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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.

Depends upon what type of shoulder injury it is. He should be able to do walk-throughs and keep learning the system I guess?

If no one speaks up and nothing else could the Cover1 guys use them? They seem to be getting tix but you never know

Seems like a good place to put this: https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/sports/ajays-analysis-weighing-injury-concerns-within-safety-room/article_7a782f48-4f50-11ef-aca6-570eb1bcb214.html

Not directly training camp relevant, but football relevant and happening today: Warning: Cuteness Overload

Last session before "Return of the Blue and Red" at Highmark

I understand your point and it has validity. A counterpoint is, while you're correct that targets come from QBs, targets require receivers who get open on time thus allowing the QB to target them. So receivers do impact targets. A possible example of this is, with Josh Allen, if he doesn't see a receiver he can target, he will run. We know that the offense switched from a predominantly pass offense under Dorsey, to a predominantly rush offense under Brady. We know that part of that was an increase in Allen running: Allen averaged 4.8 rush attempts per game the first 10 weeks of the season under Dorsey as OC, and 9.1 rush attempts per game. That's an extra 4.3 rush attempts per game or 73 rush attempts over the course of a season. How many of those increased rush attempts by Allen reflect coverage situations where no one was open in the correct time window of the reads? That's harder to quantitate from publicly available data, but hopefully you see my point. Targets are impacted by coverage, and how well the receivers release and run routes and make themselves available to be targeted.

Beane was thinking that Harty, based on his 2021 NOR season, was an upgrade to McKenzie. Which, the 2021 version of Harty looked to be. But the guy looked slower than molasses and I don't think Dorsey understood how to use him effectively (either of them, actually). Sherfield was supposed to be the upgrade replacement for Kumerow, an ST guy who can play receiver in a pinch. On ST, Check. As a receiver, due to whatever was going on with Diggs, he turned out to be a Big Pinch, location of pinch left as an exercise for the reader. Harty may not have recovered from the foot injury that kept him out of 2022 - he did NOT look fast. Sherfield did what he was signed to do on ST and as a blocking WR, but he was asked to fill a different role in B'lo than Miami, where he was #3 behind #1A Hill and #1B Waddle. The Bills asked him to substitute for Diggs. News flash, he couldn't. I mean....clearly Beane thought the same thing about Harty vs Lil' Dirty, and he makes the Big Bucks to do those evaluations, so I don't think you should fault yourself much. I didn't think Sherfield was going to take playing time from Gabe - and I don't think Beane did either - but I believe Beane thought as a backup WR, he'd be an upgrade to Kumerow etc., and that didn't work out. FWIW I thought the same, because based on film available from 2021 it looked that way for Harty, and looked like Sherfield could actually play as a low-level starter. Bad takes for 2, please.

Oooh.

Really? O'Sullivan was kind of the Nathan Peterman of his time, as best I can tell - "Catnip for Coaches", the Whiteboard/Film Room wizard whose brain wrote checks his arm couldn't cash on Sunday. He managed something like 8 seasons in the league, plus a couple more on practice squads, NFL Europe, etc. Even at lower salaries, he must have gone home with a few million dollars which I'm sure got invested decently, being a PhD. And didn't he work as a coach somewhere before starting his Jordan Palmer-like QB School digital coaching platform? Doubt he needs to be making Youtube videos for fans.

I would like to know this as well.

I am 100% going to have to track this down and watch it. Dunno if anyone else caught them, but a local TV channel had Belicheck on before each game, breaking down plays on the "Belestrator" It was good stuff and always worth watching. Here's an example of Belestrator breaking down Jets film last season He's mostly breaking down the game with the Bills in that one, so there's Bills interest I think deep in his veins, Bill Belichick just loves football and loves to talk about football. I think that's the reason why ex-QB like Kurt Warner and JT O'Sullivan still put out videos breaking down film

<sarcasm. I'm sure you're intimately acquainted with the Hydes and have the inside track on Micah's mental state </sarcasm> I don't disagree Hyde should not be looked to as a solution for the season, and obviously Beane is of that mind or he'd be on the roster. There are at least a dozen other players at different positions who likely have close to 0 chance to make the roster at this point. I think we can safely surmise that if Browning had a real chance to beat out Martin at this point, Beane would have cut one of them.

Personally, I thought Terrell Burgess is more of a career Special Teamer. He's played in 43 games but only started 4; last season he played a grand total of 3 defensive snaps until the last 3 games of the season. On the other hand, he played 82% of the ST snaps for the Commanders and played a lot of teams for the LAR. I don't really think it has much to do with Bishop at all, other than him playing less right now means Hamlin gets more defense reps and they need someone to backfill on ST. (Kareem Jackson has never played much on ST)

I'm unsure about either the promising clues or the worry. I guess we can surmise it wasn't believed to be broken, because otherwise he'd be off getting it set. But tendon and ligament injuries can be as hard or harder to heal up. I wouldn't worry about the "nothing made public" though. If McDermott et al weren't required to speak to the media re: injuries, they wouldn't, ever. They are never required to speak to the media on a day off, so they won't. Plus, he may be in Buffalo getting further tests, specialist exams, etc

It's the snaps that are my big concern. It's not going to get easier to snap the ball cleanly when he's facing a 300+ lb behemoth who considers him the enemy and is hair triggered to knock his block off before trying to flatten the QB he is trying to protect**, when the game time weather is "monsoon" or "iceberg" etc **as oppose to a 300+lb behemoth who is hair triggered to knock his block off as the bestest of bros

When evaluating Poyer last season, it's probably important to keep in mind that 20-30% of the time, he was essentially being asked to play "linebacker lite" up near the LOS, substituting for Dodson and with Rapp backfilliing him at Safety But yeah, it was pretty clear he had lost a big step (Hyde too)