Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Well McCoy hasn't been doing anything so far in the game to make them not consider cutting/trading him. May actually come down to how Yeldon plays. Go with Gore, Yeldon and the rookie.

I do think there will be 9 DL unless they decide to cut Love or Harrison the DT. Doubt they can go light on the O-line either with Morse still being out. Can see them adding one more RB too in Perry for ST play. Or they shock everyone and cut DeMarco (which would make many here happy) Adding the DL and RB with your numbers would get them to 53.

If you read through all the postings here, you'll find one in favor of keeping 7 LB's, another for 9 Def lineman, another for 6 to 7 WR, another recommending 10 O-lineman, one for 5 TE, and another for 5 RB Some posters won't be very happy next week!

But he has to make another teams 53, and for the same reasons he won't make our 53, likely would apply to other teams too with the exception of some other team that's hit by many injuries in back field.

Glad to see someone bring up Wade in a new thread!

Victor Cruz was on the radio yesterday commenting how he wanted to play as much in the pre-seaosn as he could. His philosophy was if he's playing he gets exposure so if the Giants were to cut him, other teams would see he's still good and sign him. Wonder how many other players would feel the same? Can see where this entire pre-season process is becoming a complete farce with no one playing and likely will change with the next CBA, but the other side is players on the fringe are helped by playing these games and also helps the coaches decide whom to keep. Also helps teams with new coaching staffs and/or large turnover. My proposal would be: Report to camp 4 to 5 days later than today and the first 10 days or so of camp are similar to today regardless if it's in home training facility or go away to place like SJF The weekend of first pre-season games replace that with mandatory 2 to 3 day scrimmage with another team. Scrimmages may be somewhat limited in the amount of hitting certain types of plays can be run. Weeks 2 and 3 still have pre-season games as normal Week 4 replace last game with another scrimmage but teams are only allowed to dress maybe around 45 players wearing a red jersey. Basically its to figure out who the last 5 players or so you cut/keep are. Cut downs after that.

Could be there's a couple of names Beane is pretty confident will become available next week once the rosters are cut down and he's waiting on them.

So what happens when you split? Looking at the list I counted at least 18 teams that doubt the Bills would beat home and away, more likely could see a split. Who then is better? Next you need to look at top to bottom talent and think there are more than 5 with better overall talent or a wild card like an Aaron Rogers or Brady that maybe Bills overall have more talent, but the wild card evens things out. so overall I'd say maybe around 10 are clearly better and then the Bills are somewhere in the mix of the next ten. By around December we'll know if they are near the top of that group, and maybe even leap frogging some currency in the top 10, but some of the others in that middle 10 could also improve even more.

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There was a difference then too in that yes they'd fire the coaching staff, but still had the same GM or a protege of him so the roster stayed more constant, therefore improvement was expected. From the GM's eyes, the players I drafted are great, must be the coach sucks. This time everything turned over so not the quick turn around expectations there either.

I'll be surprised if Munnerlyn IS cut IMO. EJ Gianes likely was on the team if not got hurt. I think the Captain is slotted in as his replacement. The only thing that gets him cut is not being in good enough football shape, but even then may be told work on getting stronger, if we have any secondary injuries, we'll be on the phone to you again.

Read that too. I really doubt he makes any teams 53 unless very short due to injuries, so he can sign with any team to their practice squad. Unless he feels the Bills shafted him, would probably be in his best interest to sign with Buffalo as with the extra spot/exemption, it's highly unlikely Buffalo would cut him. So he's pretty much guaranteed a paycheck and more important a spot all season here. Likely he makes our PS.

Yeah maybe he leads Dallas to a SB win in Elliott's place!! LOL

That' where I am too. 2 weeks ago completely agreed too with what mags stated, now not so sure. There's an entire thread on it, but that still leaves some question. Buffalo rumblings agrees with mrags. We shall see soon as doubt any team would sign him to their 53 unless decimated by injuries.

Not what I read!

Hard feeling or not, it's still up to Wade to decide to take an offer for another teams PS over Buffalo, unless the hard feelings are with Wade himself. Then agree, if he truely thinks he deserves to be on the Bills active 53 and they don't make that move, then likely he will go sign with another team eve nfor their PS. But just don't sense that from what he's said publicly, admittedly talk is cheap. I thought that can happen, he can sign with any team for their PS, just once he signs to someones PS another team can't come in and take him even for their active 53. He's is then locked in on that teams PS for the entire season.

You're assuming another team will claim him for their active 53?? The questions you yourself ask likely would also scare other teams away too from active 53. Would other team like him o n their PS, sure, but why would be sign for another teams PS and not Buffalo? Often guys will sign with another team because they feel they were shafted, don't sense that about him if he were to be cut.

Great idea, then we can have 6 TE's competing for 3 spots. I'd be fine for trading either of them, I'd even throw in other names of Yeldon, Lawson or Love, Croom, any of about 4 backup WR even Foster, and one of the lower level guys in the secondary. But I'd be looking for a backup swing tackle. That's a total of about 10 guys I listed competing for around 4 slots so would see if you can get anything rather than cutting the majority of them. Maybe you could get a low 6th or 7th rounder for them. Johnson a 7th rounder is looking damm good right now so better than nothing. And why would a team give up a guy you know is going to be cut, you get exclusive rights to him.

I don't recall hearing much about him back in the 1985 to 1995 era, was he covering the Bills then, was he negative then? Not really certain there were even newspapers and reporters in the BI era. (before internet) And if you go back another 10 years to the before cable era, was there even electricity back then?

And this thread isn't even about the backup, this is about the backup to the backup. We signed the wrong guy, what was Beane thinking. Fire him! Maybe if Allen or Barkley were to get hurt on Friday, two days before the next game, Jackson might get promoted to the 53 for that one week. But the following Monday they'll very likely be looking for someone with experience. Derek Anderson will be on speed dial.

Cause he went to UB, it's like seeing your best friend get fired at work, "Gee maybe we can just work things out"

Maybe by the 2025 draft we can get a 2nd rounder for him!

Probably because you want someone back there who's been doing it for years. It has to be very nerve racking when you can feel players barreling down on you, but you can't even for a second take your eyes off that ball coming towards you. And even if no one near you, one muff can turn an entire game around. He couldn't even cleanly take a hand off. So no thanks! Leave it to those with experience at this sort of thing.

Don't believe that's true initially. After every team make the cuts to 53, at that point every player in the league is eligible to sign to anyone's practice squad that teams and players wish. Once you sign a contract to go onto said teams practice squad, then if another team signs a player off PS, they must put him on the 53. That's why teams somewhat take their time assigning players as they first want to comb thru other teams trash.