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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.

Just in time. I figured some cuts would start leaking out tonight...per "sources."

I'm not sure if this has been said, but Brees was coming off a shoulder injury too when the Chargers decided to move on.

Calling it now, Daley sticks over Jordan. I know MJ is listed ahead of him on the depth chart, but Daley can play every position besides center. Jordan is a pure guard. I know they 'say' he can play center as well, but I haven't seen him take any snaps there.

Also bumping this one back to the first page.

Bumping this back to the top as cuts will start leaking out soon. Veterans that won't make the 53 man roster will probably be among the first to go so they have a chance to be picked up elsewhere. No need to start a new cut thread.

Exactly. Baker has dealt with enough coaching changes and doubt he'll want to stick around for another. He'll want to go to a stable situation on a long-term deal. My worry is Tepper is all-in on Matt Rhule and any improvement may keep him in Charlotte for 2023 citing 'progress'. It will take a complete dumpster fire of a season for Tepper to pull the trigger for certain. This team is too talented for that to happen short of a bunch of key injuries.

If we have a top 15 pick and Baker turns in anything less than a stellar season, I'm in the 'draft a rookie QB next draft' group of folks. This is where Fitterer and Rule butt heads--Fitts wants to build a solid core team and draft a rookie QB to become the QB of the future while Rhule wants a veteran QB to help save his a$$ NOW. If Rhule is fired after the season, I think Fitts plays hardball with Baker at the negotiation table...again with the caveat that Baker doesn't absolutely ball-out this season. We may bet outbid. If so, so be it rather than continuously throwing money around in an attempt to stay competitive.

And I didn't like ANY of those picks. TMJ was a cock-block pick to keep the Saints from drafting him (leaked out they were taking him a few pick later). That's a cute move in like the 6th or 7th round like when the Saints took a day 3 QB we were looking at a couple of drafts ago, but not in the freaking second round! I don't like RBs out of the Big XII, generally speaking, and I think everyone agrees taking a LS in the sixth round when he would have been there as a UDFA was mind-numbingly stupid.

Baker is going to give us the best QB play we've seen since 2017 this season and take us out of the basement to mediocrity. That said, I'm not sure that's going to worth the extension he'll be looking for. IF he likes the organization/the area and takes a 'home town' deal, I wouldn't be opposed. However, Baker will be looking not only for QB1 money, but franchise-type money. Considering the QB deals of late, I don't think he will be worth it.

It wasn't exactly a joke. He retold a conversation between him and his wife regarding Hubbard. He said he and his wife were talking and she mentioned how good Chuba looked when he played against Baylor and that the Panthers should think about drafting him. Obviously she has no power on this team and Rhule certainly could have kept that conversation to himself. Possibly the Panthers were planning on taking him anyway. Point being, unless Rhule fabricated the story, the yes, Mrs. Rhule "told" him to draft Cuba. I bet now Rhule wishes he had never shared the story with the media. Also offensive stats in the Big XII are often inflated...it's a 'heavy on offense and lite on defense' conference historically. That's why Texas Tech QBs rarely pan out in the NFL (Mahomes being one of the very few) even though they put up stupid stats just about every season. Spread offenses create natural running lanes and with more DBs than LBs on the field, getting to the second level and breaking some tackles is a bit easier than running against defenses, say, in the Big 10.

Chubba is not a power back, he's not a 3rd down back and he's not overly elusive. He has one thing, straight line speed. If he gets the corner on the outside or the OL provides a decent lane for him to hit, yeah, Chubba looks good. However, In the NFL, one-trick ponies don't last too long.