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What's interesting is them doing this on Thursday. I was thinking that Beane might have given Beasley his word that if he was a "good soldier" and lived on the PS, he would bring him onto the 53 for the playoffs if injuries allowed. But doing it early can be seen as a "tell" They don't have to make a roster move until Saturday. So Turbo44 could be right, but it seems unlikely that 1) another team would try to sign a player who is most useful if the QB has a mind-meld going on with him, when they have like 2-3 days 2) Beasley would accept if another team tried, since he seemed sincere about wanting to be here, in particular This seems like a bit of a "chess move" to me - like McDermott and Dorsey saying "you know all those plays we used to run with Beasley in the lineup last year? well, hey y'all, Better get busy and look them up and add them to your defensive prep work....." In other words, it's a 'Tell' we want the Dolphins to see.

Brandin Bryant for sure But there's a numbers game for the game-day actives. A typical game-day roster would feature 2 QB 8 OL 5 RB (including Taiwan Jones) 2 TE 5 WR 4 Edge 4 DT 6 LB 9 DB (3 safeties, 3 CB, 1 "switch", 1 nickel CB, 1 dime CB) 3 specialists So if, for example, we want to have 6 WR active, we need to take a spot from another position group

No, I don't think that's what it means. Practice squad players are free agents, they can say "No Thanks, I'm Good Here".

Oh, now that's interesting Keep in mind that while we have unlimited practice squad call ups for each player in the playoffs, we can still only elevate 2 per game without making a roster move. No, the call-ups re-set.

This. I have no idea how much of an arm Skyler Thompson has, but it has to remembered that in KC, 1/3 of Hill's yards came after the catch. That's been less of his game this season, more like 1/4, but it's still part of what makes him a dangerous WR: the ability to turn a 5 yd dump off into 25 any time now.

Lewis gets regular medical treatment and wears a brace due to a bone infection he acquired when he broke his arm in college. So like 4 years. I have no idea how they're treating him. The usual treatment for a bone infection that antibiotics doesn't cure is surgery to remove the infected bone.

Indeed!

There are, actually, if he's been "getting sweaty" (Stage 2) already. So it's either as some surmise here- a pre-determined decision to not play him because of the "bad optics" if they do and he gets hurt again OR He "got sweaty" doing his allowed aerobic exercise but suffered recurring symptoms and had to back off. McDaniel saying "no setbacks" would seem to preclude that, but Who Knows.

Micah Hyde one-handing the football and looking at it like, "Well Hey There, Pretty Mama!"

Well...they do have a WR group that is probably among the best, if not THE best, at being able to take a short pass and break big yards on it. That was a big part of Hill's threat in KC. At any time, Mahomes could throw a little slant or a screen and he could gain 30, 40, 50 yds on it or take it for a TD That wasn't really the Dolphins game with Tua (18th in YAC) but, it might be their game with Thompson or Bridgewater.

McDaniel thinks their season extends beyond Sunday Time to blight those hopes.

I have no idea what McDaniel means by "compounding variables" and "no setbacks", so I don't think anyone could begin to guess. In the Tua thread I posted a couple links about Kevin Kolb. Kolb suffered a couple of concussions with Philly and with AZ that looked like nothing much, pretty routine, but kept him out for weeks. Then he reportedly suffered a concussion with the Bills in preseason that took him 8 MONTHS to recover from and has caused him lasting effects including ringing in his ears, light sensitivity causing headaches, and short-term memory loss. It's entirely possible that Tua is suffering similar lingering effects.

“It was like Tinkerbelle landed on my ***** nose” oh that was great

Independent neurological consultant

This is really bad. Something Kevin Kolb-like must be going on. For those who don't remember: https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/10/23/kevin-kolb-concussions-mexico-hurricane#gid=ci0255c4bcd0022781&pid=as-with-the-2011-concussion-in-arizona-the-one-in-2013-preseason-with-the-bills-came-from-a-defenders-knee-it-was-kolbs-last-game-as-a-pro-patrick-smithgetty-images https://www.crossingbroad.com/2015/09/kevin-kolb-nearly-died-because-of-his-concussions.html I remember the hit, it seemed so casual - a blow from a knee. But Kolb had previous concussions that had taken him a long time to recover from. Perhaps some people are more sensitive to the effects of concussion, and perhaps Tua is one of them. Or perhaps he's actually already taken a pretty horrendous beating in HS and college?

There is a perfect storm. The blow must occur at exactly the precise millisecond in the cardiac cycle, in exactly the correct place, with sufficient force. It's why it's very rare even in sports where a hard blow to the chest is pretty common, as in Baseball

Ouch

Do you interpret that as fear of Tua's QB abilities? Or fear that if Tua is injured or concussed again, it would dampen the game and shake our team that is barely recovering from what happened to Damar Hamlin?

here it is all diagrammed and annotated, if anyone is interested

Bengals I get, because it did in fact kinda screw them. Chiefs I get, because the proposal pretty much advantaged them by handing them the 1 seed. But why Bears?

I had the same question

Did I say there were going to be such a situation? My point is that for a QB, the NFL concussion protocol can't function quite as it's designed to function - where the player takes a bit of contact and then rests to see if any symptoms develop. You're correct that placing the QB "off limits" in practice only makes sense, but it also limits the value of the protocol in testing whether the player is ready for a game.

That was actually an interesting game, penalty-wise. Pretty fair, I thought. He actually flagged Travis Kelce for Offensive Pass Interference. Which I thought he fully deserved, but you seldom see it called. Called a lot of defensive holding on both teams. Other thing of note was ineligible man downfield called 2x (once on each team). Bills need to sharpen up on that. Oh, and while I was looking: @GunnerBill, to your point about needing to stop the opponent 4x. We got two INTs and forced 3 punts, plus a missed FG. Were stopped 5x ourselves: fumble, 2 punts, twice on downs.

When? Had one undocumented incident that most bystanders believe was probably a concussion vs Buffalo One in Cinncinnati next week, looked very bad One undetected during the game that resulted in symptoms the following week That makes 2 documented concussions? What I saw from McDaniel was ambiguous. He said "he's sweating" which would put him in either Stage 2 or 3. Either way, he can clear by the end of the week if he's actually recovered. Missing 2 games suggests he had some persistent symptoms, so it may not be a slam dunk that stepping up his activity will have no effect - on the other hand, QB wear red "no contact" jerseys at practice, so he'll go through Stage 5 without actually experiencing contact Interesting times.

I would be really surprised if that was his agent's advice, too And I'm sure he did want to stay in Buffalo and tell his agent to get 'er done. I'm just saying that I think he did so with a pretty good knowledge of what FA could bring him, and that signing the deal a week before FA (or the tampering period) doesn't preclude this. That's all. PS we don't hear from him much in the press or on social media, but per Micah Hyde he's the biggest Junk talker on the team next to McKenzie.