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The Bills set out to rebuild by cutting the fat... removed bloated contracts with under performing players. Then this year they decided to be "Judicious"... it has been fantastic management of the cap, and the fact of the matter is that the Bills have needed to do a purge of contracts and players for decades and hit the "reset" button on this thing but no one coming in had the courage, or the green light to do so. Hitting that reset button usually means being TERRIBLE right out of the gate... and in 2017, I think that's what they were prepared for. But because of luck, and a team that overachieved, they snuck into the playoffs. That actually cost us a bit because we needed to spend extra resources to go up for Allen... regardless though it was the start of the rebuild but gave people a lot of hope and gave McBeane the rope to bottom out a bit in 2018 with all that dead cap coming home to roost. Now we are coming out of that dark age of big bloated contracts, and we are looking at plenty of space moving forward to ORGANICALLY grow our roster through the draft and keep our own guys. In 2019 just as in 2018 and 2017 the Bills have been adding Free Agents to 1 year or multi-year TEAM FRIENDLY contracts. It's again fantastic cap management. They can get out from under just about every contract they signed this year for minimal cap penalties. Morse, Beasley, and Brown are the only 3 that would cost us to move on from, the rest are deals that we can be out of immediately or by 2020 if we want to opt out. It's tough because we will still have lots of turn over in 2020 as we let some of the guys added this year go, but it gives us time to figure out who want long term... guys like Jordan Phillips, Spain, Long, Nsekhe, Felicano, Kevin Johnson, EJ Gaines all are in deals that are short term and allow us to evaluate these guys and get out from under them if necessary. Very refreshing to see a team properly manage the cap and the players we bring in. In 2020 we're projected to have $49M in cap space, that will probably go up with some of our cuts we will be making of vets signed this year who don't make the team. That opens us up to extending some of the affore mentioned players as we see fit, and maybe adding one or two FAs to help us in the short term. But the way they've build this team, it's pretty obvious they aren't looking for "Splash" FAs, they want to keep their own. I want to see another "Judicious" off-season in 2020 and hold money to be able to retain the likes of Poyer, White, Hyde & Milano who are going to be the first of the McBeane building blocks to come up for new contracts in 2021 and 2022.

This is CRAZY... no skill position player is worth this kind of money, PERIOD! No WR and no RB.. they only can impact the game during plays when the ball is in their hands... QBs are the only players worth this kind of contract because the ball is ALWAYS in their hands. This incredibly insane spiral of contracts for top end guys just blows my mind. Such a large percentage of your cap wrapped up in just 1 person... Again, QB is the only position worth that kind of percentage of the cap.

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Peterman was an unmitigated disaster when in game action, HISTORICALLY bad.... However, in shorts during Mini Camp, TC, and then in fake games for preseason, he didn't look nearly as bad. I always wanted the guy cut after his disaster in 2017, let alone being the starter in 2018... it was a joke, HOWEVER people conveniently forget that he actually didn't look terrible. I think we all thought he would meltdown, and he did, but it was always possible he didn't as well. Sooo fast forward to now, he's in shorts and camp, when he looked good for us. Stands to reason he'd look good for the Raiders too.

My guess is he isn't going to get tons of reps, which is the norm with vets, and it was the norm with Shady in the past. But this year because people are following this thinking some big move will be made, every time hes not in there people are going to go all chicken little about it... but in the end Shady will still be the #1 guy come week 1 and be fine. Not amazing, just fine. I would LOVE it if Singletary makes it a real debate, but even if he blows it up in preseason, that's against seconds and thirds, it wouldn't be enough to unseat Shady. Long story short, Shady is fine, he's a vet who will likely get limited reps to protect him from injury and knowing he gets what he needs to do to be ready for the season. Over under is what, 15 carries all preseason? I take he under.

