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If Rice misses a lot of games, it puts even more pressure on 35-year-old Kelce to not let his game decline.

Hearing the input for some of the posters is the reason I am on the board.

All true Shaw but Beane, the teams coaching staff, and the scouts have a lot more detailed info than just players' tape. Interviewing players, former coaches and just the scouting process itself gives them a lot more input than fans get. College players stats/play can also be driven by the scheme and other talent on their team. How these guys transfer their skills to the NFL and to a particular NFL teams' scheme can't be easy for even an informed fan. Heck, the Bills staff even get input from current players already on the team about these guys. Sprinkle in some analytics on these players and that's a lot of details to consider. I see a lot of people at OBD who collectively, have input in putting together the teams' draft board.

Claypoole - 873 yards Samuel - 851 yards Hollins - 690 yards Shakir - 611 yards Hamler - 381 yards Total of 3406 yards for their career highs including both Claypoole and Hamler in their rookie years. 2023 Buffalo Bills entire WR yardage was 2776. When I can reasonably assume Shakir will surpass his 2023 totals I fail to see how "impossible" this scenario is. We can subtract Claypoole's numbers and substitute Coleman (both would be rookie numbers). When I add a small factor of Josh Allen throwing footballs to these guys compared to the QBs throwing balls to Samuel, Hollins and Hamler, I can see the 3406 being reached and maybe, even higher. Add in Kincaid, Cook, Knox and Davis and I can see a scenario where Josh Allen surpasses his 4306 yards total from last season. I will be a broken record adding that the real factors in this year's offense is the perceived improve OL play and a more experienced Brady. Yes, the Bills WR room can improve its talent but it's not nearly the disaster some fans are insinuating. I'm going to wait to see how camp and the season progresses.

Pretty cool video. Construction seems to be moving along well. Can't wait to see a game there. That's a lot of steel and concrete!

Leave my goddaughter alone!

LOL. You think Brandon Beane's "life strategy" is dependent on Chase Claypoole's career outcome in Buffalo? Claypoole has been a "knucklehead". He's down to his last chance in his NFL career. No one is waiting on him, the choice is his. FTR, I have known many family members and friends who changed their life ways in their middle 20s. The only one who knows what kind of effort Chase Claypoole will put in is Chase.

They haven't "given" money to Chase yet. He will want over $30M AAV. Higgins is an UFA next year. They used the tag because they WILL NOT have both next season on the team. Higgins will want over $20M AAV. They got a lot of cap space next year, but they are not signing both to high dollar long term contracts. Not with that owner and not with Burrows contract kicking in. It's all-in for them this year and the owner still has $23M in cap space!

Agree. I know the WR thing is tough for us fans. I too would like more talent. But that being said I am holding out hope that this year OL will be the best in front of Josh Allen in his career. Everyone will be watching Coleman and Samuels in camp (as will I), but I so want to see if VPG can impress enough to get the lion share of starts during the upcoming season. Brown, Torrence, (a surprising VPG), McGovern Dawkins, as starters would be wonderful for me. I want to see what Josh Allen can do when he has time to stand in the pocket more than scramble around buying time. I think he can tear it up with the ball-catchers currently on this team. Is it too early to write to Santa?

With what is left at FA WRs I think Beane goes to camp with what he has. I believe that the competition for the bottom 2-3 WR slots will be heated. If it becomes apparent that there are questions with the remaining 1-2 slots (I'm pretty sure they keep 6) this year, then there should be plenty of WR cuts to choose from at cutdown time.

That I can get behind!

I don't expect Hyde to sign with another team. He may be healthy enough (medically cleared) to play. I get the feeling if Micah has hung them up, he will be in and out of camp this year with the Bills as a "guest". IF it looks like the Bills could use him, he may consider signing for whatever role they would want him to play. An old Micah Hyde IMO is better than a depth player like Hamlin or Williamson. Hell, I'd consider signing Micah with 500K guaranteed to come to camp just to bring along Bishop and give Mike Edwards the low down of what Bills Safeties need to do.

