He is nothing special ... but he is a somewhat talented ILB, a position of need.

And he made it through the first round of crazy overpaying of UFAs.

Whadayathink, possibility?

I have no doubt whatsoever that Ted has a number.

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I wouldn't mind at least a visit with Spikes, not sure what is left in his tank. We still should probably draft at least 1 ILB. I'm thinking one early pick and maybe 1 later pick who could also play ST would be pretty good.

Brandon Spikes is a GREAT run defender ... in a passing league... so how is he in passing? They take him off the field... which is why the article says he only played 46.4% of the Bills snaps last year (according to the article).

So the question is... do you want a NT at ILB? My answer is ... maybe... if he's good enough in run protection that maybe we could keep Hyde at the other ILB position and one could play the line while the other plays the coverage. I don't think their current scheme works that way, but I believe when they first switched to the 3-4 the scheme seemed to have Hawk dealing with linemen a lot more and Barrett in coverage a lot more. But my guess is that's not going to work out, as they line Barrington and don't want Hyde in the ILB role.

But using their same source I see the Patriots in 2013 had him on the field 59.8% of the defense snaps. And 66.0% in 2012. I think you have to some what create your defense around his strengths... but I think it's possible to do. Though he's going to need help in coverage... but if he can blitz then it might be interesting.

Of course... if he's very good, kind of surprising the Bills with Rex Ryan don't want him back.

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I guess we can use this as a general FA thread. Greg Jennings was released, like I said before I would be cool with bringing him back if his gigantic ego could handle coming back to play with Rodgers.

On the other side of the ball (tee-hee get it?::d ) I see defense as a bigger need.

I hear what you are saying but I think we are set at high priced WR right now. Jennings made his choice and now he gets to live with it.

I'm sure Greg's sister has him on a flight to Seattle to try and stick it to the Packers, again. Better luck next time, Greg.

In all seriousness, I would bet that's where he wants to go...or as a 3rd in Detroit with Megatron and Golden Tate. New reasons to hate the Lions.

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Spikes is a run-stopping thumper. What does he bring to the table that Sam Barrington doesn't?

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I'll admit they have similar skill sets. I like the Mychal Kendricks rumor a lot better! 🤔 :signcool:

For one thing he's so far proven to be a lot better than Barrington so there's that, also we need 2 linebackers. There are pretty few 3 down linebackers in the league who really excel in all areas. At this point after last season I'll take 2 decent/above average guys at that position whatever their particular skill sets may be. We don't really do a lot of complicated coverages with our ILBs from what I've seen so IMO if we had 2 guys like Spikes and Barrington it would still improve our defense a lot even though neither have been great in coverage.