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Miller has too much raw talent to fall. Some team will fall in love with his potential and take him relatively high. I doubt he makes it to Buffalo's 2nd round pick so he'd probably only be in play with a trade. 19 is too high IMO.

Ah. My bad. I guess I'd already moved on mentally from that statement. Unless you're asking his brother, Derek, David Carr doesn't show up much in that conversation.

You're missing some details on this. The 2015 revenue from NBC for Thursday Night Football was $300M so the $450M combined revenue from NBC and CBS is only a $150M increase. The players' share is between 47% and 48.5%. That amount is divided by 32 teams. So we've got $150M*.485/32= $2.27M So that's a $2.27M per team cap increase (or $2.2M on the low end if 47% is used). It's not nothing, but it isn't some huge increase.

That is all true. I'm not sure what his responsibilities in Buffalo are, but I'd prefer he'd not be big part of TT's development team. Maybe he's learned from the past and is a good coach now, but I do not have confidence in him due to that track record.

The OP is talking about David Carr of the Texans, not his younger brother, Derek Carr, of the Raiders.

Yes it is. Obviously he doesn't have the same power here as when he was head coach in Cleveland or offensive coordinator in Houston. Maybe he's in a role where he can do some good here. Honestly, I had forgotten he was on the staff.

Yeah, he couldn't overcome Chris Palmer's coaching and team construction. Palmer imposed upon Carr a career death sentence by defensive mauling - exactly like he did to Couch in Cleveland.

$1.6M guaranteed salary, but his contract has offsets. So if another team were to sign him that pay in 2016 would be deducted from the cap hit. Really, it's a minimal amount when you're talking about upgrading the back up QB position on a team with a smallish starting QB. A better backup last season equates to at least one more win. That's not where you want to start penny pinching. I expect them to draft a guy for sure

Wow. That's a lot to infer from Rex going to the Pro Bowl instead of the Senior Bowl.

Awesome

I assumed the contract could be from any team. And a good second guess is a one year transition or franchise tag.

Actually, if they just took it down with no fanfare and no announcement there probably wouldn't be much. They'd get asked about it and could offer a simple, generic statement and not take questions. It'd be covered in the usual news cycle and then it'd be gone.

3 years, $48M, $24M guaranteed

I'd add that the situation will have to play out like one of these scenarios: TT excels: He'd probably get his big deal sometime late this season or in the offseason. If the deal didn't get worked out he'd get tagged and make $20M. Difficult to be too mad about that I'd wager. TT takes a big step back: Then the Bills would have saved a lot of cap space by not jumping the gun and any hard feeling he would have toward the Bills would be pretty moot. TT stays level with last season: This is the toughest scenario by far and the most likely to result in a big difference between what the Bills will want to pay and what TT thinks he worth. Thus, there's a real chance for some hard feelings in this case. But it'd probably be the same situation as if they fried to do a deal now. TT's agent can make a case for him to get PAID big time and the Bills FO can make a case for him to get paid a lot less. The Bills have got him wrapped up for this season on the cheap. He seems okay with betting on himself so let's just see if things clarify on their own before we make a move. It really is the prudent course of action.

It's probably more about perception than anything else. It looks fishy to have a major sports franchise in Vegas due to the perception that it would be easy to fix games. In reality games can be fixed anywhere (obviously), but anything odd would be questioned much more if it happened in Vegas or involving a Vegas team. In short, the NFL doesn't much care about the game being dirty, but they certainly want to avoid the APPEARANCE of game being dirty. Avoiding putting a team in Vegas is certainly an easy way to avoid the latter.

http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/demario-davis?id=2533008 I know nothing about him, but sometimes starting at the beginning and seeing what kind of prospect he was helps bring his picture into focus. Thanks to those with real insight who responded - BB, Yolo, etc. I linked his pre-draft write up from NFL.com. His speed, explosiveness and change of direction abilities are all outstanding. He was the top LB performer in 4 categories. He also has good size. Yet he was projected to be a 5th round pick (according to the linked write up). He was drafted in the 3rd. It seems he was a raw, small school prospect who possessed great athletic ability. He was actually the kind of prospect I love in the late rounds because sometimes the lack of quality coaching is what's holding them back. But I do not select such players in the third and I certainly expect their ceiling will be apparent within 4 years. Judging from what I've read I'd say he'd be a cheap, backup level player who knows the system. Probably not a ton of upside to him as a defensive player, but he might hold some value on Specials.

