45catfan

That's the reason it is STUPID to do all you cuts at once. I get holding judgement on the last few bubble players and maybe that last practice can be the difference maker. But dudes that have no chance in hell of making the roster, just tell them today and save them from having to come back only to be told they are fired as soon as they walk in the door. Yes, cuts day of, players are generally told as soon as they arrive.

The Bears and Browns have released some players. Nobody I would be interested in.

Yeah, but the practical side of me says with gas prices, driving into work only to get fired is insult to injury. Most of these guys cut will be working normal jobs here shortly. Tell me on the out the door when I'm going home anyway.

Doing some radio work.

Rippodonn was a HUUUUUUGE Strong supporter. Wait until he finds out....

It's hard for me to imagine they are still letting guys practice that they know will not be here in a matter of hours. Reporters should be looking for absences. Rhule: "Good practice today guy, now turn in your playbook. No, you can't shower before you clean out your locker."

I don't do social media, so I just keep refreshing this page to NFL dot com's transactions page for today.

The Bills may luck out, the Broncos just cut their punter for refusing to take a pay cut.

From the same article I linked earlier: "Just to clarify, one item which was made permanent with the NFL several years ago was teams no longer have to designate a player to return from the Reserve/Injured List at the time they go on the list. Teams do not have to say which players are returning until they begin their 21-day window."

Do their cuts or announce? I'm sure they have their list all the way down to a few bubble players already.

Any surprise cuts or surprise 53 man makes? Not really a surprise, but I think Shi Smith beats out Andre Roberts--who we signed to the the PR for those duties. Burris is on the bubble..it wouldn't shock me to see one of the younger safeties take his spot. Walker makes the 53 until Sam is healthy, I'm pretty sure. Jordan gets the axe. Also I'm curious to see who gets TE3. I think it would have been Ricci, but he's hurt. I'm not sold on either Thompson or Sullivan...utter JAGS.

Please. He's dead weight. That's a lot of money for a backup. I'd take a TE or MLB straight up or a 6th rounder in next year's draft.

Bills release 6, nobody I think we'd be interested in.

Cuts will start today even though 4pm tomorrow is the deadline. A few reports from other teams started leaking out last night. Most teams won't announce all their cuts at once; likely in 2-3 waves starting today. I expect to start seeing some news shortly.

I'm not sure the team rolls with just eight OL initially, even if they intend on signing 1-2 FAs.

We have two weeks before the opener. It sucks for Zane to get injured again, but at least it happened now and not later on when we the pool of kickers is less and only a week before the next game.

How many are allowed on the PS this season, 16? I'm not too high on the guys we cut. I think we keep several spots open to sign other guys, maybe as many as 6. Edit: I looked up PS rules along with IR rules for 2022 PS and IR Rules for 2022 "Of the 16 players, at least 10 must be of the typical “practice squad eligible” category, with up to four of which could be in their third season on an NFL practice squad. As for the remainder of practice squad eligible players, they could only previously have two years. Just like the last two seasons, teams can have up to six veteran players with unlimited accrued seasons on their practice squad." "With unlimited players who could return last season, teams can only designate eight players to return from IR, including any player returning from the practice squad/injured list. Another tweak comes in how long a player must be on the Reserve/Injured List as they must miss four games when in 2021 the time was only three games."

???? Swaim plays for the Titans. If you are talking about Knox, he had a good season last year as is still on the rise, plus the Bills drafted another TE this year. The Bills have two guys they are developing on cheap rookie deals. They save $1.6M by cutting Howard (he's on a 2-year deal that's in reality just a 1-year). So it would make sense to let Howard go as a 1-year rental, let him compete elsewhere , save some money and develop the young TEs they already have.

TE is our weak link on offense and I don't think anyone would or even could dispute that.

Tampa used TE by committee. That really hurt Howard's production. This is Thomas' numbers. His rookie year was decent, but look at the past three years of production and Rhule said..."let's re-sign this guy!" Ian's average was about 150 yards over the past three seasons with roughly one TD per season, one catch a game coming to a whopping 9.5 yards/game average with at 59% catch rate!!! That's TE1 material if I've ever seen it!

In 2020 Howard only played in four games and about matched Ian's season total. I'm not exactly sure what happen to Howard last year, but Ian Thomas has never put up more than 350 yards in a season. Howard has done it three times; just under 600 yards in 2018 which is more than Thomas' totals the last three year COMBINED. Again, take his draft status out of it. Who is the better TE, Howard or Thomas? It isn't even close.

IMMEDIATE upgrade over any of our TEs. Yes, he's under-performed as a former first round pick, but take that draft status off of him and he's actually okay. Better than Ian Thomas, that's for damn sure.

Is he better than Ricci?

I'll be keeping my eye out for a backup Mike LB to pick up. Watson or Graham-Mobley doesn't cut it for me.