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I've been hearing that source is not the best most reliable source. Likely will get more reliable information soon. Hopefully they are mistaken.

It is a day off, probably a much needed one given all the injuries...

That gave me a good chuckle.

Not sure the Bills would be willing to trade either with the two defensive line suspensions

Possible they want to take him for an MRI as either a needed confirmation or a MRI for a precautionary measure hopefully. You might not have much of an update

Thanks for sending that over. I’ve been hearing great things about Tre in camp but I haven’t heard much about Dane/Strong/Ingram so it is nice to get some info

Astro’s write up said he looked solid but not hear much else

Any word on how he has been? Haven’t heard much

I know guys walk off with ACL but that’s usually in game situations and not practice. From what I am reading if the trainers suspect a tear even somewhat they will not let the player walk off even with some assistance. Yes it is possible the manual test came up wrong and they let the walk off. But I am hoping for the best as it is less likely they would let the player walk off if they suspected a tear

I didn’t see the additional walk off initially. I am 50/50 on the severity of the injury from my amateur opinion I don’t think they would have let him walk off even with assistance from the trainer if they had suspected a chance at a tear. I hope it’s a strain that he just misses a week or two. An injury where he misses all of pre season is gonna set back his development

I saw the video he walked off under his own power without assistance. Hopefully it’s just a knee sprain or something minor. Injuries are a part of the game sadly. Been a lot of dings so far in camp. update: he looks to have needed some assistance from the trainer. Just have to hope for the best.

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No one was doubting Johnson's talent level there was a big medical red flag with him. So it is not surprising he is getting a good start but if he is chronically hurt then we know why he fell. Max looks to having a nice camp esp for a rookie and I would rather have a durable good player than a great player who only plays half a season.

I think for his sake him being "on retainer" for a mid October signing is probably what's best for him at this point. Gives him 6-8 weeks to heal up and get himself 100% right and then he can ramp up his conditioning in late September early October and then do a few extra weeks on a PS before being active if needed later in November? It wouldn't be the worst "Plan C" to have if the team gets hit with injuries and needs some depth. What's likely hurting Gabe is that his not only injured but also he doesn't play special teams which is what teams want from their last 1-2 WR spots.

An extension for McGovern could most likely would lower his cap hit for this upcoming season. Cook could be very similar where his cap will either go down slightly or stay the same with an extension. The issue will be for the 2026 cap how the Cook and McGovern extensions work in. AJE and Jones are on expiring contracts there's not much cap space to be gained from cutting either. AJE simply can't be cut as he won't save cap space. Jones could yield some savings but it would be fairly marginal as he has a high dead cap hit. The Bills will likely have to do some restructuring to get under the cap enough and I suspect that a McGovern extension lowering his cap hit will be a part of that.

Goes to show you the draft is not an exact science.

I wouldn’t write Kincaid off it’s what the first day of pads?

It kind of works like a DVR in that you can just watch the episode when you want start and stop as you wish!

DL or WR would be my guess. DT despite the recent draft selections in back to back drafts (a pick in each round from rounds 2-4) I could also see DE. Given that there's not much there are Groot. AJE and Bosa are free agents, Hoecht they like but after him it's Landon Jackson and Solomon both young guys with some upside but not a clear starter opposite Groot projection wise. The other big one is WR. Shakir is a slot stud, Palmer is a young vet, and Keon recently drafted. Samuel is on the last year of his deal and can be outed somewhat easily. There's just not a lot there and it's likely yet again the top target this off-season unless there's a big breakout that's not projected. I would venture to say that if WR is a nagging issue the Bills will go more so the veteran replacement route and draft a DE to sure up that position longer term while trying to find another Bosa type rental to plug it for one more season.

ESPN like a lot of media has had to adapt to the times and it has caused them to have all of their punditry become very clickbaity and sensationalized because that's what gets clicks on Youtube. Their actual broadcasting of events isn't bad, they sometimes make mistakes but overall their broadcasting of actual games is about as good as it ever was. When ESPN was the only major centralized sports hub on TV and there was very limited online competition ESPN could be a very "journalistic" type of channel. SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, and other more straight news type programs flourished. Even their "punditry" shows they started doing in the early to mid-2000's like PTI and Around the Horn weren't as clickbaity and sensationalized as a lot of their shows are now. It's not that Disney ruined ESPN so as much as the times changed and they simply couldn't get by on being the only place where you could see highlights from all of tonight's baseball games.

Rice their best WR was out so they did have someone of significance hurt. 2023 you were correct

It didn't really become bad. It's mostly the same show. Just with different personalities and pundits. What killed Sports Center was that if you really wanted to watch highlights in the 1990's or into the 2000's you couldn't find those highlights anywhere else but aggregated on SportsCenter. Now if you want to see highlights you can go to 30 different sites and get a bunch of different versions of highlights and punditry. Sports Center was never really known for it's hard hitting punditry. It was always a Whittman Sampler of Sports when that was the only place you could get it.

In 2023 I think that was a big reason. However, I think 2023 the Bills got ***** by the field not being heated and the fact that the Bills didn't get a chance to rest starters week 18. KC had their division and seeding clinched and they got the pesudo bye week in week 18 and came into the playoffs very healthy. They also had a heated field so despite the game against Miami being super cold their field was much better and they got less injuries. The Bills had the massive snow storm and a bad icy field against the Steelers and had a bunch of injuries that game. The team also had to play week 18 so more wear and tear going into the playoffs. Then of course the Bills had 2 days less rest going into that game and it was all sorts of *****. 2024 the only injury was Benford which was a very fluky thing while KC had injuries. I think the difference for that game was that the Bills were away and got a bunch of borderline calls and a few outright bad calls go against them.

I thought 2023/24 were middle of the pack years injury wise. I was hoping that in 2024 with a younger roster the team would be less injury prone but they got banged up a lot, not many major injuries but a many "will be out 2-3 week" type dings. I was hoping for positive regression to 2020 levels for this season.

The Bills were very good on injuries from 2019-2020 and in 2021 the only major injury they had was Tre White. So they have had a stretch of years where injuries weren't too bad. 2022 was the season from hell in many ways. 2023 and 2024 seemed like an "average" amount of injuries. Teams get injuries it happens in football especially so you can't expect the team to not have them even if you have the best training staff.