Bills Sign Safety Darrick Forrest

[TFBillsfan]

I would still anticipate the Bills draft a S in the later rounds as I believe Rapp, Hamlin and Forrest contracts all expire after next season. 

[BigDingus]

Quite the patchwork team we're assembling 😅

 

We really have to nail this draft. 

[Allen2Moulds]

Could be a sneaky good signing.  All about this type of risk/reward.  You do enough of these, your bound to connect on 1 or 2 of them.

[Augie]

55 minutes ago, DJB said:

 

 

Umm, doesn’t that sound like our existing safeties? I was hoping for more of a coverage guy, I think. 🤔 

[somnus00]

Are we sure? Washington might swoop in to re-sign him before it's official. 

[Simon]

2 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:

To be fair for what 7 of those 8 years they knew who their starters were and didn't need one 

 

They didn't even use any late round picks for depth at the position.

And it's worth noting that neither of those starters were drafted either.

The Bills seem to have a philosophy of using draft picks on cost-controlled impact position and Safety doesn't qualify, imo.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 hour ago, DJB said:

 

Haha do they know how bad our safety play was as a reference 

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

1 minute ago, Augie said:

 

Umm, doesn’t that sound like our existing safeties? I was hoping for more of a coverage guy, I think. 🤔 

 

I actually found run support to be the thing our safeties struggled the most with.  

[Heitz]

1 hour ago, DJB said:

Someone tell me how to feel

 

With your hands!!  

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

7 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Umm, doesn’t that sound like our existing safeties? I was hoping for more of a coverage guy, I think. 🤔 

Hamlin seems very athletically limited where I’d think Forrest can be coached up.  Hyde and poyer and Hamlin the last year or two were all pretty far behind what Forrest would bring in that regard 

 

Our safeties weren’t very good in run support either lol 

Edited 6 hours ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[The Jokeman]

5 minutes ago, somnus00 said:

Are we sure? Washington might swoop in to re-sign him before it's official. 

JD McKissic understands what you did there... Seriously though this could be an under the radar type signing as he was drafted by Ron Rivera who runs similar concepts as McDermott. Toss in he had his best season two years ago under Rivera.  His draft profile mentions him playing big nickel which might allow us to rest Taron Johnson a little more and keep him in obvious passing situations and put Forres in on 1st and 2nd downs more. 

Edited 6 hours ago by The Jokeman

[Simon]

2 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Our safeties weren’t very good in run support either lol 

 

You know who actually got really good at it toward the end of the year?

Cole Bishop 

[MikePJ76]

3 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Hamlin seems very athletically limited where I’d think Forrest can be coached up.  Hyde and poyer and Hamlin the last year or two were all pretty far behind what Forrest would bring in that regard 

 

Our safeties weren’t very good in run support either lol 

They were pretty damn good in beating baltimore in the playoff game.

[nucci]

11 minutes ago, Allen2Moulds said:

Could be a sneaky good signing.  All about this type of risk/reward.  You do enough of these, your bound to connect on 1 or 2 of them.

what was sneaky about it?

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

1 hour ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

 

What’s with all these injury plagued players. It’s like Beane is trying to catch lightning in a bottle. Pretty weird since this has been the Bills number 1 problem for the past 5 years. I understand the Bosa signing, that one makes sense. I guess because they have a chance to get great production at a lower cost, but still it could backfire on him tremendously.

[RyanC883]

51 minutes ago, Logic said:

This signing is giving me Jordan Poyer vibes...

A guy many haven't even necessarily heard of, but who has great athleticism and has flashed playmaking ability. He signs and everyone says "looks like a depth and special teams guy", and then he comes out of nowhere and wins a starting spot.

I'm not saying he'll be as good as Poyer. I'm just saying...before you say "depth only"...give the guy a chance. If there's one area where I'll happily defer to McDermott and co, its the safety position.

In any case, Bishop, Rapp, Forest, and Hamlin are likely your four safeties. Drafting one now seems unlikely.

 

def has a Poyer vibe. 

 

I’d still draft one.  Safety class looks deep. On the other hand, would trade up for a DT, CB, DE, LB, or WR we really like and skip a safety.  

4 minutes ago, nucci said:

what was sneaky about it?

 

we signed him 2 months ago

[Simon]

2 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

What’s with all these injury plagued players.

 

Forrest has only had one actual injury in his last 8 years of football, that was the cracked shoulder two years ago.

[MrEpsYtown]

 

[Augie]

7 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Hamlin seems very athletically limited where I’d think Forrest can be coached up.  Hyde and poyer and Hamlin the last year or two were all pretty far behind what Forrest would bring in that regard 

 

Our safeties weren’t very good in run support either lol 

 

Yeah, Hamlin may be small and slow for the job, but he’s fairly mistakes free other than taking bad angles because he’s not as fast as he seems to thinks he is. I sure hope they can coach Forrest up in coverage. We need help back there.

[SydneyBillsFan]

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