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Maybe right at the trade deadline if a team with a good kicker is tanking. Still very unlikely unless the compensation is absurd. That is about the only chance at this. So, no, not happening.

Awesome fine. Thank you for posting.

A lot of praise and hype often follow once the talking heads find out who the #1 pick is going to be. There was far too much of that for Young. I’m sure some actually believed it, but there were some that didn’t buy into it. So it wasn’t a consensus. For the record I thought that taking any 5’10” QB anywhere close to #1 overall was stupid and that Stroud was the easy choice at 1. He had potential for greatness whereas Young’s ceiling was “serviceable starter”. I had a number of posts to that effect. The Brees comparisons were lazy and inaccurate. He’s the successful “short” QB that always seems to be the comparison for every short QB prospect. But Brees is 6’ 0-1/2”, not 5’10”. And he’s still a unicorn.

As others have said, it was Tepper. The HC and GM wanted Stroud from the rumors I heard at the time. Tepper saddling them with his poor choice for a QB didn’t stop him from blaming and firing them for it.

I don’t think they intentionally put him at risk back in ‘20. It’s too self-defeating to do that. I think it was error/incompetence. Same result tho. But this is another data point in teams paying second tier (or lesser) QBs market prices. It almost never works out for the team. It can get the GM and coaches an extension though.

I would think that if Tua retires for health reasons he’d work with the Dolphins to spread the cap hits out and ease some of the considerable pain.

All money already paid, but not yet accounted for must hit the cap. That’s the remaining signing bonus cap hit. Also all future guaranteed money must be paid and accounted for on the cap. IMO there would be no basis for the team to sue Tua for any of that if he retired due to legitimate injury. So who’s going to argue that it wouldn’t be legit?

The NFLPA is the weakest of the players’ unions in major league sports. MLB has had the strongest. NFL owners have fought tooth and nail to limit contract guarantees, keep fifth year options for first round picks and keep franchise and transition tags in play.

Got a few morsels of info: - Watson pursuit was led by Haslam and Depodesta - League is looking to hammer him on recent accusation, expect another suspension - Browns were unaware of recent accusation when signing him - A suspension will give the Browns the ability to void his unpaid guaranteed money and cut him, but it’s still gonna hurt from a cap standpoint due to dead money

I used the cash paid out from the OTC link in my post. Bottom of page.

Sort of. He was already on the books at $2.55M for 2024. They added two seasons for $36.3M. 2027 and 2028 are basically team option years for $15.5M and $17.65M. Honestly, that’s not great value at all. I was hoping it was more backloaded. OTC took down their 2023 valuation of him, but it was about $10.3M. Using that and an 8% yearly increase we don’t get close to his extension’s value - especially considering what his 2024 salary was prior to the extension. https://overthecap.com/player/spencer-brown/9557

Was anyone thinking we’d be keeping Dawkins after his contract is up? He will be 34 in 2028.

Reasonable guarantees on a contract with pretty substantial overpay on AAV. That’s the only saving grace of this deal. The Bills can get out of it. I thought he was worth $12M AAV on a 4 year deal, but was braced for $15M. He got $18M AAV. Ouch.

You can’t have your soul crushed if you don’t have hope.

There were several PI flags they could’ve been thrown against us. We got at least our fair share of calls/non-calls yesterday. Nothing we can do about any of that though. The Bills did well enough with what they could control to get the W. That’s the most important thing.

I think that once the top few WRs came off the board, the Bills had a handful in the same “basket”. Then they positioned themselves for Allen’s preferred one of that group. Their trade back with KC was for almost nothing so they were highly motivated sellers. Dealing with KC tells me they wanted to stay in the range to get Coleman. I’d have preferred a bigger, more profitable trade back and WR selections other than Coleman. Or staying put and picking Worthy or McConkey. I think that keeping Allen happy is priority one for this staff so that’s what they went with. Also I agree that you do not trade with KC except for a complete fleecing. We obviously got the opposite of that.

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Surtain is probably the best CB in the league. Easily top 5. That’s the kind of deal you give that player.

Will wait to see the contract details before judging this move.

That’s what a pass rush will do to most QBs. It’s ridiculous to overreact to a single game. Jackson didn’t do a great job passing the ball last night, but was under duress constantly. It was a far cry from how he looked most of last season though. The ravens’s big issue isn’t Jackson, it’s their OL.

Nah. He’s always needed touches to get going. This is usually how he looks early. He gets stronger and more productive as the games go on.

Just a reminder that Mahomes was 100% on McDermott. Beane wasn’t here yet.

That’s fair. If Miller shows he can be a good situational pass rusher and will rework his contract to reflect that, then it is possible. I think that it’s unlikely, but there is a slim chance.

Better yet, call a FC and then do that. The returner doesn’t have to be correct on whether it was a punt or throw. If it was a kick you get the ball with a 15 yard penalty. If it was a pass then you get the ball at their LOS.