Greg Rousseau ankle sprain - week to week (Update: practice participant week of 11/27)

[Ethan in Cleveland]

Lawson should start. He has experience.  Epenesa is a lost cause at this point. Basham should be 3rd in the rotation and Epenesa last off the bench.

[Bermuda Triangle]

Is this the play on which Rousseau was injured?

 

 

[BillsFanSD]

  On 11/7/2022 at 8:08 PM, Ethan in Cleveland said:

Lawson should start. He has experience.  Epenesa is a lost cause at this point. Basham should be 3rd in the rotation and Epenesa last off the bench.

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Those are two 2nd round picks that I'd sure like to have back.

[Ethan in Cleveland]

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:46 PM, BillsFanSD said:

Those are two 2nd round picks that I'd sure like to have back.

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100% agree. I hated the Epenesa pick at the time. But people thought he was a low first round grade so some were excited he fell to second round.

Basham pick made no sense too. He is fat and slow. 

Those two picks should have been OL. Backup DL are a dime a dozen. 

[Beck Water]

  On 11/7/2022 at 4:26 PM, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

Usually whenever they say week to week instead of day to day it means not playing next week. 

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It's reported as a high ankle, and those seem to take 3 games.  I think what "week to week" means in this context is, they don't intend to put him on IR

[Big Turk]

The number of ankle sprains this team has had is just getting ridiculous

[LABILLBACKER]

  On 11/7/2022 at 4:46 PM, Process said:

The injuries are just non stop. 

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I just don't know how we can stay competitive with so many people down. Now JA may miss some games. As soon as we get a couple players back, 3 more go down.  This might be the worst injury season in a decade. 

[Brand J]

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:12 PM, Bermuda Triangle said:

Is this the play on which Rousseau was injured?

 

 

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That’s a BS play by #83 there diving at Rousseau’s legs. I thought that block was outlawed anyway? Seems the entire defense started their slide after his injury.

[NewEra]

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:49 PM, Ethan in Cleveland said:

100% agree. I hated the Epenesa pick at the time. But people thought he was a low first round grade so some were excited he fell to second round.

Basham pick made no sense too. He is fat and slow. 

Those two picks should have been OL. Backup DL are a dime a dozen. 

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I didn’t like either pick….but Basham isn’t fat and slow…

[Solomon Grundy]

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:12 PM, Bermuda Triangle said:

Is this the play on which Rousseau was injured?

 

 

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I hate those blocks!! Talk about potential career enders

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:49 PM, Ethan in Cleveland said:

100% agree. I hated the Epenesa pick at the time. But people thought he was a low first round grade so some were excited he fell to second round.

Basham pick made no sense too. He is fat and slow. 

Those two picks should have been OL. Backup DL are a dime a dozen. 

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With Epenesa, Bills should've traded up in front of Colts and got JT28. Basham should've be an OL

[frostbitmic]

  On 11/9/2022 at 2:18 PM, Big Turk said:

The number of ankle sprains this team has had is just getting ridiculous

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We have the weakest ankles in the league.

 

What players will be playing both ways against the Vikings ? ... Will Diggs be covering Jefferson ?

[LABILLBACKER]

  On 11/7/2022 at 8:08 PM, Ethan in Cleveland said:

Lawson should start. He has experience.  Epenesa is a lost cause at this point. Basham should be 3rd in the rotation and Epenesa last off the bench.

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I see no future for Epenesa or Basham on this team. They might give Boogie one final year to do something but AJ is gone.

[Simon]

  On 11/9/2022 at 5:25 PM, JayBaller10 said:

That’s a BS play by #83 there diving at Rousseau’s legs. I thought that block was outlawed anyway? Seems the entire defense started their slide after his injury.

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You can still cut people from the side at the LOS which pisses me off to no end. It's a chickenspit play that has no place in the game.

He's absolutely been the Bills most consistent DLineman this year; it's an enormous loss.

[TheBrownBear]

  On 11/9/2022 at 11:57 PM, LABILLBACKER said:

I see no future for Epenesa or Basham on this team. They might give Boogie one final year to do something but AJ is gone.

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These guys are just duds.  It's infuriating because we hear how they had great offseasons, they'll look good in camp and preseason, and then they'll flash for like 4-6 quarters early in the regular season before completely disappearing.

[Rc2catch]

I think you guys are too hard on boogie and Epenesa. It’s not easy to make an impact on 10-20 snaps a game. Especially in games you’re not dominating the line. 
Von is a great example but obviously a different level of player. He’s learning from his matchup each snap. Probing all game long on what’s working, their reactions to each of his moves, setting them up for that big play he’ll need to make later on. It will be interesting to see how these guys do with more play time while Rousseau heals up. I like Epenesa more than most, I think he’s shown flashes of good play. He seems to have a knack for batting balls down at the line. 

[Dablitzkrieg]

  On 11/10/2022 at 2:16 AM, Rc2catch said:

I think you guys are too hard on boogie and Epenesa. It’s not easy to make an impact on 10-20 snaps a game. Especially in games you’re not dominating the line. 
Von is a great example but obviously a different level of player. He’s learning from his matchup each snap. Probing all game long on what’s working, their reactions to each of his moves, setting them up for that big play he’ll need to make later on. It will be interesting to see how these guys do with more play time while Rousseau heals up. I like Epenesa more than most, I think he’s shown flashes of good play. He seems to have a knack for batting balls down at the line. 

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Epenesa carries the highest missed tackle % according to Joe Marino

[Rc2catch]

  On 11/10/2022 at 2:24 AM, Dablitzkrieg said:

Epenesa carries the highest missed tackle % according to Joe Marino

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Possibly. I don’t dive that far into anything or follow anyone enough to catch stats like that. 
I won’t pretend like I’m any kinda expert of defensive line play lol cause I’m certainly not. 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

This season is testing me. 

[BillnutinHouston]

  On 11/9/2022 at 1:49 PM, Ethan in Cleveland said:

Basham pick made no sense too. He is fat and slow. 

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I'd agree that he WAS fat.  He's reworked his body. 

[GreggTX]

And yet another injury. Rousseau was playing well too. I hope itwon't take too long.