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That’s certainly possible. I don’t think we get a 2 from a team like that though. But you never know. Chicago gave up the first pick of the second round for a trash WR. Maybe we get a bidding war and it happens.

I think that the Bills best option would be to trade him post 6/1. Let draft and FA play out and teams get their rosters set. Then wait for the eventual catastrophic injury to a stud WR on a contender. Then you might get a second out of them. Notably Diggs’ salary becomes guaranteed at the start of the league year but he doesn’t have a roster bonus. The team trading for him could do a restructure to fit him under their cap. One snafu is if the Bills restructure his contract early in the off-season to macerate cap space. His trade value would increase, but we’d be on the hook for his salary and associated cap hit.

Just to be clear, the Bills already have that $31M in dead cap on their books and it must be accounted for. It’s just spread out right now. Trading Diggs would accelerate the pro rated portion into the current year - or the following year if it is after 6/1. Keeping Diggs adds to his overall cap impact because we pay him more in salary, etc. This is always the risk when you kick the cap hit can down the road to this extent.

Trading Diggs prior to 6/1 would increase his cap hit from $27.9M to $31.1M. We are at a point where it is possible to do this - albeit very painful and unlikely. I do not see another team trading a second round pick (especially in this draft which is loaded with WR talent) and paying Diggs $18.8M for the season. Not when Diggs turns 31 in November. I think we are stuck with him one more season and then he gets designated a 6/1 cut the following offseason. But to the OP’s question - hell, yes, I’d move him for a 2 and take the cap hit.

Perfect attitude for justifying the continued squandering of Josh Allen’s career.

Yep. It’s a skipping record at this point.* *Old person reference

The vast majority of winners have valid reasons for losing. They just find a way to overcome those obstacles. You think KC couldn’t point to their injures or the fact that their WR corps has been poor this season as excuses for losing? Except they don’t need to because they found a way to win anyway.

Well, he is out of coordinators to blame.

A couple seasons ago Diggs was a top 4 WR. Last season top 8. This season he was in the top 16 or 24 range. Next season I expect him to be one of the top 32 WRs - and that’s still valuable even if it’s toward the bottom. I don’t expect him to be a Bill after 2024. Age is catching up with him. It is what it is. Time for the Bills to start planning for that.

Probably not, but it would’ve been nice to have tried.

Rapp did have a few good games, but I do not think his overall body of work came close to earning him a starting spot. I’m sure he’d like a shot at starting somewhere though. He looked for that opportunity and contract last off-season too, but $1.77M to be a backup on the Bills was his best option. If he wants to sign here again for something similar and compete for a starting spot, then I’m good with that. But no way am I signing him for starter money and I would make sure to draft or otherwise bring in competition. If we spent on a certain starter then I think Rapp would go elsewhere where he’d get the opportunity to compete for a starting spot and/or playing time.

Yeah. It’s a rough stat to be sure.

Stefanski likely will continue to call the offensive plays so it might not be a bad fit for Dorsey in that regard. AVP’s offense was predictable in the same way as Dorsey’s was though. Defenses seemed to know what was coming too often.

Highly doubt TB let’s AWJ get away. Rapp isn’t worth keeping. I think we probably keep Poyer one more season and find another safety to pair with him. Then replace him the following year.

In the playoffs the McDermott led Bills are: 5-0 against 5-7 seeded teams. 0-6 against 1-4 seeded teams.

Well, thinking about the present sucks pretty bad so moving onto thinking about future possibilities asap is preferable.

McDermott’s playoff record against teams seeded 5-7 is 5-0. His playoff record against teams seeded 1-4 is 0-6. I don’t even think he coached a bad game today. I liked that he was aggressive - except for the fake punt which was forgivable if it was because KC only had 10 on the field. At some point you just have to make a change though. I don’t think the Bills will fire McDermott this off-season, but they probably should. I think he gets at least one more year.

Well, that freaking sucked.

The question was which had the worst personality. I wouldn’t want to have a beer with either of those two A-holes. Marrone was purely a mercenary while Wrex was a a lying thief. The latter is far worse.

Wrex was nothing but a lying, lazy, loudmouth ***hole. Marrone was an ***hole too. And he was certainly a mercenary, but he wasn’t lazy and he didn’t ask his team to work harder than he did. Wrex was nothing more than an opportunistic thief here.

Wrex is on that podium.

An injury settlement is not necessary. Tre has a $1.5M roster bonus due on 3/17/24. if the Bills decline to pay that, then he becomes a free agent. If Tre can pass a physical their other option is to designate him a 6/1 cut prior to that.

That’s the other thing with PFF - they have to take semi-educated guesses as to what a player’s assignment is on every single play. You give a good example of them guessing incorrectly. Besides, how often is a player’s assignment more nuanced? In this situation your primary responsibility is to spy the QB. Secondarily it is to cover space or a player. Next play it flips due to circumstance. And then there are players like Troy Polamalu, who freelanced by design on most plays. How do you grade that?

I think PFF looks at every player more generically. Take DEs. PFF has a fairly rigid system for rating a rep from -2 to 2. On a pass rush rep it boils down to how quickly the DE beat the blocker (if at all) and whether they got a sack or hit the QB. There’s no chance that when the Steelers grade TJ Watt that they hold him to that generic standard. He’s too talented and too highly compensated to be judged by the same criteria as a JAG. His potential is too great to look at him the same way.

For ratings to be useful people have to understand what they really mean, which includes what they’re actually measuring as well as their limitations. I like a lot of what PFF does, but their grading has limited utility. It’s better with some positions than others, but is still limited to what players are asked to do rather than what they’re capable of. For instance, a QB like Cousins who plays a much more limited role in his team’s offense, can more easily score a higher grade than a QB like Allen, who much more is asked of. Sam Monson recently mentioned this on a podcast when PFF’s grading came up. He used Dodson as an example of a player who graded very highly due to him doing well in a very limited role. It makes sense that coaches would be more interested in a player’s overall impact on a game and would factor in things like the difficulty of the assignment, the ability of the player, the contract of the player, etc. Each has their use and a value, but they aren’t going to be the same.