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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.

Joe Marino made a good point on the latest Locked On Bills podcast. Allen has had terrible interception luck this year. Every play that could have been intercepted has been, and a couple that shouldn't have been intercepted were. None of his interception chances have been dropped or overturned by penalty (EDIT: I just remembered he had one overturned by penalty in the Raiders game, but I believe that's all). He pointed out that Allen's turnover worthy play percentage as measured by PFF is actually LOWER than his true INT%... as far as I know this is unprecedented bad turnover luck. There's an easy argument to be made that Allen is in the middle of the best season of his career if you're evaluating his own play in a vacuum.

Yes, I do. I watched both of them in full from start to finish. Mahomes had a bad INT turned over by a questionable penalty. His fumble was recovered by the offense. I don't expect MVP voters to pay attention to chance outcomes like that. But if we're talking objectively I thought that both Allen and Mahomes made bad decisions that could/should have put their teams in position to lose the game, as well as several amazing plays that gave their teams a chance to win. I feel that other circumstances ultimately determined those outcomes more than any difference in the QB play. How about the fact that in Allen's divisional road loss to an inferior team he at least put his team in position to win? Mahomes never really gave his team a chance and that first INT he threw was easily just as bad as Allen's against the Pats. Again, even though the outcomes were the same, I can easily say Allen played better at the end. But MVP voters won't care.

This is a good chance for me to let people know that I will always post anything I hear. If I see your request for more info and don't respond it's not because I don't see your request, it's because responding to all of them would clog up the board. Just know that if I have info I will always post it in a relevant thread.

My jinx powers never fail me.

If Mahomes had lost against the Jets he arguably would have been the biggest reason for it. His offense scored less against the Jaguars than ours did. Defense was the difference in those results, not the QB play. But that underscores my point - MVP is a subjective award that favors wins, not actual QB play. Purdy and Tua as recently as three weeks ago were #1 and #2 in MVP odds... It's a silly award. As far as who has actually been the best QB over 8 weeks of play I don't think anyone has been better than Allen, but there's a couple he might be even with. Even Cousins deserves some flowers but he never had a real chance at the award because of his team's defense and running game.

That's not a counterpoint lol... it's an entirely different point. I don't disagree either, but like I said none of the QBs in the competition have played clean football and all of them have been at least partially responsible for their losses.