But it is not the current cap allocated $'s on any year that causes concern. Dawkins did an extension and is coming in cheap this year. McGovern and Edwards are currently fixed, and Brown has not extended yet. Add in the rookie C (who hopefully ends up starting soon) and Beane is putting "resources" in the position. The Bills are reaping some cap benefit this season. But they have to look forward to when Brown signs and McGovern in his last contract year in 2025. Let alone trying to lock up Torrence at the end of 2025 (or 2026). This is what I mean by not looking at a snapshot of the spending, it's way too fluid looking forward.

The 5th year option is not "cheap" if the player is not up to the caliber of the cost. I agree with a lot you said in your post. In Groot's situation, the 5th year option of $13M is not out of line one way or the other very much. Being the Bills are light in talent on the DL next season (after they dump Von), it may work out. Typically, the 5th year option is great for teams when the player is way over-achieving. It gets them one cheaper year from what the average will be on their new extension. Other than that it could also have negative effects on other players, as you stated.

No doubt teams keep an eye on positional spending and rate it to worth of position but it's a fluid situation. SF has a positional cap of less than $5M for QB this season. They also have the highest cap hit for DL in the league with $76M. SF's situation allows them to do that. Allocating cap dollars vs positions is constantly changing on all teams as their situations change. The "Beane counters" on the Bills are not just looking at the cap this year but years down the road. Currently the Bills are #29th in OL spending. That is going to change a lot in the next 2 years.

Works for the Air Force Falcons down the street from me!

I think it's realistic to assume that Hollins will be WR4 at best. I can see a scenario where he is beat out in camp and relegated to WR5. In those roles he will be behind the top 3 WRs along with a minimum of Cook and Kincaid and maybe behind Knox. Even as a WR4 he will be probably getting #7 pass catcher targets. 250-300 yards and 2-3 TDs would be fine with me in that role.

Don't forget the LB discussions. Beane and McDermott were toast for not bringing in star FAs and their draft picks were going to bust. Sometimes (no matter what you think) it's best to just wait and see what happens.

FTR, I don't put you or @Kirby Jacksonin THAT category. I'm generally a positive guy but I just posted in another thread how I thought for sure Beane was going to double-dip WR in the draft. He didn't and I question that move. That being said, the draft and Beane's choices are history now so I'm not going to dwell on it. Until camp starts, I'm just going to watch what happens and try to figure out what their reasoning is.

I'll admit I thought Beane was going to double-dip WR in the draft. It's over so I'm just looking forward to see what happens.

Thanks for your Davis input. I bring that up because I do believe the negative plays he generated is not talked about enough. His occasional big plays are definitely offset by the bad ones and the complete vanishing act in too many games. I'm as interested as anyone about the deep threat "apparent" void. I can't answer that, and I will definitely want to see who is doing that in camp and how they are faring. It will be a challenge for Brady to find a way of splitting Diggs's targets and production among the WRs and TEs. Another question that has to be addressed. I guess my overall opinion is, it's not insurmountable. It definitely is going to put a change of tactics on Josh Allen's shoulders. I'm going to trust him and Brady to figure it out until next season when I see another starting WR brought in. Bottom line for me is I have a hard time being all doom and gloom with Allen as the QB. Josh and Brady having to be on the same page goes without saying.

I find it hard to believe that Brady will not send different WRs deep. Someone will get 9 routes. It's true that Shakir only had 45 targets, but he caught 39 balls. He also hasn't had an interception against him in his 2 years in Buffalo. Gabe had 81 targets but only 45 catches (6 more than Shakir). 6. 6 is also the magic number of interception that Gabe gave up each of the last 2 years for a total of 12. I had high hopes for Gabe Davis, but they did not come true. Overall, Davis did not produce enough and had a lot of drive killing INTs and drops. His production and benefit to the team can easily be made up with another WR on this team.

No room around here for the truth. I'll admit I had to look that up to confirm. Interesting. I didn't give much hope for the Claypoole signing but now I want him to get his stuff together and perform. It would piss off so many on this board.

Maybe Chase has "wised up" taking 14. Josh always looks for that #. Mental "muscle" memory.

LOL, there would be no arguing and hot takes so it would fall off the first page in 20 minutes.