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Well let’s hope he doesn’t go the PED route, I don’t think that pays off for guys in the long run But I would think that just about any pro football player would have that stuff - Tre White for example, or OBJ. - and yet their rehabs took longer Even a lower-paid player like Harrison Phillips had access to pretty much all of the above and a hyperbaric chamber at the Bills facility Looks like they gave Phillips a decent guarantee - $1.2M or something, an amount which for a cash-strapped team kinda indicates the team sees him as a lock Shaq, haven’t seen or heard details yet.

Yantha, while you're scratching below the surface, it probably needs to be pointed out that the Bills play a 4-3, in which the "pure NT" role best maps to the 1TDT. Those would be DaQuan Jones and Tim Settle. Neither are under contract past this season. Jones is 31 and Settle 26. Overall, I would assess that Jones was a pleasant revelation and let us see what Star Lotulelei and Harrison Phillips should have been doing in previous years. Tim Settle did injure his calf early in the season and was playing through it, but he did not at all measure up when he was asked to do so, and he saw his snaps slide to 25-35% until Jones was injured in the playoffs. My point is that while the Bills do need to plan for the future on DL, it seems a bit misleading for this year to mention trading Oliver (who fills a different role, 3TDT, in McD's offense) or not mention that we in fact do seem to have a capable guy filling the 1TDT role for this season, in Jones. An upgrade at backup would be good.

Wellllll…..do his ligaments and cartilage know about how hard he works? Certainly there are factors the individual can control, but there are others where body parts heal at the rate they heal.

I think it affected the team, for sure. I think it affected the coaches. My point was that we were missing a ton of people on D for that last game. Jaquan Johnson and Cam Lewis at Safety doesn't seem very safe.

The Browns no longer have the clams to offer stupid deals to everyone. They're still cooking off the clams from the Watson bake

Elam started and Jackson split time with him. I don't recall if they platooned or if Elam got dinged. I think Benford was inactive. Marlowe started at safety and went out about halfway through the game. Jaquan Johnson replaced him. Poyer went out and was replaced by Cam Lewis. - about 1/5 of the game. So for about 1/5 of the game our secondary was Tre White, Dane Jackson, Taron Johnson, Jaquan Johnson, and Cam Lewis.

I think he means “who had not won it earlier”, so Brady and Belicheck don’t count I think what usually happens is that if a good coach and good team don’t take that next step within 3 years, ownership gets impatient and chops off their head: “NEXT!” And sometimes that works - swapping Tomlin for Cowher after a disappointing 8-8 season for example Or booting Fox for Kubiak in Denver And sometimes it doesn’t - like booting Reid out the door for Kelly in Philly Or replacing Kubiak with Joseph, and Fangio, and Hackett, and …. But I don’t think there’s a lot of data on what happens if you take a good coach and a good team with a great QB and give them some space to figure things out

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Exactly. Wish I could like this x10

Lamar Jackson has a $32M 1-year non-exclusive franchise tag contract from the Ravens awaiting his signature. No one else wants him because they'd have to give the Ravens 2 first round picks. Different situation entirely than Cam right now.

yeah I think he has a strap for a bag running L shoulder to R waist across his torso, and the strings of a black eyeshade (more likely) or mask (possible) around his R wrist. I stared at it for a while trying to map the geometry of a standard R arm sling onto it and couldn't do it I share @DrDawkenstein's surprise that he isn't flying private, thought he and his GF and dog were private jet users now. Maybe the Augusta airport has limited slots during the Masters?

Yes, Castillo was OL coach for the Bills 2 years, 2017 & 2018 I don’t think replacing McDermott with Castillo was exactly Andy’s Finest Hour

Huh? He’s wearing a sweatshirt with worn cuffs. Are there other pictures that show a sling?

I have Questions. So Many Questions.

You are correct, you can cut a player and designate the cut "post June 1" at any time. But, then, any cap relief doesn't come until AFTER June 1 - team has to carry the contract on their books and count it against their cap until then Post June 1 cuts, people act like it's great 'cuz it may cost less, but the cap hits don't go away, part of them are just shifted to another year. Which may or may not be what one wants.

I think Chris Simms reported on it back in Nov/December, but it reportedly happened early in the year when Mac was desperately trying to make it work. It kind of sheds new light on the whole weird sequence where Jones came back from a high ankle after only 3 weeks, started, but only played 1/3 of the game before being taken out for Bailey Zappe. Any questions Belicheck was asked about it, he acted as though it left an awful taste in his mouth.

