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Of these moves I see the following Releasing QB Tyrod Taylor prior to the March signing bonus deadline would add $15.44 million to the 2018 cap (no-brainer) Releasing OT Jordan Mills would add $1.95 million to the 2018 cap. Releasing OG Vlad Ducasse would add $1.02 million to the 2018 cap. So they can add about 18 mil back to the cap. Additionally I also would release these two: -Releasing TE Charles Clay would add $4.5 million to the 2018 cap -Releasing FB Patrick Dimarco would add $1.55 million to the 2018 cap I am not cutting LoRax, Hughes, Incognito, or Shady. You still need solid players plus a superstar like McCoy and we have enough holes to fill as is without worrying new ones being created. I think you hit the nail on the head in regards to last season and making the playoffs removes soo much pressure on McBeane so a bad season or two could be had. That said nothing they have said or done strikes me that they would slash the roster especially of guys like Shady, Incognito, or LoRax who are some of the leaders on the team. They are culture 1000% and I believe decisions are made very much with this in mind. If you slash a roster the way some have proposed it cripples everything last season built. I don't think many fans think this team is much more then a playoff contender at best and if they have a rookie QB I think many would expect a season like 2013 with some good and bad while the team still competes but isn't there yet. Maybe I am wrong but even with a rookie QB and say Bradford driving this train I don't see much more then 9-10 wins best and more likely 6-8. I really will be more concerned with the draft and hopefully whatever QB they view as the future and how that develops.

Elway has preferred an established guy over rookie throughout his tenor. I think he knows that it is harder to develop a QB although I would then say he isn't the GM genius some hinted at the same point if he find talent either.

Like I said if he has taken some steps and grown then this shouldn't be a problem. If he finishes a distant 3rd then he wasn't good enough anyway.

IMO he will compete next year for the starting spot with hopefully a high drafted QB prospect and a vet like Sam Bradford. He has a year of experience now some time to at least show your worthy of being the backup. If he can't do that then its on him for not progressing not a bad game.

I would not have hired Rex if I was running the team, but when he was hired I was OK with thinking that he had good defenses in the past and between the D we had and a better offense we could end the drought and be a fun good roster like KC. For me as soon as we lost to the Pats in week 2 and got shredded at home with his "vaunted D" I felt something was a miss. Marrone & Mularkey had put up a more disciplined closer fight then Rex did and of all the Bills games in my life I have never seen the team that uncomposed, it was just a disaster in week 2. And that to me pretty much summed up his term throughout. Any time a challenge came where it separated the big boys he failed as a coach. I was embarrassed because of the fact he couldn't keep his mouth shut and for a fanbase that has been starving for something the undelivered promises and ridicule was worse then just having a coach like Jauron who at least stayed quiet while sucking.

So I voted Bradford under the impression the Bills will be drafting a guy at 21 who I believe will be Mason Rudolph. IF they do not draft a QB then I would rather have Alex Smith.

You live in the heart of Pats country sooo yea best of luck

Truthfully the faster its over the quicker I get to the Bills doing exciting things like FA and the Draft so yea I could care less let NE win by 80 and hopefully BB or Brady retires haha

Had they have used him as a bridge QB and not the crazy contract they probably don't draft EJ and maybe even make the playoffs in 13 or 14 given the D we had. It was always the contract with him.

Yes. When Jeff Tuel was here for 2 + years 60 year old Frank from Cheektowaga or put in another name and area would call in and say he has watched football for a lot years and this Tuel kid is something special they really should give him a shot. Won't lie I listened just to laugh.

Unless MAJBobby you have a copy of Eric Wood's medical reports from last year before the extension your grossly speculating here. Any medical professional will tell you you cannot predict how fast the body breaks or why it acts the way it does. If that were the case Kevin Durant would've been drafted by the Portland Trailblazers not Greg Oden 1st overall. Regarding contracts the NFL guarantees the least amount of money then any league and at some point you do have to spend it. Wood has been a Pro Bowl caliber guy and team/community leader so it made sense they wanted to keep him for a few more years. If you really want to start playing the "should we sign this guy due to _______ reasons" you will end up like the Cleveland Browns who have tons of cap space yearly andddd a lack of talent all over. I do understand you post and you are correct that the Bills have had a laundry list of contract mistakes over the past bunch of years. But I won't say that yet about Beane and his willingness to trade Sammy/Darby for picks rather then contract them shows me at this point he will not be nearly as trigger happy compared to DW.

Plan C is me because my first name is Craig. Get ready for 197 lbs and 5-11 of pure polish fury and fire! .... and really bad QB play

Expect something like this: Dawkins Incognito Groy Miller (due to scheme shifting back to his strength) RT-Draft pick or FA

Groy all day. When he filled in before the line was quite good and I would want to give him a full chance before even thinking of looking elsewhere.

Instigators is straight garbage. I cringe the few times I've had to listen to that. Their hockey analysis gets old real quick.