My list of guys who are most likely to be dealt (not saying all will, just the most likely candidates): 1) Russell Bodine - as was pointed out a few times in this thread, this guy has been a starting Center for many years in this league, and regardless of his degrees of success, he finds himself as a #2 here without the same flexibility the other backup players have. As was also said, teams to silly things when they lose a player in TC... if a starting center goes down, I think the Bills will be a teams first call knowing we have 2 guys here who could start for a team, and obviously Morse is off the market so Bodine becomes a prime trade candidate. I don't think he'd garner much but the Bills only have 6 picks in 2020, and we've seen Beane likes to stockpile, so he's gonna be open for business wheeling and dealing. While Bodine is my #1 trade candidate, he'd also be my #1 surprise vet cut candidate. The reason I say this is I think he would be cut earlier than most would expect out or respect to him as a vet. Cut him after the second pre-season game but before all the other teams dump FAs onto the market. It would be a classy move to give him time to be able to latch on to another team rather before the flood of other cuts come out. Beane and McDermott have worked hard to treat players right, I could see them doing this if they are 100% sure he won't be here, and they can't get a deal done by then. 2) Shaq Lawson - I know I know, this has been floated and floated for a long time, but I think if Murphy can impress that he is 100% full go this year, they will be inclined to make a move with Shaq to a team looking to rejuvenate his career and needy of DL help. He's on a solid 1 year prove it deal, which is ideal for us, but it's also ideal for someone willing to trade for him. I don't think he'd come cheap, I think they'd need at least a 3rd to move him, but where he is in the pecking order and the fact that he's proven to be an edge setter but not a pass rushing DE, makes him much more expendable. Keep an eye on teams looking to add a DE, and the battle between Murphy and Shaq... 3) Ray Ray/McKenzie/Foster - I could see any of these guys go.... I think the Bills are set with their top 3 as Brown, Beasley, and Jones with Andre Roberts the likely #6WR who makes it for special teams... so you end up with just 2 WR spots left for the rest of the guys on the roster. The Bills brought in Duke Williams and after that said they weren't worried about WR in the draft because they felt he could fill that need for them... then add in how much they valued David Sills, and I think you see the guys they WANT to make the team. So you are left with those guys as the top 5 they want to keep, with the likes of Foster, Ray Ray and McKenzie making it a harder decision... Foster was a great surprise last year, which give him the most value out of the 3, and most likely trade target for any team looking to get better. However he didn't show much diversity in skill set, and I think his development in that area over the next few weeks is going to be the determining factor for him being on the block or not. Also how Sills and WIlliams produce will matter as well... but Sills and WIlliams are the big bodied WRs who would be redzone threats and physical threats which the rest of the roster lacks, so in a diverse WR room, those guys get some edge. 4) EJ Gaines/Kevin Johnson - The Bills right now are blessed to have 3 CBs who COULD lock up the #2 CB spot... Beane did an amazing job adding Johnson and Gaines on prove it deals, both are hightly athletic players who have some great numbers AT TIMES and WHEN HEALTHY on their resumes. But the lack of consistency or health is the issue for these guys. Plus both of them are going up against incumbent Levi Wallace who isn't going to make it easy for one of them to unseat him. One would naturally slide over to the slot, however we also have that spot locked up with Taron Johnson. So we have 3 starting CBs pretty well set, and 2 VERY good CBs on 1 year prove it team friendly deals who are CB2 caliber. Not a bad situation at all! Now the Bills could go into 2019 with all these guys and be 100% sure they have amazing depth at CB all season. I would be perfectly fine with that, however I think they will look at their gluttony of CB talent and realize there is some great value in moving Gaines or Johnson to a team that may lose someone in pre-season and add some picks for 2020, as they are very unlikely to keep Gaines and Johnson in 2020. Get something now rather than letting them walk later for free... or worse cut them later and get nothing. 5) LaAdrian Waddle/Vlad Ducasse - These guys have VERY little value, but if someone wanted them I think they could be had for a conditional 6th... in O-Line Depth that may be worth it to a team that loses a guy or two.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nothing jumps out to me. Appears to be no bracing, no movement abnormalities, no compensations. May get more info from running assessment or other specific drills. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bills</a> <a href="https://t.co/mIv9GBs4rP">https://t.co/mIv9GBs4rP</a></p>&mdash; Banged Up Bills (@BangedUpBills) <a href="https://twitter.com/BangedUpBills/status/1156209063581159429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> hmmm that didn't work.... tips on embedding tweets?

EJ Breaks his knee Orton Leads Bills To Playoffs Then He Retires

The wife and I did the same thing 3 years ago... and we had out wedding party come out to NFL Primetime: Link is to the song, not a video of our entrance.... I don't have that on this computer to share...