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Maybe he is considered to have caught it but then fumbled

Apparently there was a problem with the blood alcohol evidence in Ruggs case, and the DA was afraid the defense would win a motion to suppress the evidence. I'm all for "probable cause" but this sounds sketchy AF So they didn't perform a field sobriety test because Ruggs needed to be transported to a hospital for treatment and LEO rightly didn't want to interfere with that, but then the judge wasn't informed that Ruggs had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol, or had been drinking prior to the crash - so the lack of interfering with hospital transport by insisting on a field sobriety test would then be used against the DA to suppress legitimate properly collected and handled blood evidence. Makes me queasy to consider. I think a guy driving into a young woman's car at 156 mph so that she burns to death should be considered probable cause to test for alcohol and drugs.

Agree Same for Britt Reid, who also got 3 years.

If you want to hear from M L-J how about this:

Pfffff is, as Pffff does! In fairness, I think they're still without Terron Armstead, so it would be like our OL without Dawkins.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38162272/ex-raiders-wr-henry-ruggs-iii-sentenced-3-10-years-fatal-dui Pretty sure Ms Tintor's family don't think 3 years is nearly enough punishment for burning her alive. Ruggs got what his attorneys asked for: I'm sure he does, what with being cut from the team and losing his career and all. But he can't.

Well, it has happened that Beane has moved a player McDermott wanted to keep at least for the season, and they have admitted it. ( I don't think Beane would try to keep a player McDermott wanted to cut though). Beane has discussed McDermott not always agreeing with the moves that he made but after discussion, maybe not agreeing but understanding why he made the move he did. I believe Marcell Dareus was one of the examples used. I had a little look to see if I could find the interview and couldn't.

Two words: Siran Neal Stalwart on special teams for years Now Lewis is listed ahead of him at NCB and along with Hamlin as the 4th safety I don't want to watch Cam Lewis in run coverage near the LOS A lot of people have trauma from watching him in pass coverage last year He has reportedly been having a great camp, but..... Is it possible the Bills keep Lewis and release Neal? It's possible but wow, that would represent a change for them. Neal is signed through 2024 and carries $1M dead cap if cut

DL: I don't like seeing Poona at #3. That puts our DTs as Oliver/Phillips at 3T and Jones/Settle at 1T, and reminds me of the precept "insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result". It's not that the first 4 aren't good players - they are - but Phillips has been injured so often "and then what?" Unless we keep 5 DTs this year which would bring us to.... Von Miller pairerd with Rousseau and Epenesa paired with Floyd is at least different...but will they move on from Basham, or will they be trying to keep 10 DL? Other comments on Defense: DB: Hamlin/Lewis for safety #4 is a surprise. They also show Lewis as the backup nickel. So it'll be interesting to see how they break it down. They have for the last 3 years gone with 6 CB and 4 safeties, which could be something like White, Jackson, Benford, Elam, Johnson, Lewis? Would they actually move on from Siran Neal? Then the safeties could be Poyer, Hyde, Rapp and...Lewis, if they keep Neal? Or Hamlin, and they keep Lewis as a 6th CB? Neal, for the capology inclined, is signed through 2024 and his salary this season is fully guaranteed. A puzzle. LB: shocks me to see Matakevich and Klein lost on the 4th string behind Howard and Spector. For those who keep track of such things, Matakevich signed a $2.5M guaranteed contract, but his cap hit is only $1.8M because they pushed half his signing bonus off into a void year. So it costs the Bills cap to cut him. They may, however, plan to move him from PUP to IR/eligible to return. Klein, on the other hand, is on a vet salary benefit deal with $100k signing bonus, so he can be cut with minimal cap impact. I thought they liked Klein, though. Maybe he's really fallen off and Spector is really coming on. ST: well, for those who thought Shakir was leading the PR/KR race, Nope. It's Harty. What happened to Darrynton Evans, though? I guess he quickly fell out of the running, which, well, doesn't look good for his chances at Running Back with the Bills. Offense: WR: Harty/Shakir sharing a slash at the slot is interesting. So is having Marcel Ateman ahead of Shavers and Patman. I thought Shavers was showing some stuff. Ateman (and I had to look this up) was a 2018 7th round pick of the Raiders. He spent 4 years with the Raiders, mostly on their PS, before signing with the Cardinals and getting cut just before the season. He was then signed by the St Louis Battlehawks (Ka-kaw!) but apparently injured. So the Bills have a couple guys who are a bit long in the tooth as journeyman (in Ateman and Keesean Johnson, a 6th round AZ pick in 2019) ahead of a couple of guys I thought were promising (and younger) players in Patman (2020 6th round, Colts), Shavers (2023 UDFA) and Isaiah Coulter (2020 5th round, Houston). Then there's 2019 2nd rounder Andy Isabella who is right behind Harty/Shakir as a slot. .....hitting Josh Allen in the head with a football at the Red and Blue Scrimmage can't have helped Coulter's case LOL. But it will be interesting to see how this depth chart goes down. RB: I thought Jordan Mims had promise. OL: I had hopes, from what we've heard, for Richard Gouraige. Disappointed to see him behind Ryan Van Demark at LT - and where did Tommy Doyle come from to be 2nd behind Dawkins? I haven't heard a peep about him. Interesting to see Ike Boettger behind David Edwards on the depth chart. Are the Bills finally ready to move on from him? Achilles is a hard injury to come back from. TE: for those who thought Steinberger over Morris, this depth chart says 'nope'

