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Makes sense as a stopgap.

Here's the difference - Edmunds had 1 sack, 1 INT, and 6 TFL last year. Smith had 4.5 sacks, 3 INTs, and 11 TFL. Game changing plays are what earn you mega extensions. Edmunds hasn't been that guy.

They got draft capital plus a worse player.

Hahaha they traded Roquon Smith just to turn around and pay Edmunds? Just a bizarre move.

He'll have to be with that slow wind up release. Not too many QBs take two brutal hits to their exposed rib cage in the same game. But when you open yourself up for that long just to throw the ball that's what happens.

Replacing Orlando Brown at LT with Jawaan Taylor appears to be a downgrade. Their starting RT Andrew Wylie signed with the Commanders. So far they appear to have gotten worse on the OL, not better. But it's still super early. I feel we are further behind the Bengals right now anyways. I already know we can beat the Chiefs. The Bengals I'm not sure if we can.

It's the kind of signing Beane makes when we have a glaring hole on the roster. Now we don't have to force a guard pick in the draft, but if we happen to draft a good one I'm sure it's easy to move on from McGovern after this year. A solid middle of the road starter that upgrades Saffold and gives us a reasonable floor at the position. I'm good with it.

Chiefs paid a lot of money for a RT to play LT. Not sure I understand this one.

Interestingly, Spotrac says the first year to get out of Diggs' deal is 2025. That's the same offseason Jeudy would be due for a big extension. We have no 5th year option currently due in 2024 which is when Jeudy's would be. If we trade for him the timing makes A LOT of sense.

I would be in on this.

Friendly reminder that the contract numbers reported today are essentially meaningless. Lindstrom is not actually going to be paid $105 million. There's the agent number, and then there's the actual cost to the team.

If he has the exact same role as last year, $3.5 million is way too expensive. If they plan on actually using him on the offense I'm good with it.

So, you just haven't paid attention to anything this offseason? Everyone on here wants the team to invest more in offense. If Beane traded a 3rd rounder for a CB making close to $20 million a year this board would be apoplectic. You're just making up crap because you like to think you're more level headed than other Bills fans. You're the same as a homer, it's just that your extreme opinions go in the opposite direction.

Wrong. They're not even favored over the Jets. https://www.oddschecker.com/us/football/nfl/afc-east/winner Only on here do people think that adding a pretty good CB rockets a team past the only team in the division with a clear franchise QB. The Bills have some work to do to catch up to the Chiefs and Bengals. Not the Dolphins. When they have their QB situation figured out they can join the conversation.

When that starter has consistently had major injury issues in college and the NFL, to the point that their future playing the sport was in doubt, it is very much a relevant question. One that the Dolphins are seemingly hand waving away based on their aggressiveness in the trade market over the past two years.

What's that about what-ifs?

He should focus on finishing a season first.

The Dolphins are trying to go all in on a championship before knowing if they have a franchise QB. It's like when we traded up for Sammy Watkins or traded for LeSean McCoy. Fun splash moves but they lead to the same result. I don't really care about this move one way or the other as it relates to the Bills. If we fail to win the division this year it won't be because Miami traded for Jalen Ramsey. It will be because our front office and/or coaching staff failed.

The Bills will be all in every year from now until the end of Allen's career. As they should be. The common thinking that teams occasionally need to have 1-2 year rebuild periods was killed when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl this year. All in teams can still make radical changes to their roster and scheme on a year to year basis.

This is an intriguing idea. I hadn't considered Milano as a MLB. If other changes are made to compensate for his size, I could see this working.

This makes me think with even more certainty that Edmunds is gone. Those two years at the end are where Edmunds' biggest cap hits would have gone if we extended him. No way we are going to be paying over $30 million per year total for our off the ball LBs in 2025.

It should probably be brought up more that the Pegulas are the main reason the Bills went from laughingstock to contender. Moves like this can only happen because they give Beane essentially a blank check to use up front cash to push cap spending into the future. For this reason we will never be in serious cap trouble until the day Josh Allen retires at which point we'll take a couple years getting things under control and then be right back in it. Having cash-rich owners is a cheat code.

Well... that's definitely not going to happen. Maybe once he realizes a one year prove it deal with a contender is his best avenue for a future long term contract, we'll be back in the conversation.

I like him as a complement to Cook. The one thing I'll say is he played behind a really good OL so it's hard to tell if he's responsible for the short yardage TDs, or the OL is. But he runs downhill and can play three downs.