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Last I knew most military academy grads are pretty smart guys as well, not a bad thing in the overall evaluation. I think if you cut Codrington tho, you have to keep Hamler on the active roster.

As I understand it if Ciarlo doesn't make a roster, he has to honor his [8 year] service commitment. Not sure if practice squad counts. But then McDermott said this after the Giants game: "There’s going to be three guys that make this team solely on special teams because of plays like this.” Hmmm

Davis is certainly enough of a specimen to play teams, but will he at this point in his career?

Is Micah Hyde at this point worse than any of our rostered safeties not named Rapp.

I am wondering if this is the end of the road for the Bills carrying a FB. There were only 12 FB's rostered in the league last season and with Hawes, who is a smart, nasty blocker, do we use the roster spot somewhere else.

My biggest concern is CB2. Not sure how much Tre White has left in the tank, and with Hairston nicked up and a rookie, not seeing anyone else that's rocks my world. We have some SCARY WR duo's and trio's on our schedule.

I imagine #17 might have some input into that discussion, they seem to be besties.

Given McD's like for "smart" players, could this mean Wande Owens [Yale grad] gets a shot? - ridiculous hops - 43" vertical 11'-3" broad jump. Has experience as both a CB and box Safety.

Tasker became a Bills legend as the gunner and developed into a useful WR.

Claire Lee Chennault. Spelling is quite a bit different. Chennault's 2nd wife was Chinese and a prominent figure in the China Lobby before Nixon recognized them in the 70's.

Henry Knox was George Washington's Chief of Artillery and the namesake of Fort Knox.

As far as kickers, its a close call, and obviously Christie kicked in more meaningful games, but Rian Lindell had a higher FG% and XP% than Christie, and his kickoff average was slightly longer as well. Lindell missed 1 XP in 10 seasons.

Metzelaars was 6-7 255, and had great feet as he was one of the best D-III basketball players of all time. Played 16! years in the league. Hawes is 6-4 and 255.

Pete Metzelaars scored 45 points in the 1982 Division III Basketball National Championship game. Shot 73% from the field during his career.

In 1964 when Philbin came out, Bills DE's were Ron McDole and Tom Day. Mc Dole was one of the elite DE's in the league who went on to a long and storied 240 game career. I doubt Philbin in his first few years would have cracked the starting lineup at DE until after Day moved on in 1967. Our Outside linebackers at the time were Stratton and Tracey, who were both studs from 64-66 as well.

Actually the WR group was very stacked. Frank Lewis was next after Lee Evans, followed by Elbert Dubenion, Bob Chandler, Stevie Johnson, and then Butler. Yeah that D Backfield of my youth was special.

My list had Reuben. He is actually the guard with the highest AV in Bills history, above HOF'r Billy Shaw.

I went through my data [mainly PFR] and came up with the following All-Time Bills 22 + Kicker & Punter. QB Josh Allen RB OJ Simpson WR Andre Reed WR Eric Moulds WR Lee Evans TE Pete Metzelaars T Dion Dawkins T House Ballard G Billy Shaw G Ruben Brown C Kent Hull DE Bruce Smith DT Tom Sestak DT Ted Washington DE Ron McDole LB Mike Stratton LB London Fletcher LB Cornelius Bennett CB Butch Byrd CB Robert James S George Saimes S Tony Greene K Steve Christie P Paul Maguire It should be noted that Jim Kelly, Thurman, and Fred Smerlas are equally worthy of a spot, those positions were very close.

No Punt game at SFO was a pretty good display of offense Jimbo had 403 yards passing and 3 TD's.

However 'The Comeback" was engineered by the Frankish Reich, who was the winning QB in 2 of the 4 post-season games in 1992. Kelly was 1-1 in the playoffs that season.

I took a shot at this about a month ago, used PFR AV rankings 1 Bruce Smith 2 Thurman Thomas 3 Jim Kelly 4 Andre Reed 5 Josh Allen 6 Kent Hull 7 O.J. Simpson 8 Kyle Williams 9 Joe Ferguson 10 Fred Smerlas 11 Mike Stratton 12 Jim Ritcher 13 Cornelius Bennett 14 Eric Moulds 15 Darryl Talley Looks pretty solid to me. I was a big Cookie fan, but he didn't play in the NFL long enough. Sestak's knees gave out or he would be high on this list.

I always think of the kicker, punter, and long snapper as 51,52,53. The bottom of the roster I think of as 46-50, that's where the coaching staff has their heated discussions on ST and emergency [e.g. multiple in game injuries] needs. Some of those 5 are vets and some of them are rookies, [e.g. Buffalo Joe last season].

We have a solid O-line for now to protect the franchise [JA17], I suspect the DL will be a work in progress this year.

He's 30 pounds bigger and faster than our linebackers. Not sure we've addressed that.