Yobogoya!

There’s the additional incentive of the first round picks having the fifth year contract option. It might not be much, but there are teams who have made a move into the low 1st round in years past just to have that extra little bit of flexibility.

I’m just going anecdotally off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure spots are one of the least successful challenges. Refs are super reluctant to change them unless it’s beyond blatant. No way they’d allow unlimited opportunities to hold the game up for that.

Damn. That must have been fun back then -- what did you wait 3 or 4 days to get the results by fax machine?

$25,000 should weed out the pretenders and those of faint disposition.

Hell yea.

Don't worry soon we'll have a game each night for the 12 days of Hanukkah. Probably have to pencil a couple games in for Kwanzaa as well.

Found Beane’s lurker account.

It’s not just the money you consider at this point, it’s that his spot on the roster would be an opportunity cost against someone fresh who will likely be younger and — hopefully — much, much more effective. Putting an aging pass rusher who’s snaps you want to limit anywhere on the 53 probably doesn’t make sense. If you can put him on the practice squad after free agency thins out, that’s the smart play imo.

I think he’s behind by about 8 or 9 kids so he has some catching up to do in that department, but just give him some time.

That’s only partly true tho — they DID get lucky that Josh wasn’t taken by one of the other QB needy teams they weren’t in a position to leap frog. When they first swapped picks with the Bengals to position themselves for a top QB, they were comfortable with taking any of the top 3-4 qb’s on the board. Beane has confirmed that previously. So if Josh gets plucked no1 overall or goes to the Broncos or Jets, bills are “comfortable” drafting Rosen and this regime goes up in flames within 1-3 years, depending on how much goodwill breaking the drought bought them and just how bad those seasons play out. Unless you think they had Lamar rated over Rosen. But that’s a big, big assumption.

Eh, young running backs in the NFL in the modern era have seemingly been more aggressive about holding out for top money while they can get it and for good reason: they take more punishment than anyone on the field and their value has plummeted in the era of high passing offenses. They have to be more assertive about getting while the gettin's good, and any halfway decent agent is going to push for this type of move. This feels a lot more "just business" than the me-first drama Diggs brought -- which wasn't even about money, really. That was just his ego and wanting the ball. If the Bills can get an above-value return for Cook and he can get his asinine contract? I'd consider that a win for both sides.

Completely agree. Cook is an elite talent but Ty Johnson gives me low key Freddie Jackson vibes. The guy is solid at everything he does and has a tendency of punching way above his weight in the "big play" department.

Rebuilding from Chip Kelly's one year of personnel control, in which he set the franchise back big time (thanks again for Shady, chip!) Before he lost GM duties, he had built a strong team that made Kelly look like a genius. And then once he got control back, he's done just as OP describes: built two different contenders with completely different coaches and QB's. He's not perfect. He's missed on plenty of moves/picks. The guy's still probably the best in the biz.

He says that, but it's not as if he's put that philosophy into practice all too often. I guess Von would be an example, he had been accused by his gf of assault even before the most recent allegation which he served the suspension for. If she hadn't recanted and given the Bills an out, it would have been interesting to see what they did. If the Araiza scenario is anything to go by, Beane probably has a higher willingness to try on the risky prospects than McDermott. When discussing the situation, Beane was more taciturn and came off somewhat disappointed his hand was forced in cutting the guy. Whereas McDermott looked physically ill about the subject, a combination of angry and sick and to his stomach.

Situational play calling could still be improved, and total points for the season doesn’t change that. Tush push to the left over and over into a wall of defenders lives rent free in my head. Those two failed (and horribly derived) 2 pt conversion attempts has real estate up there too, lol.