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It's literally injuries We aren't in this position because we cut a bunch of players that couldn't hack it, we're running out of bodies due to injury I don't know why this is so hard for folks to process

This is exactly what I'm talking about He's objectively a good and impactful player, but his impact doesn't show up specifically in sacks, so he must not actually be good. If he were the high-octane pass-rusher you want him to be, he would have re-signed for 40mil+. He makes half of that, because he's merely adequate as a pass-rusher while doing everything else exceptionally well.

To do that, you need to sign those players to your active roster without them having a down in your system. Lawson comes in on a Practice Squad spot. Big difference. It's literally just injuries, in this case. We're low on bodies. This is the regular-season equivalent of bringing in players during training camp/preseason to just take reps, except unfortunately the games count.

Because promising young players are already on active rosters by the time week 13 of the regular season rolls around.

Just fantasy football/gambling mentality imo Pretty much every time I say Groot is good and worth his contract here and on other boards I get a nice wave of negative reactions from all of the very smart and stable football geniuses that are "fans" of this team If there isn't a big box score the player must be terrible

It's not that he can't do it, he just doesn't like to do it Like you can tell the games/stretches where he does his homework and the ones he doesn’t. The start of the 2024 season predictably was a trainwreck in large part due to his postseason "I'm the best athlete in the world/I'm not much of a film guy" arc Still obviously an amazing quarterback but he has yet to come around to WANTING to kill teams with homework, and it does limit our offensive options to an extent

Solomon is unfortunately pretty garbage at DE and iirc Epenesa is nursing an injury. The org isn't just doing this for fun.

They wouldn't. There isn't that much DE talent to go around. Anyone with the ability to come in and make a plus impact is already on a roster, it's a premium position for a reason. RB, TE, and S are the only positions where that might be feasible and S still needs time to acclimate to a defensive system.

Brother we ran out of bodies at DE to the point that we played a rookie DT completely out of position just to make it through the game. This isn't a discussion about player quality, the Bills literally just need the best available warm body to plug into their DE rotation. That's likely Fox while Lawson spends a couple of weeks getting in shape so that we have another body in case someone else goes out.

We ran out of bodies Anyone acting like the Bills WANT to be in this position is not a serious person

It makes sense, good young players are already on rosters and we're literally running out of bodies to put in at DE.

I think both units had/allowed fairly "normal" production relative to expectation, but the offense had 3 big drive-ending errors, two of which gave the Texans points, and Allen took a beating in the process. Not good. Also, the Dawkins false start was infuriating.

I'm mildly exasperated because you're arguing against yourself and don't realize it The Bills D and O had similar days EXCEPT, prior to the final drive -2 big turnovers on offense -A big failed 4th down conversion that squandered one of the good offensive drives This led to the Bills being in a one-score game where they needed a TD on their final drive to win it and unfortunately they couldn't come up with it. Which is why people are dinging the offense, things looked ugly and unsustainable, and their net points squandered the production that they did have. Meanwhile you're arguing that the defense was the problem, which is ????

Groot isn't actually highly paid, though. 15th-highest this season and he will quickly slide down the list as other DEs sign new contracts. Yes, which is why it came down to a final offensive possession at the end with the Bills having a chance to win. That is how numbers work.

The defense gave up fewer than 20, fam. The offense gifted 6. It's frankly concerning at this point that you aren't able to process that.