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Yeah. Love how the “friend” chooses to throw in the I told you so before yelling “run”. Aaaaannnnnd, too late. Classy move.

I’d bet that this has to do with the numerous injuries to QBs early this season. Goodell wants to keep scoring up and protect the ones that are left as well as the backups. Probably helps explain why the backups are doing well too.

“Precision isn’t the same as accuracy.” Ugh. ?

Hopefully the Bills remember that and don’t take this game lightly. Seems like it’d be easy to be looking ahead to the Pats*. Besides even bad teams can get pissed off about being 0-2. Glad this one is at home.

Why? You got something against Edge players who lack explosion?

How’s a conditional pick - a 4th that would become a 3rd with a games played stipulation sound? I’d do that when he can pass a physical.

1) Mayfield 2) Allen 3) Darnold 4) Jackson 5) Rosen 6) Everyone else Jackson is getting too much credit for destroying two terrible defenses - sorry one epically bad defense and one god awful defense - this season. He’ll come down to earth when he has to be a real NFL QB.

Correct. A suspended player does not count against the 53.

Yup. If teams allow it. The Raiders should have just suspended him indefinitely- or traded him to the Dolphins.

So many people ripping on AB. He played everyone. Wonder how quick he head gets straight now. It’ll be a miracle. As I noted, it’s the LeGarrette Blount play with the intermediate trade to the Raiders thrown in as a twist. I could not agree more

New England. Cleveland doesn’t need any more WRs. What if this was all a ruse to get himself to NE? Seems like a variant of the playbook LeGarrette Blount used to get from Pittsburgh to NE. AB just added the Raiders bit. Same problem child act to get out of where he was.

Won’t be crushed at all. Just need to go get our guy. Lots of other pieces in place for the team. No need to panic. But, reasonably, that’s the fear - that Allen is a bigger, more athletic version of Trubisky. But we don’t know what he is yet. Let’s give Allen the chance to show us who he can be and then make our judgements.

I totally expect the Raiders to be a train wreck. I was just explaining how it could’ve been worse.

It could have been a lot worse. Mayock only gave AB a $1M signing bonus. Imagine if he’d handed him a $10M or $20M check.

Required spend is a four year rolling average of CASH outlays that are equal to at least 89% of the annual cap limit. It’s pretty easy to stay over that limit due to the large signing bonuses some players get. edit: I said that it’s a rolling average because I’m assuming it will be rolling when the new CBA is in place. Right now it’s just the four year block up to 2020. (Thanks Colorado)

They could also go after him for that if he continues to refuse to play. Id think they would have to take him off suspension before not playing would be on him though.

No way do they release him outright. The Raiders can recoup the cap space for his guaranteed salary one game at a time by keeping him suspended. (Also they don’t have to pay it to him.) That'd be $914k per game for anyone counting. Two years worth of salary is guaranteed at that.

You couldn't possibly have meant "offer the man a fair contract".

Or trade for one that wants paid.

Kyle has earned enough that he should get to do what he wants to do. I highly doubt that includes 80 hour work weeks as an NFL coach. But if it does, more power to him. Maybe a cushy sideline or front office job would suit him though. Get him on camera for the team or make him a player liaison or something if he wants to stay around the team. It’d be nice to continue to see him involved in some way.

One thing to remember- acquiring a player like a stud WR can be done via trade. Just because there aren’t many WRs set to be FAs doesn’t mean we can’t find one that way. If Allen takes a good step forward this season I think McBean makes a push to complete the team.

Gentle

Not with the contract he’s asking for. No premium contracts or draft picks for RBs unless the NFL changes a lot of rules.

Draft or FA priorities: - #1 WR - CBs - Trent Murphy extension or replacement - Finish OL if needed - DL depth There are a few other lesser priorities like another RB, but those are what I have. There is some real money needed to do that, but we have plenty. More than enough. Here’s a link to a useful multi year view of contracts: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/yearly/cap/

Probably some sizable upfront money for Zeke and a huge contract number that his agent can tout to prospective clients.