Shaq Lawson on the way (now reportedly signed to practice squad)

[Walking Tall]

WGR just said it’s official. Practice squad.

[Blank Stare]

Just now, Walking Tall said:

WGR just said it’s official. Practice squad.

Indeed. 
 

 

[BuffaloRebound]

Just make it stop.  How can this regime not find promising young players to fill these roles? 

[Roundybout]

Beane’s pro scouting binder is three pages thick and covered in dust and cobwebs 

[Psautcsk]

Morgan Fox! If you can't get excited about this, what can you get excited about?

[CirclnWagons]

Here I was thinking we were in big trouble…….

[C.Biscuit97]

[NastyNateSoldiers]

On 11/23/2025 at 8:31 PM, Kelly to Allen said:

 

Because beane is not drafting well 

 

If TJ Sanders was playing like a Jalen Carter this wouldn't be an issue . ( THEY TRADED UP FOR HIM)

 

The roster is in bigger trouble than I realized after really focusing on other teams today. 

 

Nobody wants to hear this but we might need to actually trade down a few times to get like 10-12 picks this off-season and basically retool the roster. Then hopefully have two deep draft classes to them go on a more serious run in 2027....

 

Don't get me wrong Josh Allen can take us pretty far and if he gets hot he is capable of taking us to the super bowl but I'm just trying to be realistic. 

 

I think this roster needs a lot more work than all of us are willing to admit. I'll be the first one to say I was probably wrong on a few players 

 

 

They need to cut the fat as well contracts like Knox, Samuel, Rapp, Palmer, Milano & Taron have to be thrown in the trash. There's others to but those would be too much of a cap hit to even mention. This team is in trouble McBeane have ruined this teams chances at a Superbowl they can go to the trash bin as well. 

Edited Tuesday at 02:43 PM by NastyNateSoldiers

[uticaclub]

Since we've exhausted Beane-drafted and signed players, we're now signing players Rex drafted because they went to Clemson. I’ve enjoyed the McDermott journey, but if Rexy had Josh instead of Tyrod, he would have achieved the same success as Sean.

[Urban Achievers]

What do Bills scouts get paid for? Do they keep coming back to meetings saying “nope, we looked all over and didn’t see anything good, but just wait until the draft — we’ve cherry picked the very best underwhelming set of dlinemen. Just go with our old players til then. Can we go home now?”
 

I mean this is something well beyond a bad cliche at this point. How can Beane as a grown man look himself in the mirror and not see this as utterly ridiculous?  

Edited Tuesday at 03:05 PM by Urban Achievers

[2003Contenders]

The one thing I will say is that Lawson used to excel at setting the edge and remaining disciplined in run support (something Bosa has been horrible at accomplishing). If nothing else, even if he isn't active on game-day, maybe Lawson can help coach up the other d-linemen?

[Low Positive]

Here are the current EDGE street FAs. For those losing their minds over this, who else did you want?

 

Shaquil Barrett

Yannick Ngakoue

Jerry Hughes

Casey Toohill

James Smith-Williams

Tyus Bowser

Oshane Ximines

Khalid Duke

Demone Harris

Carlos Basham

Tanoh Kpassagnon

[Billsatlastin2018]

On 11/23/2025 at 8:31 PM, Kelly to Allen said:

 

Because beane is not drafting well 

 

If TJ Sanders was playing like a Jalen Carter this wouldn't be an issue . ( THEY TRADED UP FOR HIM)

 

The roster is in bigger trouble than I realized after really focusing on other teams today. 

 

Nobody wants to hear this but we might need to actually trade down a few times to get like 10-12 picks this off-season and basically retool the roster. Then hopefully have two deep draft classes to them go on a more serious run in 2027....

 

Don't get me wrong Josh Allen can take us pretty far and if he gets hot he is capable of taking us to the super bowl but I'm just trying to be realistic. 

 

I think this roster needs a lot more work than all of us are willing to admit. I'll be the first one to say I was probably wrong on a few players 

 

 

100% correct.

 

i don’t even want to look at the roster to review all the Beane total whiffs we need replacing. With some obvious and very few exceptions, Beane has failed- terribly!

 

This is why, he grasps at aged, replacement spare parts and used trinkets!

 

What a disaster! 

[Warriorspikes51]

14 minutes ago, Urban Achievers said:

What do Bills scouts get paid for? Do they keep coming back to meetings saying “nope, we looked all over and didn’t see anything good, but just wait until the draft — we’ve cherry picked the very best underwhelming set of dlinemen. Just go with our old players til then. Can we go home now?”
 

I mean this is something well beyond a bad cliche at this point. How can Beane as a grown man look himself in the mirror and not see this as utterly ridiculous?  

signing a familiar player to the practice squad is not worth this kind of scrutiny 

[T.E.]

Look at the bright side, guys. 

 

If your first-round draft pick is still on the team 10 years later, that probably means that he is one of your best players in franchise history!

[Avisan]

46 minutes ago, BuffaloRebound said:

Just make it stop.  How can this regime not find promising young players to fill these roles? 

Because promising young players are already on active rosters by the time week 13 of the regular season rolls around.

[Urban Achievers]

2 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

Here are the current EDGE street FAs. For those losing their minds over this, who else did you want?

 

Shaquil Barrett

Yannick Ngakoue

Jerry Hughes

Casey Toohill

James Smith-Williams

Tyus Bowser

Oshane Ximines

Khalid Duke

Demone Harris

Carlos Basham

Tanoh Kpassagnon

I might be in the minority, but I’d rather at least hear that we got a young player with possible potential from another team’s practice squad. Out of 31 other teams is there not one single edge that might be a better option?  
 

And why and how are DTs Tim settle and Ford doing so well elsewhere?  It’s just so frustrating to see our former players on both sides of the ball thriving on other teams. 

5 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

signing a familiar player to the practice squad is not worth this kind of scrutiny 

Normally I’d agree. But with the Bills these moves start on practice squad (same “it’s just the practice squad” jargon) but it’s almost a lock they are elevated soon enough. 
 

Go Bills!

[BuffaloRebound]

1 minute ago, Avisan said:

Because promising young players are already on active rosters by the time week 13 of the regular season rolls around.

Obviously.  The fact that it always comes to this is the problem.  The inability to find and develop younger players to fill these roles is the failure.  

[Avisan]

1 minute ago, Urban Achievers said:

I might be in the minority, but I’d rather at least hear that we got a young player with possible potential from another team’s practice squad. Out of 31 other teams is there not one single edge that might be a better option?  

To do that, you need to sign those players to your active roster without them having a down in your system. Lawson comes in on a Practice Squad spot.  Big difference.

Just now, BuffaloRebound said:

Obviously.  The fact that it always comes to this is the problem.  The inability to find and develop younger players to fill these roles is the failure.  

It's literally just injuries, in this case.  We're low on bodies.  This is the regular-season equivalent of bringing in players during training camp/preseason to just take reps, except unfortunately the games count.

[BuffaloBaumer]

Yeah...it's over for this year. The drafting has been so bad that it's laughable.