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Thanks for the hard work. Nice job!

The beautiful thing about the question of whether Mills’ horrible play was intentional sabotage or lack of talent/effort is that the ultimate answer is the same: Replace and cut him. For what it’s worth, it sure seemed intentional.

Because they aren’t the same players and McCarron doesn’t have an NFL caliber arm. I never saw Taylor as more than a marginal starter who could be a short term bridge QB. I thought it was fine because he was supposed to be a backup QB. If the Bills intent when signing McCarron was for him to be the backup, then that would have been fine with me. But not to be the starter.

Why exactly is that? Because he’s a Bill? If he was just named starter of the Dolphins we’d all be laughing at them. Thats not to say that I don’t understand the signing. The Bills missed on the other QBs via FA and trade and it was imperative that they have somebody besides Peterman on the roster. He was pretty much all that was left. Fine. But let’s not pretend it’s something more than that.

I do not see an NFL arm on McCarron. I can’t imagine how you do - other than wishful thinking. If other NFL teams thought he had a chance to be anything then one would’ve been happy to pay him large. Instead he signed a 2 year deal at $5M per season with a team in desperate need at QB. Gosh, you’re right. I totally missed that he’s probably another Tom Brady. Well played.

Have you seen McCarron play? I have. Again, we are going from a marginal starter at QB to a guy who shouldn’t be starting in the NFL. I always took exception to posts about Taylor being a leader as there was never any evidence offered to back that up.

I don’t know about that. It will largely depend on which QBs those teams draft and how patient they are with them. But it won’t be Taylor or McCarron’s play keeping them on the bench.

McCarron is a substantial downgrade from Taylor. We are going from one of the top 32 QBs in the league - even if he was well into the 20s on that list - to a guy who is not an NFL starter.

Honestly, every competent GM would call on all of the other teams with high picks - except the teams in their own division. It’s due diligence and it means nothing (except that our GM is competent). They are all gauging the market.

Yup

I could not agree more.

Agree on all thing she Cleveland. I think they’re another year away from finding their footing though. As for records, I’ll wait until closer to the season to make my predictions.

Haslam kept Hue Jackson against Dorsey’s wishes because of clauses in his contract that would have dramatically escalated his compensation if he was fired before the start of the 2018 season. Expect him to have a very short leash if the season starts off poorly. Haslam should have eaten that contract anyway. Notably Sashi Brown wanted to draft Wentz at 2 but Jackson didn’t want him. Despite Hue spinning it the other way later that was known at the time of the trade to the Iggles.

No. The Browns aren’t trading #1 overall. You’re probably looking at something like 12/22/53/65 for 4.

Here’s a thorough breakdown of the contract: https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2018/3/15/17127384/massive-contract-details-for-new-buffalo-bills-defensive-tackle-star-lotulelei-most-expensive

@YattaOkasan Thank you. Yes, the Rule of 51 applies until final cut down day. Also correct that the draft pick number by OTC does not consider that rule. See, you don’t need me. ? The one cap number that really sticks out is the dead money: $36M. That’s brutal. This is a season to dump the older players and usher in the new generation, starting with a drafted QB who will (hopefully) be the future of the franchise.

Stupidest contract of the season so far. But you had to know that somebody was going to do something like it for him.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/yearly/cap/ Wow. Not a lot of important players signed beyond 2019 either.

He made his mark years ago when he was the only media person dialed into front offices around the league. Now no one is and he’s just living off of his old reputation.

The real issue it is that we aren’t going to get that much for Glenn on draft day. We could probably get it from a desperate contender who has an injury at LT after the season starts. That’s the time for premiums to be paid. But not on draft day. He’d go at a discount. I do like that you’re trying to find a way to get a QB though. I’d certainly sell out for one I believed in. I just don’t see how the Bills can climb up to the top of this draft. They’ll have to find another way to get one.

Notably players tend to have the least value on draft day. QBs will always get a premium but any other position will be looked at as a dump by the team getting rid of them. Bad fit for new scheme or other issues - health, contract, attitude, etc. Draft weekend is a much better time to acquire a player than trade one away.

Usually there’s an alternate compensation agreed upon should a traded player fail a physical. Player X or draft pick Y. IIRC Chip Banks was originally included in the trade that netted the Browns Bernie Kosar in the supplemental draft. He refused to report to San Diego and they got a first round pick instead.

Here is a nice interactive chart from Drafttek: https://www.drafttek.com/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart.asp?RequestTeam=Buf And here is a chart showing the total value of total draft picks for all teams: http://www.tankathon.com/nfl/power_rankings The Bills rank 6th.

The big difference is that teams’ rookie caps are based on the actual slots they pick at. Say the Browns picked Darnold or Rosen at 1, then Allen or Mayfield at 4 before trading him to a team picking much later in the first. The Browns would have a much larger rookie pool than they needed (no real problem there), but the team trading up would have some real difficulties with that QB’s contract. They couldn’t pay him like the 4th overall pick because of the rules for rookie pools and rookie contracts. Thus it would be prohibitively difficult for a team to make a big trade for a player already drafted by a team. The Browns only trading partners would be the team’s with the next 2 or 3 picks. The Browns plan is to add a vet and take a QB at 1 unless they find a FQB in free agency. I can’t imagine that they think Cousins is such a player, but you never know.......

Ive got an inside source in another city (not Buffalo or Boston). He knew the scoop and shared. That’s all I know about it.