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BarleyNY

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  1. Excellent five part series in USA Today on how the best DCs are finding new (and rediscovering old) ways to put pressure on QBs. Part 3 is on Belichick’s Cover 0 and man, is he an evil genius. Lots of good stuff. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/08/getting-home-blitzing-nfl
  2. I agree with you. It seems like the deal has already been struck with the $175M floor, which seems like a better solution anyway. The biggest issue with taking on that kind of debt would’ve been if something like this happened again or, god forbid, were to continue through 2021. The current deal avoids that bigger issue.
  3. The real problem is that the CBA already states how the cap is determined. The NFL (owners) can’t change that without approval from the NFLPA (players). While I agree that a cap decrease would hurt some teams and some players, it’ll be welcomed by some teams. The owners are going to have to agree on something before taking it to the players - and that might be easier said than done. There are real issues with some owners having the cash to do something like keeping the cap artificially high. A reasonable option to keep the cap flat would be for the NFL to issue debt like bonds and/or loans from large banks to make up the revenue difference for 2020. Then they’d pay that back over the remaining 9 seasons of the CBA. The payments would be deducted from the future revenue and thus lower the players’ cut (cap) in those future years. The NFL certainly has the fiscal strength to carry a couple billion in debt and the expected increase in revenues from new TV deals starting in 2022 would help smooth things out nicely. It could work if everyone wants it to.
  4. We should sit pretty tight IMO. There are going to be some tremendous bargains next offseason due to a lowered cap and a bunch of teams having to create a lot of space. Free agency and the trade market for high priced players will both be buyer’s markets. I would still extend Tre in a way that deferred his big hits to 2022 and beyond though. That won’t hurt us. Things have a chance to get ugly between owners. Teams like Philly are going to ask for special rules to help them through their cap situation. Teams like the Bills who are flush with space will not be having any of that. I suspect that the latter group will win out.
  5. I would hate it except in the event of one situation. There is a reason Belichick paid large for Gilmore - an elite CB is worth the money. Not all positions or players are, but CB Tre White is. Save money almost anywhere else, but not there, QB or pass rusher. The one hypothetical situation I’d pull the trigger on would be if Allen were to bust and we were to trade Tre to get a franchise QB or elite QB prospect. We aren’t in that position, but getting your QB is the only reason to trade a young, elite CB.
  6. I see a lot of people make the same mistake Garofolo did there. Moving a little money forward in Diggs’ deal was doing him a solid. That’s all fine. But it doesn’t help the team at all. That’s because of carryover. $3M spent now or $3M carried over for two seasons and then spent is little different. In normal times moving cap hits to future years does have a benefit because the cap usually increases so the team gets a bit of a discount percentage wise. As for Diggs’ deal I suspect that he got a bunch of his 2020 salary as a signing bonus. That will actually create more cap space this season and next.
  7. I know people here love to hate on PFF, but they had Wallace rated 41st among CBs. If accurate, that does place him comfortably in the top half of CB2s. I’ll sure take that going forward. As for Norman, I certainly think he was worth rolling the dice on for obvious reasons.
  8. There’s a big difference here. Football under normal conditions has players taking health risks that have been accurately conveyed to them (recently with regards to CTE at least) and that they deem acceptable. Football under current conditions not only increased the risk to players, but also extended risks to the families - not to mention team staff members, their families, referees, production workers, etc. That needed a separate agreement - which they’ve reached - so I’m good with the NFL giving it a go.
  9. Nothing wrong with adding a player like Winters at this time. He replaces the depth we lost with Feliciano’s injury. Happy to see the signing. For those complaining about the quality of his play, there aren’t a lot of high end offensive linemen out there right now. Beane did what he could.
  10. Adams does not have a history of problem behavior. The Jest do. What are we, two years removed from the Osemele fiasco? That’s where the team supplied an old MRI tof his shoulder to him so it wouldn’t show his injury and he Would keep playing rather than get surgery. It’s also the organization with an owner who might be heading to jail soon. I do not blame Adams one bit for finding a way out of there.
  11. I’m interested in seeing how Wallace and Norman play this year. If they play well and we stay healthy (knock, knock) then the secondary could be very special.
  12. Adams is an elite safety who can play the pass, the run and rush the passer. He did the smart thing by finding a way off of a train wreck of a team. And while you’re right that the GM has been swapped out, I’d remind you that the owner and HC are the same and that the owner was the one said to be pushing for those two deals. So the GM switch isn’t all that meaningful.
  13. Just unbelievably bad contract for the Jest. It’ll be interesting to see how their strategy of massively overpaying for free agents at LB (Mosley) and RB (Bell) while trading away their elite safety (Adams) works out. Maybe rolling the dice on questionable players across their entire OL will help.
  14. Totally agree. Most people aren’t interested in informed debate or even determining what’s really right, they just want to argue their uninformed, preconceived opinion.
  15. Thanks for the info. That’s really a shame.
  16. He’d come out way ahead taking his money this season and signing even a vet minimum deal next season - and he will get more than that if he plays. Also don’t forget that players who opt out this season are only getting an advance on their contract that is paid next season. Plus he doesn’t have to worry about being cut before next season and losing out on his salary. He even has the option to retire after this season whereas he’d have to play in 2021 to get his money if he opted out. There is really no upside at all for him to opt out.
  17. The OL was okay with Feliciano, but it was not exactly a team strength IMO. Without him I agree that it’s weaker. The Bills were pretty lucky with injuries last season and I don’t think we can count in that again. Another OL starter goes down - especially Dawkins or Morse - and the OL will be a big weakness. I’d hate to see it derail a promising season and impact Allen’s development and evaluation.
  18. I wonder if they’re having another test done or getting a second doctor’s opinion before announcing? Just to be 100% certain.
  19. It was that bad of a contract. The reworked one made it better but the original was an absolutely horrible contract for the Bills. Again, it’s not what we’ve typically seen from Beane but he screwed the pooch on that one.
  20. Ive said it a hundred times. That contract was ridiculous. I’ve liked what Beane has done overall, but that was worthy of firing a GM over.
  21. No. Maybe traded tho. He has $7M in fully guaranteed salary in his next two seasons. His whole $4.5M salary in 2020 (or 2021 with opt out) and and $2.5M of his following year’s salary are guaranteed. Unless he is a total liability then there is really no way he won’t play at least one more season. Unless the Bills trade him that is.
  22. Lewis and his two friends murdered two men, then fled the scene, paid off their limo driver and destroyed evidence of their crimes. Lewis claims that he wasn’t directly involved in the murders, but I am skeptical. Seems likely that the two poor, anonymous guys took the whole fall for the murders and the rich and famous guy skated.
  23. It’s often like this: There’s the generation that grew up poor and made the money. They have a strong work ethic and remember where they came from. There’s the generation that watched that happen and remember being poor as children. They usually retain much of the same ethics as their parents even though things were much easier for them as they grew up. Then there’s the third generation that only knew wealth and privilege. That’s usually the hard slide from a work ethic and morals standpoint and is when money gets pissed away. The Chinese have a saying for that cycle: Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations.
  24. This is fantastic news.
  25. Gase isn’t the right leader for any organization. Hiring him was just another sign that the Jest are as dysfunctional as ever. They’re a true reflection of their owner. Jamal Adams wants out and I do not blame him one bit.
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