I'm not sure that it's true Torrence was getting most reps with the 1s. I think he got reps during the walk-throughs before stretching and that confused many of us that he was "starting with the 1's". Other than that I think he mostly got reps when Bates was working at C with the 2's

That's an interesting thought, but I think (as far as we can tell from what's public) that the buck stops with Beane for who is on the 53 man roster. I'm not sure why you'd think that; there are only so many ways to construct a roster that both has sufficient personnel/depth at each primary position AND enough talent at ST. I'm sure it's influenced by the coaches, but it's probably indirect. For example, demanding to have a full rotation of talented players at all DL positions and enough depth at DB to play a 3-2-5 primary defense probably constrains those roster construction options.

Elam left a garmet on the field and it had something wiggling inside it. But let's give him props, it was Gabe's moves that pulled it off him.

Did we see this one yet?

Sal Capaccio notes on camp https://www.audacy.com/wgr550/sports/bills/cornerback-middle-linebacker-battles-still-too-tight-to-call?utm_campaign=sharebutton&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=WGRAM That is also true, interestingly enough, of Harty/Shakir. Beane said they saw Harty as slotting into their 4/5 role, but I would say he's now competing for 3. Iron sharpens Iron

This is where Beane's principles about team building sometimes work against building the best offense. It's a principle for him - he's said this in press conferences mutliple times - that if you're a backup WR on the Bills, you MUST play teams. If you're a backup OLman on the Bills, you MUST have positional flexibility. Well, Hodgins did not do well playing teams so it was Kumerow > Hodgins with ST "chops" factored in. But it was pretty clear it was Hodgins > Kumerow as a WR. I don't think it's accidental that both our WR draftee and our WR UDFA are noted for their ST chops as well as having receiving potential.

I dunno about that. His 2nd season, 2018, Jones had 56 catches for 652 yards. 2.9% drops. I don't think we moved him because we thought he couldn't play, I think we moved him because his "haid" was messed up and not in the game. And we weren't wrong - it took him 4 years and 2 teams to get back to that level of production. I also think we believed Hodgins could play. Beane just made a hard, and in hindsignt, bad choice, when faced with a roster numbers crunch at DB. I do think this might be the kind of decision where McDermott being a defensive HC comes into play; he seems more protective of keeping bodies on defense than on offense, and we 100% could have used Hodgins once Kumerow went on IR.

Looked like Kincaid was held, too. I think one reason why the Bills traded up for a promising receiving TE. The question was, how would he do against the more physical play in the NFL? and early returns say "just fine". You can just tell the guy is "built different" from the way he practices. Did you see the clip of him warming up on the sideline? Other receivers face the guy throwing the ball. He was facing away, doing that fake run thing they do, then turned, quickly adjusted to the throw, and caught it. Another session, someone was tossing him multiple tennis balls at once and he was catching the second while holding the first he caught. It made me think maybe we don't insert enough "degree of difficulty" into how the other receivers practice. Edit: upon looking harder at the film clip, I believe that might be one of those annoying calls where it's pretty clear the ball is on the receiver's arm and he's controlling it, but the point touches the ground before he gets it against his body or brings in a 2nd hand so the @#$@#%#ers overturn the "catch" ruling.

