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Vince Williams added to the Covid19 list

Good grief already! Our top 3 ILB's out. Our OLB out. And, Haden possibly/probably out. Hopefully, he is just out for contact. If he tested positive, there will have to be at least a couple guys go out from contact tracing.

Top four. Gilbert has been out as well.
 
Marcus Allen will be the next man up.
 
Dang, there is a LOT of lab work to be done............





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Edmunds could move up and put Davis back at safety. That is, if Davis is still on the team and healthy.

Not a bad idea. He covers like a linebacker and is good against the run.
 
who is the next MLB up is it marcus allen play the the game 4-2-5
DE Wormsley
DT heyward
DT Tyson
De tuitt
LB watt
LB Williamson
rotate ola and Highsmith at both lb and DE
 
I think you keep the edge players outside. If Dupree was healthy, you could consider bumping him or Watt inside, but that is not happening.

You have some drafted box safties in Edmunds, Allen, and Brooks that can do the job. I personally think Allen is next man up in this situation, unless UG3 is activated to the roster.
 
Again the bills aren’t exactly going to run the ball vs us... not their style... so using a safety isn’t going to be a huge issue...

In fact outside of Cleveland, all of the teams left on the schedule are bottom tier rush squads...
 
what is a 4-4-4?

If only the board hadn't lost all of the old posts from years ago. Some of our posts counts would be over 100K from way back when.

Think we could see more dime and nickel packages with Allen coming down in the box. Don't think they're going to go 4-3 but I could be very wrong about that. My guess is we put a spy on Josh Allen like we've done with other mobile QBs.
 
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If only the board hadn't lost all of the old posts from years ago. Some of our posts counts would be over 100K from way back when.

Think we could see more dime and nickel packages with Allen coming down in the box. Don't think they're going to go 4-3 but I could be very wrong about that. My guess is we put a spy on Josh Allen like we've done with other mobile QBs.

Allen loves to roll right, especially when the pocket collapses because he throws very well on the run, would like to dress all our Dlinemen and just run 3 DL the majority of the game and try to collapse the middle of the pocket and force towards Watt. Buffalo doesn't run the ball much so the extra DB should see a ton of snaps.
 
I don't know how big of a deal it is, but at least Avery Williamson has played against Buffalo already this season.
 
Williamson's signing now looks like a Nostradamus thing, the only one available ILB with NFL experience for this game.
 
Marcus Allan is next up. The Guy we got from the Jets and Allen. Gonna be 11-2 Monday. Good thing they made hay when the sun shone.
 
Williamson's signing now looks like a Nostradamus thing, the only one available ILB with NFL experience for this game.

Which is why many pushed for it

There were options, of course... we could have grabbed a retread off the ufa list, but outside of nutcase Burfict it was pretty thin at ilb... We could have signed an ilb off a practice squad, but tgere you are getting a guy who isn’t starting material yet 99% of the time

There were other trades available... detroit was shopping a coverage ilb, but coverage ilbs have a pretty big cap hit.... and we need to cary some over to next year to have any chance of fielding a solid, competitive team...

Avery was cheap, absolutely starter material, and was graded out at 10th best lb in the league per those tools at PFF.... so he isnt a total scrub starter...

Ilb depth was a huge issue going into this year.. spillane has given us all we could ask for as abackup, but UG3 is damaged goods, and we needed some insurance in case of catastrophe like this....
 
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