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It also could be TE, ILB, DT or WR if we also don't sign Knox, Edmunds, Oliver and Davis respectively !

Stevenson will be replaced by the Punter.

We lost the season opener last year due to a blocked punt (and returned for TD)

Ha...Our P.U.N.T.E.R !!!!!! Just In Time

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I think the released players who are not vested veterans have to go through the waiver wire before wishing to re-sign with the Bills to the PS. The vested veterans can decide to do it right away; assuming they are not getting offers to be part of the 53-man roster of other teams.

Both Davis and Knox can contest catches and extend their catch radius. We are loaded at the WR and TE position when it comes to making catches (especially tough ones). We will be better than last year. Hodgins at best can be the 6th best WR on this team and he will unlikely see the field as long as the Bills don't have any major injuries. If there are injuries, I see the Bills going after veteran players in the middle of the season

Looking forward to this starting DL. Miller, Oliver, Settle and Rosseau Can this line dominate and stop the run game. Can we stop getting abused by good runners such as Henry and Taylor and even Harris.

Agreed the Bills as a team overall did not show up for the game against NE and at Jacksonville. And yet we were one play away from winning both games.

It will be Brett Kern or the veteran punter from the Bengals. Both have experience kicking in the cold weather.

I thought that was always true. You can never sign someone to your PS off someone else's PS

The bills tickets just became very expensive recently

There are quite a few punters on that list!

He said "An NFL bound player should have understood such risks and held himself accountable better". He shouldn't have been Yet Another College Idiot !

I think the take from the Bills has been simply "This is very serious stuff and Matt needs to spend his time to resolve it and not worry about football". They are not judging him as guilty or not as that MUST be determined only by the court of the law. The Bills will crawl out by saying that "they were glad they gave the opportunity to Matt without any distraction to pursue and prove himself innocent". Finally, the NFL is talking about a 6th round draft pick who is a Punter. I think that is a big difference.

I think that is how Beane and McDermott should have treated it. They made it a much bigger deal instead of moving on from it.

We really cannot guess the mental state of the plaintiff. She may not have been hoping that the SD Police Department would have pursued the case based on her statement and waited for them to take action; May be their inaction could have now prompted her to go after a civil law suit as an alternative. We are not in her shoes and we cannot really feel in her way. Give the girl a break. Everything cannot be rationalized.

The 1st assertion is incorrect. Beane clearly stated that there were additional things in the 11-page Civil suit that was far more serious in nature and that led them to part ways so that Matt could focus on getting his name cleared. I don't believe any public perception forced them to make this cut (At least I hope that was not the case) Sean definitely was far more shook up than Beane. I would have expected it the other way around as the hiring of the players is the GM's responsibility

I assume some of this falls on the scout who is presenting the player to the organization. At the least, the scout's job is to get the name to the Bills Internal Investigation organization for their background verification. I am sure the scout would have talked to the local football coaches, who in turn may have hid the whole issue. Again, no point in putting the blame game...the responsibility lies with Beane.

I agree. I think we are going to have a very dominating run defense this year. With the necessary pass rush from Miller and Rosseau we should not be in the position we were at KC with 13 seconds to go. Cook catching passes from Allen is different from a slow keenam.

I also noticed a slightly different demeanour with Beane this time. He did not keeps his eyes straight up; instead he was staring at the desk (I know he had some notes) more often while talking instead of looking up at the folks. It was definitely discomforting to him and he knew they (Bills) had made a mistake in not pursuing it further after the July 31st meeting.

Shakir is playing more outside than being a slot receiver. I think he is being used lik Diggs...put him all over the field.

My understanding is that employment is at will and works for both the employers and employees. Employees quit an organization if they don't like it or found a better opportunity. The Employer has the same power to do the other way. At the end of the day, Companies are NOT courts. I agree that the Bills now know more critical information (May be Matt's has confessed to them that he did have sex and raped the girl, but that he and his friends thought she was eighteen !!!). May be that is what helped them to close the deal on his release.

Agreed. This is a first PR misstep by Beane. Are they really afraid that the players will revolt against the management for this action? Beane made a fair comment that the information was sealed and not available to them during the draft - Fair enough. However, they came to know about it on July 31st. They have ignored such a serious thing and waiting 25 days for the bomb of the civil suit to come out before they took action. This puts them in poor light on such a decision making, especially with a woman owner to whom they were reporting. And now, finally, if they had come out saying that the "Bills Image" was more important for the Owners, Coaches, Players and Staff then the Bills would have come out as an organization that cares.

well put