Bleeding Bills Blue

Yep - at the end of the day a few of the teams in need of QBs this year after the QB carousel would probably be interested. I'm sure pittsburgh would be interested if the price was right. Same with New Orleans, Vegas, LAC, or Carolina.

Cardinals did it with new coaching staff... and they don't seem to regret doing it. You have a shot at a QB many thought was a consensus #1 draft pick a year ago... why wouldn't you do it?

This is very true - you get to train with a team instead of on your own. You get to put more film out there that might convince teams to sign you at the end of the season. If you don't sign a futures deal at the end of the NFL season - you have this as your way of playing football in the spring. It doesn't pay super well, but by the end of april the seasons over and teams will have something to watch to determine whether you're worth signing.

I love how much stock gets put in the combine - and how many mistakes likely get made because of it. There's some combination of the "quality of athlete" that the combine provides, the film which shows who they are, and your scouts and GM determining what they can become.

Jeffersons interesting because he did a lot from the slot. Do his skills translate to a z type receiver?

I do wonder what tyreke hill would have run had he been invited. I haven't completely given up on ross but its not looking good. He just had his best season, and it wasn't good. This is also combine only speed - so taking out all the pro day people who have run some 4.30's.

I think the XFL will prove an alternative for some young players with different circumstances, but i agree it will mostly consist of washouts. Which is fine - there will be some cool redemption stories to come out of it, and honestly the football is fine. I believe they were floating AFC home 1 year, and NFC home the next and having the 17th game be inter-conference based on the division finish the previous year.

Didn't we trade him to move up in a draft? i doubt he'd be interested in a reunion. Teams always need oline depth - he'll get a job.

I dunno - DK metcalf?

I mean - are you paying him pennies on the dollar on a 1 year deal? he has a career catch rate thats lower than anderson and perriman. Doesn't offer the same speed. Played in 1 game last year.

Well... we picked him up off the scrap heap. Gave him a reasonable prove-it 1 year deal. He earned the right to try and get the big contract. Tre and allen are cornerstone players who are expected to be here long haul.

I expect to overpay - but i have a hard time making a non pro-bowl player the highest paid at his position. At the same time - free agency is a wasteland at left tackle.

I said somewhat. Its a loaded program, i just wouldve liked to see i dunno 1000 yards? More than 4 100 yard games in 3 seasons? Yeah - they aren't really that comparable other than that they are very fast. Just saying - don't want to be the team that did things like... Take zay over juju and kupp. Or traded up for watkins instead of just sitting pat for evans or beckham. This ones gotta be right ?

Not at all. Thats watkins all over again jumping up in a deep positional draft.

One should hope thats a word of warning. I suppose he still has a chance to be a good player, but so far hes been a pretty huge whiff. Ruggs lack of production is somewhat of a red flag to me.

I just think the sample size of him playing well is really small. 3 teams in 4 years doesn't look particularly promising either. 95 catches in 195 targets... If I'm his agent i measure by guaranteed money and convince him to take the highest one, i dont know that he gets another chance if he doesn't do well on this deal.

Something happened that day - my wife and i were driving to meet friends at the jake for the draft and she asked who i wanted to draft. All the time leading up to the draft i had been heavily for josh rosen.. but that day i just said - i want josh allen. So needless to say, i was pleased.

They said it would be against the other conference. In year 1 the AFC hosts the extra game, in year 2 the NFC hosts the extra game. Would be rotating based on divisional finish, excluding the division that you are already playing. So the idea is to continue to increase parity by forcing the best teams to play another hard game. Makes getting that single first round bye a bit harder for an NFC team if you now have to play say, the AFC east, and you finished first so you have to play the chiefs too.

Yeah - was like GM fantasy camp for a year.

I wouldn't look at a player like this as a safety. The idea is he's basically playing OLB, nickel corner, Safety... wherever he's needed on a given play. Sort of how the chargers use derwin james.

BPA means... don't use the pick at 22 for a WR because of a perceived need at WR. It means pick the player you believe is the best on your board. If the guy can be a troy polamalu type of game changing defender who you have to gameplan for - i'm in.

I mean - we traded a lot of players before contracts ended. If phillips, lawson, johnson and spain all sign market deals we'd be in line for a couple in 2021. Depends if buffalo retains any, or where the replacement players contracts fall on the salary scale. Would you rather cut murphy and keep lawson, or keep murphy and get say a 4th round pick in 2021? Targeting players who are cut also allows you to get your comp picks. Or trading for players that teams are considering cutting due to salary cap constraints. The only way it would work is if all 4 of our free agents sign elsewhere, and buffalo only say signs 2 big deal free agents. Meanwhile they extend milano, white, and maybe poyer. They'd still hit a net loss of 4-2. I wouldn't focus on it unless one or 2 get above market deals though. I'm not limiting my team because i might get a 2021 6th round pick. You won't get the 3rd unless they're in the top 10 of contracts, and they wont be.

When he was signed though everyone said we overpaid for an injury prone former brown so... yeah - if his oline is the same as allens in 2018 i think mahomes would have struggled.

The value of the 1.4 billion is mostly tied up in being in that specific club of billionaires. It's basically a hedge fund that is guaranteed to A- make you annual profit and B- guaranteed to go up in value should you ever decide to sell. Reinvestment into things like a field house and gym all do nothing but likely increase the value of your asset. A stock has no value until you sell it either. Bill Gates is worth 112 billion dollars, but the majority of that is tied up in hedge funds. These increase the value of that 112 billion, but in the same way - there's no actual physical value to it.

Cap goes up - contracts go up