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Interesting how much more upper body "eye candy" the lower depth chart receivers put into it vs. Diggs. Is that just because "it's practice, I doan gotta" or because Diggs knows he just has to do enough to "sell" the DB and anything more is a waste of energy? Looks like Robinson will be wearing #81 McKenzie - will you QUIT with the Body catching already? Although it looks as though the guy throwing for them is aiming for his gut instead of putting the ball up near his helmet, I suppose to avoid any chance of a blow to the head if he muffs it.

Couple additions to Capaccio's list:

Ooooh.

That's not true on a couple counts. A strain is a tear to muscles. A severe muscle strain with considerable tearing to the muscle may require surgery A sprain is a tear to ligaments. If there's a significant enough tear or rupture to any ligaments, it can require surgery for the best return to function. Specifically, a "high ankle sprain" is a sprain to the syndesmosis membrane and tibiofibular ligaments which holds the lower leg bones, tibia and fibula, together, and stabilizes them to the talus. This is the primary ankle joint responsible for up and down movements (dorsiflexion and plantarflexion) of the foot. Orthopedists came up with a specific surgery for high ankle sprains, a "Tightrope procedure", that may allow more rapid return to athletic activity: https://www.footankledc.com/news/what-is-tightrope-surgery/109 Tua has had this on at least one ankle and Zack Moss had it in the 2021 off season after he suffered a high ankle sprain against the Colts. He was not the same the following season (2021) but reported being recovered this season - but the usual idea is it turns an 8 week recovery into a 4 week or so. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2021/1/20/22240345/buffalo-bills-injury-analysis-zack-mosss-ankle-surgery

Beer. It's Not Just for Breakfast Any More.

Yeah, guys on the practice squad all season make $200k/yr (plus medical, life, and disability insurance for themselves and family as I understand it) Average starting salary for a college graduate is $55k a year. Comp sci and financial sector may make 2x that, but it would be a special sitch to pay $200k a year fresh out of college. MJS is correct. Practice squad players are free agents being paid by the game. Our team is not obligated to keep paying them, and they are free to sign to the active roster of any other team at any time. They can not be signed from one practice squad to another team's practice squad, however. Per Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN there's something odd going on with Austin, though: He's on the Commissioner's Exempt List now? That ain't the usual designation for a player released from the PS - At All.

I think it's the Bills injury report more like

My point is that passing yards are historically, negatively correlated with winning for just that reason: teams can pass a lot but if they have trouble getting into the end zone one way or another, the yards don't matter.

This is why I'm not in favor of shows like Kyle Brandt's Basement and the Go Long/Isaiah McKenzie show The hosts build a rappore with their featured guest week by week and keep at it until they draw them out to say controversial stuff. Then they take it out of context to fluff things up. Didn't Pittsburgh make a point of saying if Josh Allen tried to run they would "treat him like a running back" last season, or was that another team?

Much too soon. While it's pretty clear Trubisky hasn't earned the confidence of anyone on the Steelers offense or coaching staff, Tomlin has a track record of a not-too-long leash with QB not named Roethlisberger. Duck Hodges got the call at QB after Rudolph threw 4 picks vs the Browns then threw another the following week. Hodges got to keep the job for a couple weeks where he did "enough" and the Steelers won, but after the Bills picked him 4 times Tomlin shot him down the following game after he was picked twice and the team went back to Rudolph. If the Bills manage to bemuse, confuse, and pick the hell out of Pickett on Sunday, he'll be given a 2nd game to "get it straight" or we just might see Trubisky starting again.

And this is my problem with analysis like Brett Kollman that I posted elsewhere. He saw what the Dolphins did as far as stopping key plays, limiting deeper throws, and having half-a-dozen passes they should have intercepted - when it was 115 degrees on the field and Josh played 40 minutes with no shade when off, and he says "Ah Ha!" But I see a throw like that and ratch back to the Dolphins game and say, half-a-dozen of those throws would have been completions only Josh can make if he only had a fraction more time to set and he weren't being run to the ground, physically I have to say I don't know how Dorsey coached Allen as a QB coach and how Joe Brady is handling it, because Allen's technique is often all wrong and yet the result is All Right! Kurt Wagner used to drive me nuts nitpicking Josh's technique but he's given up at this point and just throws in an occasional "Kids, don't try this on your home field" to point out that you have to be in a "room of your own" to complete some of those.

I think Beasley is sincere in not wanting to play for a NYS team, even one that plays in New Joisey. I also think he was sincere in wanting to play for a team with a chance to compete for a championship. But he just found out that the latter doesn't want him.

The little details are definitely a huge part of it. I made a listing of all 14 RB runs from the Ravens game. I consider 3.3 Y/A to be a successful run play (moves the chains!) so if we look a 3 yd or greater run as a success (averaging to 3.3) we have 5 unsuccessful run plays, and 9 successful. If we could just switch a couple of the unsuccessful run plays to the "success" column and get a few extra yards here and there, it would surely help.

