Scott7975

I dont think so. The dude flat wants a contract better than Watson and wont budge. Thats the waste of time. No one is paying him that even without the picks. If he was worth that much to a team then the picks would be worth it too. If the Ravens were willing to match a contract that Lamar would sign then they would already have given him that contract.

If another team wanted him they could get him. There is no interest in him for 2 first round picks and a contract better than Watson. That should be clear to you by now. He isnt good enough for that deal plus injury worries.

Really tired of people turning everything into racism. This isnt about racism. This is about Lamar is not good enough to demand a contract better than Watson full guaranteed. Watson should not have even gotten that contract. Lamar was offered a reasonable contract. He declined. He is stuck on getting max max and thats why no one is offering him a contract because it would be a waste of their time. He simply is not worth two first round picks, retooling your entire offense around him or praying that he can run a conventional offense, while also giving an oft injured QB a fully guaranteed contract. Black, white, green, blue, brown, purple it just doesnt matter.

Yeah thats not even close to the same thing and you know it.

Im not as high on Lamar as some. I do think he is a great football player but I dont think he is a great passer. I agree on the rest. He misplayed this and should have had an agent. He is never going to get the contract he wants and he is just costing himself money. If he continues to play this wrong it could cost him his career.

Yeah but you miss the point of they might not have. Signing Hopkins doesnt guarantee anything. He could blow an ACL, we could lose in the playoffs to a bad ref call, someone can make a 13 sec mistake. Anything can happen to ruin those plans.

Thats actually kinda what I think would happen.... they pay for Rodgers, they become WC fodder at best, Rodgers retires, they have nothing to get a new QB.

Yeah that would be crap for sure.

It does matter though. Over paying for someone that is this old can ruin the team. Look at the Rams. Yeah they won the SB but they were terrible last year and now they are blowing it up because they have no resources. They are going to be terrible for a while. Sure, you can say "who cares they won the bowl," but what if they didnt? It took a lot of luck for them to do that. One play going the wrong way and they might not have even made the SB and they would still be where they are now... a bad team thats going to be bad for a while. Why you think their coach considering retirement? Cus his team is going to be dumpster fire and he doesnt want to deal with it. That can happen to us... make a bad decision, dont get the luck to win the whole thing, blow the team up, team is bad for years to come. Ours wont be as bad because Allen is not a decrepid broken Stafford but it still wont be wc fodder if they have to blow up.

I know you are excited but you do know that Beane isnt reading any of your posts right? I'm pretty sure if Beane thinks he can make it work he will. He aint the type thats going to overpay for someone. This stuff takes time.

In his defense, Roman is said to have the most complicated running playbook in the NFL and he seemed to grasp the offense. Unless it was dumbed down for him but I dont ever remember reading that. Maybe he is just one of those people that are really smart at some things and not so smart at other things. I know there are things I am absolutely dumb at that I dont even try to understand anymore but I am pretty smart at a few things.

Diggs was 3-4 years younger than Hopkins is now when we gave up a first for him.

As much as I want Hopkins here, you dont give up a first round pick for a player that old. Arizona didnt even give up a first for him. You cant let emotion let you overpay like that. If KC gets him then they get him.

Thats not quite what I mean. Im not saying dont improve it if you can. Im saying they spent the last few years trying to improve it and they have a lot of money and high draft picks already tied up in it. At some point you cant ignore the offense in favor of one position group. IOW's... dont not sign Hopkins just because you want to try and find even more dlinemen. These guys should be good enough. KC made it work with basically Clark. Yep on the draft. I think Von will be fine. Even a slightly lost step he is still elite. The guy works his ass off. I dont see Von being a JAG out there.

Who in FA are the Bills getting to improve the OL? The Bills have already done what they are going to do on the oline, barring the draft. The oline will be ok when Josh has star receivers on both sides of it, a better slot most likely and hopefully better plans from Dorsey other than just sending guys deep downfield all day. As for Dline, Von will be back. Wasting more resources on Dline isnt the answer. They have done that multiple years now.

This is the type of move that can get the Bills over the hump. There would be no more excuses for the offensive side of the football. If they still cant get it done then either Josh isnt good enough or this coaching staff isnt good enough. They have the roster. You should like this move IMO.

Probably because if the Bills dont trade him its going to end up like Edwards... Either pay more than he is really worth and find the money to do it or let him walk for pretty much nothing.

The Jets are only 2 games in a 17 game schedule. Even if we lost them both, which I dont think we would, it probably wont matter. Jets would be good with Rodgers but Im still not scared.

GB is the one that keeps signing the guy to new top end deals. If they are in bad shape its their own fault.

Yeah, I wasnt meaning to get on you personally on that. I know you are just posting the info for people. That was more meant as a general post. I understand picks are important but too many people are obsessed with comp picks IMO. Id rather sign guys that win us a champ instead of passing on them because oh knows we might lose a comp pick!

I guess I am alone with this but if the Bills sign guys that ultimately help us win a SB then IDGAF about a comp pick.

We won the off season! Division Champs! Wildcard Weekend Warriors! You can pick one.

That may or may not be true but you could tell that only a handful of players looked like they wanted to be there and showed up to play. The rest of them were checked out and wanting to go home. It was pretty obvious looking at them that they were just going through the motions. Personally I do not care or like the excuses of "oh we were mentally drained from all the woes that happened during the season." Most of those excuse marks are normal. Two of them arent. Hamlin is not normal but he came out fine. It should have invigorated them him being in the stadium. The shooting. Of course people care and are affected by it but they didnt know any of those people. Generally when you dont know someone that dies you move past it pretty quick. Injuries... those happen to every team. Snow game... big deal. They played in Detroit for a game. No excuse to show up to that game disinterested when you were the super bowl favorites.

Nah