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yeah - RGIII was pretty ridiculous in 2012 and everyone was talking about how dumb the rams were to trade him.

I've been calling him big sexy - but i guess thats a bartolo colon thing Ooo "The Don" or "The Boss"

and its preseason - so that guy's not working ?

I couldn't tell on the original, but did ivory get his head around? Throw could have been a tad early as well. Meh - preseason!

I'm not sure of your math there guy...

I'm watching the stream on the buffalo bills website. Is that not available to everyone?

Benjamin didn't look like he was stuck in glue while running. so thats good! Peterman still solid on those quick decisive throws. I wish they would blitz so we could see if he can handle pressure any better. That was always my sticking poing - when they take away option one what do you do? When there isn't time, what do you do? He crumbled a year ago

To me it looked like a cash savings. Already paid out the bonus, and they have a ton of cap space (and will carry over a ton into next year thus nullifying the dead cap hit). If you believe that janis/higgins/callaway has 0 drop off in production, you as an owner just saved 3.5 million dollars and got something (barely something) in return instead of cutting him. Adding Landry, and then getting Gordon back means that you're basically looking at your number 3 WR, and probably the guy who will get the 5th most targets in the offense after landry, gordon, johnson, Njoku. There's only so many targets to go around, and you added receivers in FA and the draft that you probably brought in for a reason. Landry is a top slot receiver in the NFL. Johnson is a top receiving back in the NFL. Njoku is a 1st round pick TE. Gordon is a former All-pro. Callaway is a player with 1st round talent (and off field issues), who is cost-controlled and selected by Dorsey. Throw in Janis (who was brought in by dorsey - and has ST value), and Higgins (23 years old, also has teams value) There really aren't enough snaps to get all these guys the ball. He was probably on the roster bubble and Beane made a call to see if they wanted something before they cut him.

I've been to a bunch of games in the last several years in a bunch of different lots - and i have never seen anyone jump on a table. Everyone gets hammered at football games, its not really limited to buffalo.

I feel like the Sam is kind of situational anyway as we're in nickel a ton anyway. Haven't been to camp yet so I'm not sure how he's playing

Bpa? If next year is the year you want to make a big impact... You don't draft a WR, they rarely make one in year 1. We could really use an influx of talent on the offensive line though. Especially cheap young cost controlled talent

From the sounds of it coleman was in danger of being cut. He hasn't produced, and injuries have hindered his development. He's getting a 2nd chance on a team lacking young talent at the position - especially with zay on the shelf. I can't imagine we gave up much at all to acquire him.

Not a lot of people on the last two Browns rosters had very good percentages. 2nd year receiver whos struggled with injuries and like 5 qbs in 3 years.

Lynch has played 5 games, thrown 123 passes, and is 24 years old. Kelly missed a good amount of his senior year, and didn't play a down last year. He also got kicked off the Clemson football team, and got arrested in 2014 before transferring to Ole Miss. He didn't play under center in college and hasn't really practiced with the team. There's virtually 0 cap hit to release him outright. He's a PS candidate IMO unless they carry 3.

I'd play a ton of single high safety man coverage as no one in the receiving corps is a burner. I wouldn't necessarily stack the box too much unless I have mediocre linebackers - the d-line should be able to hold at the point of attack. I'd probably show blitz a fair amount on 3rd down's to create pressure. Other than that - make sure hands are up and the easy passing lanes are covered.

And if buffalo motions shady out wide? Or lines up with Clay and Dimarco split out wide? How do you stack the box with the TE and FB lined up wide off the LOS?

Best guy plays - it shows in practice/film study and the other players respect the decision of the best guy playing.

To me it always comes down to the locker room. The rookie has to look the part and make the players believe he gives them the best chance to win. Thats the guy who should start.

Injury. Considering Murphys injury history i guess it makes sense to not bring back a guy with history of injury. However in fewer snaps he was more productive than both of the guys who would be replacing him. He'd be involved in limited snaps either way. I look at it like this - if we cut lawson (and eat cap) we're keeping russel, lawson will likely get scooped up. Maybe we could trade him - but that would assume the value meets the fact that we'd be paying pretty much the same cap hit as keeping him. If we cut russell and lawson gets hurt... its also likely russell will still be available.

Yep - gotta have backups... Russell had 2 sacks and 17 combined tackles in 14 games last year (6 starts - 459 snaps). Lawson had 4 sacks and 33 combined tackles in 11 (10 starts - 435 snaps). He had 464 snaps - so more than both russell and lawson. So production-wise - lawson has outperformed both in actual game situations

We're keeping 4 likely anyway. Shaq also is big enough and has some rip to him that he can be used inside on obvious passing downs. Russells contract is unlikely to have any guaranteed money - so he has to seriously outplay lawson for us to consider trading/cutting lawson. Yarbrough is also not guaranteed either. Yeah - he's starting at SAM in our base defense right now though and none of lacey, stanford, humber particularly impresses me to the point that he needs to move positions.

He's already been paid an additional 1.5 million of signing bonus in years 3/4, and his 2018 base salary is fully guaranteed. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/zay-jones-21778/

Zay's Cap hit doubles if we cut him. After the offseason and his generally unproductive rookie year, its unlikely he has any trade value. He's likely sticking. I personally think Holmes may be more up in the air. They seem to value Dupre's speed, and they look at Ray-ray as some sort of hybrid type weapon.

He'd have to be a lot worse than the next man up for me to consider it

Fully guaranteed contract. And we're already hanging a huge dead cap number. Only way I trade him is if the depth guys behind him out perform him. Doesn't matter if he's better than Murphy.