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Huh, so not cutting Mario. That's a 10M cap hit, so I'm hoping that got reduced to about 5M, as he's a backup.

I'm a Penn Stater, and I'd agree with this. When we went the YOLO offense in 2019, he has a huge factor. There's a reason we called him baby Gronk. Would fit perfectly with spirit/philosophy of this offense.

Personally I think it's easier to find a starting guard at 30 than finding a starting EDGE rusher. So I would vote to let Feliciano go,, cut Addison, restructure Hughes + Star. Use Kumerow/Duke/Stills as your replacement for Brown on the roster (Gabe Davis is your #2). Use that 10M in cap savings to find a F/A EDGE, draft a starting guard, a DE/3T tweener, a slot corner, a speedy WR, and a TE. Unfortunately TE is likely going to go unanswered this offseason. Think EDGE is more pressing. You could actually snag Friermuth at 30, trade up into the 2nd round and grab a starting RG there.

Guessing his cap hit for 21 will a team friendly 7-8M or so. This puts them right at their limit I think? Think they'll be able to restructure/cut their way to one more significant signing or re-signing of Feliciano, but the rest are going to have to be Practice players, vet min, or draft picks

Those are very team friendly numbers for the start. You could see a cap hit next season that ranges from 5M to 11M, which is really good for the Bills

Which is a fair number for him. Should be an easy decision to pick up or extend

Jefferson was a guy I was hoping would be restructured and retained. Had some value as a DE/3T combo and had good snaps this past season

He was pretty big in Allen's development. Really happy with his 2 years here

Hyde's extension didn't really budge his cap hit. If they're going to extend/restructure Hughes than his cap hit better be coming down significantly

Which is why you sign someone opposite him. Not cut him. He's easily the best Edge rusher the Bills have. I'm not even sure it's close. If you cut him, then you need to go out and find TWO high end edge rushers. AJE isn't ready for that. I'd love to go into next season with: EDGE: F/A pick up ~ 10-12M PYA, Hughes (restructured), AJE, Draft pick 3T: Oliver, Justin Zimmer 1T: Star, Harrison Phillips Tweener 3T/EDGE: Quinton Jefferson (restructured) Because the Bills can't afford a $20M+ cap hit

In the modern NFL, pressures are more reflective statistic of success than sacks. Its sort of like OPS vs HRs.

Dion is a young man who I wish most young men would be like. What an incredible human being.

Economic area is a massive factor.

I think he has the skill set that McDermott would love, but lacks the the athlecism to make use of them as the 2nd backer in McDermotts system. If McDermott went with a traditional 4-3 + Dime on passing downs, rather than a 4-3 + Nickle + Nickle system, he'd be a better fit as you wouldn't be asking him to run side line to side line.

Not trying to get into social engineering here, but in the most general of terms, women have a very different approach to regulating social media among kids than dads do, and a lot of that is because girls are taught from a very young age, how to communicate real thoughts and emotions with other kids and people. Boys learn to pretend emotions don't exist and only communicate that they're tough. Again, that's a VERY generalized viewpoint, on a prevalent issues that's ripping through society today, and has a BUNCH of nuanced factors. Reason I'm bringing this up, is that most of the powers the be in the NFL are men, and again as a general rule of thumb, generations prior to millennials, men weren't taught how to deal with emotions. That's central to the issues we're having with Social media.

Here's a radical idea, allow players to walk out of a contract as easily as teams can cut players. Pay back 50% of your signing bonus, nullify all future guaranteed money, and you can walk. That would resolve a lot of the whining about social media.

Oh and an aspect about NFL players that should be discussed here - contracts aren't guaranteed. So that means a club can cut a player's ass whenever they want, and all they'd owe them is the money they already gave them, and whatever % of guaranteed money is left over - for which most NFL contracts isn't a huge amount. I'm not a huge fan of what DeShaun Watson is doing, but I'm not without sympathy either. If teams can walk away from players with a click of a button, while players have to launch an entire media campaign over the course of months, to be able to switch teams, that's inherently unbalanced. There's inequity, and when thaythappens, there's ALWAYS going to be a power struggle, and it's going to be the less powerful trying to gain more power. Right now, the best tool players have to level that playing field, is through social media, because they can galvanize support around them. Right or wrong.

It's the players who are privelages and not the super rich owners?

It's amazing how much people in power whine and cry when they lose the ability to control every aspect of the humans they have in their power. This isn't about social media. This is about men in power who no choice but respect the freedom of voice of their employees - something they NEVER had to worry about. Suddenly, fearing public opinion for your actions, is a real thing. In general, those organizations that generally allow their people to freely express themselves, are thriving today. The NBA took an early stance that their players are their own real people, with their own voices, which they are free to express. The NFL was all about "Protect the Shield", and now you have BS like this being leaked to the media, along with a league that's badly struggling with it's image, and is often at war with it's own players. That's no random nor coincidental. That unfortunately one of the consequences of peeling back the lid, and letting people have their expression of voice and culture. It's bad that those kids lost out on opportunities, that they got scalded, but I hope to see is those people who refuse to hire someone because of a freakin party picture, loosen the hell up...that's the evolution I want to see. Yes kids are gonna be kids, people are gonna say dumb things, gonna say bad things fueled by ignorance...I wish all those things were viewed as inconsequential or as teaching moments. Not things that should forever brand someone. But also, that's real life, and it shouldn't be hidden away, and we shouldn't be afraid of it.

Watt is a 3 down player if you view him as a 3T on passing downs. He's an excellent run defender so you start him at DE on 1st and 10 and go from there.

HS. Barely got off the bench. Loved the experience of being part of that team for 4 years and learned a ton and got better

He’s not running the perma nickel with AJ Klein. Not unless he loves giving up 30 a game. he’ll have to land another 3 down backer. Which are expend and kinda rare. Much better off finding a 4th corner and an EDGE for you it’s a fandom, for the players it’s a job market

You can scheme around losing Milano. It’s called a dime package

Colts are giving up 30M+ in cap space for him, though he has a 24M dead cap out after this upcoming season. That’s actually a lot for a QB who maybe toast

you win the SB next season and that doesn't matter though.