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That is a crazy good deal on an elite corner. Especially seeing where impact defensive player contracts are going. I’m shocked that number wasn’t closer to 4 years 100-110. Absolutely mind blowing he got the deal that low

If I had to grade Diggs top 3 skills it’s… 1. Route running 2. Trolling 3. Catching Even discussing him coming back is exactly what he wants. I loved Diggs while he was here but I guarantee you he has absolutely no interest in coming back here (and the feeling might be mutual with the team). But he hasn’t been signed yet and you throw a few pictures back up on your Instagram and look he’s right back on the cover page of everything. Mission accomplished. Still love Diggs. But it ain’t happening.

Outside speed? We already got it. Let me introduce you to Keon Coleman

Glad to see Casey Toohill/Trent Murphy/Manny Lawson/Ryan Denney back on the squad. A little more than I’d like to pay but solid.

Absolutely hate this. He was a WR that was smart and could make the few plays asked of him and more than anything would block with maximum effort every single play. He was the definition of an everyone eats guy. Don’t know how we couldn’t come to terms with him when we just threw 36 million at another WR today

I’ll be rooting for Josh Palmer but this feels a bit like an overpay for someone that doesn’t solve the problem we seemingly have run into every year in the playoffs. Our WRs can’t get open and even our elite ones shrink against tough man coverage. While his win rate looks great it doesn’t seem to show up on the statline and it’s not like Herbert is an awful QB. It feels like even with this signing when October rolls around we’ll be wondering what WR is on the trading block to fix our problems.

I can agree with that if it were the Colts or Raiders or someone like that, but Mike Tomlin has a pretty decorated history of managing absolute head cases better than any coach in the league. Usually he can at least keep the lid on when they are in Pitt, then the wheels fall off in the next location. With Pickens the wheels are already off

You couldn’t get a more polar opposite to the everyone ears mantra. He’s been guilty of making his QBs look even worse than they are by running lazy routes and being totally disconnected even during a playoff run. Great talent but I’d rather run out Mack Hollins and know what I’m getting over the emotional roller coaster and inconsistency of Pickens. Honestly I don’t care who we pick up I just don’t want to overpay. I do not want us to pay average to good quality players or aging players top tier money that we are locked into. I also don’t want to throw money at injury risks. If we were going to throw money at anyone I wanted Myles or Crosby. Not much left out there that I’d want to fully open the wallet for.

To be fair if my market value were 10 million I’d probably ask for 15 too. I expected his original ask to be high so that the Bills have space to negotiate the number down but he’s still rewarded fairly. What I didn’t expect was for him to wait approximately 2 seconds after the eagles hoisted the trophy to start reading the book “The Art of Negotiation” by Leveon Bell. There are just better ways of opening dialogue.

Hate this way of doing negotiating. I totally agree Cook deserves his money. 15 a year, probably not. But also I understand the need to start high to get to what makes sense. But the deleting essentially everything bills related out of the gate just rubs me the wrong way. After a long drawn out negotiating period where you are seemingly miles apart. Totally get it. But I think you should head to the negotiating tables open minded and positive especially when the organization has seemingly done nothing wrong to you and has been pretty respectful for tons of your teammates over the years (almost to a fault). I despise starting negotiations from a social media post.

This game is piece of evidence 1A for why you need Myles Garrett. It’s a tail as old as time. You have an elite team with an elite QB and you have to get him off his spot and nervous. It wasn’t Manning by himself that got the colts over the Patriots hump. Mathis & Freeney were heavily involved. And it certainly wasn’t fully Eli that won those super bowls. Tuck, Strahan, and Umenyora certainly helped. Even Garrett can’t do it by himself but the proof is there you need to disrupt these guys

lol ok, cared enough to respond though. That was the year Josh was on a rookie contract. Aside from Tre we were by far and away the healthiest we’ve ever been going into the playoffs. Josh had a two game span where he threw for 600+ yards, ran for 120+ rushing yards and had 9 touchdowns with 0 turnovers. While the myth of Joe Burrow continues to grow the truth of those playoffs is he never was able to get his team to score more than 2 TDs in a game. They wouldn’t have kept pace with what Daboll was cooking up that season.

It always goes back to 13 seconds. Everything goes back to 13 seconds. Aside from wide right, 13 seconds is the closest thing the Bills have to a Super Bowl win because I guarantee you if the Bills win that game after Josh played the way he played there wasn’t an NFL team assembled that was going to stop this team. Every year that ends in a tragic loss during Allen’s tenure will forever go back to 13 seconds. That was the Super Bowl that should have been.

While I know that’s not the true “number” and we’ll find space when the time comes. There is a part of that, that is super troubling because outside of Josh (and now Cook) we don’t have game wreckers or changers on this team. When you look at the late playoff teams they have their franchise QBs AND Kyle Hamilton AND Derrick Henry AND top rated o-lines AND Chris Jones AND Saquon Barkley AND top WR duos in the league AND insane defensive lines. So much of our money is tied up paying good football players great football player money. While these other elite playoff teams paying their stars accordingly.

I’d LOVE to have him coming off the bench. He’s smart, disciplined and can make a play here or there. But he’s not someone I pay big money for. The Bills need more difference makers. Groot is a fantastic piece to a rotation but he’s not the guy. Sadly he’s going to demand “the guy” money so much like Edmunds you gotta let him go.