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I was told Blackmon is off their radar because of his medicals.

It hasn't been disclosed that it is $7M guaranteed. The current report is a $7M salary that can get up to $11M with incentives. You seemingly don't understand how guarantees work? $15M > $7M (or whatever amount he has had guaranteed). The number of years doesn't matter. Players care about the total guaranteed number. By your logic every player would love to be hit with the franchise tag, when the exact opposite is true. They want multi year deals with long term security. Nobody is intentionally turning down a long term deal with more guaranteed money to "bet on themselves." That's nonsense. Sure if two teams offered him the same prove-it deal he would take Mahomes over whoever else to maximize the "prove-it" part, but if say the Panthers offered him $15M guaranteed over 3 years he would 100% take it without hesitation. You must be the type of fan that thinks Dawson Knox took a pay cut because he just loves Buffalo so much 😂

Where did you see that? No it isn't. That's not a thing that happens.

Their deals aren't similar at all. NFL players want multi year deals with guarantees. That security is worth everything to them. The NFL has pegged Marquise Brown as someone that hasn't earned that security. He has to prove it. Samuel got a multi year deal and $15M in guarantees. Not sure what guarantees Brown is getting but it's $7M at the very most and that's if his deal is fully guaranteed, which I doubt.

I know some fans don't pay close attention to the NFL but WRs like him have fallen out of favor a bit. A slim small WR who mostly just runs vertical routes, in a league where pretty much every defense is playing two high shell as their base. Again he is still a good addition for the Chiefs given their moribund WR corps and a QB with great vertical accuracy, but it's not a big surprise that a WR with his skill set is getting a relatively cheap one year prove it deal.

I'm good going cheap at safety. The breadth of the FA market means we can get solid starters in the cheap 2nd wave.

And yet there are still about 10 million decent safeties waiting to be signed.

Yeah Brown had a Davis-esque catch percentage of 50.5% last year. That's why he is signing a one year prove it deal. It's a good signing for them though. He will give them at bare minimum a better version of MVS's role last year

? It's not cherry picking. Samuel was injured for most of the 2021 season, playing just 84 snaps. I don't agree that Brown is the better player. He does his one trick very well. I wanted a more versatile WR2 which is why I zeroed in on Mooney, Reynolds, and Samuel before FA. Now the door is open to draft a WR with dominant physical traits in the 1st round and plant him on the outside.

(Brown has played over 100 more snaps than Samuel over the last two seasons)

I'm hopeful this signing is evidence that they're targeting a big WR with their 1st pick. Size is the one element we are still missing. Diggs and Samuel can be moved around the formation and do a little bit of everything. We still need our true X receiver, and have him ready to step into Diggs' role in 2025. Something I haven't seen anyone mention - Beane officially did not restructure Diggs' contract this season. I didn't expect him to, but the fact that he didn't means they are not confident Diggs will be on the team in 2025. They are going to prepare for his eventual exit.

I want a big X receiver. Coleman or Legette for me. Not going to be unhappy with any WR they take in the 1st round though.

Curtis Samuel is the fastest WR Allen has ever played with. 4.31 speed.

I'm choosing to believe a version of events where Beane could have beat Jacksonville's offer, but doing so would have cost us Curtis Samuel so he chose not to.

There it is! We have our baseline WR2. Now draft the best WR available in the 1st round and we are in business.

We were in it until the very end. Only takes one team to overpay to ruin it for everyone else.

This is how I feel about almost all our signings so far. Epenesa is the only one where I feel we got good value and couldn't have easily replaced his role with a late round or UDFA rookie.

This is the state of modern media. All AI-generated clickbait BS.

The article shows a tweet from a fake account. Click on it, the guy has like 4,000 followers. This is an embarrassing mistake for a supposed news website.

Allen has the 7th lowest playoff INT percentage of all time (minimum 100 attempts). Mahomes is 8th. The difference in playoff success between the two is that Mahomes has had arguably two or three Hall of Fame teammates at any one time and a Hall of Fame coach. Allen hasn't had a single one.

Nah, money wouldn't be a problem, not unless some team gives him a ridiculous overpay. We solved a lot of our long term cap issues by cutting the dead weight last week. Next year we'll likely let go of Von Miller and Dawson Knox. There's always more dead weight to shed. Allen will be extended before long, kicking his can another several years down the road. Etc. Chris Jones just signed a 5 year $158M contract. His cap hit in 2024 is a whopping $7.3M. We can come up with an eye-popping looking number that Armstead's agent sells to him, while in reality keeping his cap hits manageable and progressively increasing them year over year to match up with the normal salary cap increases. This is standard modern NFL cap management. Everything is made up and the points don't matter.

I generally agree but there aren't any big stars on offense available in FA this year. We missed the boat with Hopkins last year, that was definitely a glaring mistake. This year who are we missing the boat with? Calvin Ridley? No thanks for that contract he got. Hollywood Brown? Meh. All I want is a starting caliber WR. I have been on board with Mooney or Samuel or Reynolds. Two of those three remain. If signing Armstead means we can't even sign that caliber of WR, I'm against it. The passing offense needs to be a priority over everything else. But I think we have the means to do both IF Armstead really wants to be in Buffalo.

I think it just comes down to them not trusting Elam. Douglas gives us a very high floor at the position. I was 50/50 on moving on from him or not, I can see both sides of it.