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I don't think this would ever apply. We were over the base cap of 177 last year - isn't it 89% over a 4 year period? I also thought it was cap spending as in - spending to the cap minimium, not adding in the previous years cap space. Dead money counts too.

League minimum for a UDFA back is about 500K. Thats 1.5 mil in cap savings - and rookies usually suck at blocking... playbooks... etc. They aren't prepared to carry the load in case of injury etc.

I mean - Ivory will be released. That is like a 100% certainty.

He's 25 years old and an all-pro - but there are a lot of free agent safeties. May have wanted to strike while the irons hot.

Theres a lot of million dollars in his deal

Or if a premier guy falls because of a run on QBs - could maybe be a target for a trade down.

I'd kinda like to draft OL at 9 anyway - whether the guy plays guard or tackle - he should be a solid starter for 5 years. Currently we only have what - 1 drafted starter and 1 drafted bench player? Need some young guys to bring along.

He only played in 6 games last year? Must've been a sick 6 games.

Every time - it gets better every time.

If he's alright being milano's backup then i guess i'm game. Corey Thompson was all sorts of bad.

Underwhelming - but the cupboard behind wallace/johnson/white was pretty bare so I get it.

Ugh. I hate this. I slightly hate it less seeing that he averaged 4.6 per carry a year ago. An upgrade over Ivory - but I want to see them turn this offense into... an offense. Not a run and punt offense.

I love how people put up the "there's nothing to do there" argument. 90% of the time people are just at home, watching TV, or playing around on their phone. I can afford to go on 2 vacations a year - I own a home on a relatively modest income - I can get drunk places for like 25 dollars if I so desire - 2 Pro sports teams if that's your thing. There's a really neat bar scene here, lots of good food choices, shea's if you like live theater. The only thing I wish was that there was a better music scene. Rapids theater is awful, and the town ballroom is too small for mid-tier acts. The local bands also all mostly kind of suck. Not much original stuff coming out of here, and we don't bring in a lot of good stuff. But the "nothing to do" people never really bring up the things that they do. Is it like - boating? Do you boat a lot? Or hiking or something? Cuz if all you do is go to bars on the weekend (as most people in boston/ny/miami do) then you can do that here. Hell you can do that pretty much anywhere.

I dunno - his complete lack of turnovers seems to prohibit tanking. You would want an interception machine if truly tanking. I would think fitzpatrick would be a better choice. Move parker or stills - or both. Fitz easily puts up 20+ picks, the total lack of pass rush, and the presence of Kiko should be enough to get you to 2 wins.

Yeah - can't turn off the salary cap though...

He was the one i most wanted - but im not approaching it anywhere near khalil mack in trade compensation.

Yeah - they don't have a ton of high picks in 2019 and will need some more comp picks in 2020 so it makes sense to go after a cap casualty. Suh, Joyner, Saffold, Anderson, Fowler - that should net them a few in 2020 though.

Amazing that the guy didn't show up - we dumped him for a 5th that we used to package to get stroud. But the original trade was walker + 7th for takeo spikes and holcomb. And somehow that 7th was Stevie Johnson. So I think we won a trade, where the guy we traded for didn't even show up.

Yep - probably net the 3rd round comp pick for flowers. Not to mention guys like trent brown, malcolm brown and shelton should net comp pick compensation. Can extend Bennett if they need cap room. Can go after cut players like malik jackson and eric weddle, who have no impact on the comp pick formula. Oh and they have 6 of the first 101 picks in THIS draft ? - so they can add... rotational defensive linemen, secondary depth, offensive line depth, coverage/tweener OLB, WRs, or TEs

Sneaky solid deal. Replaced Flowers, didn't give up much in the form of draft compensation. They'll probably recoup it all to trade down half a round. He was a cut candidate anyway with the eagles pushed right against the cap. Moving him and letting jernigan and foles walk gives the eagles some ability to address WR2/3 (if they move on from agholor, or decide to bring back tate), RB1, and their secondary. Oline is getting a bit up there in age too.

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I blame St. Doug!

The big thing I liked was that they shot their shot and made moves necessary to get out of "QB Purgatory" and get Allen. They have committed to this kid more than Whaley ever did with EJ, and they'll likely make no excuses if it fails. They didn't make ill-advised commitments based off of small sample sizes - or extend mediocre flawed QBs. They did a real crap job with him in year 1 - no stable vets, lousy WRs, and holes all along the o-line. I don't think they're going to be able to solve all of those problems in a year, but what encouraged me was how they evolved as the season went along. They added WRs who fit a new role in Mckenzie and Foster, and cut loose vets that didn't work out. Hopefully this communication came from Daboll that - we need to beat man coverage more consistently, we need more consistent effort, we need to get more creative, we need to adjust our approach because of the lack of production. It was refreshing to see after years of guys like Dennison forcing a system on players and watching said system inevitably fail. Year 2 needs to be a continuation of that evolution: Using motion to create mismatches, improvements on the o-line to help allen with blitz identification, wide receivers who can separate out of their breaks - and who put in that extra effort to get open when the QB scrambles. Allen's year 2 step needs to be improving on timing, mechanics, and pocket awareness. He needs to get a LOT better at the easy stuff. For Beane though - this shows me he is willing to play aggressively. He's not afraid to bring in anyone who he thinks could help the team win games.

Yeah - I tend to value your opinion MAJBobby because it differs from that of the majority. It's not just that though - you also tend to have your opinion rooted in stats/analysis or in things that others may try and turn their eyes away from. At the same time, on Sundays - you root for the team to win. I hate people that want to be right so badly that they are willing to root against their own team to prove their point. I don't think that you think this way. You've just been let down for.. however long you have been alive and continue to support the team anyway. I think the new regime has shown that it has an idea where it stands as a franchise in the NFL, and have gone about trying to rebuild that perception. Until they do, I entirely support your opinion to have a negative opinion of the front office. The Bills have burned every one of us... so many times. They've hired idiots, done things for money purposes only, and have been playing catch-up for like 20 years.

Fair enough - what was the market like for him though? I guess he could've stood his ground but maybe this gets him a chance to re-establish his value. Denver may have just sat him for the year - thus killing his value.