Adam727

Really? I thought Taron played great and I hope he's not out for long, but I thought Neal played terribly. He would've been the worst player on the field today if it wasn't for the Jets' kicker... I hope they bring someone else in at DB before next week.

I voted no. I don't think the Jets are good enough to get into the playoffs this year, and if the Bills can't beat the Jets, I don't think the Bills will either. The Bills have an easy start to their schedule. Their best shot at making the playoffs is a fast 4-1 or 5-1 start.

I moved to Florida last year and had to buy DirecTV Sunday Ticket to make sure I got to watch all Bills games, and NFL network to see the pre-season ones. I tried watching a few Bucs games (my new local team) for a few weeks since the Bucs were starting Fitz at the time who I've liked since his time here and I think the Bills may have been trotting out Nathan Peterman at the time too which was making them a little tough to watch... I just couldn't stay engaged in the Bucs game, it wasn't the same. Unfortunately I'm stuck rooting for the Bills for life. This question probably doesn't apply to me since I haven't made it to a game in person since moving but if something changed and I couldn't afford Bills' games I'd go to less and watch the rest from home. Who wants to root for the Jets/Giants?

FWIW, Spotrac has the Bills at $45mil cap space next year. I don't know how Rodak came up with the $65mil number or who is correct, but I'm not seeing anything jumping out to me as wrong with Spotrac's numbers. I hope the Bills will have $21mil to carry over, but my complaint was essentially I don't want to see them waste that money on stop gap players because I'd prefer it'd be available to carry over instead. I hope you are right that they have 90 mil in cap space next year, that's exactly the scenario I was hoping they would wind up with. But short of some big roster cuts I don't see how that's possible. Especially if they sign a few more Lee Smith type contracts before the season starts.

People keep acting like the Bills still have $100mil in cap space to spend next year. It's not like they are back in cap jail or anything, but that number is down to $57mil per spotrac. It will be somewhere in the high 30s / low 40s after accounting for Hughes, Knox, Smith etc. But that's before 2020 rookies, or any of our 20-30 free agents who's contracts are up next year. Leaving enough, but not nearly as much as people are acting like we'll have, to be moderate players in FA next year assuming we want to bring some of our own players back. If you want a specific example from someone "bitching" about where money could be better spent.. between Tyler Kroft and Lee Smith in 2019/2020 the Bills will spend a combined ~18mil on both players. I would argue that DE #1 is at least as important as TE #2. I'd have waited a year and offer that $18mil to Clowney next year who I think is more of a difference maker than Kroft/Smith. If he's not available, then whoever the top DE, OLB, or WR that is.. $18mil will get you better FAs than Kroft/Smith. And Lee Smith will NOT be the reason the Bills make the playoffs in 2019, sorry. And if you think this team is out of holes to fill, what about WR1 and DE? OLB & RB next year. And that's assuming you are correct that Tyler Kroft and Lee Smith are the long term franchise answer at TE. I'd argue TE is still a need too. And even that is assuming Allen is the answer at QB which we don't actually know yet. I never acted like I thought this signing is the end of the world, I just gave my opinion that I didn't like it. I'd rather have seen the money go to a DE/WR/LB with more talent after roster cutdowns or in 2020 FA since you can roll over any left over money. It felt like the Bills spent the off-season paying too much for below average TEs out of desperation. We could have kept Clay for almost the same salary as Smith. And say what you want, Clay is STILL better.

Not many positions TBH. The only one they clearly got worse at was TE. Probably DT. (Nothing against Oliver, but KW will not be easy to replace) Maybe RB with Shady getting a year older. The team looks better or the same everywhere else. The question will be was it money well spent. Because the one spot the Bills ARE worse in now is salary cap. (Not that they are in a bad spot they just don't have 100mil to spend anymore) My way too early answer to that question is in most cases it looks like the money was spent well. But we'll know in a year or so.

Awesome! My favorite off-season signing so far by the Bills. Price, Number of years, etc all look good. And it was smart to sign him now instead of letting him hit FA next year. Nice Job, Beane!

Not a fan of this move. This feels like $9mil in cap space that could've been used more wisely. We could've signed a better free agent next year for that price.

I'd give Shaq, a 2nd, and an additional pick. (But I don't think Houston would go for this given what Frank Clark was just traded for) As much as it would be great to get a DE to finish the Dline, I don't want to see the Bills give out a huge contract and a 1st round pick in a potentially good WR draft. Maybe we can get Clowney next off season for less when the Texans have less leverage.

Rolling over 25-30 mil in cap space next year gives the Bills enough money to resign any of their own players and be aggressive in FA again next year if they want/need to be. I'll take the extra cap flexibility a 1 year rental at DE with a bad shoulder. The bills were in on Ziggy, Clark, and Clowney, I feel good they will address the DE position next offseason.

I guess I won't completely know how I feel about this until the numbers are out, but I really like the idea of the Bills having $25mil in cap space to roll over anyway. If it stays that way, that would give them a lot of flexibility in FA next year..

