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Most vets who have had big pay days can't turn on the fire in the belly anymoe. But, Hughes, still can turn it on, so I advocate keeping him. Hyde same. Morse is a strange situaton, not sure there. Brown has lost speed/burst, but that may be the injuries not yet healed totally. Sometimes, months are need to recover, not weeks. If Brown goes, it will be after the Bills see how he looks in the late spring. He might come back, he didn't have burst/separation in the playoffs. Butler and Jefferson are typical of the vets that will be impacted by the lower CAP. Addison is a little different. Still, the Bills will need DT and DE's to play their system. Rookies and free agents will have to be in play to let those two go. Bean has a tough job ahead, and McD will also have a role as consiglieri to Bean on the personel moves.(in addition to Beans staff) I also think Daboll and Frazier are in the conversations. Most decisions have input from the whole org imho. Seems like Beans style.

This guy could play when healthy. He made a big mistake, imho, opting out based on how the season went. the NFL got it done through difficult dircumstances, but few were seriously ill (Sweeney being one exception) He will land somewhere in the NFL, maybe Jets. OH, I forgot, I think all he got was the $150K the opt outs got, not the 1.25 Million.

The Cap will tell us who stays. I think Roberts is gone, and bills go back to Mc Kenzie for returns. He really is a returner and a receiver.

A week of rest would not have helped Beasley's broken leg. (fibula)

If the CAP drops to 175, watch the action then...all around the league.

Allen and reps will have to balance a current offer in the CAP constrained pandemic season of 2021 vs a potential CAP recovery in future years. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The is Bean territory, and he needs to get this one right once again. In the end, Allen will be with the Bills a long time...and get a Mahones like deal. I hope he i s happy in Buffalo, I keep remembering he is a SOCAL kid. But, a rural SOCAL kid.

Wasabi is Japanese horseradish......and is usually green. If you like Japanese food, you know the taste. I have had the peas, and yes, they will 'Kick you up a notch"

A bad year for those wanting to break contracts to get more money, even if the performance is there. With the CAP likely going down, there will be carnage on the rosters, and a lot of vetrans will be w/o jobs. Good news for the 2021 draftees, most will stick if they can play at all as they will be cheap. Even good news for undrafted free agents. It going to make many vetrans who think they can get more to settle for the vet minimum....if they are so lucky to get an offer. guys like Allen will get theres....and, eventually, so will Diggs to some degree. Of course, Diggs could pull a Jason Peters or a Jarious byrd, but, this time around, we have seen that move, and I hope Beane has the answer. I think the answer is let them sit, although, we learned they can report late and play lousy. In the NFL, nobody honors their contract if they have a case for more money. this time around, though, there may not be loose change around to do that I am thinking. Look for Diggs to show the last week of training camp.

Not as dull as Jauron's were.

Wrong. The goal was to WIN in the Super Bowl, not just go there.

Lots of truth here....but, the receiver group was really dinged up. All w physical problems. I read to day Beasley played the playoffs with a broken fibula. (smaller bone in the leg) tough guy, yes. could somebody else have done better if 100% healthy? How about McKenzie? Diggs oblilque problems. Brown leg problems. Davis ankle problems. the guys of the practice squad who were healthy might have brought the separation that was missing. KC was faster. Faster than the gimpy receivers. Now, the O line....terrible....need a rework there for sure. Need a running back. Yeldon saw almost first action of the year, and looked miles better than Singletary who is likely not an NFL back imho. to slow, to small. shifty...ok, I will buy that. So, Josh can't do it all. The receivers were game, but I could see signs of the pain and lack of burst from the whole lot. Where oh where was Kenny Sills. on the 53 but not active.

Your summary is correct. three dinged receivers, and that doesn't count Diggs oblique. But, also a O line that couldn't keep allen clean and, a D that could stop the Chiefs O. What what's with Hughes and D Johnson out in coverage. Those guys looked like statues out there w the db's and wr's.

Inaccurate pictorial.....Allen is taller than Mahones by a couple of inches.

With the lower cap next year, Sammy won't be in KC.....will be looking for a home for a lot less money, and possibly may be done.

Only if Bass gets hurt....which we learned last year can happen as Haush went down...ended his career really. Especially w Bass who thinks he is a football player and will try to make a tackle. (good for him really)

Being a business oriented paper, the WSJ has few if any sports articles, but occasionally they have something. The writers are not usually sports guys as a profession when they do this....more business perspective than many.

I hope this board can open this link. good article. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bills-chiefs-josh-allen-stefon-diggs-11611261040?mod=hp_featst_pos5

I thought that all coaches below the level of Head Coach were considered equilivant level, and interview c ould be refused. Of course, if its an opportunity to move up in responsibility I am guessing the Bills would promote his interests and let him interview. In the corporate world I was in for 35 years, you could keep such an individual from interviewing for another lateral position if you had plans to promote them within one year.

Some folks of that name in Niagara Falls as well.

I was there...top 1 or 2 for sure. Has anybody mentioned "the hit".....in the 60's when Bills lb Mike Stratton put a shoulder into the ribs of Keith Lincoln in the afc title game, and broke is ribs. Bills were winners that day, the photo of the hit was around for three or four decades. Younger posters here won't remember, of course.

In our family, we call him 4th quarter Josh....because he is always pulling it out when its needed. He really did that in Arizona this year as well with that c onnection to Diggs....only to lose to the hail mary event. I hope this y ear is the first of a number for him, the team seems to have the capability. Not only the players, but the coaches are right imho. So, like most of us, we are all in on Josh.

Not sure about the D side. Edmunds, Milano are both important and coming up soon. The dip in the cap for next year will hurt retention for sure. We are gonna need some good draft picks who can play some. But, playing rookies isn't McD's style (yeh, ok, Moss) I wonder about Edmunds...good sometimes, but , not in the same class as Allen. Problem is I t hink objective thought by Bean/McD might be clouded here because Edmunds was their first round pick. Same problem with Ford, although on the hoof he does look like a tackle. If I were Josh's negotiator, I would wait for the cap to go back up to get the best deal for him. Josh will be paid, likely 20odd percent of the cap......easier way to think about it. 25% of 175 mil is about 40. But, 25% of 200 is 50.......we'll see.

Kumerow is back....if he cleared the COVID protocols. He spent enough time w the Bills to know the playbook. He did catch one for a TD I recall. So, imho, he was resigned because of the perhaps 12 weeks he was with us. Sills is a talent, but, the bills have a big playbook, and he has only two weeks to learn it. So, if we need a callup, Jake may be it. And K can help on special teams as well.

Quite a well traveled year he is having...in order the Packers, the Bills, the Saints, and now the Bills again.

Almost but not really.