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10 minutes ago, Buffalo Bills Fan said:
Wondering how they'll keep Blackshear. Cannot make him practice squad, he's pretty good.
Yeah, you can. He's an Undrafted Free Agent playing well against other Undrafted and Practice Squad players. You see guys like that across the league in Pre-Season.
Highly doubt he's going to get signed to someone's 53 man roster. If he does, good for him. But we only keep 3 RB's on the 53 (plus a Fullback and Taiwan Jones who is core Special Teams and a RB in name only).
Regardless of how he's looked - you're not keeping him over Devin Singletary, James Cook, or Zack Moss. He'll replace Antonio Williams on the Practice Squad.
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They were in instant replay going over the previous play when the Punter hit the field and I thought "if Araiza comes out, the crowd is going to cheer. If Haack comes out, I'll hear boos".
Soon as I heard the boos, I knew what was up. I don't get it. He's a veteran. You don't need to show him off for the rest of the league. They know what they're getting with him if he's out there.
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All the Case Keenum over reactors ready to get off the ledge now?
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Araiza continuing to exclusively hold throughout the Preseason wraps up the Punter competition in my eyes, if it was even a question at this point.
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Okay, that's all we need to see from Josh and the 1's on offense. Sit em down now.
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2 hours ago, Warcodered said:
It is clever though with all the talk of 2 TE sets we're supposedly going to start using, but then again seems like that might not be working out anyway.
Considering the contract for Howard was for 3.5 million with 3.2 million guaranteed and regardless of how Sweeney has looked in Training Camp, we know what he's shown in regular season games for years - I'd be hard pressed to give up on Howard before we see how he performs in the regular season.
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1 minute ago, Don Otreply said:
In this case you are wrong, in other cases you my be correct.
Lol how? They deemed him no greater than the 8th best WR and straight out cut him. How is that even a debate?
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1 hour ago, Don Otreply said:
Players get put on teams PSs because the see them as viable prospects and worth developing, you don’t have to believe that but you would be wrong to do so,
You're missing the point. The point isn't that Practice Squad players are worthless and not worth trying to develop. The point is - that if he was as valuable to them as many make him out to be - he wouldn't have been cut from a roster that included 7 WR's making the 53. They wouldn't have risked losing him. They were okay with that happening. That doesn't scream patience and investment.
11 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:Yes, he is JAG as a special teams player. So what if he made the squad. Doesnt mean he isn't Jag. There are Jags all over the league. So what if they gave him a 1.2m dollar deal with 76k guaranteed. Those are the types of contracts teams make when they dont give a crap and can easily walk away from.
You say JAG. McDermott and Beane say Special Teams core player who not only made the squad last season for his play there, but was deemed worthy enough to be given a new contract before the start of Free Agency. And I'll give you one guess who's opinion actually matters.
If they shared your opinion that he was so replaceable and anyone could do it, they'd have just let him walk and spent the money on someone else for the role.
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25 minutes ago, Don Otreply said:
I just watched a “ locked on Bills” episode, Joe Marino broke down who over the last couple of years was picked up from our team in the waiver process and signed to another teams 53, before going to our PS, it’s wasn’t very many, and once to the PS the player has to agree to play for another team, they cannot just take a player, also consider they can pay a PS guy as much as they want to, to keep
them around. Also consider 31 other teams have guys they want to keep as well, that the put through waivers…,
No NFL player is going to say no to an active roster spot to stay on a Practice Squad. No NFL Team is going to subject a player to waivers that they heavily value. You keep the guys you want on your roster. You cut the ones you can afford to go without. Isaiah Hodgins was the latter last season.
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45 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:
So you think if you put someone on your practice squad you are giving up on him?
Considering that you a.) Have to release the player and subject them to waivers and then b.) Are placing them in a position to be signed to anyone's active roster at any given time - I wouldn't exactly call that being heavily invested in someone or being patient with a player.
Patient to me would be protecting them by giving them a spot on the 53. They flat out cut him.
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16 hours ago, Behindenemylines said:
I’m not saying I want this or anything but if we were to grab OBJ, how in the heck would we need to change the projected roster to fit him in?
we are pretty loaded and seeing promise among our group of rookies. Even with Crowder having a bit of a slump in game 1 I project him on the 53.
I don’t see room for OBJ without blowing up something. What am I missing? Looking to better minds than mine on this, because I do believe it’s very interesting for the SB push later in the season.
Let's think here - last season we carried 7 WR's on the roster. We usually keep 6 and the extra spot was for Kumerow's ST's.
Even if we were to try to squeeze in OBJ as part of 6 man squad and you want to keep Crowder - Diggs, Davis, McKenzie, Shakir, and Crowder make up only 5.
