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It's just not going to happen unfortunately. Like a lot of bad teams the Raiders are unwilling to face the reality of what they need to do to become competitive again.

McDermott's scheme is different when he has an island CB1. When he knows a third of the field is taken away by one guy, it changes everything he can do in the back 7. The reason he's been blitzing so much lately is he has no faith that our coverage will hold up. So if we're assuming Tre is done and Elam is a bust (both reasonable assumptions), getting that caliber of player is still a huge need for our defense, arguably the biggest need on the entire team.

Not true. If we cut him after the league year starts in 2024 we would have a dead cap hit of $10.4m, but would save $6.3m on the cap and owe nothing beyond that.

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Unfortunately I don't think it is a difficult decision. We have to move forward under the assumption that Tre is done with football, or at least done being anywhere close to the best version of himself. Maybe his recovery goes perfectly and he gets back to form but we have to assume the worst. So if someone like Adams or Hopkins isn't available, acquiring a true #1 CB is the next best path to improving the team substantially now and in the future. Jaylon Johnson would be an excellent move. A true #1 island CB allows McDermott to run his actual defense, not this blitz happy nail biter he's been running since Tre went down.

Meh. Allen and Diggs combined have $42 million in base salary next year that can be converted into signing bonus. Poyer and White can be cut for almost $12 million in cap savings. Morse for another $8.5 million. Plus the cap will continue rising exponentially each year as the new TV and streaming deals mature. The Bills entered this offseason way over the cap and ended up going on a spending spree in free agency. Trust me, it will always work out. We can keep kicking the can down the road until the day Allen retires and then take a couple years of bad medicine.

I get it, but no part of me believes an injured 1T and an injured WLB kills our season. If it does, we have the wrong people in charge. My take is that the NFL is more wide open than ever this year. No one is truly dominant. There's an opening for a team to step up and go scorched earth the rest of the way and dare anyone to stop them. Plus Allen and Diggs aren't getting any younger. Our window with them will close before long. And worst case scenario if we don't quite put it together this year, we would still have Diggs and Adams next year. It's not a total all-in now mode like what the Rams did with Von Miller, there is some margin for error there. Like you said I would just go all in on creating a historically productive offense with the most talented QB in the NFL and two #1 WRs, and the defense just has to make a couple stops a game.

Sure we could. His cap hit for us this year would be negligible. Next year you convert a large portion of his $16.9m base salary into a signing bonus and restructure his contract to give him more guarantees in 2024/2025, make it so there's not a real out until 2026, etc. He and his agent are happy and we push the money into the future. Surely this type of restructure isn't new to you, right? It's standard business in the modern NFL and we have an especially rich owner willing to front load a lot of money to facilitate it. Sure they could. Their cap hit this year and next year would be lower after trading him, even with the resulting dead cap, and they would owe nothing beyond 2024. You gotta do a little research before throwing out incorrect information like that.

We got Diggs for a 1st and a 4th. He didn't have the established production that Adams has but he was younger and not a half season rental. I'd like to think the same compensation could get Adams now. I think Mark Davis should fire McDaniels tomorrow and go into rebuild mode, but I doubt he actually does it. It also hinges on Beane being willing to make one midseason all-in move and I'm not sure he is ever going to do that.

Every 5+ leg parlay is lost on one stupid thing like that. Every single one of them.

Mahomes and Kelce were both at the World Series game in Texas on Friday night, before having to fly out and play a game on Sunday in Colorado... Not a good look.

1) First failed drive Diggs failed to separate and/or win at the catch point on two consecutive passes past the sticks. We went to our best guy and he didn't make a play. 2) Bizarre end of quarter sequence where we needlessly tried to draw the Bucs Offside on 2nd and 1, ended up in 3rd and long and then on 4th and 4 we punted. 3) Threw a 7 yard completion on 3rd and 9, punted on 4th and 2. In a tight game we almost certainly would have gone for it but in this one we were playing the clock and field position. 4) We got one 1st down and then ran 3 times to run the clock down. Not really any worrying trends on those drives IMO. Diggs didn't make a play when given two chances and we know he isn't a problem. A flukey attempt to draw them Offside bit us in the ass. And then we got conservative and played the clock. The one concern coming out of this game is that we have no deep game anymore with this personnel, so we have to execute at a really high level on each drive and there's very little margin for error when you're playing that style of offense.

This is a Ken Dorsey stat:

Bills have apparently shown interest in CB Jaylon Johnson.

Us finishing ahead of KC only matters if we win our division... KC already has that locked up by default. So I'm rooting for them over Miami next week. I'll worry about seeding in January.