Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

So explain to me what players can get added to practice squad? As I understand it only players with I believe it less than 4 years are PS eligible. Players with more than 4 years exp who are released become UFA Therefore anyone with less than 4 years would go through waivers But if a player who went through waivers has to be added to active squad, then how would anyone ever end up on PS (as must have less than 4 years for PS)?? Either I'm missing something or the statement below can't be true as with what I wrote above there's no path to PS??

This isn't HS. Yeah he went to Clemson, Rex may watch their games a little closer than other schools, but if he doesn't have the talent, he's not on the team. It happens often with coaches giving other coaches jobs becasue they went ot their alum or are buddy with the coach at another school, but how many adults give any type of job other than maybe washing their car to their sons friend.

The comments made in the past year by think it was Henderson and also EJ makes it sound like the coaching staff of the Marrone era was about D-2 college level. Or may have been the coaches were fine, but Marrone's interference in giving different instructions than the positional coaches was the issue. Probably wouldn't be a bad move to bring Richardson back to the PS assuming he doesn't first sign elsewhere as at least he does know the system. But would still like to see them sign on actual experienced preferably inside guy for the active roster

O-line is the one positions where starters will play the entire game so agree depth isn't as big of a concern barring injury. But going as light as 7 or 8 is a bit of as risk for dealing with in-game injuries. Can one of our five TE's play line to finish up a game?? Do we send the injured OL player to the locker room and have them switch jerseys with a PS play and send him back out there to finish the game, a sudden injury healing. (You have to wonder if that's ever been tried, may have been an Al Davis trick) Plus PS players can't have more than what is it 4 years experience, so not exactly getting strong depth there. I agree that it's a good way to develop a young guy say like a Battle who may be a year away from being able to make the roster, but if all of a sudden you have two lineman get injured week one, you're in trouble the next week having to activate one off the PS. I'd like and kind of expect with their still open slot to see them sign a somewhat experienced interior lineman.

A friend of mine was doing a similar thing a few years back, not with a Slingbox, but something else that I had never heard of. Not sure of the working, but apparently, he could remotely change the channel so just to mess with his father form time to time, he'd call him up while the game is going on, they'd start talking about the game, and then he'd change the channel on him just to listen to his reaction over the phone. Worked a couple of times, then he caught on.

Kind of funny as the one thing almost everyone on this site agreed on is that we'd never carry 5 TE and 7 WR.

Or the opposite, the professionals like a Wawrow see the professional side of him as maybe he does write very insightful and stimulating articles. But he has a very petty side to him and doesn't take criticism well and personality wise just isn't suited for the social media age. Maybe a guy like him would be best to write his articles and completely stay off all social media

So I can fill you in on that on as I officiate HS volleyball. Generally they may talk about their nails, a text one of them got, who's going out with who, where the party will be this coming weekend, etc. And there's always one clueless coach in every league who will yell at one of the girls for hitting the ball out of bounds, "don't keep doing that" they say. Like the girl was aiming for the out of bounds! I bring that last point up only because of some comments from some of the Bills' players in the past few months, particularly O-lineman and EJ, it kind of sounded like the level of coaching they were getting under the Marrone era wasn't much better than that. I can see Goodwin either getting cut today to get down to the 53/54 or wouldn't shock me to see the team IR him. IMO He's not good enough this early in the season to put him on the IR designated to return list, not for a maybe #4 or 5 WR, so if the Bills do really see him as an asset as some people think, they may IR him, or they decide he is to brittle and cut him.

I'll pick last three cuts are O'Leary, Carrington, and Goodwin to IR wouldn't be surprised to see Bills pick up OL and cut Urbik, maybe even a 2nd OL and cut another WR

Yuo're also assuming you're going to be playing four backups at once. Barring injury OL don't come off the field. May not look too bad with one or eve ntwo backups forced to play. Plus likely can find some improvment from other teams cuts.

I suppose you could cut Gay, sign another kicker, maybe not a great kicker as not likely to find one at this point. Let him kickoff and field goals for a couple weeks, Keep Carp on the roster and give him a couple of weeks to rest up and heal the leg, then see what he can do in practice. Might just be the leg hasn't healed yet and he needs time. I'd hate to see him become the next Gary Anderson

From what we saw last year, the reliable part of Fred Jackson is thta he just isn't very good any longer, that's the thing you can kind of count on.

Technically Saturday is "Offical Turk Day", but like many holidays in this country we make into two and three day events. I agree backup lineman have looked shaky, but you're looking at three or four out there at the same time. Lineman rarely come out of the game except for injury, so if lucky the backup lineman never play. If two lineman get hurt and you have a back up and say RT and LG, while it will hurt, not as bad as 4 subs in there at once like in pre-season. Plus can probably find some serviceable backups from other teams cuts too.

Offsides on 4 and 3, Bills stopped him but automatic 1st down due to penalty

Interesting comment announcers made, last game Trrod Taylor started was in the Orange Bowl against Andrew Luck for Stanford. Next week his next start against Andrew Luck of Indy

That was my thought exactly!!

This is cool, I have Roku too. Pretty good quality.

Can't watch it on computer, this sucks!! Hope it's not that way during the regular season. Most games I watch directly on TV, but once in awhile will watch on laptop if traveling

Nbc does it all the time with the Sunday night game. admittedly the entire country is receiving it. It will probably be one of those weeks where 95% of the country is getting the same game anyway.

I did see him on the field for at least one play.

Well in that case; what time does the Bills game start? Hmmm I didn't get the email! (as is often stated)

I'd pick the RB coach. Lets face it the staff is all together on the same page until it comes time for cuts. At that point the RB coach wants the team to carry five RB, the OL coach wants ten lineman, WR, let's go with six or seven. So I'm sure the RB coach was not happy with cutting Fred, but over all the team likely viewed it as a numbers thing and RB was the odd man out today.

So let me get this straight, he doesn't save $5mil, he only saves $4.15 mil? do I have that straight??? OK!! Where I come from $4.15 mil is close enough to call it $5mil!! But hey yup you are correct!

Guess I'm trying to figure out why everyone seems ot think Rex wanted to keep Fred. Is it because of somthing Tim Graham stated as "fact"? The only thing I can figure is becasue early in training camp Rex called our Brown for fumbling too much, therefore we jump to conclusion, Rex doesn't like Brown, therefore Rex loves fred and would have rather cut Brown and kept Fred. That comment by Rex was also made before Brown had a very strong fumblre free game agaisnt think it was Cleveland. I highly doubt the move of dumping Fred was made without Rex also agreeing with it, infact likely advocating for it. Wouldn't shock me to see it came down to will Fred be happy not dressing most weeks as the #4 back, probably not, so lets move on. But Whaley is being professional about it and letting himself be the fall guy here even if he had nothing to do with it. Normally this was the role Brandon took from the fans, guess we've moved on now. Maybe it was his idea, maybe not but this idea that Whaley got mad at Rex for naming Tailor the started so he then went and cut Freddy is nothing but laughable.

Last few seasons don't matter, this year is what matters. McCoy, Williams for certain. Factoring in ST would put Dixon ahead of him too. And honestly, if Brown gets over the fumbling thing, I'd put him ahead to, but may not matter as Brown likely won't dress unless someone else gets hurt which would have been the same position for Freddy, not dressing for the game.