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I saw this today and laughed. While Bills fans still can't get over us giving the Chiefs Worthy - the Chiefs are just as disappointed in Worthy as we are in Coleman.

1.) With the return to practice of T.J. Sanders and the return from injury of Daquan Jones, in conjunction with Larry Ogunjobi coming off of suspension, and having Deone Walker (without even getting into the development of former 2nd Round Pick Phidarian Mathis or Jordan Phillips, both also on the 53) - DT is no longer an issue for us. When we were down Oliver, Jones, and Sanders is when we would have made that kind of move. We're good there now. DT isn't what's hurting us. Where we need help is Defensive End, after the season ending injuries to Michael Hoecht and Landon Jackson and the release of Kingsley Jonathan from the Practice Squad. 2.) Christian Wilkins is a mental case. On top of what we heard of him creating issues in the locker room (of which what we heard probably only scratched the surface), he also told his team to go F itself during injury rehabilitation - choosing to do whatever he wanted over team doctors orders. He was such a problem in the friggin' RAIDERS locker room, that they decided eating upwards of FIFTY million in Dead Cap was better than having him in the building. The league is filled with teams that either are lacking talent at DT or in dire need bc of injuries. And not a *single* team in the entire NFL has so much as brought him in for a visit. That speaks enormous volumes. He's persona non grata in the league.

It is possible that they don't activate him this week and temporarily we sign someone else from the PS. But whether it was Hairston, Hoecht, or Ogunjobi - we've saved open roster spots for guys that are obviously coming back and given them the spots immediately. If they feel he's ready to practice, i'd assume they feel ready to put them on the roster. But you're right, it's not a guarantee.

They have to do something at DE. While we have the 4 active that we had all season before Hoecht returned in Bosa, Groot, AJE, and Solomon - a single injury would currently have us playing Daquan Jones at End or activating Andre Jones.

I'm assuming this occurred yesterday, as Hardman was announced as signed yesterday. Obviously, he was the choice at WR between him Virgil and Holiday. DE Morgan Fox is interesting. 9 year vet with 27.5 sacks throughout his career. Probably wouldn't be my first choice for DE depth, but Joe Marino is high on him.

I tend to agree with you on this. One thing I forgot and (have since updated the post with) is that open roster spot will probably go to T.J. Sanders returning from IR. But again, we still would have only needed to release 1 from the PS to fit Hardman on.

Last time they put someone on IR, they released 2 (Ciarlo, Wilkerson) from the PS to sign 2 (Jonathan, Couch), signed 1 from the PS to the 53 (Mathis) and brought one back the next day (Wilkerson) This time around we've again moved 1 to IR (Jackson), again released 2 (Jonathan, Wilkerson) from the PS but only signed 1 (Hardman). So someone from the PS will be brought up to the 53 tomorrow (who knows who?). Which will give us two open spots (losses of Wilkerson, Jonathan, and whomever goes to the 53, gain of Hardman). I assume someone else is going to be signed to the Practice Squad and (at least) one of those two releases won't be coming back. Because to fit Hardman on before the elevation tomorrow (as you have to move Jackson to IR officially before you can bring someone up), we'd have only needed to temporarily release 1 player and bring them back tomorrow. EDIT: Forgot about T.J. Sanders. Likely that open roster spot on the 53 will go to him. But again, to just fit Hardman on, all they'd have had to do is release one player from the PS.

The Bills have yet to officially announce it. That will probably happen tomorrow.

You know he signed to the Practice Squad, right? Not to say that he can't or won't play this week. But if they felt he were the kind of player that would go from the couch to starting for us over guys we've had starting all year, in under a week - I feel like he'd have been signed to the active roster. Especially when you consider we're completely healthy at WR now, are the walking wounded at other positions, and only have 2 PS elevations.

I wonder what number he's going to wear for us? Something tells me the numbers he wore in Kansas City, 17 and 12, won't be available 🤣

With the return of Jones this Sunday and Sanders returning to practice this week, we'll soon have 4/5 of our optimal DT room with Deone Walker, Daquan Jones, T.J. Sanders, and Larry Ogunjobi. Obviously, we're still missing our biggest piece in Ed Oliver. But a much better spot than we were at coming out of the Bye down Oliver, Jones, and Sanders.

The two of them replacing two of the guys at the bottom of the 5 we have active on Game Day will help. But I wouldn't expect a "massive upgrade" on the Passing offense. Especially since they'll be coming in and Kincaid is coming out.

Again, what was reported was that the Dolphins and the Jets refused to help us by giving us players. That we were the high bidder with a 2027 1st. But that they wanted a 2026 1st from someone if they were going to move him. What HASN'T been reported is that they told us they *would* trade him to us if we gave them a 2026 1st and that Beane decided to turn that down. If that's the case, the original report that they wouldn't trade him to us bc we were within the division doesn't make sense. If that were the case then they *were* willing to help us and we just turned them down. What I believe happened is that we made the offer we did, were immediately turned down for being us and that there was no counter offer. If it were what everyone is assuming it is and murdering Beane for, then the story wouldn't be the Dolphins and Jets refused to trade with us bc they didn't want to help us. The story would be that the Dolphins would have traded Waddle to the Bills but the Bills said no.

Would you rather we do nothing at all? I can get being upset that we couldn't get anything done with the Trade Deadline. And I can definitely understand being upset with what he's done overall to get Josh help. But the Deadline has passed. What's done is done. All we can do is bring in who's out there. And Hardman is about the best we can do. Again, it's something like this or doing nothing at all. I can't understand being annoyed by trying whatever we can at this point.

3 things: - Amari Cooper - Mack Hollins - Not this version of Keon Coleman You might laugh and say "Amari Cooper barely brought us anything and was only on the field like a third of the time". But he was on the field for obvious passing downs. And what he did was draw the top coverage his way and away from guys who couldn't handle it - opening them up. Which is in part what made Coleman a better version than this year. A large part of bringing in Cooper in to me was to get Coleman away from teams top coverage. This is part of the problem with him this year. He's generally matched up against the best Corner a team has. Which completely neutralizes him. On top of that, there was less film on him. I think the league has the complete book on him now. This is why you see a lot of players get a "sophomore slump". They've got a year of film to analyze who they are and how to neutralize them. And on top of *that*, I think his attitude is worse than last season. He doesn't seem to put in the effort or be as locked in as last season. I don't know if he's discouraged by his poor play, what people are saying about him, his relationships in the building - I don't know. But his mental isn't good like it was last season. It might be in part not having Mack Hollins with him. I think Mack was a good leader for that room. Bringing enthusiasm and spirit that uplifted guys and is lacking from our room this year. And while I think he was limited and agreed that we should try and upgrade from him from a talent standpoint - he was getting open better than most of the core we have now. Hindsight is 50/50. Last season we were in better shape than we are now bc of those things. But last season, we still didn't have enough to take us to the next level. There were times like those games you mentioned when things worked perfectly. But in the Playoffs, we rode on the back of James Cook and when we needed a strong passing game to get past the Chiefs - it wasn't enough. This season, we're even worse. We're nowhere.