermott defense. Maybe, just maybe, last year really was an anomaly and a "getting his body back up to speed after the heart trauma" year, and maybe he can be a capable starter in this defense. And aside from all of these considerations, the fretting all may be for naught anyway if Micah Hyde decides he wants to come back for a farewell tour.

I'm not giving up hope that he will seize the starting job THIS season. Why? For one thing, there's the ever-present threat (and reality) of injuries. The same injuries that have him on the sidelines right now could come for any of our other safeties during the season (hopefully not, but as Buddy Nix says, football is a tough game for tough payple). Aside from that, it's also possible that he just impresses behind the scenes and in a depth and sub-package role and slowly earns more playing time. I refuse to count out a player with the physical talent to go in the 2nd round of an NFL draft and the intangibles to be hand selected (with excitement) by Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott. You may be right that year two will be when he really makes a big impact. You probably are. But I'm gonna stubbornly cling to my hope.

I mean...Bishop is reasonably likely to be ready for the season opener. It's possible he could be eased into the lineup slowly and could either start or play a major role by AT LEAST the halfway point of the season. As for Claypool and his turf toe...yeah...I'm not too hopeful on that one. Frankly, with the way Shavers and MVS have been playing in camp lately, I'm not too confident Claypool will make the roster anyway.

Yeah, I didn't figure the Bishop news was going to be good. Indeed, it is not. How long ago did he injure it? About two weeks? That would theoretically mean he has four weeks left on the sidelines, which means he misses the preseason and MAYBE has a shot to be ready for the season opener, but also maybe opens the season on PUP. Ouch.