Utah John

Sorry to see him go, but the Bills couldn't match that offer. What kind of compensatory pick does this mean?

The Pats are in the worst possible situation. They think they have their QB but he's not very good and they won't succeed with him and won't let themselves move on from him. Stuck in mediocrity land for half a decade to come.

Mack was a tremendous player who isn't a tremendous player anymore. Mack's salary correlates with a tremendous player, not the guy he is now. And the Bills aren't going to screw up their salary cap to grab a player whose production is falling off a cliff.

It's going to be tough for marginal players to stick with this team. It's sad, but it's a good thing that the required level of performance is so high that merely good players won't be retained. Mongo will find another team for which his level of performance is better than what they have already, and he'll get more money than the Bills were willing or able to pay him.

"in New York you can be a new man" -- like for example Diggs after he came to the Bills -- the only team in New York.

This is the sort of thing that will happen not only this year, but every year until the wheels fall off for some reason (hopefully not for many years). Good veteran players get released and rookies take their places, get paid as rookies (i.e., cheaply), and play until their rookie contract ends. The players all know how this works, and they're all looking forward and trying to stay healthy so they can sign at least one FA contract somewhere else. The Bills will have a trail of released veterans playing elsewhere, like the debris in a comet's tail, while the head of the comet keeps shining bright.

The Sammy Watkins episode showed it doesn't work to have a great WR corps when you don't have a very good (or better) QB. You get the QB and then build the offense around him. The weak QB draft class means the Seahawks aren't going to get Their Guy this year. They're going to try to hold their core together while shedding expensive veterans, so they'll have more cap space next year. They'll be trying for 6-11 or worse in order to get good draft picks in 2023. The real crisis will come when Pete Carroll decides to retire, and that could come about soon if the Seahawks struggle even worse than last year, which seems likely.

In a non-salary cap world, this would be great, but all those players will command big veteran contracts. The Bills depend on draft picks on cheap rookie contracts to play important roles. Getting those three players would likely mean losing three or four of the core guys who make the Bills work so well. I'm not talking about reserves, either -- we might no longer be able to retain Poyer or Hyde or Milano or Dawkins. If the Bills trade veterans for those veterans, that's a better option, but who would be on the block that other teams would want, and that we could afford to part ways with?

Rodgers might be the Most Valuable Player but he's not the Best Quarterback. By the time his contract runs out, he'll be an afterthought for postseason honors.

I have to agree with everything in this post. The Pack is desperately trying to get Rodgers back to a Super Bowl and is following the Rams' approach of going all-in for their target year. With this contract, Rodgers becomes trade-proof, I think. No one will want to pay him whatever the back end of his contract calls for, and the dead money for GB would be enormous. Jordan Love has spent enough time on the bench to be ready to take over somewhere. His trade value is diminished by the fact that he's burned through two years of his cheap rookie contract, so other teams would prefer to draft their own QB and get a full 4-5 years of cheap QB play. I feel sorry for that guy who likely won't ever get his chance unless Rodgers gets hurt.

I wonder if a 11-6 record will win the AFCW next year. It's going to be brutal competition within the division. Exciting games for all the teams involved. And good news for the rest of the AFC, since it will be easier for other teams to get wild card slots.

The LBs Union is not going to sit still for this.

The Bills roster isn't perfect but it doesn't have a lot of holes. This year, maybe there are a few more weak areas than last year, but last year it was really tough for a rookie to crack the 53. There just isn't a need for 10 picks or more, since almost all the picks will make the team, and the turnover rate should be pretty constant year to year in order to keep fresh blood in the system, replace vets who leave as FAs or retire or get traded, and at the same time not let the culture get sideways before the rookies get blended in. A late round comp pick is usually not very helpful overall.

It annoys me every time I see the Pegulas getting credit for providing "private" money when a large part of that is from PSLs. PSLs are purchased by the public, so that part of the overall financing should be considered public, not private, funds.

Beasley was our Kelce this year and last year, the guy who always got open and moved the chains. Of course Kelce is also a bigger downfield threat, but they had the same role when it came to first downs. I think the Bills are trying to sign Gronk and use Gronk as the chain mover. He's not very elusive but he's a reliable catcher, and he can still get downfield. And, he's a much better blocker than Beasley, so if the run game is going to get improved this would be a good step.

The Browns' biggest problem isn't Mayfield, IMO, it's the overall roster. The Browns went with the Big Star approach, gathering a bevy of top players, and filling out the roster with JAGS. The salary cap is going to force them to make tough choices -- keep Myles Garrett or Clowney or their starting QB? for example. The stars are going to thin out, leaving the roster full of meh JAGs, and that isn't going to win enough to challenge Cinci or Baltimore. Certainly not Buffalo.

They won championships with the standing buffalo helmet. Despite powerhouse teams on several occasions, no championships with the charging buffalo. Coincidence? Try going back to the standing buffalo for a full season and see what happens. If that doesn't work, then get a brand new logo.

Compared to Hunt, Singletary is younger/cheaper/a better person/just as good a runner. Why are we having this discussion?

Hunt was such a bad person even KC got rid of him. How does he fit into the process?

Deshaun Watson to Indianapolis, a very solid team that outdid its QB's capabilities this year.

They need to stay tight together. There will be situations coming up where players that have been Bills during the past four years return to excellence, are going to be traded or cut, and new players will be arriving. That's a challenge for the team's cohesiveness. It's important that the bonding process include the new guys so there isn't an old vs new mentality taking place.

And in this copycat league, you can be sure the Bills are looking at that performance and trying to figure out how to make that approach work with the Bills' personnel. Of course KC knows everyone will be doing exactly that, and will be working to stay a step ahead.

Allen's stupendous play over the last couple of games of the year and the playoffs gobsmacked the league and the fans. They had never seen QB play like that. And compare Allen with the arrogant Burrow or with Stafford, who was not interested when a photographer taking his picture fell off a stage and broke her back. Josh is the consistently nice guy. Of course he's getting attention. I hope his vacation ends soon, though, and he gets back to Jordan Palmer's QB school for the next round of improvement.

If they want to go anywhere, they should go back to Fredonia. The great teams of the 80s and 90s used those Fredonia training camps to bond, with the players going out in groups to the bars. No such situation is possible near SJF. I can't believe the Bills would sell fewer tickets to people in NW NY -- Rochester etc -- if training camp wasn't held nearby.

Aikman he can't seem to understand the rules of English. That commentator he always wants to have two subjects in every sentence. Aikman he can't seem to tell us anything that most football fans already know. Those fans they might like him if they're stupored up from too much beer, and Aikman he tells them what they ought to know anyway, so the fans they can feel smart and superior. Aikman he is so far below Tony Romo in telling us what we DON'T already know that there's no comparison. Aikman he would be a good choice for people who know nothing about football to learn a little about the basics of the game. Aikman he is Captain Obvious for most of the rest of us.