Khyber53

Also, I'm not sure that what Puka Nakua says should always be considered as the most nuanced and well-thought position one can take.

Grab the smartest of the bunch and lock down your o-line for the next decade. Slaughter would be my choice since he has the most experience at the highest level in the position. Schrauth has leadership experience, though, and that sure could be a help.

If you think the refs we have are bad, you probably don't remember just how bad it got the last time they used replacement refs... including an incident of a Packers fan ref massively influencing a game. The NFL, when you consider all the other things tied to it like TV rights, betting, stadiums (construction, ticket prices, heck even parking and concessions), plus merchandizing, is probably a trillion dollar industry. Give the refs what they want, pay them and let's get back to having games.

Wow, best of the world to you folks! Wish I could give more, but I'll send prayers, too.

I bet! It's like catching re-runs of your favorite show I guess. Except somehow they've gotten better with time like Gilligan's Island or Firefly.

Good luck to him and to them, unless we're on the same field together. Guy gave us everything while he was here, nothing but best wishes to him. And we move on... we're just building our playoff window. The Bills are right in theirs. We need younger, they need veterans.

We need to make LB our biggest position of strength. Again. We aren't the Panthers we should be when we don't have the best linebacking corps in the league.

Best of luck to him and I hope he finds great success in his second act. On the flip side, I am glad we aren't on the receiving end of his first act anymore. That guy could play!

The latest and it's a tawdry story for sure.

Normally, I wish a guy who goes on to somewhere else luck. And I like Rosenboom. He did very well for us and was a great team guy. I wish him great off field success. On the field... if he could struggle versus us for those two games a season, I'd be happy with that.

It's his brain that really helps the most. High football IQ and can decipher plays well. Get smart players, it helps every single time. Getting bullied a couple of times will happen as he gets into the league, but he'll figure it out. And there's a weight room and professional nutritionists to help add some muscle mass. And guys like Luke and TD are around to show him how to make bullies cry.

Life is short and an NFL career can be just a blink of the eye. Sometimes its the talent level, more often it's the immense wear and tear. I always want to feel sorry for them, but then I remember they've made a million or more if they've had a three year career at the least. Then I remember growing up working on homebuilding projects with my family and seeing carpenters or masons in their 60s, broken down, sun-beaten and worn out completely coming to work every morning. They'd never see a million dollars in their entire lives, and they were broken and hurting every morning and even more so at the end of each day.

Snooooze. Like soccer, flag football is much more fun to play than to watch.

Good mention here of Ed Reed. He's the prototype and there's never been another one that was really up to his level. Just like, on a more local note, Luke was that guy for MLB. Chasing the position, hoping for that kind of player can be troublesome. It's why those guys have gold jackets and the thousands upon thousands of other good to really good players don't. Your first round pick HAS to be either a game breaker like one of those guys, guaranteed, or needs to be a solid, multi-year starter in a position of need AND, as the OP stated, a cost savings overall. And the OP made a heck of a good case for OT and DT being right in line for us. Still... can you catch a falling star? A lot of teams break their future trying to reach for one.

Gotcha and the others who've said the same. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Sure are a lot of other folks with less injuries that could have been brought along to be camp bodies. Ones with less injuries, maybe some unknowns. Must be some reason we sought him out when there are cheaper vet minimums out there.