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Kind of follows what is being built here. Find guys that want to work hard and be apart of something... This should be the new norm for becoming a Buffalo Bill. 

 

80 + players working their asses off has to make it a tough competitive camp

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On 6/28/2019 at 5:03 PM, matter2003 said:

When him and Foster started getting more playing time it changed the entire offense and opened things up...

 

Is it possible Josh Allen started making Jones, Foster and McKenzie look better by year end?

2 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

Unless Brown, Foster or Roberts goes down with a pretty long term injury, he has virtually no chance of making the team.  There's probably a place for him somewhere in the NFL, but not in Buffalo.  Otherwise Beane wouldn't have signed 3 free agent WRs, 2 of them directly replacing what McKenzie did last year-speed receiver & return man.  Ray-Ray is probably in the same boat, but of the 2 he's less likely to be claimed on waivers & can be put on the practice squad.

 

Disagree but I see 7 WR

 

Foster (Speed)

Brown (Speed)

Jones (Possession)

Beasley (Possession)

Roberts (Special Teams)

McKenzie (Gadget)

Sills/ Duke/ Ray Ray

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3 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

Unless Brown, Foster or Roberts goes down with a pretty long term injury, he has virtually no chance of making the team.  There's probably a place for him somewhere in the NFL, but not in Buffalo.  Otherwise Beane wouldn't have signed 3 free agent WRs, 2 of them directly replacing what McKenzie did last year-speed receiver & return man.  Ray-Ray is probably in the same boat, but of the 2 he's less likely to be claimed on waivers & can be put on the practice squad.

I don't entirely agree with this. If the Bills carry six WRs (likely), then McKensie has a decent chance because of his special teams acumen alone. In fact, with Roberts probably seeing few offensive snaps as the primary kick returner, we could carry seven. But, that far down the depth chart, players have to play ST, and McKensie has proven that. He's also shown quite a bit of versatility, which fits well with Daboll's offense.

 

All that being said, I suspect he doesn't make the 53, but I don't hold much certainty.

 

29 minutes ago, RocCityRoller said:

 

Disagree but I see 7 WR

 

Foster (Speed)

Brown (Speed)

Jones (Possession)

Beasley (Possession)

Roberts (Special Teams)

McKenzie (Gadget)

Sills/ Duke/ Ray Ray

I like this, although I would put Duke in front of Sills, and I wouldn't omit Bolden Jr.

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17 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

the thing he needs to work on, is how to hang on to the pigskin as though his roster spot depends upon it while huge hyped-up defenders are trying everything they can to knock it loose.

 

 

What he needs to work on is not being carted off the field back to back games only to "miraculously" reappear

 

He had durability issues in Denver and he is still getting dinged up here

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18 hours ago, Cripple Creek said:

Thank you for posting. If we get anything from him & McKittrick this could be a fun season.

Yes - some workout vid of McKittrick busting A would be even more hype

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22 hours ago, TigerJ said:

the fact that Brandon Beane added talent in several areas of the team has lit a fire under the guys who were here before.  I think that the Bills are going to cut a few receivers who have a good shot at hooking up with another team.  I don't know if McKenzie makes the team or not, but I'm guessing if he's cut, he does not stay unemployed. I'm pretty sure that John Brown, Cole Beasley, Zay Jones, and Robert Foster make the team (unlike sports hack, Cien Fahey).  Andre Roberts has the inside track for return specialist/WR, though I don't think he's an absolute lock.  The battle for that 6th spot is going to be brutal.  Do the Bills want the physicality of Duke Williams, the college touchdown proclivity of David Sills V, the veteran presence of Isaiah McKenzie, or Victor Bolden (who's been impressive this spring), another slot specialist in Nick Easley, a gadget WR like Ray Ray McCloud, a route running, hands of glue slowpoke like Cam Phillips, or Da'Mari Scott. an all around average player - average speed. average size, average everything else.

 

I think Duke Williams is pretty compelling given he's so different from anyone else Buffalo has, but I don't know that Sean McDermott thinks so.

this post brings to light the complexity and depth of the competition at WR.

 has been mentioned bill might be light at TE starting the season with Kroft and Croom missing reps.

perhaps Bills go into the season with an extra WR.
stashing WRs on PS should be quite a  challenge this year  : )

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14 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

Unless Brown, Foster or Roberts goes down with a pretty long term injury, he has virtually no chance of making the team.  There's probably a place for him somewhere in the NFL, but not in Buffalo.  Otherwise Beane wouldn't have signed 3 free agent WRs, 2 of them directly replacing what McKenzie did last year-speed receiver & return man.  Ray-Ray is probably in the same boat, but of the 2 he's less likely to be claimed on waivers & can be put on the practice squad.

 

Brown and Foster do not do what McKenzie does. McKenzie on offense was the gadget / slot guy. He wasn't running go routes on the outside. Roberts does replace in the return game. Whether he can on offense I doubt. Beasley takes over as the starting slot. So it becomes about what they want from their back end of the roster receivers. Do they want size? Or do they want that gadget type? I suspect the latter so McKenzie, Ray-Ray and Bolden Jnr are probably battling each other as the candidates for that. 

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Is there any way to designate Andre Roberts as just a kick return specialist? I would hate to only keep 6 receivers and lose out on one of the other guy because a kick returner is taking the spot of one of the receivers

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21 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Is there any way to designate Andre Roberts as just a kick return specialist? I would hate to only keep 6 receivers and lose out on one of the other guy because a kick returner is taking the spot of one of the receivers

You can call him whatever you want but he still takes up a roster spot 

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On 6/28/2019 at 4:38 PM, JESSEFEFFER said:

Ball security.  He needs to make the Bills coaches forget about the 8 fumbles in 19 career games.

Good lord. 

I liked him too but didn’t realize his fumble rate was this high. 

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On 6/28/2019 at 3:03 PM, matter2003 said:

When him and Foster started getting more playing time it changed the entire offense and opened things up...

 

Absolutely. Cover 1 has a great article on how those two changed not only our offense, but the way defenses approached us. Good things tend to happen when opposing defenses are forced to respect the weapons you have and can't just send the kitchen sink at the QB/rbs knowing the outside receivers couldn't get separation from a traffic cone. 

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9 hours ago, Bakin said:

Good lord. 

I liked him too but didn’t realize his fumble rate was this high. 

 

It was twice in 7 games for the Bills one on ST and one on offense. 

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On 6/28/2019 at 3:38 PM, JESSEFEFFER said:

Ball security.  He needs to make the Bills coaches forget about the 8 fumbles in 19 career games.

 

In his partial defense, i believe a lot of the fumbles were with kick returns, maybe he should just be a receiver.

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