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Annnnnnnd of course Chase is suspended

Really? Is that a special Thursday Night Football thing? Are you sure about that?

Since this is a Thursday night game does that mean Practice Squad Elevations are due by 4 pm EST today? That's an hour and 20 minutes from now. The 3 players up for this to me would be Davis, Latu and Fox. I'm kinda hoping they elevate Latu and Fox and bring Davis up to the active roster while putting someone like Mathis on IR.

When I was watching the game with my friend we were deep in the 4th quarter and I told him to remind me to say something when the game ended. I wanted to point this exact thing out, but I didn't want to jinx it while the game was still running.

All right!!! Shaq is back!!! Dorian Williams has really been coming on lately. Joe Marino's praise of him in the Bucs game was effusive. With Bernard playing better but still clearly hobbled I'd like to see McDermott give Bernard a rest week by making him active but only in emergency situations and start Shaq at MLB. I'd say put Dorian in over Milano but we know that's not happening. Other than Samuel, Hardman and Kincaid this team looks like it's finally getting healthy. The mini bye is coming at a good time

I understand that there's a lot posted on this message board and people don't read through entire posts so I'll just copy and paste this snippet from my unedited OP to show you I already acknowledged this: "This isn't perfect because Shavers was actually a UDFA in 2023 rather than 2024, but he stuck around and gained the most attention last offseason and I think a lot people believe he's a 2nd year player."

Well... this is Shavers' 3rd year

2006 our 1st round draft pick was John McCargo and we picked Kyle Williams in the 5th round. Meatball was a pillar of the team during the drought years and made 6 pro bowls and will eventually probably end up on the Wall of Fame. 2008 our 2nd round draft pick was James Hardy (RIP) and we picked Stevie Johnson in the 7th round. Stevie earned a big role relatively quickly and eventually became our #1 WR posting back to back 1,000 yard seasons. 2022 our 1st round pick was Kaiir Elam and we picked Christian Benford in the 6th round. Benford has turned into what many would argue is an Elite CB and has earned a lucrative extension from the team. Could Tyrell Shavers be the next in line? We all saw what he did in preseason. Granted, it's preseason... but he had a great game against the Bucs and it wasn't just on the TD. I heard a stat yesterday that he was getting a ton of separation on all of his routes and in Joe Marino's All-22 he talked about how good Shavers played overall. He looks like a MUCH more natural WR than Keon. This isn't perfect because Shavers was actually a UDFA in 2023 rather than 2024, but he stuck around and gained the most attention last offseason and I think a lot people believe he's a 2nd year player. I think we're all rooting for him, but I think based on McDermott's and Allen's PCs this week he may have earned himself a legitimate shot to become the WR Keon was supposed to be.

Ummmm... no... we want the Steelers to keep winning outside our game against them if we don't want the Ravens in the playoffs

To me? In no particular order... Super Bowl teams: Eagles Bills Rams Chiefs I understand records but I think it's one of those 4 teams hoisting the Lombardi

Gonna be so freakin pissed if somehow Chase can't play against the Patriots next

What an idiot

Guess I was right...

Elevations need to happen within the next 20 minutes. We should know.

My bad!

I got to thinking about this because I was thinking ahead to the Patriots game when we play a division rival coming off their bye... which sucks. We also played the Falcons coming off their bye. We know how that went. We also played another division rival in the Dolphins coming off a Thursday night game with an extra 4 days of rest. And ya know what, we're going to play another big conference game against the Bengals where they're coming off a Thanksgiving Thursday Night Football game. Yes, the Bills benefitted from the bye week coming in to play the lowly Panthers and a Saints team we got extra rest for after a TNF game and will benefit from playing on TNF next week against the Steelers, but we have 2 divisional road games this year where we are scheduled with a rest disadvantage. All rest disadvantages against conference opponents except the Steelers. By itself, I wouldn't really cry foul, but the Bills are -7 in rest disadvantage days for the whole season. The next closest AFC teams even remotely contending for an AFC playoff spot are the Steelers and Browns both at -4 followed by the Texans at -2. All the other AFC contenders for the playoffs have a rest advantage with the Jags (if we wanna call them a contender) at +1, the Chiefs and Patriots at +2, the Bengals and Colts at +3 and the Ravens and Chargers at +5. Those are just the contenders for playoffs in the AFC. To show the disparity in rest advantages, there's a 32 day difference from the team with the greatest rest advantage in the Lions at +13 to the team with the biggest rest disadvantage in the Raiders at -19. And yes... gotta go out and win the games you play... but I guarantee statistically it's significantly more advantageous to play a team with a rest advantage rather than a rest disadvantage. You would really think in a league that touts its own parity, they would really be trying to make the schedule a little more equal than a 32 day rest disparity from top to bottom.

Also... no one posted yet, but Irving and Godwin are OUT on Sunday along with Reddick and Bredesen. https://www.buccaneers.com/team/injury-report/ Interesting because everyone kept saying Irving and possibly Godwin would be playing this week. No gamesmanship on Bowles's part in even listing them as questionable or doubtful.

Me too... I don't think it's rational at all, but getting Davis and Palmer in the lineup (I think/hope) is going to be a world of difference to our passing game. Just watch Gabe Davis's highlights from last year with Jacksonville In terms of effort alone, give me that over Keon Coleman all day every day of the week. Add to that the fact that Josh has been using the word "trust" SO MUCH week after week after week and Gabe is probably a guy Josh trusts so much as a WR that we've actually criticized him for it over Gabe's last couple seasons. I just think even that Gabe we heavily criticized in 2022 and 2023 is a much better option than Coleman at the X. It's why I actually think he's signed to the active roster this week and Keon is inactive on Sunday. Might be wishful thinking...