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I don't think the Bills tell Shill anything. He gets to lick boots and if he doesn't like it they will give Maddy his job. Next to Jakobi, Shaheed would seem the most likely WR to be available though.

I don't think Efe Obada had a RAS but he would have been #1 out of 1830 and with the least change of direction ability of any of them. That dude was the ultimate stiff bodied big man. Worst case scenario Jackson is like that and he can't set the edge and becomes a journeyman like Efe.

I saw Raekwon Davis was on the tryout circuit. He was very talented. Never entirely lived up to his measurables and the 4 star hype at Alabama but seemed to be carving out a nice career with the Dolphins. Colts cut him for a non-football illness issue last spring. If I recall correctly a board member here who had conversed with his family had told me years ago that Davis suffered from depression issues at Alabama.

I hadn't hear that........but I had thought about Mathieu as a potential band-aid solution earlier in the season. I think he retired in the summer but I knew he had retired. The Saints have a number of guys who would be great fits. DeMario Davis is still exceptional. Alontae Taylor could be an upgrade to Taron Johnson. Cam Jordan has been mentioned but I do believe I once heard he said he would never want to play for the Bills. And of course, Shaheed and Olave. I was watching the end of the Saints game the other day and Shaheed left the game with a minute left with what looked like a hip injury and did not return. Didn't look like he landed on it(pointer), more like he got his leg pulled causing the pain. Could have been nothing but it also occurred to me that he might have a vested interest in tanking his trade value. He figures to get A LOT of targets down the stretch with Tyler Shough in there. That's good for his FA value. Coming to a new team there is always a risk that he just doesn't get the ball and his value is tanked. If money is your #1 objective, you don't want to be traded mid-season.

If the alternative is playing Jordan Phillips 33% or more..........yeah. But replacing Ed Oliver with guys like Pennel or Harrison Phillips is meh. They are guys who could be out of the rotation come playoff time. Calais Campbell is the ideal fit. Still a very impactful player. I just wonder if he has had the Bills on a list he won't play for because he's been that guy for years. Always available, really productive and priced right but never ends up here.

Mathieu hasn't played in the NFL this year. He is lobbying for the LSU head coaching job.

Technically a bigger comeback, yes. But in the context of the way baseball is played now.......not as surprising. It's hard to stop losing streaks when you can't execute sound fundamental baseball. Teams are finishing where they were supposed to because of the sheer amount of games played........but the baseball played in between has been like watching a simulation that is out of the control of the teams themselves. It's been a terrible MLB season. MLB needs to make some changes.

I agree with @Coach Tuesdaythat I didn't hear the term "bust"........that's generally a term for 1st round picks and occasionally 2nd rounders. But there were a lot of downright HATERS on the big fella. Yes @NewEra was one. He owns it. But tread lightly within that thread, Simon is VERY sensitive about his old takes on Spencer Brown.

Banged up Bob says Ed looked his gif horse in the mouth and got a sole clap for his insolence.

It might take him that long to get into football shape. He looked like a bowl of mashed potatoes at his PC a couple weeks ago.

Yeah they were.....until the last few drives. And I agree the Bernard extension was dumb. Made no sense. This is not a guy who is likely to start in the NFL for the length of his extension even.......he is almost inevitably going to get hurt enough times from bouncing around in that traffic and then the nose for the ball won't matter because he will become physically limited, IMO. Even if he repeated his historic splash play season from a couple years ago not many teams were going to sign up for a MLB that size with a history of being too banged up late in the season. The Bills weren't going to have to pay him more than they did, IMO so Beane just took a bad risk there like he did when he foolishly extended Eric Wood for 2018 back in summer of 2017 when there was basically ZERO chance he would leave Buffalo for numerous reasons..........and then ended up eating $10M when he failed a physical in January.

Yeah, that was him. Fina was one of those guys who gave off the impression he really didn't like football and did not appreciate the fans one bit. Surprising how many of those guys get out of the league and then decide they want to become analysts and podcasters talking about the game they didn't enjoy for the people they didn't like.

It's crazy that they gave the disinterested Star Lotulelei a 5 year $50M contract to protect the DE-sized Edmunds but are trying to get by with smaller 1 techs with the narrow shouldered, safety-sized Bernard. I greatly prefer what he brings to what Edmunds brought because turnovers and splash plays are so important in the game now. With Poyer and Hyde gone he is really their only guy with a nose for the ball. And LONG gone are the days when the Steelers and Rams met in a SB while being 1-2 in turnovers lost. Those possessions are so critical now. And it's always going to be hard to get him thru a potential 20 game season intact if he isn't clean.

Yeah I was going to edit my post to include that. John Fina said it as well. That may be the case but John Fina in particular was one of the greatest "wasn't my fault" players in Bills history so I'm not inclined to trust his opinions on assignments.

They've been doing these for many years now.