I wouldn't mind seeing Buffalo roll that cap space over to next year so that they can be big players in FA again while still having enough money to re-sign their own FAs. If they do spend it this year though I'd want them to spend it on a top DE or WR. They already got their QB, LT, DT, & CB. DE opposite Hughes and #1WR are the only two "franchise" positions this team still needs (if Josh Allen pans out at QB) Other than that any positions the Bills need next year should be easy to find in the draft or FA.

I actually think this is good news for Bills fans. (Maybe not this year since our schedule just got a little tougher but long term) Fitz isn't good enough to be the long term answer at QB but he is definitely good enough to win Miami enough games (if he's starting) to stop them from getting a top pick to use on a franchise QB in the draft next year.

As some others have already said the writing was on the wall with this one. I'm still in the minority disappointed by this move though. This was the first year that Clay was going to be worth his contract. Even if 2018 wasn't his best year, it's hard to argue the Bills will be able to find someone better in FA for less than $4.5mil/year.

The only position I'd like to see the Bills trade for is WR1 (I think they already have some potential WR2 and WR3s on the roster and I don't see any potential WR1s in FA. Plus if there were any, they definitely wouldn't sign here unless the Bills offered them a monster contract) I'd give up an early pick for Julio Jones. Or a mid pick for AJ Green and draft a WR in round 1. I think WR1 is the biggest need on the team and will also probably be the most difficult position to address in the draft or FA.

More than anything, I'd like to see the Bills roll some sizable cap space (30-50mil) over to next year when hopefully the FA pool is better, we have a better idea of what positions we need help at, and we have a better idea of what we have at QB. My biggest fear is that Beane will feel pressure to win now and put us back in Cap jail by overpaying for average talent. I'd like to see the Bills go out and sign the best Center and best Tackle they can get. After that maybe a few cheap depth signings here and there and roll the rest over to 2020.

Why are so many people getting upset by this article? Patrick Mahomes finished his first season as a starter with a QB rating of 114, threw for over 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns! (Josh Allen finished with a QB rating of 68, threw for 2000 yards and 10 touchdowns) Who in their right mind wouldn't trade Allen/Edmunds/White for Mahomes? (Not sure why the author chose that though, we could've drafted Mahomes last year with our original pick and still had our first round pick this year to draft Edmunds) It doesn't mean Allen can't also become good.

Mostly indifferent. Although at one point early in the year when the Bills were starting Peterman and Tampa Bay was starting Fitzpatrick I found myself flipping back and forth between the two games a lot.

I know this is sarcasm, but yes, kind of! Don't give up, but don't go all in! Spend half the cap money now and save some for 2020 when we see what young players step up (Edmunds, Wallace, Phillips, Foster, etc), which players don't, and what our true needs are. And maybe trade back in one of the top rounds for an extra pick or two in 2020 in case Josh Allen isn't working out by the end of next year and we need to draft another QB. Get Josh Allen some O-linemen and WRs but if the rest of the team isn't ready and we go 5-11 again next year so be it. If they go all-in on free agency in 2019 and Allen isn't the right QB or Beane isn't the right GM, then instead of being 1-3 years away again we'll be 4-5 years away again with no QB and bad free agent contracts we need to dump so that we can begin the process again of starting from scratch. When they gutted last year's playoff team for this youth movement they promised us an eventual dynasty. They better not blow it now because they tried to rebuild too fast. We're likely not going to be that competitive next year anyway.

Start Allen. But, I would like to see Barkley get one more game at some point this year to see if today was a fluke. I think I'd like to see the Bills try to bring Barkley back next year on a reasonable 1 year deal.

Is this true? I can't find anything about it online but it sounds too much like something Beane/McD would do not to be true.

Cleveland can have this Gaines as long as they give us the other one back...

The Bills are already 2-4 with two games left against NE. Derek Anderson is not good enough to go 7-1 or 8-0 in the remaining games. (I don't even think he's good enough to go 4-4 in those remaining games but this what-if scenario assumes he is winning games) But either way playoffs are likely off the table. What I'd like to see happen is to put Allen back in there as soon as it is safe to do so. What I think will actually happen is if DA has this team at 4-5 or 5-4 heading into the bye that McD will keep him as the starter out of respect to the rest of the players on the roster. If Anderson has some unlikely late career transformation and has the team 6-4 heading into the bye I would probably have to change my opinion though.

Demaryius Thomas I really think would be a bad idea for the Bills. If Denver offered Thomas and a 1st round pick in exchange for the Bills' 7th rounder I still might say no. He's got a 17+mil cap hit next year and an 8.5mil cap hit left this year. Even pro-rated for this season that means the Bills will be spending ~23mil in cap space to rent an aging WR for 1 1/2 yrs. I would really hate it if they made that move. Reddick & Garcon seem like they could both be interesting options.

His salary is high, this team is going nowhere this year, and by the time this team is ready to compete McCoy is going to be too old to contribute. It makes sense to trade him. Even if he is currently the best player on offense (by a lot)