Very interesting. I don't doubt that it's true there's a small "circle of trust" - but there are a couple of points. One is that the 2021 Patriots already had 9 offensive assistants on the payroll, already in the building. None of them had been developed to a point where they could take over? The other is, why is this a concern? Is that stuff still going on? I think Belichick had an attack of hubris and wanted to give his former DC and ST coaches a chance to build their resumes coaching offense. Andy Reid did something similar (which worked similarly poorly) at DC after he fired McDermott. He promoted Juan Castillo from OL coach to DC. How hard could it be?

No one knows. For all the prognostication, we know 2 things: 1. GMs invariably grade differently than media pundits, resulting in different draft selection order 2. GMs usually do their best to camoflage their actual intentions. When their positional intentions are known they try to camoflage their board Though I will say I seem to recall folks being pretty certain the Bills would draft a CB in the 1st last year, and that Elam would be their choice at CB

The point is, fans of a team on message boards are NOT a good barometer for "what the NFL thinks" of a player. If they were - Edmunds would never have gotten that $18M/yr contract I don't think that point is lessened by being applied to a lower-tier FA vs. a top tier - fans will crush a guy even when he gets paid as a legit top player, so they'll crush even harder when a guy is at a lower tier. And no, I have not seen those disclaimers, but you're welcome to find 'em and link 'em here if you want to demonstrate your own point.

So, one reason I brought up Neal is that pre-draft, he was way faster - 4.47s 40 Not that I think "Pajama Time" is the be-all and end-all metric some seem to think it is - LB and DBs around the league have been learning for years now that Josh Allen plays much faster than his 4.75 40-time would suggest. On the other hand, Neal was legit faster than Rapp, a 2nd round pick. Neal was a small school, small conference college player (SIU) who likely legit needed a couple years to adjust to the NFL game. Well, that's the question - should the Bills want to talk to him? In the talking, it's the Bills job to make a case for where he fits, if they're interested. The Bills are sort of the Safety equivalent of Schroedinger's Cat, we may or may not have a crying need on the roster THIS season, depending upon whether Hamlin returns and how Hyde and Poyer have recovered from injuries/how healthy they can stay.

Last year the league minimum for a player with 6 credited seasons was $1.035M Last year Shaq Lawson's contract with the Bills was for $1.035M with a $152k signing bonus And in fact, he only counted $1.047 against the Bills cap instead of $1.187M (salary plus bonus) a situation called "Vet Salary Benefit" where teams sign a vet but he only counts what a 2nd year player would count against their cap. So I'm not sure what's "idiotic" about thinking Lawson is a league minimum player, when in fact, last season, that's what he was. I think part of the question is to what extent Lawson is, indeed, a "good soldier" When a team makes a guy a substantial FA signing, then trades him out the door a year later, that's typically not the sign of a good soldier. Then when the trade partner trades him off for a late round pick before the season, that's also a sign something's amiss Then when the 3rd team cuts him just before the end of the season - That's a kick in the pants saying we'd rather elevate a PS guy then keep you in the building. He seems to do well on the Bills though. He's not the dominating player we hoped for when Rex drafted him in the 1st round in 2016, but he has football talent.

I mean, to listen to fans here Edmunds sucks, was always out of position or choosing the wrong gap. Guess Eberflus (who coached LB for the Cowboys for 8 yrs before becoming Colts DC then Bears HC) is just stupid about LB talent evaluation, relative to those fans. There are many positions on the Bills where I have what I think are legit questions about the Bills FO's ability to assess football talent. OL for example - Cody Ford was a total bust. It also seems pretty evident that the Bills are not geting great ROI on their DL. DB is not one of those positions.

Cherepinsky started Walter Football back in 1999 when he was literally living in his mom's basement (Sr in HS), then gave it his attention when he couldn't get a journalism job after he switched to that major his Sr year at Penn State. He built his site with Search Engine Optimization, not content and football knowledge. Now to his credit, 20 years later his site is still around and has legitimate football guys creating content there, but the origin of the site as "a dude seeking clicks" still lingers to some. I Hear You on Charlie Campbell.

That isn't what media folks have been saying about him (Rapp) and can cover as well as defend the run. Of course they could all be wrong.