GunnerBill

Cole Beasley is as bright as cement.

I kinda feel like his is another lottery ticket at slot. They now have him and Shakir. And I expect that is what they go with. Maybe a lottery ticket is unfair. I have just spent the week at the races.... it is like they have two 3rd faves in consecutive races and you back both and feel like one of them could well come in but neither is a slam dunk.

In any normal draft a #2. In this shitshow? A #1. Jeudy is 1 point short of a full round better than the best WR in this class by my grading.

Meh. I like McGovern a little more than the consensus (a thousand times more than I liked the corpse of Saffold a year ago) it seems but don't think he is a difference maker. The rest is a bit much of a muchness.

Yea agree with that. He needs a genuine competition.

I don't hate Brown as much as you at RT. But I agree he can't play guard better than the guys we have.

I mean unlikely. But sure, maybe.

I mean I think you could, but not a lot worse... I agree with the rest. He meets my "make Brown win the job" criteria. But this is a competiton I'd price Spencer up as 70-30 fave.

I would trade for him to play Right Tackle. But he wants out of Cincy cos they want him to play RT. He can't play LT in the NFL that is established.

You know nothing about the tight end position. This is established.

Yea they tried different things to replace Edmunds. But I am not out on them deciding Bernard is an option.

Point 1 - he does NOT make more than Andrews. Andrews' deal is worth $1m more per year AAV. Point 2 - He hasn't struggled with drops really since his rookie year but every time he drops one now everyone immediately reverts to that. He had half of Mark Andrews drops last year and at a lower % too seeing as you mention him. Point 3 - Dawson Knox averages over 70% catch rate the last two years, is top 3 in TE touchdowns and per NextGen finished top 5 among the entire NFL in separation per route in 2022. Add to that among the top 10 or 12 tight ends in the league he is in the top 4 or 5 as a blocker. If Knox hit the market this offseason he would have got about what the Bills gave him. Hunter Henry (who we have already established is a reasonable statistical comparison in terms of receiving production) signed a year earlier for $12.5m and he can't hold Dawson's jock as a blocker. The only legit criticism of the Bills - Knox deal is they still haven't got the ball to him enough. That is a Dorsey problem (and maybe even an Allen one) but they have to get him the ball. He can be such a weapon for them.

The only thing this draft is "heavy" on is mediocre football players.

They used Bernard as the 2nd team MLB in pre-season last year. When Edmunds missed time in season they seemed to have multiple plans, none of them all that good. But I don't discount them seeing Bernard as an option. I don't myself, but they might.

The first time he trips over his own feet and falls on his arse whiffing on a wham block Bill will have him consigned to the bench. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

It is the right decision but I am sad to see Isaiah go. Cool guy and I think he contributed positively while he was here after we picked him up off waivers. We never gave him any sort of big deal. He played in line with what he was. We need better to win a championship but I wish him luck in the future.

Doesn't matter. Since the injury he has been a shadow of the player he was. He lost his job on the Cowboys line and we are now talking about the Bengals potentially moving on after 1 year.

I think his best days are definitely behind him but if he is willing to take fringe starter money and have a genuine camp battle with Spencer for the job he would satisfy the "proper competition brief".

Yep.

See to me they are the last ones you do. Tre struggled some in 2022 on the back of a serious ACL. I wanna retain flexibility as far as possible there. Dion played poorly down the stretch and we know has started to have some issues maintaining the right weight for tackle. Milano, Allen and (all being well behind the sceneds) Diggs were all more sensible restructures. Von's is more a doubling down on the gamble they took bringing him in at his age.

Sorry, you are correct. I misread the tweet. It is $5m space created not $5m converted.

It likely increases them. Restructure generally means salary to bonus. Cash in hand now for the player accounting later for the cap. What is interesting to me on this one is that Beane has not been afraid to use cash to generate good will / buy in with players in the past. I wonder if this is part of operation mend bridges with Stef. Here is $5m for you to summer well with.

No. I don't. Because I think he'd get a better offer than that on the open market.

If we had any safeties.... sure.

Agree that is who Long is. I'll believe it is what the Bills want when I see it.