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With Schefter reporting it now, it feels inevitable that he will be signed by a team eventually.

There was a play in the first Miami game where a ball hit his hands in the end zone and fell incomplete. It won't show up as a drop because the CB got his hands in there, but it's the kind of catch most WR2s will be able to pull down. I don't want to boil down our failure to get the #1 seed to one play, but that one play quite literally may have been the difference. Similarly the play at the end of that Jets game wouldn't count as a drop because Sauce Gardner was there but again any capable WR2 would normally grab that one, and that one play too could have been the difference in us getting the #1 seed. If he's going to be our WR2 this year he needs to just make a lot more plays. Allen gives his WRs a chance. Diggs has often times rewarded him for this trust. Davis hasn't far more often than not.

My issue with this is what happens if the man and the woman are both super drunk? In that situation it appears the man is automatically to blame in most legal settings. To me that makes no sense. It implies that sex is something men do, and something that women have done to them. So if Araiza was drunk at a party and had sex with a drunk woman, you think that classifies as rape? I'll never come around to that kind of thinking.

All this evidence is circumstantial. What we know is she was drunk and had sex with a few drunk guys at a party. There isn't enough real evidence to prove what happened in a court of law. I agree that all the information points to a girl who either went to the party with ulterior motives, or regretted her decisions the next morning and decided to pull other people down with her. But there's no chance you could convince a jury that this girl intentionally lied about how consensual the sex was. Consent is already a rather nebulous legal concept. Trying to prove how an individual feels about how much consent she gave is just impossible. If you could prove she wasn't there at all for example or never had sex that would be worth a defamation suit. Trust me, I understand the urge to see justice done if this girl ruined several lives. But the legal system just isn't set up to manage these kinds of scenarios.

She was underaged at a party with a lot of alcohol. You will never be able to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that she consented to every sexual act that night. Any prosecutor wouldn't even bother filing charges. In a perfect world there would be some kind of justice here, but ultimately everyone involved will just have to get on with their lives.

In theory I agree that false accusers should get serious jail time, but it's hard to prove a false accusation to a criminal standard.

The Bills did nothing wrong. I respect that Beane didn't jump on the bandwagon, I could tell that he found it difficult to let Araiza go after the Bills had run their own investigation and found nothing incriminating. But there was a black cloud hanging over the team after the allegation came out and it just isn't worth holding on to a punter with that kind of baggage. I just hope he gets his NFL career back.

Hopefully he gets his career back at least. He'll never be a Bill, but some NFL team should give him a shot.

No, they'll get a 3rd. It's pretty much guaranteed at this point. My understanding is that as long as Keenum and Singletary make their respective teams nothing else can stop us from getting that comp pick. Beane said as much earlier in the offseason. This is a good example of the sunk cost fallacy. You don't spend more time and money on a player just because of the time and money you've spent so far. Letting Edmunds walk in free agency was an easy decision. He plays a non-premium position and has never been a game changing type of player. For a team paying a franchise QB there was no chance we were ever going to extend him. What impactful player did we miss out on last year because of Edmunds' $12.7 million cap hit?

I have said that if they trade Oliver as a means to free up cap space to trade for Hopkins, I'm all for it. If they trade him just to free up cap space for more rotational pieces, that doesn't make any sense. Don't create a hole at a starting position just to fill depth holes. If they want to create a hole at DT to fill a hole at #2 WR then yes the trade off is worth it.

Sorry if already posted. I like this breakdown of Torrence I found on YouTube: I don't think it's crazy to imagine him as the starter in week 1. He already has NFL size and power, just needs a little technique refinement.

They're getting a 3rd round pick for him which is likely the same or better than what they would have gotten for him in a trade last offseason. Plus they got the best year of his career in the middle of their Super Bowl window. In what way did they mismanage that situation?

Lol Brock Purdy 12th. I bet the author of this article bets divisional road favorites 100% of the time. "It's like free money!"

Probably competition for Kingsley Jonathan, if he makes an impression maybe he makes the PS.

