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He makes the team every year because he's exactly the football equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife. He plays ST. He can play nickel, safety, and CB. He plays none of these roles at a starting level, but then, he's not a starter. Show me a backup who plays consistently at a starter level and I'll show you a guy starting on another team.

Truth, I had forgotten that. Going for the ball instead of trying to knock it away is at least something DBs are coached to do in most circumstances. Roughing the punter, Never Ever Ever They're mixing it up, sounds like

Strange how the Bills coaches, who watch every snap, seem to think he's taking the right angle, making the tackles, and making the hits. The major miscue that gives Bills fans PTSD about him was the 2022 Vikings game where he allowed Justin Jefferson to make a 32 yd catch on 4th and 18, starting a series of miscues that led to an OT loss. It appears that he WENT FOR THE BALL to try to intercept, when he should have been playing to knock it down.

So Burgess is apparently exceeding expectations? Full quote not as interesting: Josh Allen post-practice

You could follow one of the Bears DBs on NBC

I don't miss them.

I think that last was absolutely a factor. Not only Daboll but Schoen, plus, to the extent that the Giants offense had Daboll's fingerprints on it, Hodgins knew it. I can remember heated discussions here, back in the days of Jauron, Gailey, and Marrone, that we couldn't possibly cut fringe player X because he'd be snapped up in an instant.....Joique Bell anyone? I will say, it's more likely now that the Bills have had a consistently winning roster for years, other teams probably take a closer look at the Bills cutoff bin.

I'm gonna go Full On Tin Foil Hat Conspiracy and say it was actually a former member of the Bills FO, and Beane palmed him a few Benjamins to be quoted saying that so it would fire Josh Allen up. Either that, or it was someone on the Giants, since they were shown on screen demonstrating...."interesting" QB evaluations.

I'm gonna talk out of both sides of my mouth here. On the one hand, every pre-season it seems that we on TBD over-estimate the attraction that our guys have for the rest of the league. On roster cut day, ~1280 guys are hitting the waiver wire. To get claimed on waivers and signed to another team's 53-man, the other team has to have either had their eye on the player in the draft and missed getting him, OR, he has to have shone like the sun in preseason games, AND that team has to be short on that position. Hopkins was grabbed off waivers during the season. He had just shown he could come into a regular season game and look like an NFL player, and the Giants were decimated by injuries at WR so they grabbed him. So it does happen. It also happens on cutdown day - we saw it with our 7th round pick Nick Broeker last season - but less often than one would think, because with the season starting, the known quantities that have been learning the playbook and earning the trust of the coaches >> unknown quantity other team just cut.

I believe he's already had a ball ripped out of his hands and he's certainly seen some of the other WR get robbed. Welcome to the NFL, Rookie. Yeah, single-catch it and tuck it away, Keon.

It reads a little different when you learn the penalty it was called back for was OPI. Hopefully that's something they can coach Coleman up about how to be subtle about it

Interesting question. The Bills in recent years have kept 3, with Reggie Gilliam as the fullback/emergency TE/ST ace. With all the losses in key ST personnel and all the running Brady seems to want, I didn't see that changing, but Morris may need to raise his game.

Yeah, Beane has been on some kind of weird Circle of Life pilgrimage from "trade for Kelvin Benjamin, we need that big-bodied guy with a strong catch radius" to "just bring in guys who run routes and can catch, I don't care if they're all smurfs" to "OK, OK, maybe they need some size, but route running and hands more important" to "*****, the refs hold the laundry in the playoffs and our guys just get mugged, we need that big-bodied guy with a strong catch radius"

Uh-oh

Sounds as though a battle for #3 TE may quietly be shaping.

I kind of think Banged Up Bills may be more realistic: Trimble is usually not shy about looking at a play and predicting what the injury actually is, so if he says "could be anything" it's probable it....could be anything

No wrap and no brace!!!!!!

"Foot Prisons" Ajay. Try to keep up, they're called "Foot Prisons" per Hollins

Who plays? Josh Allen beating Kincaid, Knox, and Brown: I'd take 'em. But they need the expansion pack.