Yes, the messed-up snap from Morse in the Ravens game was scored as a fumble. I think you're right there are 2 from Van Roten.

I don't know. The Giants need that crafty vet, always-open outlet for Jones, and having a player coach his QB what to look at is better in some ways than having a coach say the same stuff. So it actually seems plausible to me. People on both sides of the issue like to craft some great political docudrama about Beasley's release, but IMHO it was at its heart, a pay for production issue. The Bills have moved on from totally apolitical inoffensive guys like John Brown who were productive the previous year because their pay vs. production no longer made sense for the team. I believe their decision on Beasley had the same basis, based not just on what we see on the field but also on details of the GPS tracking during games and practice, their visits to the training room, the amount of pain medication they require to play etc etc Point is the Giants are in a different place than the Bills, and having that player educator/always open outlet for Jones could be valuable for them even if they know he's lost a step.

I don't think the Bills were "hoping a rookie produces at that level". If we want to talk numbers, like sheer number of catches - in 2021, Beasley had 5.1 R/G for 43.3 Y/G and 2.1 1st D/G. In 2020, 5.5 R/G, 64.5 Y/G, 3.5 1st/G The Bills idea has clearly been to replace Beas with a platoon of McKenzie (the speedy man-beater) and Crowder (the zone gap technician). So far, they have 5.3 R/G, 53.3 Y/G, and 3.2 1st/G which is squarely in the territory of Beasley's production, and in fact better than he produced last year. Now of course, Crowder is hurt, but it's notable that he has the smaller share of the snaps and numbers (1.5 R/G, 15 Y/G and 1 1st/G), so it doesn't seem too unreasonable to expect a rookie to backfill that.

They signed him to the practice squad and he was elevated and reverted there after the GB game. I'm not sure whether he was signed or just elevated again, point is he came to the Bucs on the practice squad.

The best running back in the world needs an OL that is well-coached and filling their assignments, keeping defenders off of him There's a reason that year after year, NE was able to plug other team's discards, no-names and late round picks in and have a servicable run game - behind the meticulously coached machine that was the NE OL under Coach Scar If McDermott wants a real running game, since he can't get Coach Scar, tell him to get an actual starting quality NFL OL Josh would also run less if he weren't constantly having to evade defenders

He edited his post to indicate "First round" of the draft.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that @Bleeding Bills Blue meant to imply that Hodgins doesn't know the Bills playbook. I think that he meant, every team has a Hodgins-like player stashed on their PS, who are of more interest to their respective team because they know their respective team's playbooks.

Goodness. https://clutchpoints.com/kenny-pickett-4-bold-predictions-for-steelers-rookie-qb-after-replacing-mitchell-trubisky/

Good stuff @EmotionallyUnstable I think this play may be the play that was talked about in another thread, referencing the John Fina podcast where he points out that in fact, Saffold is supposed to chip or help out there because otherwise Dawkins can't get that angle. The point being either there's lack of communication or these guys just don't have their protection rules down yet. Maybe the run game is sucking "hind tit" in practice and they don't put enough work into it, IDK. Since McD made a deal out of wanting more run game, I listed our all our non-Josh run plays from the Ravens game: 1st half Singletary: 1 ,3, 4, 4 Moss: 5, 0 2nd half Singletary: 18, 9, -4 ,3, 4, -1, 8 Moss: 1 By this logic, the Ravens had a very successful 9:29 minute, 93 yd drive in the 4Q on Sunday. Guess we weren't shutting them down at all... Oh Wait, they didn't get points out of it. We did.

That's a very good point. And Josh had to be hella tired as well - he was the team's leading rusher

Well Durrrr show me a dude (or a gal) who makes podcasts who doesn't like hearing himself talk. And sure, the Bills had multiple chances to win the game, the bad pass to McKenzie being one of them. I thought he had some good points about the impact of the way the Dolphins defended the Bills in the 2nd half: starting out in other looks, and dropping INTO a 2 deep cover-2 or cover-2 like shell. He points out that the Bills only managed 3 points from that point on, that Josh had an unusual (for him) low completion percentage and an unusual (for him) number of interceptable balls - and these are genuine "hit the DB in the hand" type balls. I personally think (or maybe I hope) that he entirely misses the fact that Josh's starting center was out, he was on his 3rd string center by the end of the game, the R side of the line was backups, and the whole team was being baked into muscle cramps by "Hard Rock Oven". Having just a second or a fraction of a second less to throw is the difference between completion or danger for a QB who trusts himself and his arm to throw into tight windows. But, if he's right, it's something that other teams are going to try, so we'd better have an answer.

Corrected emphasis John Brown was also very good for the Bills for 2 years. I was kind of surprised when the Bills let him go, and thought it was a mistake - and then, he was picked up by 4 different teams and couldn't stay with a one. Sure, if Beasley was the same guy he was in 2019 and 2020, Crowder and McKenzie and Shakir are a downgrade. But he wasn't the same guy in 2021, and he wasn't going to be in 2022. I think Beasley probably did have some offers he turned down, for example from the Giants.