You probably said the same when they got Poyer last year. J. Brown and D. Jones would be quality impact players for the team. Would leave the team to need to draft LB/OL/QB as major needs

Your over thinking with the offensive side. The Bills at one point did have Watkins, Boldin, & Zay and at the time most NFL media said the Bills had one of the better WR corps out there. McD didn't trade Sammy that was Beane and he had to take that lump. Benjamin trade was suppose to have helped the WR corp same with Matthews but both had injuries that really did effect their play to the point Matthews was on IR and Benjamin was only good for catching passes forget yards after. I know people don't like to hear it but injuries like that really do effect what you can do. On the plus Deonte Thompson was brought in and played a very good role and I think Nick O'Leary had his best year to date same with Clay when healthy. The bigger issue to me was his choice of Dennison who I will defend a little by saying the sum of the parts he had wasn't much and he still had some nice games late against MIA that helped clinch the playoffs. That said McD's pick of Dennison went against every strength Taylor had because of the scheme which didn't make sense from day 1. Additionally I didn't like how conservative they got in the 2nd half if they had a sizeable lead. I am not sure if that was more McD or Dennison but in the end the coach can dictate how that goes and I hope he has learned from it. So overall I think it was more a case of some good some bad and we never really got to see what the offense would've been had Benjamin, Clay, & Matthews all been healthy as a group. I very much like his pick of Sabol very creative mind and I want to reserve judgement on a lot until the off season is finished.

Agreed wish more people had that trait.

Jim is a tale of two cities. Pre Hunter and Once Hunter was born changed the guy big time. I have family who knew him before and after are remarked how he was an arrogant prick who went after any women, but after Hunter he shaped up and matured big time to become a good man. Good for him IMO we all have our warts in the past.

I get the excitement with having a QB/WR paired together and that potential. However it is just a pipe dream, the only instance of this ever happening that kind of worked was Luck with Coby Fleener and even that died once Fleener went to NOLA. As another poster said the cost to get a QB will probably eat your ammunition to draft a WR.

Gaines leaving doesn't necessarily scare me, but if they draft a CB with one of their first four picks I'll be kinda bummed just because we drafted one last year and I feel we have other spots that need more work. Haha I remember after signing Mario being soo excited they might get Robert Meachum also. Whoops! haha

If social media and the NFL with the attention it has everyday existed back when we had Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Bruce etc.. you wouldn't have wanted any of them. Mayfield made a mistake, seems to have picked himself up from it, and finished his season quite strong. IDK if he is a stud or not but the last thing I'm concerned about is his behavior.

The thing I keep getting back to is this staff just drafted Peterman and liked him enough to start him regular season over Ty. I think they are very conservative and won't pay up a heist for a QB in the draft which is why if one fell I think they do it but otherwise don't. I really could see this offseason they finish the foundation of the team in a lot of spots, use Smith for a season or two, and then next year go all out even if it uses the 2020 picks to get your QB in 2019.

The off season is already here I don't care about the Super Bowl. So you are GM for the Buffalo Bills and we have the following holes and EJ Gaines, Kyle Williams, Lo Alexander, Preston Brown, & Jordan Matthews are notable free agents. Fill the holes either through the draft or FA: Resign: Lo Alexander, Kyle Williams, & EJ Gaines. The vets on defense will all most likely do one or two year deals based off what I've read. I would pay to keep Gaines he did really well Cut: Charles Clay, Preston Brown & Jordan Matthews. In my opinion Nick O'Leary is doing the same as Clay for far less and Logan Thomas has developed nicely so I'm cutting Clay for cap space. Preston only impressed me in 2014 and in retrospect that seems it was more the parts around him. Zay Jones was drafted to do what Matthews does. Major Holes: QB- Trade for Alex Smith with a Cordy Glenn and 4th rnd pick. I would draft Mayfield or Rudolph IF they are available at 21/22, but in my projection they are not though. WR2- Sign Mike Wallace. He would be the deep threat the Bills need for speed with Benjamin the big target for anything and Zay in the slot. RT- Draft Martinas Rankin with 22nd pick. Most mock drafts have him available and he will be a nice addition to the line. DT- Sign Star Lotulelei. He knows McD's scheme and would be a nice presence there. MLB- Draft either Raashad Evans (Bama) or Tremaine Edwards with 21st pick. The mock drafts I've seen don't have any of the major DT's like Vita or Hurst there but these LB are. Both are freaks athletically that fit the scheme. CB2- Resigned EJ Gaines. Small Depth Holes: RB2- Draft Nick Chubb 3rd round. Guy has a lot of potential and could be the potential heir to the starting RB spot in a year or two. WR4- Resign Deonte Thompson. I actually though he fit in the scheme quite well. OL- Sign a RT like Eric Winston. Insulates the position a bit in case of injuries. OLB- Sign Nigel Bradham. I never liked losing him in the first place and he would do will with McD. LoAlexander could swap in on pass rush situations. DE- Sign Alex Okafor. I see him taking over DE2 spot ahead of Shaq Lawson and McD rotates anyway. CB4- Resign Leonard Johnson Roster would look like this: Offense: QB Alex Smith RB Shady McCoy FB Pat DiMarco WR1 K.Benjamin WR2 Mike Wallace TE Nick O'Leary LT Dion Dawkins LG Richie Incognito C E.Wood RG John Miller RT M.Rankin Defense: DE Jerry Hughes DT Star Lotulelei DT Kyle Williams DE Alex Okafor OLB N. Bradham MLB Edwards/Evans OLB Matt Milano CB Tre White CB EJ Gaines SS M Hyde FS Poyer

Just such a mistake IMO. The guy just got canned because he couldn't do enough with the 3 B's and now your expecting him to maximize a crappy Cleveland roster. Some of the analytics people I read spoke of how he was very arrogant with his scheme believing the talent of his players out weighed actual game plan which showed in big moments. Add in the guy is a straight up d*ck to people and it just seems like a disaster in the making.