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Yeah, I think he's a definitive upgrade from a number of the guys we have in the core. Which says how bad of a shape we're in with the WR room. But again, my hope was that he'd be coming in to a healthy pass catching room and providing more to it. Kincaid is far and away our top guy at getting open and making plays these days. Davis coming in and Kincaid coming out doesn't make us better in my eyes. Would love to be wrong though.

Agreed. I had hoped that the return of Palmer and Davis being injected into the Offense would provide a little something extra. But that was with Kincaid in the Offense. Them coming in but losing Kincaid long term is one step forward, one step back.

One thing I wouldn't rule out is a Practice Squad elevation of Te'Cory Couch. He's primarily a Nickel and I don't think it's a coincidence he was brought back into the fold last week.

Oh Dear God no... We've already done this before with this very video in the downright *hilarious* "Are McBeane secretly creating an elite offense?" thread. We had empirical evidence that the passing game was broken before and after this video came out. I don't know what games you've been watching, but the passing game absolutely is NOT better.

I tend to agree with this. Have seen many posts on this board and on social media calling for Coleman to be inactive. I just don't see that. I know that fans and to an extent the team are disappointed in him. But I don't see them taking him from the guy that has far and away the most snaps as an Outside WR on Offense all season to a healthy scratch. I also agree that you're not likely to see Hardman actived this quickly. I don't see both PS elevations given to just one position. And I see them viewing Gabe as providing more than Hardman would on just three practices. One thing I definitely don't see is them sticking Shakir back there to return Punts while banged up. If you have Codrington active, as you do, he'll be handling the Returns. He provides nothing as a DB so it doesn't make sense to have him active if he isn't doing Returns. I'd be pleased to be wrong, but I feel like if Hardman were someone they felt was that important to revitializing the passing game as you do and were going to put him on the field less than a week after signing him on three practices - they'd have put him on the 53. Especially when they had/have an open spot on the 53 at the time of signing Hardman and now as well. The open roster spot will go to T.J. Sanders. Even if he were to be inactive and the 53rd spot went to a WR temporarily, that would mean we would need to call up a Defensive Lineman with both Sanders and Mathis out. And we'll also need to call up a DB with both Taron and Cam out. I just don't see a realistic way we'll be calling up both Davis and Hardman. And I see them wanting Davis active over Hardman.

Unexpected Positive: Khalil Shakir puts in a Full Practice and is good to go. Unexpected Negative: Taron Johnson goes from Full Practice to Limited and has a setback with his injury, most likely leading to him being Out again.

Well the friction between McDermott and him makes sense now. Between that, him storming into the medical tent to push his QB on to the field, and now this - seems Daboll is a bit of a problem behind the scenes. I don't think you'll see him back here in any role.

I've said it a number of times on this board already, but everyone makes strength and conditioning the scapegoat. I think McDermott has them going too hard on each other in Practice. I remember the practice where Ed Oliver was initially injured, if you go back and watch the press conference he did after that practice (following the season opener) - he talked about the difficulty of going full pads and full go less than two days after a grueling game. It kind of raised my eyebrows, especially since he was injured in that practice. I'm just speculating as even the media doesn't see the full go practices. But we've had a number of strength & conditioning teams and it never changes the sheer amount of injuries we have every year, both on the field and in practice. We're either really unlucky or the only other constant is the coach and how he goes about the week.

Welp - it's on Mecole Hardman and Gabe Davis to help us this year. It is what it is. What's done and done. All we can do is look to next year for the WR Train. There will be hopes for Trades. But as far as Free Agents go - there's some good ones available (if they aren't Franchised) and the three i'd be looking at are: George Pickens Mike Evans Alec Pierce Unsurprisingly, expectations are that Alec Pierce will have a pretty big market:

Exactly my point. We should be thanking our lucky stars that he chose Morgan Fox and didn't go with Boogie Basham.

The Trade Deadline has passed. It's Week 11. We lost Hoecht and Jackson for the year. We need bodies. What do you think we're going to come up with off the street at this time of year?

Doubtful. Khalil Shakir has a rib issue and popped up on the Injury Report today. Likely he doesn't play as Ribs often mean a week off. I doubt Coleman goes from taking far and away the top reps on the team at WR to straight up inactive. At most, I'd imagine he's active but has his reps cut into. I think there's more of a chance that they try Coleman inside for Shakir than he'll be a healthy Scratch. I also think if anyone's activated from the PS at WR, it will be Davis before Hardman.

The font keeps getting thinner as the list grows longer. One of the frustrating things about all these Practice Squad moves with guys like Davis, Hardman, and Fox, who could all help - probably won't see elevations bc those two elevations are constantly needed to be used for the growing list of players who are Out on a week to week basis. I guess the good news is (thus far) we only have one DNP (outside of Kincaid who we all knew was down for a while) and it's not really an issue. But as we all know, Limited is a 50/50 proposition, at best. Hopefully we see most of this list move from Limited to Full as the week goes on.

We've got Prater who we're sticking with. If he starts becoming a problem, I'm sure Bass is healthy by now. Tucker isn't a consideration.

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. EDIT: DE Morgan Fox is the addition: