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Not a fully licensed teacher. Usually they’re teaching aides.

Our safety duo is a strength of this defense. Hyde in particular is a top shelf safety. Poyer is good, but not on his level. Are they the top duo in the NFL? No, but they’re well beyond good enough. My only real concerns with the position is depth/injury and that Poyer will hold out this year for a contract well above his actual value.

Such a shame Well, those are his two good choices in his situation: Be gracious or go full out Manning. And it’s too soon to go Manning on the Bengals anyway. That’s only after your are unquestionably the pick at 1 and you’ve back channeled your way into an understanding with another top 5 drafting team. I don’t expect that, but there’s still time.

Gotta be honest, I don’t love the clamor for a big back. Give me a decently sized back with speed and the ability to catch the ball out of the backfield and I’m a lot happier.

Sitting around doing nothing at all. I’m honest when I say that that is better than I thought he’d be doing at this point. Three years ago I’d have bet on him being dead by now.

Methinks it has to do with players gutting it out and playing with injuries in a playoff year.

Yeah. How effed up is it that the NFL picks two teams that are playing both the AFC West and the NFC West to go to London to play each other? Ridiculous.

I’ll simply point out this. The 3 owner subcommittee who’s job it was to negotiate and recommend Goodell’s compensation package to the league owners for approval consisted of: Kraft, Rooney and Mara. Do you think it is coincidence that (even before I learned of this) the three teams that I’d have put at the top of the list of favoritism from the league were the Patriots, the Steelers and the Giants?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/20/comical-exchange-among-josh-norman-cam-newton-luke-kuechly-featured-new-season-all-or-nothing/%3foutputType=amp I will always think of this when I think of Luke Kuechly. That and great plays. But always this. “Who’s team you on?” Edit: can’t get it to embed for some reason. Definitely worth the watch.

That is horrible. I can see how this happened with the flu going around now. It kicked my ass. Thank God for Tamiflu.

I saw you were in Cali and was totally expecting something a lot more salacious.

A lot of effed up things happened until people stood up and made the people doing them stop. The attitude of “That’s just how things are” is just a way of validating those effed up things.

That’s all fair. Usually that’s what I would’ve said too. My reservation is what happened with Allen in the playoff game. He really panicked after his fumble. It’s not something that can continue to happen. The whole regular season he had a lot of pressure situations at the end of games and he never panicked like that. Obviously it was the most important game of his life and he didn’t play on a big stage in college. (Let’s face it, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl probably didn’t fully battle test him.). That’s not to say that he can’t step it up regardless, but maybe now isn’t the time to add onto the pressure by inviting a QB controversy. In general, yeah, I’m with you and I wouldn’t blame the Bills if they did pick up someone like Mariota, but I can see why they would want to show that they’re fully behind Allen and not push it right now.

Or sexual assault. Tomāto, tomáto.

Give them 20 years or so.......

Did you read the specific allegations? Here’s hoping that isn’t standard hazing. I’d lose my **** if anyone pulled that on my kids. Also Franklin is a defendant. It’s in the first paragraph of the story. The suit was filed against Penn State University, coach James Franklin and former player Damion Barber.

If a QB is working out with a private coach like Palmer you can bet that coach and the QB’s team are on the same page with the training. If not, there’s real problems somewhere.

I don’t want us to sit on our pick for a WR unless there are a bunch of similarly rated ones. If we have one that we like a lot better than others and he’s in range, then go get him. There’s almost nothing the Bills can do in FA to fill that need adequately (though we will do something) and the other 31 teams know we will be taking one early. I don’t want another team to jump us for him.

You’d make a guy who wasn’t even a starter last year - and barring injury wouldn’t be in 2020 - a captain? WOW! I don’t understand why you’d want to do that.

Yup. A #1 WR is a bigger overall need of the team, but DE should be more pressing in FA. Just not a lot of options to improve at starting DE where we are sitting in the draft. We can probably find a rotational guy somewhere, but that’s a crap shoot. Finding a WR in this draft is the way to go. So much depth in this class. We might want to sneak up a little in the first or a lot in the second round to make sure we get our guy, but there’s a lot to chose from. No need to pay big money to get a FA that isn’t elite since there aren’t any. RB to back up Singletary shouldn’t be tough to find in FA or the draft. I’d probably draft one in the middle rounds unless a stud fell to me in the second and WR and OL were in good shape or not good values. OL is trickier. We are going to need to do some real work in both FA and the draft as we have a lot of guys coming off of their contracts. I’d have no problem going with a big ugly in the first or second and then again later in the draft. CB doesn’t get mentioned a lot but I’d love to see us bring in another one who is starting caliber. I’d pony up in FA a bit for that too. Additionally DT, LB and S could use some depth. That 3rd DE is really important. I don’t think Phillips is going to be worth what he’s going to get paid, but there will be other guys out there. Oh yeah, I forgot. I’m always looking for TEs too. Load up where there’s value.

You could trade him, but you’re not going to get much for him since he would be on the last season of his deal. He is due a $6.1M salary and $100k w/o bonus on top of the $1M roster bonus. (The Bills are taking the $1.75M cap hit from the signing bonus regardless). I don’t see why people are so ready to dump him though. He’s underperformed his contract, sure. But he’s improved lately and he’s worth keeping around for $7.2M unless we find someone better. Even then a case could easily be made to keep him around for one more season to be part of a 3 DE rotation - and then yield a comp pick. I’m just not a fan of thinning out our Edge position. It’s too important, and we saw what having a gimpy Hughes did to our rush from the edge. Kudos to him for gutting it out. Seriously. What he did all season was impressive, but he wasn’t himself. I don’t want to be one play away from something like that again.

If we pay Murphy the $1M roster bonus, then cut him, his dead money would rise to $2.75M (that $1M has to be accounted for in the cap). Keeping him would be $6.1M more. Barring some crazy incident (i.e. AB, Chung, Garrett) there’s no way we cut him after paying the bonus.

The only issue there is players with roster bonuses. Notably Murphy and Hughes each have one due on 3/22/20 plus Spotrac shows Hughes salary in 2020 guaranteed. So Hughes isn’t going anywhere and neither is Murphy unless a replacement can be found right away in FA. Heck, we need 3 quality DEs so I’m good if we bring in a high end DE and keep both for a season.

Yeah. That’s pretty standard operating procedure for teams. Get at least serviceable starters under contract at all positions and then the draft becomes more about long term gains, not just filling needs. It also helps keep other teams from easily discerning your targets in the draft. I agree with the OP that Edge should be the #1 FA priority. It’s not a great draft for the position so finding an upgrade to what we have there is not likely - at least not in the near term. It’s going to cost big, but it’s our only real way to upgrade at Edge this offseason unless a trade option comes into play.

Our offense wasn’t ready.