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His value goes up because of the contract honestly. 5 years 146.5 for a new team acquiring him - and his cap hit is low for 2021 when the cap is likely at its lowest. It's not cheap but if he's a top 5-10 QB its actually pretty good. I'd say play hard-ball - but good luck getting free agents to sign with your team when you basically are holding a pro-bowler hostage during the prime of his career. If I'm the owner, i sit down with him and figure out what it takes to keep him here.

Yep - much like reality TV.

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I'm of the opinion that upgrades on the oline would turn some of those 2 yard plays into 8-10 yard plays. Watching a lot of football, you see kamara and henry get blown up all the time at the LOS. It's the highlights everyone sees, and usually those involve big holes.

There are issues all over in the zone scheme. I'm not sure if its chemistry (lot of people missing games this year) or what, but outside zone is getting absolutely blown up. But at the same time - it could be a bit of a recency bias. Look at the stats of the 2 defenses buffalo just played - they both are near top of the league in run defense.

Yes - adding an all-pro weapon typically would make the offense unstoppable. Using a high pick on a running back this year would be insanely reckless imo. Ezekial elliot is a good case for this - he went from all-pro to all-crap. What changed? Probably the center retiring, and the 2 tackles missing the entire season injured, martin missing the final 5 weeks. I'd even say prescott missing time harmed the run game.

The bills and Allen have won 2 this year - and that the following players have fewer than 2 in their careers: Cousins - 104 starts Stafford - 165 starts Watson - 54 starts Prescott - 69 starts Carr - 110 starts I know its a team stat - but at the end of the day, these guys have 2 total wins among them and are among the highest paid players at their position.

Speeds nice and all - but right now we can't even run the ball up the middle into a weak box. That to me seems like our offensive line isn't doing their job.

Rough year for him. Injuries and covid and all that. I'm not saying an upgrade can't be had - I'm just saying don't spend a 1st on a TE. It rarely works.

I'd say buffalo hit on 1 2nd round pick in dawkins, and ford is looking like a miss (at least as a starter). I think there are upgrades to be had along the offensive line - and they should consider using high draft capital to address it.

I'd guess blocking.

Can we use a first on an offensive lineman? We haven't done that yet.

Yes. You can also for all intents and purposes add the replacement to the dead cap hit since you aren't really saving it if you spent it on another player. Right, you already gave him the bonus. If you retired with 3 years of bonus payments they would all get mashed into 1 cap hit. Brees also has 2 void years of bonus payments. He was never even intended to be on the team, they fully expected to eat cap space to not have him - with the intention of being more competitive on the rest of the roster.

Take the 10-15 highest paid players on a base salary perspective. If you want to keep them, you push base salary into restructure bonus - or extend them, and worry about it later when the cap is higher. The other option is to trade/release some solid players on expiring deals with no dead money.

Losing the week 17 game to get into the playoffs... while playing terribly? I'm not surprised his teammates aren't sold.

Gotta cut him in the first 2 days of the league year or he gets a 15m roster bonus and ur basically stuck with ben.

Baltimore's rushing attack is a lot different than anyone else. But I think we can crowd the LOS - attack the mesh point and identify the RPO read. You can't let the 5-10 yard completion turn into 20+. 3rd downs and 3rd down defense. If you can create turnovers, even better.

That was mostly just switching how they were blocking heyward. He was a problem, they adjusted and the steelers couldn't fix it. I'd like to see some mckenzie motion in this game, same with diggs. A timely screen to knox. The john brown screen call if they give those 0 looks.

3 playoff wins since arians left, and i outlined them. Playoffs in 5 of 9 years, 3 total playoff wins. Never beat manning or brady in the playoffs. So for basically the 15 years coaching, it was patriots colts and later denver that you had to beat - and he has 0 playoff wins over those guys.

He's a vastly overrated coach imo. His super bowl win - Avoided manning in the playoffs (played chargers and ravens), and it was the year brady tore his ACL. 2010 they made it to the super bowl, and guess who they avoided again... manning and brady. This time it was ravens and jets. Hell, his last 3 playoff wins are against miami (that 2016 gase playoff team that was bad on o and d and somehow made it), cincy (aj mccarron), and KC (pre-mahomes) - those are the 3 playoff wins since 2011. Losses to Ravens, Broncos, Patriots, Jags, Browns.

If you're doubling diggs - you don't have 2 safeties, and you aren't blitzing. If you spy allen with a LB, that likely means max 4 man rush, and spies are usually within 5 yards of the LOS. Seems like you'd then have a big gaping hole 10 yards down field in the center of the field. 3 of their top 10 paid players are corners, 3 more are pass-rushers. Rush 4 or 5, occaisional blitz and play man. I wouldn't get too creative here - you will get burned occaisionally, but pressure leads to turnovers and thats probably going to be the difference here.

He has the ability to take over a game - and i'd consider him the only player on their offense with the capability of doing so. To me though, its at least as likely that their defense plays well and limits the buffalo offense. Lot of talent in that unit and they're healthy.

Addison lead the team in sacks and TFLs. Butler I feel was forced to play out of position, and jefferson has as well. The interior has been a mess and a lot of that is missing star on early downs. I don't think keeping both makes sense at this point - as i don't believe either has really outplayed or even pushed oliver that much. Addison is probably the one of the 3 i wouldn't release.

Allen seems to have the understanding of what to do after they shut the communication off though. If we tried that i think were getting gus/ricard/andrews and a lot of hurt. He had the same problem in San Francisco too.

I kinda like mckenzie more than stills as a receiver threat at this juncture. We already have 5 WRs with skill sets - Only way i think he goes, is if bease can't.