WhitewalkerInPhilly

I'll admit I was down on Marlowe. Hopefully he shows up big next week

Not going to lie, that comeback meant that I hit on a +750 parley. Thanks Trevor Lawrence!

Look, breaking out Hyde in time for KC? I'm in.

Hahahaha....was that a real question?

Effectively yes. I don't think the bills will be purging talent in the immediate future. The biggest looking FA's in 2024 are Hyde (reaching the end of his career), Gabe Davis (a nice piece but at best a #2 WR) and Oliver (pay the man!) But the pinch is coming. You can do a lot to kick the can down the road, but the Bills have a 2-3 year window before we have to shed some veterans. One obvious move but small move would be to extend Nyheim Hines. The man is the best return specialist I've seen in a while, has some juice to be a offensive 5-10 snap a game wrinkle, he's 26 and his 2023 money in unguaranteed. I'm willing to tack on an extra year or two to spread that out I mean one this year is taking ROY, but I'm rather happy with what we got out of Elam, Cook, Shakir and Benford. Think about this: Dane Jackson, Elam and Benford are all as good as or better than most #2 CBs in the league and we have all of them on secure controlled deals for next year. Their entire issue is that they aren't pro bowl and we were counting on a quicker turnaround from Tre

I was looking at this yesterday. Allen's contact is built to squeeze extra cash year to year. Right now that last of his guaranteed money runs out in four seasons when he is 30, and that year its a quarter of his salary. We are entirely in the clear in 2027. We can rerack $20 million just by converting most of Allen's 2023 salary to a prorated bonus. That's enough to retain one of our key free agents. (Edmunds, Poyer) That said, barring draft finds, this is about as good as the Bills will look for a while.

Well, the conclusion isn't completely wrong. When the Bills offense has stalled, it's typically when teams have bracket covered Diggs and forced dink and dunks. The counter to that is the Bills running the ball with consistency. If they can keep up back end coverage and still limit the run game you can slow the game enough to have a chance. Of course that is easier said than done. I'll highlight the comeback vs the Dolphins: the Bills switched to the run and suddenly things started clicking

The real question is how many wins does it take. Crowder seems like good odds for next week, already in non-contact. Is Hyde a Superbowl or bust choice? can he in the division round?

No that was overt. The hope is that they would be ready for a reboot of the Cinci game or KC if we get the chance

Pretty much. It's why I have no sympathy for the Phins. Rather than take an L for the safety of your QB they rushed him back and then took him out on a short week where he got brained

Yes. But yes, Hyde returning to practice to potentially be ready vs Cinci or KC would be extremely welcome

30% of Hyde over Marlowe. I would take 80% of Hyde over Hamlin when he was playing healthy

Tua is out. Get Hyde right for Cinci

Yasssss Between this and the Poyer news things are looking like a storybook run

Better Nantz than Collingsworth

I believe more and more that the two teams decided instead of the NFL that this game was not going to be played. Also I'm so glad we moved to McDermott after Rex

Please let Hyde be back. Even if you are slowly rotating him back in that would be enormous

I mean, I get that, but in the examples I gave they are contacts given out to veterans. Stafford and Wilson were traded for, and then paid a pile of money. Watson was given 100% guaranteed money. Does this swing the pendulum back to paying a premium to roll the dice on a draft pick?

A big reason why the Bengals hit was so bad was the Tua still hadn't recovered. If they bench him and let him heal they don't go on a multi game skid and the Steelers hit doesn't take him out for as long.

Is that our record, or the players that spur us to glory? 😁

If the Phins front office has any desire to keep Tua long term they should bench him for the season and look to next year. I have a feeling that they wring him dry if they can

Yeah he and Allen are in very team friendly deals

Honestly, I think Hines sticks around. It's not just that he's managed to be solid in the return game, I want to see some more screen game in general. He had a nice long one vs the Pats, and then got a TD vs Miami. I think they are saving him for the playoffs, but at worse he seems like a nice quick out on pass plays.

I want to start off with this disclaimer: I am very happy with Josh Allen's deal. I think Beane did an excellent job structuring a deal that kept the best quarterback the Bills have had in a generation locked up through his prime, with meat on the bone for cap maneuvers. Since then, however, we keep seeing deals that make Beane's (already praised at the time) work look even savvier. Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen as 5th and 6th on average cap hit per year. In the meanwhile, Green Bay went back to the well on Aaron Rodgers, paying him the most per year out of every QB. Rodgers has looked nowhere near his prime, is considering retirement and now the Pack is in terrible cap shape while veterans are likely to walk. #2 is Russel Wilson, who cost the Broncos multiple 1st round picks to be a laughingstock. #3 is Kyler Murray, who just got college head coach was just fired. He is locked in for at least two more years (after which it's only a $33 million cap hit), while he is coming off of an ACL injury...where is greatest strength has been running and throwing on the run. #4 is Watson, who shouldn't have been back in the league. His money is fully guaranteed, and is going to be a $55 million hit every year for the next four years. As we saw with the Browns, they have a looooot of problems and Watson returning was not a magic pill. Only one player is going to be 20% of their cap. And that's not even counting Matt Stafford. The Rams pushed all of their chips to the pile last year and I'd be lying if I said I thought their devil's bargain wasn't worth it, but they are going to be paying a butcher's bill for the next few seasons. I understand that the QB position's importance. I understand that starting quality QB play is going to be overpaid but these four QBs are now liabilities for their teams, and in some cases the damage is going to take years to unravel. This was not "Let me overpay for Brock Osweiler they can be good enough" thinking, these players were supposed to transform the franchise. Does this change how teams think of contracts? I don't know. But it's interesting to think about.

I still don't get how we keep playing really good AFC teams on the road. I'm trying to recall, we have played the Chiefs 5 times in the last three years and only one home game?