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He was waived and claimed by New England.

He must have really impressed them to poach him from Denver and be the first WR promoted over Tyrell Shavers without having a Training Camp or Pre-Season with the team.

It could be. But from the sound of Cooper's interview yesterday, i'd expect him to play. Coleman is worse off, but they didn't put him on IR. So it's not going to be a long period of time we're without either of them. So they could just call up either Virgil, Shavers, or Hamler for this week or next without promoting them to the 53.

Neither has Lewis Cine. But those are the Safeties on the Practice Squad. And with the open spots on the roster made at DT with IR'ing DeWayne Carter and releasing Zion Logue having been replaced by Quinton Jefferson and Jordan Phillips - i'd assume the roster spot opened by releasing Mike Edwards would be replaced by Jackson or Cine. The other option I could see is Kingsley Jonathan replacing Dawuane Smoot's spot in the DE Room. But much like I don't think 6 DT's are necessary (thus the release of Logue), I'm not sure we need 6 DE's with Miller having returned to the roster. Again, I'd think it's Safety with us having only 3 true Safeties on the roster right now.

I'd think it's Safety to replace Mike Edwards. Probably Kareem Jackson.

He will. I can't remember if he's had 1 call up or 2, but he can only be called up 3 times max during the Regular Season.

Smoot's reps will see an uptick in reps to Javon Solomon and Casey Toohill (hopefully more to the former than the latter). We also still have Kingsley Jonathan, who will probably see some call ups. As for the Tackles, one will replace Dewayne Carter's spot on the roster and the other will take Eli Ankou's place from his Practice Squad call-ups being used up or having only one more game to be called up.

Yeah, I don't think so. Neither the Phillips or the Jefferson signing have been prefaced with "Signed to the Practice Squad".

The max for the Practice Squad is 17. We're at capacity there.

It was announced 15 minutes ago. Doesn't mean he was told exactly 15 minutes ago. Could easily and likely have been told earlier in the day and the media looked into it when they saw what was floating around about him coming here. I just don't see a way that Ian Rappaport is retweeting something like that just based on the potential of the move happening on a player the level of Jordan Phillips.

Ian Rappaport just Retweeted Matt Parrino's post of it. I don't think he'd do that unless he knew it was happening.

If we're going to get a guy that has experience in our Defense, I like this idea better than signing Quinton Jefferson.

Saw it. I'd be here for it. But i'm not putting much stock in a fan account roleplaying as Chris Farley from Tommy Boy that has 4k followers that are follow for follows.

That's fair. It's just funny to me how everyone's like freaking out that he hasn't made a trade yet when in season trades aren't bountiful and he has already made one of the bigger ones this season.

You know we traded for Amari Cooper, right?

I agree that Benford is 1, no lower than 2. And I understand Cook, being at maybe the most devalued position (outside of Special Teams) being last. But i'm surprised to see Shakir so low. Wide Reciever is one of the most important positions to retain in my opinion (especially with our core) and with the skills he's shown, specifically being INCREDIBLY slippery and getting Yards After Catch being extremely good, I think he's at the top of people to retain. I think of the list of 5 - Shakir, Benford, and Rousseau are must retains. Bernard.... I go back and forth on him. There's times he's extremely good. Then there's times where he's not. And then he seems to get banged up a lot, perhaps for being undersized. I'd like to retain him (like everyone on this list) - but I have him outside the Top 3.

It is an all timer Draft, even with the Elam pick in Round 1. Instead of getting Day 1 Talent out of our 1st Round CB and Day 3 Talent out of our 7th Round CB - we got Day 1 Talent out of our 7th Round CB and Day 3 Talent out of our 1st Round CB. It evens out. We've got the rest of this year and next year with all of these guys. But after that, we're really going to have a heck of a time getting them all back. Khalil Shakir, Greg Rousseau (bc of the 5th year option), Christian Benford, James Cook, and Terrel Bernard are all scheduled to be Free Agents after next season. We're probably going to want to get a head start on some of them this coming offseason.

I think had we not sat Cooper for this game, they probably would have given Samuel another week honestly. It's in large part the toe. We really should have just shut him down to start the season. But our core was so tough to begin with, we really couldn't. I also think he and Josh for whatever reason just don't have chemistry. I feel like if Josh really liked what they were doing together in practice, he'd look in his direction once in a while. He doesn't seem to have trust in him. Could be he knows he's hurt. But the total lack of targeting him at all speaks volumes.

This was definitely true today. But there were other issues. Christian Benford is our best Cornerback. Not having him out there was tough. Especially against a team that has Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle with a 100% Tua. Miami's record sucks in large part because of Tua being out. But when they're flowing, they're a high powered offense. And they were playing like their season was on the line because, well, it pretty much was. I also feel like the Defense really focuses on making you beat us with your Running Backs. Doubly so today with the type of pass catchers they have and us down our best Corner. It seems like we're always dropping everyone into zones and let the RB's run free on Screens and Runs and hope someone just happens to be in the area.

I knew he'd have the leg, but I didn't think there was a snowballs chance in hell it would be on target. Incredible!

How tf is Kaiir Elam on Tyreek Hill?

I wouldn't count on it. Hit a 49 and a 40+ today and has been steady enough since we brought a Kicker on the Practice Squad, that they cut him. The problem with cutting him is beyond the money - there's no one out there that's better than him. The stats of available Kicker's are worse than Bass'. And they weren't Kicking in Buffalo. Cutting him now would just be cutting him for the sake of cutting him and good chance whomever replaced him would be worse.

The Keon play, yes. The Cook play, I don't know what the announcer was talking about. He'd have had to catch the ball full speed without stopping a fraction and make a move on the guy who was right on top of him. Watching it live full speed I thought "I think I'd rather stop the clock than pick up the 2 yards we'd have got on that play".

It feels like the league is looking at the AFC East and is like "yeah, we gotta help close that gap a little bit".

The Defense is maddening. It feels like everyone goes into Zone coverage on pass catchers, including TE's. and the line cues in on the QB. But when it comes to RB's it's like "hopefully someone's around somewhere doing something else and is close enough to get a stop". Screens always work on us.