Bleeding Bills Blue

Would you rather - keep gilmore and draft a WR in the first. Or sign Jeffrey (i know we can't guarantee that happens obviously), and draft a CB in the first? Assuming $$ is similar.

One of them is their starting LG Joe Thuney. The other is that Mitchell kid who mixed it up with our guys. Probably their 4th receiver. Long is playing - Ninkovich was suspended. He's in their End rotation with Sheard, Ninkovich, and Flowers. It was a deeper position there, and he was going to want a massive raise. Cooper was on the last year of a rookie deal - 5th year option not picked up - and will be a free agent. Costs the same to get rid of him, and he's probably just interior depth the rest of the way.

If you want money to sign people - Cutting KW - 1.5 Dead - saves 6.8 million + the 6 million or so we'll carry over + at least 15 million in regular cap space (with TT under contract). and you're at 27.8 million. Do we give half to Gilmore? Or we could try to save a little money and go after more affordable replacements. Then keep Z-brown/Lorax, and add a receiver or two and double down on TT development. You can't keep everyone, and it becomes letting players walk when they want more than you feel they deserve. New England has built a great team, by not overpaying players. Trade chandler jones for a player and a pick, flip the pick into 2 picks, and use the cap savings to sign chris long. Massive Value there. Also - this would be the 3rd year in a row where we'd have to use the tag to keep someone. That hamstrings your cap while you hammer out an extension (if you do). So that means we won't be able to go after Free agent receivers, safeties, tight ends etc. until the market simmers and we can get them cheap. It comes down to keeping KW, or Gilmore to me. I don't think TT goes anywhere because there isn't a viable replacement strategy.

Lin also Joseph was in blockable in this game. Was in the backfield all game. Not even fair

Richie hasn't been great, Glenn's been hurt, and CK wasn't like, noticeably bad... I'll take it

To be fair they got their starting LG Joe Thuney and Malcolm Mitchell from the 2nd round pick (traded to N.O for their 3rd/4th). Is Cooper still hurt? or just no good? Either way - they got rid of stork and have better depth than they had a year ago. Chris Long's looked solid so far this year too.

Kids a warrior - he'd sling it... and probably fumble and intercept his way to a loss. Penalties certainly hurt his game (the personal foul was a bit ticky tack to me - they pushed each other one time after a play... corners/receivers get away with worse). But i thought he blocked really well, and what he said was basically that we were more physical from start to finish. Which was true.

Only way New England was getting back in that game was a turnover or big play. They had neither. We had penalties kill us in the red zone on at least 2 of those FG drives. Another one i remember we went super conservative and ran right into them.

Exactly - TT lines up under center, sees something he likes/helps set blocking for the line and yells out a change and motions himself out.

I think Indianapolis might be a good landing spot. Pagano's terrible, and they need a GM who know's what he's doing. But they have Luck - and that helps a lot.

We got a cabelas. Wanna poop there? Don't get the buffalo hate, I've been to mass. It's fine. Boston is like 20 dollar beer night every night, but it's pretty cool.

Sorry, but hogan had 2 handfuls of bills jersey on that opening play. Pi or not, they're gonna call that, it was the lane that Edelman ran through

I don't know that much about pregame football. But offenses and defenses warm up on separate sides of the field. Why are u repeatedly running through the other teams drill? U can run to midfield and turn around...? Seems like they wanted to piss us off. Looks like it backfired.

He converted several 3rd and longs today with some clutch scrambling and passing. Threw some away on some other scrambles. I thought he played well. Woudlve liked to put the pedal to the metal a bit more in the 2nd half. But we won 2 without Sammy, and woods and clay both had a few nice 1st down plays, and we outsmarted them in the red zone. Can't really complain. 15 passing 1st downs. May be the same amount we had in weeks 1-3

I like that he's delegating more. He's more in tune with what's going on on the field, and I think rob is part of why he's comfortable doing it. He won a challenge on a really poor spot, and seemed to have better awareness on both sides of the team whether it was going back to the wildcat, or dialing in a blitz.

Um. Good point?

By most people's grades, we had an excellent draft this year. Esp considering Seymour looked alright, and washing tons been getting a fair amount of snaps. We also added an upside qb, which is something we never do... And needed. Jonathan Williams looked like a solid value pick. All in all actually a pretty solid looking draft.

Between free agency, and overpaid guys getting cut. The list looks better for next year. Also the draft. Expect us to have a totally revamped wr corps.

On the bills. Qb if it's there, if not add a receiver in the first 2 rounds. Maybe a pass rusher or corner. Trade back, not up. Trade up to make the initial splash. Trade back when u have job security.

Antonio brown doesn't fall into this study and he's the best player in the league

Way I look at it. If u overspend for one. Ur forced to use later round picks to fill in the depth. Dareus contract and Glenn's franchise tag hamstrung out cap so we couldn't sign anyone, and we cheaped out in hogans rfa tender. Sucks but there's nothing we can do now

Yeah - strange that we haven't really invested picks in that position... We certainly used to. Moulds, Price, even Josh reed. Thats a 1 and two 2's on WRs in a like 4 or 5 year period. At the same token - we've drafted a receiver in each of the past 3 drafts. 1 cost 2 first roudn picks. Then a 6th and 7th in listenbee and Dez lewis. When you overspend on one, its hard to keep spending tons of draft resources on more. Some decent free agents next year - especially if we decide we want to use a lot of draft capital on a QB.

Not sure who does the contracts... but the depth at receiver could've been helped had we given hogan the extra 900K and a 2nd round tender. No way he gets touched there, then we have an extra receiver who we like. That was a pretty bad mistake, seeing the guys we trotted out this preseason. But i can't say for sure that Whaley was behind it, because i don't work there. Easy to blame Whaley on something that could absolutely have been Overdorf. Overpaying clay sucks... but it's not like he's legit terrible. He's a starting TE, just not much of a playmaker in the offense we have. The problem with just tanking in the NFL, is usually you get fired. So why would I as a GM want to tank, when i know i won't be around for the rebuild? That's why teams are constantly rebuilding...

On April 30th, everyone blew up that we had the best draft in 10 years. We added need and value. Shaq is hurt - that sucks, but he was a top 3 pass rusher in the class. Ragland is hurt - Also sucks, but he was a projected starting MLB, thumping tackler, and leader. Washington - He's been pretty good Cardale - We drafted a project QB, who actually has ability and isn't some Jeff Tuel loser. Jonathan Williams - at the time seemed dumb, now that we've cut Karlos, seems like a smart move Listenbee - Upside receiver with a pre-existing injury- non-issue since at least half the round is practice squad guys Seymour - Solid depth CB who made our active roster over a few FA pickups Even with the injuries - its a freakin good draft! Couple it with Corey white and Zach Brown signings who have both been solid. Oh - and keeping Glenn last year. Negotiating a solid TT deal that has team protection. He's set the team up as best he can without a QB. There wasn't one to draft at 19 anyway.

Gronk fell to the 2nd round because he had a back problem. We don't have him because we didn't draft a player with a pre-existing injury... We drafted a guy who was probably our favorite pass rusher on the board. At 19... Thats pretty solid value. Then in the 2nd we get a guy who we projected as a starter, and leader in our defense. And in the 3rd we added a quality rotation end for a 3-4. Before the injuries - we had the BEST DRAFT EVER. Now people are injured and its fire Whaley.