Not surprised by the negative reaction, but I had the same thought. I can't think of any LB combination that makes sense using our existing players unless Milano is the MLB. He is the only one that we know for sure has the necessary processing skills to play the position in McDermott's defense. I could see a world where Spector wins the job but that's only because I haven't seen him fail at it yet like I have with Bernard and Dodson. It's a lot to ask for a 7th rounder that was inactive for most of his rookie season, but that would be my dark horse candidate. Beane did shut down the idea of Milano playing MLB in his post season presser but things change very quickly in the NFL. It may be that after seeing how free agency and the draft went they will recognize that they have no other choice.

From that article - "Ford’s deal includes $1.5 million in guaranteed money and has a salary cap hit of $2.25 million."

At this point I think he's a poor man's Yannick Ngakoue, a rotational pass rusher only. I doubt he ever becomes more than that but it's possible he becomes a better version of that in his 4th year. And yeah for the 3rd/4th guy on the depth chart that's a fine skill set. It's our primary starter opposite Rousseau that I'm worried about. We have seen Lawson thrive in his role as a rotational piece, but for a team with Super Bowl aspirations that needs to rack up wins early in the year he and Epenesa aren't good enough to play a high snap percentage IMO. They're really counting on Von Miller to get back in the mix quickly unless they add someone.

It's definitely possible we reached out to Ngakoue, found out his asking price was too high, and pivoted to Shaq instead. But I don't know, I still see a need there. I think the team should be treating Basham as an afterthought. It's scary to think of us starting the season with Rousseau and Lawson (or Epenesa?) as our starting edge duo, with a barely roster worthy player in Basham as the next man up. I find it hard to believe Beane is going to let that stand. Then again here we are in May and we still don't have a definite starting MLB so I suppose he might just be thrift shopping on defense and trusting McDermott to figure it out with what we have.

It was an insider tip. I was also told Poyer's exact contract details before they were announced, and I was told that Klein would sign here the day before he did. Little things get out.

We talked to him at some point before we signed Shaq Lawson so there was some level of interest there. I don't know how serious the talks got. Any communication since then I have not been made aware of. There are still a ton of veteran rotational edge rushers available. I suspect that game of musical chairs will play itself out by the conclusion of most teams' OTAs. I'll be shocked if we don't end up with one of them, not because I know anything but because it's a clear need and Beane has already done a masterful job this offseason of plugging depth holes with relatively cheap veterans.

Because a true starting edge can't be awful against the run. Every team that's tried him has eventually realized the hard way that he is a pure pass rusher. That's a great skill set to have in the modern league. But it limits the role he can play. I would love to sign him and let him loose on 3rd downs and late in games. Still think there's a decent chance we do. We have a good pitch for him - "We added no edge rushers in the draft or free agency. Your competition is Boogie Basham, AJ Epenesa, and Shaq Lawson. Come platoon for Von Miller while he recovers and rack up gaudy stats against a gauntlet of top tier QBs, then go get one more big contract from another team next offseason."

Lawrence made the play that won them a playoff game. You pay game changing talents that affect the passing game like him 100% of the time and you don't think twice.

I'm curious about your thoughts on Dorian Williams. I know you gave him a low 3rd/high 4th grade but I have seen some compare the pick to Terrell Bernard. Since you scouted both, do you agree with that comparison? Or does Williams have more to work with?

I'd feel a lot better about our Super Bowl chances if DeAndre Hopkins was here. I still can't shake that feeling. You could say that if everything goes right we're the team to beat, but not everything is going to go right. Hopkins would give us a much larger margin for error at other areas of the roster. But hey if Allen and Dorsey figure out how to run a more balanced offense that isn't so boom or bust, and Kincaid immediately becomes a major weapon, and guys like Rousseau and Brown take a step, and Miller and White both look recovered from their ACL tears, and McDermott calls a less predictable defense, and above all else we stay relatively healthy then sure we have every reason to be hyped. And if all of that happens then it's up to McDermott and Dorsey to not flop in the playoffs again.