MJS

I have no issue honoring lots of guys on the wall of fame. The Hall of Fame is where we should be more judicious, in my opinion. Here are some names I'll throw out there that haven't been mentioned as much: - Butch Byrd - Fred Smerlas - Mike Stratton - Tom Sestak - Eric Moulds

Meaning they are too low?

You open the playbook up more as camp goes on. That's all he meant.

Sounds like a stinger to me.

Bubble screens to TEs all the time. My favorite play ever! /sarcasm

I see Cooks as no better than a 4th WR at this point of his career. He gets open deep and drops the ball. But he does get open, at least.

The timing is he didn't want to participate in training camp.

I guess they can call him up for a few weeks and let things settle, then sign him if it works out. Plus, there may be an injury by then and no roster gymnastics will be needed.

Nobody said we should look at Spector. This has only been about Dodson. The OP mentioned taking a look at Dodson, not Spector. EDIT: I see. The OP edited it to Dodson. That's the confusion. You correctly asked why he would be interested in Spector.

Beane knows him. That's the point. He didn't struggle. They used him in a specific way and he thrived in that role, and then turned that into a nice contract with another team.

Because he is a decent depth linebacker and the team knows him and wha he can bring to the table. I don't get all the hate.

Well, the talking points before were that the field would take time to develop the root structure, but I guess that isn't true?

It wasn't that bad. The couple of missed plays were weird for sure. But if you compare the Bills local broadcast around the league for preseason games, I think the Bills are actually one of the better ones. Some of them are incredibly bad and unprofessional. The Patriots broadcast, for instance. Some of them are decent, though. The Bills are in that category.

I know this doesn't apply, but I think one of the worst head coach hires at the time was Anthony Lynn by the Chargers. He went from being the running backs coach for the Bills, and then moved into the interim head coach job for a game after Rex Ryan got fired. He never had experience as an actual coordinator and never called plays. Then he got hired as head coach of the Chargers for basically no reason. And then as Chargers head coach he makes blunder after blunder (a predictable outcome because he did not know what he was doing), despite the team winning 12 games and a playoff game his first year (in spite of him). Things regressed back down to the mean the next two seasons, with the Chargers winning 5 and 7 games respectively. As a head coach he was known for persistent game management errors, some of them receiving national attention for how bad they were, blowing big leads, and embarrassing communication breakdowns and confusion. He also had plenty of press conference blunders, frequently throwing his players under the bus and refusing to acknowledge Herbert as the starter over Tyrod Taylor, despite Herbert playing at an elite level. Anyway, I always thought that was a train wreck of a hire and enjoyed seeing it play out like I expected it would.