Surely, you wouldn't pass on OBJ for Tavon Austin, Isiah Hodgins, or Marquez Stevenson, right? And you could even keep one of them on the roster until OBJ is ready in November.
I don't see it remotely blowing up anything.
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On 8/14/2022 at 7:18 AM, John from Riverside said:
We drafted him
we’ve been patient with him
We need to keep him
We've been patient with him? You are aware we released him last season after Training Camp and he was only here on the Practice Squad, meaning anyone could have claimed him at any time - right?
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16 minutes ago, Scott7975 said:
Yes I am because I believe that Kumero is JAG.
As a Special Teams player? Because he made the squad for that last season. He was the 7th WR on a roster that always kept 6 max for that reason. If they felt he was so replaceable there, the Bills would have just let him walk after last season. Instead, they gave him a new contract.
I get the feeling you're once again referring to his play as a WR and completely disregarding Special Teams. To your end of arguing for bottom of the roster WR's who won't be active on Game Day over core Special Teams players.
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12 hours ago, Scott7975 said:
If it were me I would keep Hodgins over Kumerow. Just because Kumerow played special teams doesn't mean he isn't replaceable on special teams.
Yes, but you are making the assumption that Hodgins is as good at Special Teams or there's another player on the team at another position that is.
This mentality is demeaning to our core Special Teams players. Comes across as "anyone can do it". And not just anyone can do it and do it well.
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To the fans/majority of the posters on this board? They're worthless. If you don't provide anything beyond Special Teams prowess - you're just wasting roster spots that could be used on another WR or RB that won't even be active on Game Day.
To Sean McDermott? An integral part of his teams. So much so that Taiwan Jones and Tyler Matakevitch were amongst the protected vets that were inactive yesterday. He's often gone on record to say that if you value what else ST'ers provide over what they provide on ST's, that you're going to short change your ST's and that's how you get burned.
I'll give you one guess who's opinion matters.
Side Note: I find it a weird dichotomy that posters are of the mind that anyone can play Special Teams and advocate for their being cut for bottom of the roster skill position players on a yearly basis while also worshipping Steve Tasker.
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Need to see him with the 2's to start the game before we say he "MUST" be kept. He looked good against the UDFA's of the Colts. But these are people who may or may not even make a Practice Squad somewhere.
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12 minutes ago, clayboy54 said:
Buh bye TDJesus.
Not gonna happen. He's like Taiwan Jones. He's technically listed as a WR, but he's really a core Special Teams player. He was our 7th "WR" on the roster last season when we normally keep 6 simply for ST. I'd expect the same this season. If he wasn't here, we'd probably just keep 6 WR's and carry an extra player at another spot for their ST's. Really has no factor on the WR decisions.
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4 minutes ago, NewEra said:
Keenum should join him. He sucks. I’d take Fitz every day of the week. You’d rather have Keenum or Barkley huh?
I think Keenum is a better QB than how he looked today. But that's not the point. The point is Fitz is turning 40 years old and retired coming off surgery for dislocating his hip. That's an insanely brutal injury for a 40 year old to come back from and surely led to his retirement.
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Just now, NewEra said:
I think cutting him and signing Fitz would give this team such a jolt of enthusiasm that we could go undefeated. 🤣
He's retired and for good reason.
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Just now, Rockinon said:
Keenum is going to play himself out of a job
For who? Matt Barkley?
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Case Keenum is a better QB than what he's been showing today. Frustrating to watch.
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Watching Araiza's hold back in slow motion, it appears he had to pick it up off the ground and he still got it set right for Bass. Him being the first to hold is probably a bigger deal than him not being the first out to punt.
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Meh. He would get destroyed on that first play against a real defense. Looks slow. Other videos show him not throwing on wide open WR's. He could develop into something, but right now I'm not watching these clips and thinking he's "going to be a problem".
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13 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:
All it will take is the slightest hiccup by McKittrick and OBJ will be signed.
McKenzie plays in the slot, OBJ plays on the outside. McKenzie has no barring on whether or not OBJ will be signed.
8 hours ago, Worstcaseontario said:Obj dosnt seem like a process/culture guy mcd would want.
He was fine in LA on a winning team with a quality QB. Looking at how Cleveland is/was being run, how Mayfield was playing, and how he reportedly was behind the scenes - I'd say he was justified in forcing his way out.
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Not gonna happen. Taiwan Jones was a protected from injury key veteran player last week and again today. Regardless of how anyone feels about him on this board, he's highly valued by McDermott.
Even if someone were to do that, we wouldn't carry another RB. His roster spot would just be added on to whatever position the replacing Special Teams player is listed as. You're not replacing a core Special Teamer with anything else but another core Special Teams player. People need to stop thinking of him as taking a RB spot.