Owners with deep pockets are certainly a plus. The FO just has to be smart with it. Hopefully they do get it figured out.

As it stands, the Bills are second worst in terms of cap space. After the Clay restructure they'll be tied for 5th worst. They aren't in cap hell, but they aren't in good shape either.

While the "all-in" tag might be a bit exaggerated, so is the "standard business" tag. The Bills have made some frivilous moves and overpaid for some players. It certainly was a bit of a push personnel-wise and they certainly came up very mediocre. I didn't like to see it due to the apparent lack of a franchise QB on the roster. Now there are some decisions to be made. People might say that since Mario is not living up to his contract, he is a logical cut. That's true in a sense, but he also isn't being utilized as well this season as he was last season when he looked like a reasonable value. That's on the coaches, not Mario. The real question is whether or not the spending of the recent past will hinder talent acquisition and retention or not? Will that spending lead to the overall talent pool of the Bills rising or falling? Losing Mario is a big subtraction of talent regardless of how underutilized that talent was. The Bills also have a total of three quality offensive linemen on the team - and two of them are free agents. Dumping Mario might make enough room to retain them, but that's not additional talent. It's just staying even on the offensive line while losing talent on the defensive line. I'm really struggling to see how the Bills will be more talented in 2016 than they were in 2015 even with another draft class.

I thought that was odd, too.

For those debating EJ or Manziel, sometimes the right answer is "neither".

I genuinely laughed out loud.

This. If Taylor improves his play from the pocket and progressions he will earn a tag - and a lucrative long term deal. If he doesn't, then we're left with what we saw last season. That's not bad, but it isn't enough.

"Mom says you disappoint her more than me."

QB - Taylor deserves his opportunity as he's certainly earned it, but the Bills need to hedge now. A rookie with upside and an inexpensive vet are needed to fill out the roster. HB - Shady. Looking good. Maybe some tinkering at bottom of depth chart. FB - What's wrong with Felton (I'm asking seriously)? Very low priority even if upgrade is needed. WR1 - Watkins. Looking good. WR2 - Huge need for a big, deep threat opposite Watkins. Please no Harvin. Slot WR - An upgrade would be preferable, but Woods can handle the job for this season if needed. TE1 - Set with Clay. TE2 - An upgrade would be welcome, but (again) not a top priority. RT - Upgrade needed. RG - Upgrade needed. C - Looking good with Wood LG - Incognito needs re-signed in a big way. LT - Glenn needs re-signed or replaced with a competent player not on roster. (I'm just going to copy and tweak the rest:) LE - Mario - A quality replacement needs found if he is released (as is expected) DT - KW (no upgrade needed) DT/RE - Dareus (no upgrade needed) OLB/RE - Hughes (no upgrade needed) ILB - Bradham - I expect him to move on so an replacement will be needed. OLB - Lawson (retain, no upgrade needed) CB - Gilmore (no upgrade needed) SS - Rambo/Graham (no upgrade needed) FS - AW (no upgrade needed) CB - Darby (no upgrade needed) K - Carpenter - Odd that Carp had such an off year. If not injury related an upgrade is needed. P - Schmidt - (no upgrade needed) LS - Sanborn - (no upgrade needed) PR/KR - UPGRADE ST Gunner - Easley (no upgrade needed) A change to more of a 3-4 would change things a bit so I'll kick that can down the road. Some major work needs to be done and I just don't see how the Bills pull it off. Too many needs, too little cap space and too few players on the rise to fill holes. If I'm Whaley, offense rules the day. I fix the OL as best I can - including retaining our left side - and add that big, fast WR2. I do what I can to provide short term help on the defense and make them the priority next season.