Schefter: Von to resume practicing this week

[Tipster19]

Shhh! Von’s coming!

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

This is huge. I really hope we can get past the Fins tomorrow. If not we’ll need Von even more. I’d rather Buffalo not be so desperate in the win column so they can ease him in the rotation slowly. 

[Tuco]

4 hours ago, Limeaid said:

 

I wonder if they can make him active, get dinged in practice and then put on short term disability.

I suppose they could. But why? They don't have to activate him this week. They can wait as long as they want. The three week window only kicks in after he's activated.

[Gunsgoodtime]

Nice, he can join the safeties on the roster and race wheel chairs at this point!  The 3 of them only make 50m a year!

[BuffaloBillyG]

12 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

I'm going to wait and see how they want to get him back to full time.  I would guess a DE has to get cut to make room for him.

Kingsley Jonathan seems likely to be the guy.  Not sure if he would clear waivers. 

Lawson could also be the guy, I guess.  

 

Guys get banged up all the time so maybe they'll just take it one week at a time before activating him.  They may need him to start with

a decent number of snaps if another guy is banged up.

 

I wonder in Kingsley gets "tweaked" somehow the game before Von is activated and he sits on IR for a few weeks.  Funnier things have happened.

We will see how it shakes out for sure and someone heading to IR is always a possibility. But one name to keep an eye on if they do move someone off roster may be Poona Ford. Especially if he's inactive again today.

[CSBill]

12 hours ago, machine gun kelly said:

My guess is as much we want to see him next weekend, I’m guessing the Jags won’t be the game.

 

id bet is NYG, and on a pitch count.  He’ll get worked in more and more with each week.

 

Once we get through the Jags, we could see him sparingly for the next few games.  We need him full court press for the. Engels game.

 

After we hit the hard part of our schedule with the Bengals, Jets, Eagles, and Chiefs.  We also will definitely need him in Miami towards the end of the year.

 

You mean "snap count. Pitch count is baseball" 🤪

8 hours ago, PrimeTime101 said:

So Floyd normally plays on vons side. anyone know if von or floyd can play on the other end?

 

Good question.

[machine gun kelly]

21 minutes ago, CSBill said:

 

You mean "snap count. Pitch count is baseball" 🤪

 

Good question.

the phrases are used interchangeably.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

8 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:

the phrases are used interchangeably.

The 'Sports Metaphor Police' can be an even more rabid subcategory of the 'Grammar Police'.  Infringe on their territory at your own peril. 😳

[Roundybout]

9 hours ago, PrimeTime101 said:

So Floyd normally plays on vons side. anyone know if von or floyd can play on the other end?

We’re gonna have Floyd on Vons shoulders in a big trench coat 

[TheBeaneBandit]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

We will see how it shakes out for sure and someone heading to IR is always a possibility. But one name to keep an eye on if they do move someone off roster may be Poona Ford. Especially if he's inactive again today.

Slow the roll on that move. Ford will be valuable vs run heavy teams (the 2 or 3 left😆) and later in season rough weather games. Never forget missing DaQuan Jones against Cincinnati 😫

[Doc]

7 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Von can play both, not sure about Floyd.

 

Yeah, Von can.  The good thing is you don't need to find out if Floyd can play the other side.

[mannc]

40 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:

the phrases are used interchangeably.

But should they be?

[BuffaloBillyG]

40 minutes ago, TheBeaneBandit said:

Slow the roll on that move. Ford will be valuable vs run heavy teams (the 2 or 3 left😆) and later in season rough weather games. Never forget missing DaQuan Jones against Cincinnati 😫

Ford played 10 snaps week 1 against a team that had to lean into the run. He played 13 snaps against the Raiders. Then was a healthy inactive last week against a Washington team that leans to the run. 

 

He hasn't looked solid when he has played dating back to the preseason. I was excited to see him signed but at this point he's starting to look like a JAG...and they seem to like Kingsley Johnathan. Like I said above, if he's a healthy inactive again today (and Miami has a VERY healthy inside run game) then I think he's likely odd fella out.

[nucci]

26 minutes ago, mannc said:

But should they be?

No

[TheBeaneBandit]

7 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Ford played 10 snaps week 1 against a team that had to lean into the run. He played 13 snaps against the Raiders. Then was a healthy inactive last week against a Washington team that leans to the run. 

 

He hasn't looked solid when he has played dating back to the preseason. I was excited to see him signed but at this point he's starting to look like a JAG...and they seem to like Kingsley Johnathan. Like I said above, if he's a healthy inactive again today (and Miami has a VERY healthy inside run game) then I think he's likely odd fella out.

Definitely possible. Plus the potential upside with Jonathan maybe something the Bills don't wanna risk losing. Nicer problems to have compared to back in the day though!👍

[TBBills Fan]

Floyd, Von, Rousseau,  and Oliver on the line at the same time. This is a Superbowl worthy DLine.  

 

Me likes.  

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

I can't wait I love watching Von play. What's interesting is how much Floyd reminds me of Von, he's got a similar bend and speed rush off the edge

[scuba guy]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Ford played 10 snaps week 1 against a team that had to lean into the run. He played 13 snaps against the Raiders. Then was a healthy inactive last week against a Washington team that leans to the run. 

 

He hasn't looked solid when he has played dating back to the preseason. I was excited to see him signed but at this point he's starting to look like a JAG...and they seem to like Kingsley Johnathan. Like I said above, if he's a healthy inactive again today (and Miami has a VERY healthy inside run game) then I think he's likely odd fella out.

He just seems out of place in are system.

Kinda like that gut from the panthers

[BuffaloBillyG]

9 minutes ago, scuba guy said:

He just seems out of place in are system.

Kinda like that gut from the panthers

That's kind of the weird thing. The system we run on D upfront is a lot like what Seattle used when Poona had success. The Seahawks changed and he didn't fit that system. 

 

Popular thought had been that him coming here would help him bounce back to old form, but that hasn't seemed to happen IMO, either. I'm looking forward to inactive list here in a bit to see if him being a scratch last week was more of a match up thing or if Johnathan has passed him.

[CSBill]

4 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

The 'Sports Metaphor Police' can be an even more rabid subcategory of the 'Grammar Police'.  Infringe on their territory at your own peril. 😳

I was only quoting this mockingly from an earlier post. My bad.
 

We could also rightly use the basketball idea of “load management.”