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Exactly. You never know.

I think Beane plans to sign Bates AND a backup QB for what a 2nd round tender woulda cost us

Vick served his time, paid for the dog abuse survivors to get ongoing care and therapy, and did his community service.

TBH, I'm not sure the trade for Watson and his new contract can go through if the Browns don't ship Mayfield out Maybe it's fairer to say other contracts. Spotrac has Watson "pencilled in" but there are several players signed whose contract details aren't "in" yet and Cleveland only has $2.6M of cap showing.

Hahaha No.

Now that the Bills have made some coaching staff roster moves going into FA and we've listened to his presser, I'm going to play resurrectionist here and drop some breadcrumbs I collected 1) Beane was OK letting Beasley first seek a trade and then walk in FA. I don't think this is because Beane is a kind-hearted dude who wants the best for Beas family (as he implied in his presser). I mean, other things being equal, I'm sure he is kind, but when it comes to his job - Nope! I think this is because Beasley's role will be less crucial in Dorsey's offense 2) Beane was fairly urgent about signing a TE - higher priority than retaining Wallace or giving Bates a higher tender. I think that means there will be higher use of 2 TE sets, and that the TE routes will be of higher importance in the short and intermediate passing game 3) In his presser, Beane specifically mentioned 2 TE routes they used to run in Carolina, how they'd have Olsen and Shockley or Olsen and Dickon "down the seam" 4) Beane was asked about Isaiah McKenzie in the slot and said there would always be competition but he would have every opportunity to earn the job (or something like that) Soooooo....putting these all together....I predict that Dorsey and Brady intend to focus more on TE routes down the seam against zone coverage, including using more 2 TE sets .... and to move away from the option route concepts that were Beasley's bread-n-butter. When teams man us up, they may turn McKenzie loose to run away from his coverage. And last but not least..again, based on some of the analogies and examples Beane used...don't pay attention to Chudzinski. Pay attention to Shula in Carolina and what he did, 'cuz that was where Dorsey cut his coaching teeth AND we just hired him onto our staff.

Yeah, 5th year option. They had to make a decision so they picked it up last May, before last season went, well, South

👂 but does your wife know? (historical TBD reference, not sure you were around) Snap! I already asked if his wife knew

Remember that Sam Darnold is still under contract to the Panthers for $18.5M fully guaranteed

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Yeah, that's kind of the theme of a couple of cases we've had locally. If the DA wants the case to go to trial, the exculpatory evidence never makes it to the Grand Jury. If he doesn't want the case to go to trial, the Grand Jury gets every iota.

That is excellent!

Do you really think Pete Carroll is up for another tempermental Shrimp at QB right now?

Not quite. A grand jury can be persuaded to indict a ham sandwich *if the district attorney wants them to* If the district attorney wants no part, Welp Then.

No, I think for whatever reason McKissic genuinely wanted to stay with Washington as a first choice. He agreed to terms with Buffalo when he thought he didn't have that choice, then reneged when he learned he did. That's apparently how Ioannidis' agents would vote, and apparently McKissic's agents would join them.

Baker has 3 strikes against him: 1) he's coming off a down year and had off-season surgery 2) he's only signed for 1 year 3) he's got a fully guaranteed cash contract for that 1 year 1) and 2) make him less valuable and 3) makes him harder to fit in a team's cap.

I'm not sure what the MPH sweepstakes tell us, but for comparison, do you know what were Mac Jones and Burrows' numbers? Or Herbert? When I watch (say) Mac Jones throw, I'm like "wow, that ball's taking its time to get there". I don't see that with Watson, or at least I didn't last time I saw him play.

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I would go further and say that McKissic probably had little to do with it, but that losing out on Chandler Jones etc may have given Beane extra motivation to get 'er done with Miller. Beane knows that the 4 big pieces a team needs are QB, WR, CB, and pass rusher. He also knows that truly talented pass rushers are about as hard to find as truly elite QBs, and despite positive things, he probably has a pretty good sense that Rousseau, Basham and Epenesa may become solid but they aren't gonna be elite.

If the other team matched OR exceeded the Bills offer and the player decided to stay during the negotiations, before the deal was done, that would be fine - happens all the time. The story is McKissic and his agent had a handshake on the deal with B'lo, Washington was informed and said "congrats, good luck!". Should be a done deal at that point. Then AFTER the news broke, Washington went behind the agent's back direct to the player and lied about what happened (said they had not been informed or given the opportunity to match) in order to get him to break his deal with B'lo and stay with Washington. Meanwhile, Beane, believing he had money committed to McKissic, may have declined to match or beat Pittsburgh's very modest offer to Wallace. So he lost both McKissic AND Wallace.

I would also guess that Beane, like most people at that level, has a strong ability to compartmentalize, and that he really didn't start feeling any emotions he had until the work of the day was over and done with, then it hit. It's not quite the same but it's along the same lines as a First Responder or a medical person working an emergency, where they work the situation according to their training and if something really crappy happens during their shift, they push it aside and keep going. But then after their shift is over, it hits them and they feel Big Time angry or sick at heart or whatever.

I really think that's a bit of a misleading title. It's really Sal Capaccio's opinion, and he acknowledged as much. I would really doubt that it changed a hair of what Beane was willing to offer. I'm sure he's very "best practices" and goes into a negotiation with an opening offer, a preferred deal, and an upper limit or something along those lines. Yes, I think that's what Beane is pissed off about.

I think Beane may have some information about what happened. There's also this: https://washingtonfootballwire.usatoday.com/2022/03/16/agent-for-defensive-tackle-matt-ioannidis-is-not-happy-with-the-washington-commanders-2022-nfl-free-agency/ Ioannidis agent is very pissed because he and a fellow agent met with Sr VP of Football Admin at the combine and asked if Ioannidis was in the team's plans for 2022, and was told that he was "absolutely not, we have no thoughts of releasing Matt Ioannidis". Agents use this kind of info to shop their guys, and it's considered courtesy to release guys you're gonna cut at or before the "Tampering Period" so that they have their best shot to find a new team. So the agent's 'beef' is that other guys at his client's position were getting offers, and part of the market dried up before he hit it. It won't let me cut and past from the above article, but the agent said "we don't particularly care to be lied to right to our face. I don't like it when someone lies right to my face". He sounded even more pissed than Beane, but the point is, Beane isn't the only one who feels screwed over by the WFT this off-season.

Well, it's a fact that Levi signed with the Stillers for $8M with a $2.5M cap hit this season and $2.9M guaranteed And it's a fact that the contract the Bills offered McKissic was $7M plus $1M in incentives and could well have had a similar or greater cap hit. I think that's probably what happened, and that's one of the reasons why Beane is so pissed.