That's a big "if". It's very rare that anyone is as good as advertised in camp. Isaiah McKenzie was playing lights-out in camp last season and looked totally solid as a slot. It's different in the regular season when the DBs aren't playing to avoid injury and are actually trying to rip your arms off and crack your ribs. Players at other positions say that speed is the last thing to go. I think the reason RBs "age out" is that it becomes harder and harder to heal from the punishment they take during the season. But maybe we can use him very sparingly and keep him healthy.

Did you catch Josh Allen talking about Murray mic'd up at the Return of the Blue and Red? "He's huge. I wouldn't want to tackle him" "You guys are the same size!" "Well, I wouldn't want to tackle me, either!"

are you there? or did I miss the sar chasm?

FWIW, and I don't have the convos or permission to share so take this with as much salt as you like, but I DM'd the Banged Up Bills guy (Kyle Trimble) back at the start of the off-season when Josh was golfing in that pro-am tournament. He explained to me that the forces used by the golf swing and the forces of throwing a football differ, so playing golf should not be a problem for Josh's healing UCL. "Golfer's Elbow" has a totally different cause.

Yeah, it was kind of notable that when someone brought up Brittany he would usually kind of grimace. Like with Kyle Brandt when he said he watched football whenever it's on and Brandt asked "does your girlfriend like it?" and he kind of grimaced and said "I guess maybe she likes it a little, but there are other rooms and other TVs in the house, I think she watches HGTV, I don't really know what she watches". Or one time he was talking about loving to have teammates over "against his own best interest" and the interviewer said "what does that mean?" and he said "someone calls and I say sure, you can come over" and I should talk to my girlfriend because she has plans for us to do something together". I mean, it's true in a relationship. If plans have been made, both partners better keep track of them; if inviting crowds of people over to your home, check with the other person living there first. But it just seemed odd - NFL players are the ultimate scheduled people and Josh too famous around WNY to go out on a whim without serious clout- and name-dropping. Long before the rumors, I just kind of felt hints like maybe it was a relationship between two people who really didn't have a lot in common and it had perhaps run its course.

Not watching "Hard Knocks" Can you explain more about that last? (Saleh not more likeable) I suppose I've had a little soft spot for him ever since the Bills game where they did this to his SF defense.

I think partly Josh is just trying to be private and a regular guy, so he doesn't want to talk about his personal life. Which I 100% understand.

There's an upside and a downside to having a partner who has their own career and their own life vs one who latches on and makes the player their life, right? A lot of players and coaches have wives (or girlfriends) who basically make being "Mrs Coach" or "Mrs Player" their full time job. And especially with kids, it probably is. The upside is they try to make a home for the player and themselves and are always available. The downside comes if they are kidless, the wife or girlfriend is not seriously employed, and is unhappy with life in WNY. "Nothing to do but Each Other", isn't that what Jordan Matthews said? A girlfriend like Hailee Steinfeld has her own career and you're probably right, she's not going to spend time hanging in WNY just to be close to Josh. She's gonna be doing her own appearances and auditioning for her next roles and so forth. On the other hand....she's not going to be bored in WNY and asking the player to take her out on dates or entertain her when he wants to hang with his teammates or needs to be studying extra film. If she wants celebrity status, she has that on her own; if she does come to WNY it would be to share the NFL football life with Josh. I kind of had the impression Brittany longed for the "glamorous life" and felt that dating a young wealthy athlete ought to be her pass to A list Celebrity status, which she wanted to use more often than Josh did, and that she wanted to do more date-like things with Josh and spend less time with a house full of football players. I could be totally wrong of course, it's just based on a couple of things Allen said on Kyle Brandt's show. It really didn't seem as though she and Josh had that much in common except the dog.