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Wow. Poyer has definitely lost a step. He legitimately looked slow on that TD.

Oliver is in midseason mediocre form.

We would incur a $2.5M dead cap hit if we cut Matakevich. Just something to keep in mind.

What is going to doom Shavers is that he doesnt do anything else particularly well. Shorter has the potential to be a good receiver and an elite tall endzone threat. That plus his experience in ST, I believe, will earn him a spot. Shavers... all he has is the special teams. That's why he wasn't drafted. On a roster as deep as the Bills is, that's not enough.

Yes. He was a key component of Florida’s ST in 2020 and 2021. He played less ST snaps in 2022 because he broke out as a WR.

Shorter is a great ST guy. If you replace him with Isabella, you have to find someone to take Shorters place on ST as well. And that won’t be Isabella.

Agreed.

Beane mentioned a while back that we will be running more 12 personnel this year, with Kincaid coming in. So we likely keep 4 TE’s, and with that being the case, I don’t see how you carry 7 wide receivers. Diggs, Davis, Shakir, Harty and Sherfield are thought of as locks. Shorter will make the roster due to his great ST ability. Isabella doesn’t fit in here. He could be a returned, but Harty is already an all-pro returner. I think Isabella gets stashed on the PS. Obviously this all changes if Shakir becomes a surprise cut.

I know you’re joking but he did grade well last year and he played for only a bit over a million dollars. Would be an intriguing option at RT.

Camp doesn’t have the same intensity. Or tackling. And the defense starts to learn your plays and routes. Different ballgame against another club.

I do! I see it as a win/win scenario. When starters play against backups and third-stringers, they can practice routes, scenarios and techniques in a more forgiving environment, allowing for targeted improvement without facing top-tier opposition. This helps in skill development and confidence building. On the other hand, if they perform poorly, it highlights weaknesses that need to be addressed, giving the team an opportunity to recognize and work on these areas before the regular season begins.

I would play them the entire game.

I will have to take your word for it. I'm not hip with trailer-park fake sports.

Gunner's opinion on this topic leans toward mine.

Teams don't draft players based on the evidence they see from college tape. They base their decision on 0 NFL games or starts. Some of us are better at seeing the talent level of players than others.

Not a single day.

He never said "bust". But I will. The guy is a bust.

Hope not. I'm completely over the Damar Hamlin stuff.

Ok we can wrap him in puffy blankets then.

Happy 50th anniversary….

It would be pretty funny...

(Edit: I see someone posted this yesterday, but I just saw it) It is starting to unravel. Turns out that Oher wrote in his book (from 2011!) that he knew about the conservatorship. In the book, he wrote: "Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my 'legal conservators,'"

Injuries didn't derail the Bills. They certainly didn't help, but the team was smoked either way.

It is not all ESPN's fault that they suck. ESPN's issues are entangled with broader industry trends and societal shifts. The network has lost 25 million homes since 2013, which is a staggering number and has been impacted by the decline of traditional pay TV and a shift in viewership patterns. This loss forced ESPN to pivot away from its core strength of insightful reporting and analysis, which no longer attracted sufficient viewership. Instead, the network embraced shock-TV personalities like Stephen A. Smith and prioritized viral videos and contentious debates, which are strategies that initially increased engagement but eventually led to a decline in quality content. ESPN is now at a point where: 1) No one needs the channel for highlights, since YouTube and other video sharing websites exist. 2) We are a 10-second society and insightful sports reporting tends to draw low numbers. 3) People are tired of debate-tv and shock jock personalities. The network's primary viewership source has thus become live sports, which is what many posters in this thread have indicated (that live games are their sole reason for utilizing ESPN). This reliance on live sports presents a conundrum: How can a channel produce high-quality content when the audience's primary interest is live sports, yet the network must fill 18+ hours of additional airtime to accommodate advertisements that fund those live broadcasts? It is not an easy question to answer. I don't envy ESPN's execs.

Surprised they know this already. It just happened 20 or so minutes ago.