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All: The new Billszone site with the updated software is scheduled to be turned on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The company that built it, Dynascale, estimates a FOUR HOUR shut down, from 8pm Pacific, (5pm Eastern) while they get it up and running. Nobody will be able to post in any forum until they are done. Afterwards, you may need to do a web search for the site, as old links will not work, because the site is getting a new IP address. Please be patient. If there are bugs, we will tackle them one at a time. Remember the goal is to be up and running with no glitches by camp. Doing this now assures us of that, because it gives us all summer to get our ducks in a row. Thank you!
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The rest is illegible, and you don't ask Brandon Beane for a 2nd copy, or Brandon Beane will scorn you. When Brandon Beane scorns you, you really feel scorned.
During Whaley's tenure, the Bills did not do a good job at acquiring young player talent. So already you're setting the stage for an aging roster. Add to that the fact that Beane traded away some of the (very few) good young players Whaley did find, and that makes the roster even older. We're paying the price for the sins of the past.
We have two picks each in the first and second round of next year's draft, thanks to trades by McDermott and Beane. Long-term, that should help us become a younger team than what we are now. Between the guys McDermott just drafted and this upcoming draft, I'm hopeful that we'll make solid progress towards achieving the core of young talent Whaley failed to provide.
Here are the results, with a recent historic look at the average ages of each team on 53-man cut down day.
I was surprised when I read that. That doesn't sound like a rebuilding team. It would lend credence to them not tanking.
Well, they have gotten rid of most of the 2016 team. Perhaps we should use the term "reloading", instead of rebuilding?
CIN average age last season was 26.30 but is now 25.33 - 3rd youngest. That's a bit under a year's difference. Not much. The years don't matter, IMO.
Some older vets walked. The big thing with CIN is that Coach-for-Life Marvin's preference for safe, job security vets have been put aside (at long last).
15 players on their 2017 roster have never taken an NFL regular season snap.
They didn't say whether they used the mean or the median. If the mean, it's garbage, since a few old guys that don't even start could skew the number. If it is the median, which mitigates those outliers, then ok.
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