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Thanks! Yep this. Bills looked at him and said "as a backup stashed on the practice squad, Christian Kirksey >> AJ Klein. Kirksey, you willing, you in." Fans made it all into "We signed Christian Kirksey! Yeah, he's on the practice squad, but that's just until he learns the calls. He's better than Bernard, he's gonna be our new MLB!" ignoring that if a team really wants to be able to count on a guy, they usually find space on their 53 man roster. Vet players typically (not always) wind up on practice squads because no other team in the league wants to roster them. See Beasley, Cole.

If another team he wanted to sign with made him an offer, he didn't need to wait. He could have signed right off the Bills practice squad.

Kirksey doesn't have to ask to be cut or traded or go behind the scenes to catch on somewhere else. He's on the practice squad. He's a free agent. Any other team can sign him to their 53 man roster at any time. I think a vet player like Kirksey doesn't have to be told what he needs to do. He has eyes. He watches the same film as the coaches. He gets feedback and GPS data after every practice, I think the players have access to this routinely. Remember when he came here, Bernard was a big unknown. He hadn't played in any pre-season games due to hammy. So Kirksey looks over the Bills MLB roster and says "I can beat out this Dodson guy, who else they got? I'll be elevated to the roster and playing by week 3 if not week 2, easy peasy." But after 2 weeks, Bernard has played pretty well and his arrow is trending up. Kirksey goes "hmmmm, I might be on this practice squad for a while and it's not for me." All 31 other teams could have signed him before and after he joined the Bills PS, so his agent is telling him "no interest, sorry". So he retires.

Is it possible that the Giants are just a bad team this year?

Purdy has made some immaculate throws this game. As good as any QB in the game. I said it. ————- It’s past getting a little chippy. It’s gotten a lot chippy out there.

It has to be partly coaching/team culture. They all just fight like hell for every blade of grass.

Deebo Samuel is a machine. Wow. Don’t like how long he’s down here. Nail biting time for the 9’ers

I think that’s what used to be known as “emptying the butter boat” over a person If it were Belichick, I’d suspect it means he feels he’s cooked up a way to neutralize him. Edit: on reflection, the stuff Bieneimy said about how well he understands Frazier and McDermott’s defense kind of sounds that way to me. Dear Mr Bieneimy, Mr Milano respectfully declines your flowers. They would clutter his minimalist space.

According to the Bears PR folks, they did not.

Cook didn’t practice because 9 months ago today he was busy. Now he’s got a little baby Cook

Well OK then. Guess you know how to make some betting money.

Replace Purdue with Brady and how every GM felt from 2001 to 2021

Holy Toledo, McCaffrey looks like a slim little guy but he plays like a Tank

The 49ers are built to try to avoid that scenario

It’s possible availability played into it, I don’t think it clinched the deal

So did Lance. My point is, the 49ers looked at Mr Irrelevant and said “we’d rather go with him than with now healthy Garappolo”

Do you think we could wait a little minute and play some games first? The best teams in the first 4-5 weeks and the best teams at the end of the season, not necessarily the same teams

He came in and outplayed Garappolo and Trey Lance. Now I grant, that’s not like outplaying Aaron Rodgers and Josh Allen, but Garappolo had shown they could win with him and they invested a lot of draft capital in Lance.

Is anyone else really positive about the play by play and game coverage by Amazon? I seem most easily able to follow the game with it, so I’m liking it. They seem to spend more time reviewing and diagramming plays and commenting on what just happened, and less time blathering their opinions. Just me?

We seem to be a magnet for guys who decide to retire. Wish him the best A harsh blow to all the "Elevate Kirksey" "Play Kirksey instead of Bernard" campaigners. I consulted the magic 8 ball. It said "Easy Peasy"

TBH I thought Kyle Allen showed some good stuff before he injured his ankle severely. Mixed of course - some good games, some games where he threw for 300+ yards but also threw multiple interceptions, some games where he just threw multiple interceptions. He's only had 2 starts since the ankle injury, for Houston, and they were both bad but on a bad team. My "take" is that he's a guy who may be able to do enough to win if the run game is clicking along and he has some time. But fluster him and ask him to carry the team with his arm, he can't. A number of QB look promising until defenses get some video on them and start breaking down their tendencies.

To be honest, I don't watch enough football shows to know how widely it's being distributed and whether it's being smiled at or mocked. I swing through "X" and Instagram only to collect Bills content to bring back. I tend to agree with you about the impact of wide distribution of little moments (which can be pulled out of context), but nothing I can do about that. That's a beautiful sentiment, but long before the advent of social media, we had village pubs and village gossips. It literally only took one incident to make or break a reputation then, and it literally only takes one now. Actually I think the world's attention span is much shorter so incidents fade from view faster now than before. But returning to the topic, if Dorsey wants a HC gig, it's not the world's attention span that matters, it's decision makers hiring for the handful of available jobs. And it may not be fair if that incident does linger with them but lots of things aren't fair. Though winning cures everything, so if the Bills win a Championship carried by a strong offense, All will be Well.

I think you're speaking of Ryan Wendell, who was our assistant offensive line coach in 2022 (promoted from offensive assistant in 2020) The Rams hired him as their offensive OL coach this season, and he was replaced by Austin Gund Pretty fast rise for Wendell, but he played center and guard for the Patriots 2008-2015 under the legendary Coach Scar, so he might know something. This guy, right? https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2023/02/09/rams-ryan-wendell-offensive-line-coach-bills/ See above - is this the guy you're talking about? He's gone.

That might be a harder thing for Rapoport to verify that it didn't happen. I doubt the FBI office gives him "insider info".